Ragen Hatcher (born July 5, 1978) is an American politician from Gary, Indiana. A member of the

Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to: *Democratic Party (United States) Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to: Active parties Africa *Botswana Democratic Party *Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea *Gabonese Democratic Party *Demo ...

, she serves in the

Indiana House of Representatives The Indiana House of Representatives is the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Indiana. The House is composed of 100 members representing an equal number of constituent districts. House memb ...

. Hatcher is the daughter of

Richard G. Hatcher Richard Gordon Hatcher (July 10, 1933 – December 13, 2019) was an American attorney and politician who served as the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana for 20 years, from 1968 to 1988. At the time of his first election on November ...

, a former mayor of Gary. She served on Gary's city council from 2007 through 2011. Hatcher ran for mayor of Gary in 2011, but lost the election. She was elected to the city council for another term in 2015. She ran for the third district in the

in the 2018 elections to succeed Charlie Brown, and won. Hatcher briefly considered running for the Indiana Senate to succeed Eddie Melton in the 2020 elections. Melton decided to run for re-election to his Senate seat and Hatcher then decided to run for her State Rep seat.

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