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Senator Orrin Hatch

“Powerful Congressman” Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican representative for Utah, was born March twenty-second nineteen thirty-four in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hatch’s father, Jesse, was a hardworking metal lather and his mother, Helen, a devout woman. He grew up in a family of modest means. Yet, despite hard times, the senator’s parents did everything possible to provide opportunities for Orrin, encouraging him to develop athletic skills, such as basketball and amateur boxing, a love of music and the arts, a passion for the law and our constitution. Hatch received his Bachelor of Science in nineteen fifty-nine from Brigham Young University, and his Juris Doctorate (doctor of law) degree from the University of Pittsburgh in nineteen sixty-two. Orrin has held many jobs, such as that of a lawyer, author, metal lather and musician. Senator Hatch has written the lyrics of hundreds of songs and has produced or co-produced even family, faith and country oriented CD’s.Hatch has been married for forty-three years to Elaine Hensen of Neuton Utah. They have six children, Brent (forty-nine), Marcia (thirty-nine), Scott (thirty-seven), Kimberly (thirty-four), Alysa (thirty) and Jess (twenty-nine) as well as, nineteen grandchildren. The sixty-seven years old Hatch and his family reside in Washington, D.C. No matter the issue political or personal, Hatch’s conservative Mormon ways are carried over into both his work and his play.Senator Orrin Hatch got his start in 1976 when Hatch upset three-term democratic incumbent Senator Frank Mass in the Utah senatorial contest with 54% of the votes. When he was re-elected in 1982, he had 58% in 1988, 67%, and in 1994, 69%. Hatch is now in his fifth term as a senator. He serves on the subcommittee on taxation as chairman, the senate judiciary committee as chairman, the select committee on intelligence, the committee on finance, the committee on indian affairs, t...

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