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At the time of his retirement, he was seventh most senior Senator and the second most senior Republican. In 1968, he was considered a candidate to be Richard Nixon 's running mate for the Republican Party presidential ticket. Hatfield served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations on two occasions.
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Aug 8, 2011 · Hatfield, who had always told friends he didn't want to be one of those doddering senators held up by aides, decided to retire at the end of 1996, at the age of 74.
With Republican control of the Senate, Hatfield's seniority made him chair of the powerful Appropriations Committee from 1981 until 1987 and again from 1995 until 1997. He retired from the Senate in 1997. Back in Oregon, Hatfield taught at George Fox University and at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. He died on ...
Mar 18, 2014 · Mark O. Hatfield: In the Aug. 8 LATExtra section, the obituary of former U.S. Sen. Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon said that he served 35 years in the Senate. He served 30 years, from 1967 to 1997.
Mark O. Hatfield, the former Republican senator from Oregon, died August 7 in Portland at the age of 89. He was a political maverick, a pragmatic idealist who worked across the aisle to take on big issues, including the long-running U.S. war in Vietnam, the insanity of the nuclear arms race, excessive military spending, and the global arms trade.
Aug 8, 2011 · Aug. 8, 2011. Mark O. Hatfield, a liberal Republican who challenged his party’s positions on the Vietnam War and on a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution during his 30 years as a...
Aug 26, 2021 · Oregon Sen. Mark Hatfield in 1990. His political career included 16 years as a state legislator, two gubernatorial terms, and nearly three decades in the U.S. Senate. He died in 2011 at age 89.
