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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriEdward Dixon HAYS
(1872-1941)
HAYS, Edward Dixon, a
Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near Oak Ridge, Cape
Girardeau County, Mo., April 28, 1872; attended the public schools;
was graduated from the Oak Ridge High School in 1889 and from the
Cape Girardeau State Normal School in 1893; taught school until
1895; moved to Jackson, Mo., in 1895; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Jackson, Cape Girardeau
County, Mo.; mayor of Jackson 1903-1907; probate judge of Cape
Girardeau County 1907-1918; unsuccessful Republican nominee for
circuit judge in 1916; moved to Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1915 and
continued the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3,
1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the
Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession in
Cape Girardeau, Mo.; trial lawyer for the Department of Justice in
the Court of Claims 1923-1925; appointed valuation attorney for the
Interstate Commerce Commission in 1925 and served until 1933;
continued the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and resided in
Bethesda, Md., where he died on July 25, 1941; interment in Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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