Herschel Harrison Hatch (February 17, 1837 – November 30, 1920) was a politician from the

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. Hatch was born in Morrisville, New York, where he attended the common schools. He graduated from

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Law School in Clinton, New York, in 1857. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Morrisville, 1858-1863. Hatch moved to

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, where he was elected alderman of Bay City at its first organization in 1865. He was judge of probate of

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, 1868–1872, a member of the constitutional commission of Michigan in 1873, and a member of the tax commission in 1881. He was a descendant of

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. His cousin, Jethro A. Hatch, was the first physician in

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and a Member of the

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from Indiana's 10th congressional district. Hatch was elected as a

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to the

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, becoming the first to represent

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, and served from March 4, 1883 to March 4, 1885 in the

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. Hatch declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884 and resumed the practice of law. Herschel H. Hatch moved to

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in 1895 and practiced law until 1910, when he retired. After ten years of retirement, he died in Detroit at the age of eighty-seven and is interred in Elm Lawn Cemetery of Bay City.

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