Background
William Hatch was born on September 11, 1833, near Georgetown, Kentucky, United States, the son of Rev. William Hatch, a Campbellite minister, and Mary (Adams) Hatch, both members of pioneer Kentucky families.
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William Hatch was born on September 11, 1833, near Georgetown, Kentucky, United States, the son of Rev. William Hatch, a Campbellite minister, and Mary (Adams) Hatch, both members of pioneer Kentucky families.
William's education in the public schools of Lexington was supplemented by a year of legal training in a law office at Richmond.
After his admission to the bar in 1854, William Hatch, like many other Kentuckians, removed to Missouri. He settled at Hannibal where he began the practice of law, with politics as a major interest. Despite bitter internal warfare, the Democratic party in the state was uniformly successful, and Hatch shortly became favorably known as one of its leaders in northeastern Missouri. In 1858 he was elected circuit attorney for the sixteenth judicial district and was reelected in 1860. In the national election of that year he supported Bell and Everett although his sympathies were obviously with the South. Despite these, and the extreme demoralization incident to civil war, he remained in office until 1862. Eliminated in that year because of his inability to subscribe to the necessary oath of loyalty to the Union, he entered the Confederate army and advanced in rank from captain to lieutenant colonel.
After the war Hatch returned to Hannibal but, owing to the proscriptions of the Radical Republican régime, was barred from voting and from office-holding until 1871, when a combination of Democrats and bolting Liberals defeated the Radicals and regained political power. Immediately reentering the political field, Hatch lost the nomination for governor in 1872 but, in 1878, when the Confederate tradition controlled the Missouri Democracy, he was elected from the old first district to the Forty-sixth Congress. He served from this strongly Democratic, agricultural region through eight successive terms. By his mastery of the intricacies of procedure, by his close friendship with J. G. Carlisle and C. F. Crisp, and by his aggressive leadership, he achieved great influence in the House of Representatives.
From the first chiefly interested in agricultural legislation, Hatch served for several sessions as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. He proposed and successfully sponsored the act creating the Bureau of Animal Industry (1884), the first oleomargarine act (1886), and a meat inspection act (1890). He also wrote several anti-option laws to prevent speculation in grain. The principle embodied in the legislation, that of direct aid for the study of scientific agriculture was subsequently greatly enlarged and extended. Hatch was a leader in the agitation among the agricultural associations and in Congress for the elevation of the Department of Agriculture to the status of an executive department in the cabinet. This was finally accomplished in 1889, but Hatch did not achieve his ambition to become secretary. He was defeated for réélection in the Republican landslide of 1894 and retired to his farm, although he maintained his active leadership in agricultural legislation until his death.
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William Hatch was a member of the Democratic party.
Hatch was twice married: to Jennie L. Smith, who died in 1858, and in 1861 to Thetis C. Hawkins.