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Senate Years of Service: 1977- Party: Republican
HATCH, Orrin Grant, a Senator from Utah; born in Homestead Park, Allegheny County, Pa.,
March 22, 1934; received early education in the public schools of Pittsburgh,
Pa.; graduated, Brigham Young University 1959; graduated, University of
Pittsburgh Law School 1962; admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1963 and
commenced practice in Pittsburgh; moved to Utah in 1969 and continued
practicing law; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1976;
reelected in 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, and again in 2006 for the term ending
January 3, 2013; chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources
(Ninety-seventh to Ninety-ninth Congresses), Committee on the Judiciary (One
Hundred Fourth to One Hundred Sixth Congresses; One Hundred Seventh Congress
[January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001], One Hundred Eighth Congress).
Bibliography Hatch, Orrin.
Square Peg: Confessions of a Citizen Senator. New York: Basic
Books, 2002.
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