- Robert Anthony Hatcher
Robert Anthony Hatcher (
February 24 ,1819 –December 4 ,1886 ) was a prominentMissouri politician who served in theConfederate States Congress during theAmerican Civil War and then spent three terms in theUnited States House of Representatives after the war duringReconstruction .Hatcher was born in
Buckingham County, Virginia , and later moved toKentucky , where he was admitted to the bar, before finally settling in Missouri in 1847. He was member of theMissouri House of Representatives in 1850 and 1851.During the Civil War, he represented the state in the
Second Confederate Congress in 1864 and 1865. After the war, he was elected to theUnited States Congress as a member of theForty-third Congress , theForty-fourth Congress , and theForty-fifth Congress serving from 1873 to 1879. In the Forty-fifth Congress, he served as Chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures.External links
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