Robert Anthony Hatcher

Robert Anthony Hatcher (February 24, 1819 – December 4, 1886) was a prominent Missouri politician and Democrat who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War and later spent three terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1873 to 1879 during Reconstruction. Born in Buckingham County, Virginia, he moved to Kentucky where he was admitted to the bar before settling in Missouri in 1847, where he practiced law and served in the Missouri House of Representatives in 1850 and 1851. In the Forty-fifth Congress, he chaired the Committee on Public Expenditures.[1][4][8]