Robert L. McHatton

Robert Lytle McHatton (* November 17, 1788 in Fayette County, Virginia, † May 20 1835 in Marion County, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1826 and 1829 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert McHatton was born in 1788 in Fayette County, Virginia, which later became part of the new state of Kentucky. He attended the common schools and was then engaged in farming. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1814 and 1816 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In 1816 he served as a major in the state militia.

In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson. After the death of Mr James Johnson McHatton was in the fifth electoral district of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 7 in 1826. After confirmation from the regular congressional election of 1826 he was able to remain until March 3, 1829 in Congress. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives McHatton again worked in agriculture. He died on 20 May 1835 in Indiana and was buried in Georgetown.