Mark O. Hatfield

Mark Odom Hatfield
United States Senator for Oregon
In office January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1997
Preceded by	Maurine Neuberger
Succeeded by	Gordon Smith
Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee
In office January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1997
Preceded by	Robert Byrd
Succeeded by	Ted Stevens
In office January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1987
Preceded by	Warren Magnuson
Succeeded by	John C. Stennis
29th Governor of Oregon
In office January 12, 1959 – January 9, 1967
Preceded by	Robert D. Holmes
Succeeded by	Tom McCall
16th Secretary of State of Oregon
In office January 7, 1957 – January 12, 1959
Governor	Elmo Smith Robert D. Holmes
Preceded by	Earl T. Newbry
Succeeded by	Howell Appling, Jr.
Oregon State Representative
In office January 1951 – January 1955
Born	July 12, 1922 Dallas, Polk County, Oregon
Died	August 7, 2011 (aged 89) Portland, Oregon
Resting place	Willamette National Cemetery in Portland
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Antoinette Kuzmanich Hatfield
Children	Four children
Alma mater	Salem (Oregon) High School Willamette University (Salem, Oregon) (BA) Stanford University (MA in Political Science)
Occupation	Educator; Professor
Religion	Baptist
Military Service
Service/branch	United States Navy
Years of service	1943-1947
Battles/wars	Pacific Theater of Operation in World War II, including occupation of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped

Mark Odom Hatfield (July 12, 1922 – August 7, 2011), a Republican, served as the United States Senator for Oregon for five terms from January 1967 through January 1997. He served in the United States Navy during World War II.

In 1966, he defeated the Democrat Robert Blackford Duncan (1920-2011), who died four months prior to Hatfield's passing. Prior to entering the Senate, Hatfield had already served in the Oregon legislature (1951-1955), as Oregon Secretary of State (1957-1959), and as governor (1959-1967). At the time, he was called the "Nelson Rockefeller of the West Coast" because of his Moderate Republicanism. He was the keynote speaker at the 1964 Republican National Convention, which nominated his later colleague, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, in the unsuccessful campaign against President Lyndon B. Johnson. Goldwater had wrestled the Republican nomination from Governors Rockefeller of New York and William Scranton of Pennsylvania.

Hatfield fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and was in the occupying force at Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped there. These events, and Hatfield's participation, are described in some detail in Tom Brokaw's 1998 book The Greatest Generation.

Hatfield broke the previous record for longevity for a senator from Oregon amassed previously from 1917 to 1944 by another Moderate Republican, Charles McNary, the 1940 Republican vice-presidential nominee, who ran with Wendell Willkie.

Though a Moderate Republican, Hatfield was consistently pro-life in his Senate votes.