Richard G. Hatcher
American politician
Died when: 86 years 156 days (1037 months)Star Sign: Cancer
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Richard Gordon Hatcher (July 10, 1933 – December 13, 2019) was an American attorney and politician who served as the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana for 20 years, from 1968 to 1988.
At the time of his first election on November 7, 1967, he and Carl Stokes were the first African-Americans to be elected mayors of a U.S. city with more than 100,000 people.
Hatcher also served as Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee in the early 1980s.
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