{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://juliabrownley.house.gov/biden-signs-brownley-bill-to-designate-oxnard-post-office-recognizing-civil-rights-champion-john-r-hatcher-iii/", "Biden Signs Brownley Bill to Designate Oxnard Post Office Recognizing Civil Rights Champion John R. Hatcher III", "2022-12-27", "2022", "2022-12", "Democrat", "House", "CA", "Julia Brownley", "B001285", "juliabrownley.house.gov", "juliabrownley", "https://juliabrownley.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) issued the following statement regarding the recent enactment of legislation she authored to designate the U.S. Post Office located at 1961 North C Street in Oxnard, California as the \u201cJohn R. Hatcher III Post Office Building.\u201d John R. Hatcher III was a prominent community leader, staunch civil rights champion, and a lifelong resident of Oxnard.\n\n\u201cJohn Hatcher left a lasting legacy on our community, and I am proud to have spearheaded this effort to designate a post office bearing his name,\u201d said Congresswoman Julia Brownley. \u201cJohn was deeply passionate about advancing civil rights and a longtime advocate for the Black community across Ventura County, and this is a fitting tribute to John\u2019s life and legacy.\n\n\u201cI would also like to thank Senators Padilla and Feinstein for their help moving this important bill through the Senate and onto the President\u2019s desk.\u201d\n\nThe son of a civil rights leader in Birmingham, AL during the Jim Crow era, John R. Hatcher III followed in his father\u2019s footsteps and spent his life fighting for equality. Hatcher was a member of the NAACP for more than 60 years, nearly four decades of which he served as president of the Ventura County Chapter, in addition to eight years as the NAACP Southern Area president covering six states.\n\nHatcher was a veteran of the United States Air Force, serving more than 22 years before working as a civil servant for the Department of the Navy. A recipient of the African-American Achievement Award at California State University, Channel Islands, Hatcher aided in the establishment of the Ventura County African-American Chamber of Commerce, Tri-County Sentry newspaper, and naming the Thurgood Marshall School in the Oxnard School District.\n\nPresident Biden signed the bill on Tuesday, December 27, 2022.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://juliabrownley.house.gov/biden-signs-brownley-bill-to-designate-oxnard-post-office-recognizing-civil-rights-champion-john-r-hatcher-iii/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3265176676213741, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}