biography
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| (1889–1963)
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Kirwin, Kansas, USA. A lawyer in Mexico, he went to the US Senate (Democrat, New Mexico, 1933–49). He was best known as the author of the Hatch Acts (1939, 1940), which curtail the political activities of federal employees in national elections. A supporter of farm and labour legislation and land reclamation projects, he also supported President Truman on such international policies as the Marshall Plan. On leaving the Senate he served as a federal judge in Mexico (1949–63). |
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