Carl Hatch

Carl Hatch

Carl Atwood Hatch (born November 27, 1889 in Kirwin , Phillips County , Kansas , † September 15, 1963 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of New Mexico in the US Senate represented.

Carl Hatch first attended public schools in Kansas and Oklahoma . In 1912 he made his Jura Accounts at the Law School of Cumberland University in Tennessee and was admitted to the Bar Association, and he in Eldorado started practicing (Oklahoma). In 1916 he moved to Clovis , New Mexico, where he also worked as a lawyer.

He held his first public office between 1917 and 1918 as Deputy Attorney General of the State of New Mexico. Between 1919 and 1921, Hatch was the state collector of internal revenue . In 1923 he was appointed a judge for the Ninth Judicial District of New Mexico, which he remained until 1929. From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the State board of bar examiners , the control body for admission to the bar.

After the resignation of US Senator Sam G. Bratton , who took over a judicial office, Carl Hatch was appointed as his successor in Congress in October 1933 . The following year he won the election for a full legislative period; voters confirmed the Democrat in 1936 and 1942, before he did not run again in 1948 and thus left the Senate the following year. In 1939 he was instrumental in the Hatch Act , which was also named after him . This 1940 law prohibited federal employees from engaging in political activity. Hatch also chaired the Committee on Privileges and Elections .

In 1949, Carl Hatch was appointed a judge in the federal district court for the New Mexico District. He held this post until his resignation in 1963. He died in Albuquerque that same year.

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• Carl Hatch in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)