Frank Hatton (U.S. politician)

Frank Hatton ( born April 28, 1846 in Cambridge, Ohio, † April 30, 1894 in Washington DC ) was an American politician ( Republican), who held the office of Postmaster General in the cabinet of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.

Hatton was the son of a printer and also went first with his father in teaching. At the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Union forces, where he served first as a drummer. Later in the war he rose to the rank of lieutenant. In 1866 he left the army and pursue a career in the newspaper industry. In Burlington ( Iowa), he worked as an editor at Republican organ Daily Hawk-Eye, which helped him in the party hierarchy to climb. Hatton sympathized with the stalwarts here.

James A. Garfield, winner of the presidential election in 1880, Hatton appointed Deputy Postmaster General. After the change of Walter Q. Gresham to the Ministry of Finance then he climbed in October 1884 to the Postmaster General in the Cabinet on Arthur. At 38, Hatton was the youngest member of the Cabinet since Alexander Hamilton. In June of the same year, Frank Hatton had used at the Republican National Convention in vain for a reelection of President Arthur; the congress voted for James G. Blaine majority, who later lost the election to Grover Cleveland. So Hatton retired at the end of Arthur's presidency in March 1885 also from office.

He returned to the newspaper business and worked as an editor, first for the Chicago Mail and the New York Press, before he moved to the Washington Post. There Hatton suffered in 1894 while he was sitting at his desk, a stroke, the consequences of which he died two days after his 48th birthday.