Bert Hatten
| Walter Bertram "Bert" Hatten | |
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| Mayor of West Monroe, Louisiana, USA | |
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In office July 1, 1966 – June 30, 1978 |
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| Preceded by | J. Allen Norris (not related to Dave Norris) |
| Succeeded by | Dave Norris |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 9, 1927 Sikes, Winn Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Political party | Democrat-turned-Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Ann Henderson Hatten (born 1933) |
| Children |
Beth Hatten Hinton |
| Parents | William Earl and Pina Head Hatten |
| Residence | West Monroe, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | University of Louisiana at Monroe |
| Occupation | Retired newspaperman |
Beth Hatten Hinton
Catherine Olivia Hatten
Walter Bertram Hatten, known as Bert Hatten (born March 9, 1927), is a former newspaperman who served for three terms as the mayor of West Monroe in Ouachita Parish in North Louisiana, a position which he filled as a Democrat from 1966 to 1978. He is perhaps best known for his editorial column, "Inside Straight", in The Ouachita Citizen, a weekly in West Monroe.
Hatten was born in Sikes in Winn Parish, Louisiana, to William Earl Hatten and the former Pina Head. The Hattens moved to West Monroe in 1940. There in 1945, he graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in Monroe. At the age of seventeen, Hatten entered the United States Merchant Marine during World War II; he served for three years. When the war ended, he was aboard the USS Grove City Victory, which was anchored in Tokyo Bay near the USS Missouri (BB-63), on which General Douglas MacArthur accepted the formal surrender of Japanese authorities. Upon his return from the war, Hatten continued his education at Northeast Junior College, now the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Hatten's career as a journalist began in 1948, when he was attending college. He joined the reporting staff at the former Monroe Morning World. He remained at the News-Star World for fifteen years. By the middle 1950s, before he was thirty, Hatten was the managing editor at the Morning World, since merged into the Monroe News-Star. In 1956, he hired Sam A. Hanna, Sr., subsequently an award-winning journalist and newspaper entrepreneur in his own right, as an outdoor writer for The Morning World. By 1963, Hatten had left the Monroe newspapers to enter the insurance business.
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