Alden R. Hatch was an American

United States

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 writer. He was the son of May D. Hatch and her husband Frederic H. Hatch, owner of a successful Wall Street

Wall Street

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 stock brokerage firm he founded in 1888. Alden's brother, Eric S. Hatch

Eric S. Hatch

Eric S. Hatch was an American writer on the staff of The New Yorker and a novelist and screenwriter best known for his book 1101 Park Avenue that became a hit film under the title My Man Godfrey....

, was a writer on the staff of The New Yorker

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and a novelist and screenwriter best known for his book 1101 Park Avenue that became a hit film

Film

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 under the title My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava. The screenplay was written by Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by La Cava, based on "1101 Park Avenue", a short story by Eric Hatch. The story concerns a socialite who hires a derelict to be her...

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Born in New York City

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, Alden Hatch was the author of more than 40 books. A number of his works chronicled the lives of a variety of high profile individuals such as Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius XII

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, Pope John XXIII

Pope John XXIII

-Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop...

, Brother André

André Bessette

Saint André Bessette, CSC , born Alfred Bessette and since his canonisation sometimes known as Saint André of Montreal, was a Holy Cross Brother and a significant figure of the Roman Catholic Church among French-Canadians, credited with thousands of reported miraculous healings. He was declared...

, Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....

, Prince Bernhard

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld

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, Glenn Curtiss

Glenn Curtiss

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, Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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, Mamie Eisenhower

Mamie Eisenhower

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, George S. Patton

George S. Patton

George Smith Patton, Jr. was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness.Patton was commissioned in the U.S. Army after his graduation from...

, Wendell Willkie

Wendell Willkie

Wendell Lewis Willkie was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for the president in 1940. A member of the liberal wing of the GOP, he crusaded against those domestic policies of the New Deal that he thought were inefficient and...

, Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

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 and Edith Bolling Wilson, Claire Booth Luce, Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, futurist and second president of Mensa International, the high IQ society....

 and what Hatch described as a "novelized biography" of Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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. A fan of Thoroughbred

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 horse racing

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, in 1938 he collaborated with Foxhall Keene

Foxhall P. Keene

Foxhall Parker Keene was an American thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder, a World and Olympic Gold Medallist in polo. He was rated the best all-around polo player in the United States for eight consecutive years, a golfer who competed in the U.S...

 on a biography of the late James R. Keene

James R. Keene

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, the renowned horseman and owner of Castleton Farm

Castleton Lyons

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Hatch wrote several book on his friend, Dwight Eisenhower, and his official biography was used by the General during his 1952 presidential campaign

United States presidential election, 1952

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. Hatch also co-authored The Circus Kings with Henry Ringling North.ruary

Alden Hatch was first married in 1932 to Ruth Brown, they divorced in 1949 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F6061EF6395B167B93C6A91783D85F4D8485F9 and in 1950 he remarried to Miss Allene Pomeroy Gaty.

For a number of years, Alden Hatch lived in his parents' home in Cedarhurst

Cedarhurst, New York

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, Long Island

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. Following a brief illness, he died at age seventy-six at his winter home in Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota, Florida

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