Augustus Raymond Hatton
{{Short description|American politician}}
Augustus Raymond Hatton (September 27, 1873 - November 12, 1946) was an American politician in Cleveland, Ohio. He served as a Cleveland City Council member and professor of Political science at Western Reserve University.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2LQiAQAAIAAJ&dq=HATTON,+AUGUSTUS+RAYMOND&pg=PA225 |title=The University of Chicago Magazine |date=1918 |publisher=University of Chicago, Alumni Association |language=en}} Hatton was campaign manager for the city manager plan which took effect in 1924.{{Cite book |last1=Hatton |first1=Augustus Raymond |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQf9n5RiA9sC&q=Hatton+campaign+manager+Cleveland |title="Is City Manager Government Applicable to Our Largest Cities"?: Debate Given Before Joint Session of the City Managers' Association and the National Municipal League at Their Conventions in the Chicago City Club: Affirmative, Dr. A. R. Hatton, Negative Bradley Hull |last2=Hull |first2=Bradley |date=1922 |publisher=City managers association |pages=5 |language=en}}
Early life and education
Hatton was born near Vevay, Indiana{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_oUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Augustus+Raymond+Hatton+was+born+near+Vevay,+Indiana&pg=PA596 |title=Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of ... |date=1915 |publisher=American Publishers' Association |language=en}} to Augustus and Mary Lavinia (Howard) Hatton.{{Cite book |last1=Leonard |first1=John William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CcxapMo5EBIC&dq=Augustus+Raymond+Hatton+Augustus+and+Mary+Lavinia+(Howard)+Hatton&pg=PA1494 |title=Who's who in America |last2=Marquis |first2=Albert Nelson |date=1924 |publisher=A.N. Marquis |language=en}} Augustus graduated from Franklin College (Indiana) with a Bachelor of Philosophy then taught history and political science there. He got a Ph.D from the University of Chicago.{{Cite book |last=University |first=Western Reserve |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xSJRAAAAYAAJ&dq=Augustus+Raymond+Hatton+Franklin+College&pg=RA2-PA16 |title=Catalogue |date=1910 |language=en}} Then he was associate professor of political science at Western Reserve University.{{Cite book |last=League |first=National Municipal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftE-AAAAYAAJ&dq=Augustus+Raymond+Hatton+Western+Reserve+University&pg=PA421 |title=Proceedings of the ... Conference for Good City Government and of the ... Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League Held ... |date=1908 |publisher=National Municipal League |language=en}} From 1927 to 1940, Hatton taught at Northwestern University.{{Cite book |last1=Hadden |first1=Briton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MIoQAAAAIAAJ&dq=Augustus+Raymond+Hatton+Northwestern+University&pg=RA11-PA11 |title=Time |last2=Luce |first2=Henry Robinson |date=1927 |publisher=Time Incorporated |language=en}} Hatton was a visiting professor at the University of Texas in Austin 1942-43.
Cleveland politics
He and Newton D. Baker helped draft Ohio's home rule amendment.{{Cite book |last1=Grant |first1=Arthur Hastings |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yq4rAQAAIAAJ&dq=Augustus+Raymond+Hatton+Baker+home+rule&pg=PA91 |title=The American City |last2=Buttenheim |first2=Harold Sinley |date=1919 |publisher=Buttenheim Publishing Corporation |language=en}} Then he served on Cleveland's Charter Commission{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=58AkLed-IBwC&dq=Augustus+Raymond+Hatton+Cleveland's+Charter+Commission&pg=RA20-PA7 |title=Commerce |date=1916 |publisher=Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. |language=en}} and drafted the proportional representation section of Cleveland's city manager plan adopted in 1921. Hatton was elected to Cleveland City Council.{{Cite book |last=Nicholson |first=Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_n7TAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Augustus+Raymond+Hatton%22+%22Cleveland+City+Council%22&pg=RA3-PA124 |title=The Christian Student |date=1924 |publisher=Board of Education of the Methodist Espicopal Church |language=en}}
Personal life
Hatton married Nancy Mathews on November 11, 1903{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2tfJdDZ1eicC&dq=Augustus+Raymond+Hatton+married+Nancy+Mathews+on+November+11,+1903&pg=PA938 |title=Who's who in America |date=1912 |publisher=A.N. Marquis |language=en}} and they had a daughter Martha. After Nancy's death in 1931, he married Esther Rutan on November 25, 1936.{{Cite web |date=2018-05-11 |title=HATTON, AUGUSTUS RAYMOND {{!}} Encyclopedia of Cleveland History {{!}} Case Western Reserve University |url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/h/hatton-augustus-raymond |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=case.edu |language=en}}
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