Andrew Hatcher

Andrew Hatcher (1923–1990) was an associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy and a founder of 100 Black Men of America in 1963.

Life and career Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Hatcher graduated from Witherspoon School for Colored Children in 1937 and Princeton High School in 1941. He attended Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts and served three years in the United States Army as a second lieutenant until 1946. A few years later, he relocated to San Francisco, California, working as a journalist at the San Francisco Sun-Reporter and later as an assistant labor commissioner under Governor of California Pat Brown. After Kennedy was assassinated, Hatcher resigned from the Johnson administration to support Salinger's successful senatorial campaign in California.

In 1972, Hatcher was working on the staff of Senator Henry M. Jackson.

Hatcher was married to Ruth Avery, with whom he had seven children.

Hatcher died in 1990.