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Senate Years of Service: 1933-1949 Party: Democrat
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HATCH, Carl Atwood, a Senator from New Mexico; born in Kirwin, Phillip County, Kans., November 27,
1889; attended the public schools of Kansas and Oklahoma; graduated from the law department of
Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1912; admitted to the bar the same year and began
practice in Eldorado, Okla.; moved to Clovis, N.Mex., in 1916 and continued the practice of law;
assistant attorney general of New Mexico 1917-1918; collector of internal revenue 1919-1922;
district judge of the ninth judicial district of New Mexico 1923-1929; member, State board of bar
examiners 1930-1933; appointed on October 10, 1933, as a Democrat to the United States, and
subsequently elected on November 6, 1934, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sam G.
Bratton; reelected in 1936 and again in 1942 and served from October 10, 1933, to January 2,
1949; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; best known as author of the Hatch Act of
1939 and 1940, preventing federal employees from engaging in political activity; chairman,
Committee on Privileges and Elections (Seventy-seventh Congress), Committee on Public Lands and
Surveys (Seventy-seventh through Seventy-ninth Congresses); appointed United States district judge
for the district of New Mexico 1949-1963; retired; died in Albuquerque, N.Mex., September 15,
1963; interment in Fairview Park Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Porter, David. Senator Carl Hatch and the Hatch Act
of 1939. New Mexico Historical Review 48 (April 1973): 151-61.
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