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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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