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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Mark Odom Hatfield
|image=Mark Hatfield of OR.jpg
|office=[[United States Senator]] for [[Oregon]]
|term_start=January 3, 1967
|term_end=January 3, 1997
|preceded=Maurine Neuberger
|succeeded=Gordon Smith
|office2=Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee]]
|term_start2=January 3, 1995
|term_end2=January 3, 1997
|predecessor2=[[Robert Byrd]]
|successor2=[[Ted Stevens]]
|term_start3=January 3, 1981
|term_end3=January 3, 1987
|predecessor3=[Warren Magnuson]]
|successor3=[[John C. Stennis]]
|office4=29th [[Governor]] of Oregon
|term_star4=January 12, 1959
|term_end4=January 9, 1967
|predecessor4=Robert D. Holmes
|successor4=Tom McCall
|office5=16th Secretary of State of Oregon
|governor5=Elmo Smith<br>Robert D. Holmes
|term_start5=January 7, 1957
|term_end5=January 12, 1959
|predecessor5=Earl T. Newbry
|successor5=Howell Appling, Jr.
|office6==Oregon State Representative
|term_start6=January 1951
|term_end6=January 1955
|birth_date=July 12, 1922
|birth_place=Dallas, Oregon
|death_date=August 7, 2011 (aged 89)
|death_place = [[Portland, Oregon]], U.S.
|resting_place=Willamette National Cemetery
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Antoinette Kuzmanich Hatfield
|children=Four children
|alma_mater=Salem (Oregon) High School<br.
Willamette University]] (BA)<br>
[[Stanford University]] (MA in Political Science)]])
|occupation==[[Educator]]; [[Professor]]
|branch=[[United States Navy}}
|serviceyears=1943-1947
|battles=Pacific Theater of Operation in [[World War II]]}}
'''Mark Odom Hatfield''' (July 12, 1922 – August 7, 2011), a [[Moderate 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]].
'''Mark Odom Hatfield''' (July 12, 1922 – August 7, 2011), a [[Moderate 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]].
Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 1966, when he defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] he served he was in the Oregon legislature, was elected as Oregon Secretary of State (1957-1959), and served as [[governor]] of Oregon (1959-1967). Hatfield fought in the battles of [[Iwo Jima]] and [[Okinawa]], and was part of the occupying force at [[Hiroshima]] after the atom bomb was dropped there. These events, and Hatfield's participation, are described in some detail in Tom Brokaw's 1998 book ''The Greatest Generation''.
Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 1966, when he defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Robert Duncan, he served he was in the Oregon legislature, was elected as Oregon Secretary of State (1957-1959), and served as [[governor]] of Oregon (1959-1967). Hatfield fought in the battles of [[Iwo Jima]] and [[Okinawa]], and was part of the occupying force at [[Hiroshima]] after the atom 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.
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.
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