Senator Mark Hatfield received the Albert Lasker Public Service Award

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In 1995, Senator Mark Hatfield received the Albert Lasker Public Service Award “For energetic leadership and enduring advocacy in support of biomedical research.”

Hatfield served in the Oregon State house of representatives from 1951-1955; member, the State senate from 1955-1957; Oregon secretary of state from 1957-1959; Governor of the state from 1959-1967; and he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1966 for term beginning January 3, 1967 to January 1997.

Dedication ceremonies for the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland were held on September 22, 2004. The facility is home to new inpatient units, day hospitals and research labs that connect to the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, which opened its doors to patients in 1953.

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Source: U.S. Senate Historical Office
Credit: Photo: Mark Hatfield courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office