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) of the State of New Mexico in the U.S. Senate represented.

Carl Hatch first attended the public schools in Kansas and Oklahoma. In 1912, he received his law degree from the Law School of Cumberland University in Tennessee and was admitted to the bar, after which he began practicing in Eldorado ( Oklahoma). In 1916 he moved to Clovis to in New Mexico and initially worked there also as a lawyer.

His first public office he served 1917-1918 as Deputy Attorney General of the State of New Mexico. Between 1919 and 1921, Hatch was director of the State Administration of Taxation (State collector of internal revenue ). In 1923 he was appointed judge for the Ninth Judicial District of New Mexico, where he stayed until 1929. From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the State board of bar examiners, the control authority for the admission to the Bar.

After the resignation of U.S. Senator Sam G. Bratton, who took over a judgeship, Carl Hatch was appointed in October 1933 to his successor in Congress. The following year, he sat down in the election to a full parliamentary term; voters confirmed the Democrats in the years 1936 and 1942, before 1948 no longer took it and thus retired from the Senate in the year. He was instrumental in the Hatch Act also named after him. This law of 1940 prohibited federal employees from political activity. Hatch also was chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections.

In 1949, Carl Hatch was appointed judge at the Federal District Court for the District of New Mexico. A post he held until his retirement in 1963. Later that year, he died in Albuquerque.

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