Mark Hatfield

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Mark Hatfield (1993)

Mark Odom Hatfield (born July 12, 1922 in Dallas , Polk County , Oregon , † August 7, 2011 in Portland , Oregon) was an American politician . He was the 29th Governor of Oregon from 1959 to 1967  and represented this state in the US Senate from 1967 to 1997 .

Early years and political advancement

Mark Hatfield attended high school and then Willamette University through 1943 . Between 1943 and 1946 he was a member of the US Navy Reserve. He then continued his education with a degree at Stanford University until 1948 . Between 1949 and 1956 he was a lecturer in political science at Willamette University.

Hatfield is a member of the Republicans . He campaigned for this party as a child and, as a ten-year-old in 1932, campaigned for Herbert Hoover to be re-elected as US President. In September 1945, as a young Navy officer, he was one of the first American soldiers to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima , which was destroyed by the atomic bombing, and has since been an outspoken opponent of nuclear war. In a letter to the Mayor of Hiroshima in 1980, he stated that these impressions shaped much of his later legislative and personal philosophy. A visit to French Indochina later strengthened his negative attitude towards the Vietnam War .

Between 1951 and 1955 Hatfield was an MP in the Oregon House of Representatives ; between 1955 and 1957 he was a member of the State Senate . Eventually he became Secretary of State of Oregon. He held this office between 1957 and 1959. Between 1952 and 1968 he was a regular delegate to the Republican National Convention . In 1958 he was elected as the new governor of Oregon as his party's candidate against incumbent Robert D. Holmes .

Governor of Oregon

Mark Hatfield took up his new office on January 12, 1959. After a re-election in 1962, he was able to remain in office until January 9, 1967. During his tenure, Oregon lowered taxes and passed a state birth control program. The death penalty was abolished and the constituencies for congressional elections were reorganized. At that time, the country was also shaken by several earthquakes. There was also some unrest in the country during his time. The reasons were race issues and the Vietnam War. In 1966 Hatfield declined to run again. Instead, he was elected to the US Senate. Therefore, he resigned from office in January 1967.

In Oregon, some facilities, buildings and systems were named after him. These include the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse , the Courthouse in Portland , the Mark O. Hatfield Library at Willamette University , a MAX Blue Line stop in Hillsboro , the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University and the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport .

Senate membership and additional résumé

Between January 3, 1967 and January 3, 1997, Hatfield represented his state in the US Senate. He gained international fame when, in 1970, he and George McGovern presented a draft law that stipulated that no further funds would be approved for the Vietnam War. This McGovern-Hatfield amendment was rejected by 55 votes to 39, but it showed growing displeasure with the continuation of the war.

In the Senate he was temporarily chairman of the budget committee. This position also allowed him to secure some federal funds for projects in Oregon. In the Senate, he also advocated an end to American nuclear tests. After the end of his career in Congress, Hatfield returned to his professorship despite his now advanced age. He continued to give lectures in the field of political science and history. Mark Hatfield was married to Antoinette Kuzmanich, with whom he had four children.

Mark Hatfield was a committed Baptist Christian and saw Pat Robertson's growing influence in the Republican Party as being "overrun" by Confederate converts. He was a leading member of the Protestant network The Family and of the evangelical aid organization World Vision (since 1973 on the board of directors).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/08/mark_o_hatfield_former_oregon.html
  2. ^ Greg Mitchell, "The Last Great Untold Story of World War II — and the Lingering Effects Today." The Nation, August 19, 2011
  3. Hiroaki Sato "Two 'systematic' acts of brutality and coverup." The Japan Times, September 26, 2011
  4. Everything on the table Der Spiegel 11/1970
  5. ^ Entry Hatfield Mark O (dom) in Randall Balmer: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism, 2nd Edition, Waco, Texas 2004, Baylor University Press, ISBN 1-932792-04-X
  6. Records of the Fellowship Foundation - Collection 459: Historical Background ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the archives of the Billy Graham Center. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wheaton.edu
  7. Gary F. Vanderpol: The leat of these: American evangelilcal parachurch missions th the poor, 1947-2005. Boston University School of Theology, 2010, (dissertation) page. 106