17 Facts About Carl Hatch

Carl Atwood Hatch was a United States senator from New Mexico and later was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.

Carl Hatch attended the public schools of Kansas and Oklahoma and then received a Bachelor of Laws in 1912 from the Cumberland School of Law and was admitted to the bar the same year.

Carl Hatch entered private practice in El Dorado, Oklahoma from 1912 to 1916.

Carl Hatch was in private practice in Clovis, New Mexico in 1916 and from 1929 to 1933.

Carl Hatch was an assistant attorney general for the State of New Mexico from 1917 to 1918.

Carl Hatch was the Collector of Internal Revenue for the State of New Mexico from 1919 to 1922.

Carl Hatch was a Judge of the New Mexico District Court for the Ninth Judicial District from 1923 to 1929.

Carl Hatch served on the state board of bar examiners from 1930 to 1933.

Carl Hatch was United States Senator from New Mexico from 1933 to 1949.

Carl Hatch was appointed on October 10,1933, as a Democrat to the United States Senate, and was elected on November 6,1934, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sam G Bratton.

Carl Hatch was reelected in 1936 and again in 1942 and served from October 10,1933, to January 3,1949.

Carl Hatch was not a candidate for renomination in 1948.

Carl Hatch is best known as the author of the "Hatch Act" of 1939 and 1940, preventing certain restricted federal employees from engaging in specified political activity.

Carl Hatch was Chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections for the 77th United States Congress and Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys for the 77th, 78th and 79th United States Congresses.

Carl Hatch was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 17,1949, and received his commission on January 21,1949.

Carl Hatch served as Chief Judge from 1954 to 1963.

Carl Hatch's service terminated on September 15,1963, due to his death in Albuquerque, New Mexico.