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Carl Hatch was a Democratic party senator from New Mexico. Hatch was born in Kansas and was raised in Kansas and Oklahoma. He graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University in 1912. He practiced law in New Mexico and was appointed New Mexico's attorney general in 1917 and continued to perform the same duty till 1918. He also served as state's collector of internal revenue and in 1923 he became a district judge in ninth judicial district of New Mexico. In 1933 he was elected to represent New Mexico in US senate. He continued to serve as a senator till 1949. He is famous as the originator of Hatch Act which barred federal employees from participating in political activities. In 1949 he was appointed as US district judge in United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. He served in that capacity till 1963, when he retired and died the same year in Albuquerque.
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Who is Levin Carl?
Carl M. Levin is an American politician who is the senior US Senator from Michigan, and has been serving since 1979. As of 2014, he is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services.
Who said War is an extension of foreign policy?
Carl Von Clausewitz
What American poet wrote a six volume biography of Lincoln?
Carl Sandburg.
The Hatch Act passed in 1940?
The Hatch Act of 1939 was also known as â??The Act To Prevent Pernicious Political Activitiesâ?? and was passed to prevent people in the executive branch of government, outside the President, Vice-President and other designated high ranking officials from engaging in partisan political activities.
What is a goal common to both the Pendleton Act and the Hatch Act?
Increase presidential control over the executive branch of government.
