Background
HATCHER, Robert Anthony was born on February 24, 1819 in Buckingham County, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of the merchant Archibald Hatcher.
HATCHER, Robert Anthony was born on February 24, 1819 in Buckingham County, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of the merchant Archibald Hatcher.
Private school.
He was educated privately in Lynchburg, Virginia, studied law, and was admitted to the Kentucky bar, where he practiced from 1840 to 1847. He was a Baptist and a Democrat. He was married to a Miss Marr, whose brother was a New Orleans lawyer.
In 1847-1848, Hatcher practiced law in New Madrid, Missouri, where he was also circuit attorney of the Tenth Judicial District for six years before the Civil War. He served in the Missouri House in 1850-1851 and attended the state convention as a secessionist in 1861. He was also a merchant in New Madrid in the 1850s.
During the early part of the war, he was a major on the staff of General Leonidas Polk in the Confederate Army. He was a delegate to the state convention in 1862. Hatcher was elected from the field to serve in the second Confederate House where he was a member of the Enrolled Bills and Ordnance and Ordnance Stores Committees.
He defended General John B. Hood (^.v.) on the decision to abandon Atlanta. He was generally a Davis administration supporter. When the war ended he returned to New Madrid to practice law.
Hatcher served as a Democrat in the U.S. House from 1873 to 1879. In 1877, he moved to Charleston, Missouri, where he practiced law until his death on December 4, 1886.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.