Robert H. Hatton

Robert H. Hatton

Robert Hopkins Hatton (born November 2, 1826 in Steubenville , Ohio , †  May 31, 1862 in Richmond Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In his childhood, Robert Hatton came to Tennessee with his parents, where he attended public schools. He later studied at Cumberland University in Lebanon until 1847 . In 1849 and 1850 he was a teacher at Woodland Academy in Tennessee. After studying law at Cumberland University and being admitted to the bar in 1850, he began working in his new profession in Lebanon. From 1854 until his death he was the curator of Cumberland University.

Politically, Hatton was a member of the short-lived Opposition Party . Between 1855 and 1857 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee . In 1857 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Tennessee, defeating the Democrat Isham G. Harris with 46:54 percent of the vote. In the congressional elections of 1858 Hatton was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Charles Ready on March 4, 1859 . Until March 3, 1861 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . This was shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war . In Congress, Hatton chaired the Department of Navy's Expenditure Control Committee. Hatton was originally against the exit of his state from the Union, but then joined the secession .

At the beginning of the Civil War, Robert Hatton became a colonel in a Tennessee infantry unit in the Confederate Army . On May 23, 1862, he was appointed Brigadier General. A few days later he was killed at the Battle of Seven Pines near Richmond. After an interim burial, he was buried in Lebanon when the war was over.

Web links

• Robert H. Hatton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert H. Hatton in the database of Find a Grave (English)