Robert L. McHatton
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Robert Lytle Mchatton was a U.S. Representative
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 from Kentucky
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Born in Fayette County, Virginia (now Kentucky), Mchatton attended the common schools.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He served as member of the State house of representatives 1814–1816.
He served as major of the Seventy-seventh Regiment of state militia in 1816.

Mchatton was elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth
19th United States Congress
-House of Representatives:-Leadership:- Senate :* President: John C. Calhoun * President pro tempore: John Gaillard , until December 4, 1825** Nathaniel Macon , from May 20, 1826- House of Representatives :* Speaker: John W. Taylor -Members:...

 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Johnson.
He was reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth
20th United States Congress
-House of Representatives:-Leadership:- Senate :* President: John C. Calhoun * President pro tempore: Samuel Smith - House of Representatives :* Speaker: Andrew Stevenson -Members:This list is arranged by chamber, then by state...

 Congress and served from December 7, 1826, to March 3, 1829.
He resumed agricultural pursuits.
He died in Marion County, Indiana
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, May 20, 1835.
He was interred in the Old Cemetery, Georgetown, Kentucky
Georgetown, Kentucky
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