Herschel H. Hatch

Herschel Harrison Hatch ( born February 17, 1837 in Morrisville, Madison County, New York, † November 30, 1920 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Herschel Hatch attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree from Hamilton College in Clinton and in 1857 made ​​his admission to the bar he began in Morrisville to work in his new profession. In 1863 he moved to Bay City in Michigan, where he was elected in 1865 to the municipal council. Between 1868 and 1872 he was restructuring judge in the local Bay County.

Politically, Hatch was a member of the Republican Party. In 1873 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Michigan; In 1881 he became a member of the Tax Commission that state. In the congressional elections of 1882 he was tenth in the newly created constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1883. Since he did not run in 1884, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1885.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Herschel Hatch worked until 1910 as a lawyer again. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on 30 November 1920 in Detroit, where he had lived since 1895.

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