Andrew Hatch, world’s oldest man, dies in Oakland

Posted on 21 January 2016. Tags: Andrew, dies, Hatch, Oakland, Oldest, world's

After 117 years, living life in three centuries — through wars, presidents, politics, quakes, earthshaking social movements and leaps of technology from gaslight to LEDs — Hatch died quietly at his daughter’s Oakland home Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

At the time of his passing, Hatch, born in Louisiana Oct. 7, 1898, was likely the oldest man in the country, if not the world. And though he had decades’ worth of driver’s licenses and work-permit cards displaying his age, he didn’t have a birth certificate. Birth records for African-Americans in the South were scarce in the late 19th century, so he was never officially listed as “oldest man” by the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks longevity.

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