Brooks Hays
Brooks Hays | |
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President of the Southern Baptist Convention | |
In office 1958–1959 | |
Preceded by | C. C. Warren |
Succeeded by | Ramsey Pollard |
Personal details | |
Born | Lawrence Brooks Hays August 9, 1898 London, Arkansas, U.S. |
Died | October 11, 1981 Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 83)
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | University of Arkansas George Washington University Law School |
Southern Baptists |
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Lawrence Brooks Hays (August 9, 1898 – October 11, 1981) was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a
Biography
Brooks Hays was born in London, Pope County, Arkansas, on August 9, 1898. He attended public schools in Russellville, Arkansas. Hays served in the United States Army in 1918. After leaving the service he earned a degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1919. He attended law school at George Washington University, becoming a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, earning his law degree in 1922, after which he was admitted to the bar. Hays returned to Russellville and opened a private law practice.
Political career
Hays served as assistant
He served as a Democratic National committeeman for Arkansas from 1932 to 1939. With the arrival of the New Deal, Hays was appointed as a labor compliance officer for the National Recovery Administration in Arkansas in 1934. He served as assistant to the administrator of resettlement in 1935 and held administrative and legal positions in the Farm Security Administration from 1936 to 1942.
Hays ran for the
In 1953, Hays sponsored House Resolution 60, to create within the
The 1958 election
The major issue of the day was President
Post-congressional career
During his last term in Congress, Hays was elected to serve as the president of the
From 1959 to 1961, after his congressional tenure had ended, Hays served on the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Hays served in the Kennedy administration as Assistant Secretary of State for congressional relations in 1961 and as Special Assistant to the President of the United States from late 1961 until February 1964.[6]
Hays became a professor of political science at the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University and a visiting professor of government at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He served as director of the Ecumenical Institute at Wake Forest University from 1968 to 1970. In 1970 he was elected as co-chairman of Former Members of Congress, Inc. and served as the chairman of the Government Good Neighbor Council of North Carolina. [citation needed]
He also served on the board of directors of the National Conference on Citizenship in 1960.
In 1966, Hays ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Arkansas. It was a crowded field of eight candidates, following 12 years of control by Governor Orval Faubus, who was stepping down. Hays finished third, ahead of the man who had defeated him as a write-in candidate in 1958, Dale Alford, but behind Frank Holt and "Justice Jim" Johnson. Johnson, the eventual party nominee, a former Arkansas Supreme Court justice from Conway and avowed segregationist, was defeated in the November general election by the Republican Winthrop Rockefeller of Morrilton.[citation needed]
In 1972 Hays was the Democratic nominee for election to the
Death
With his career at an end, Hays took up residence in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He died on 11 October 1981 in Chevy Chase and was buried at Oakland Cemetery in Russellville, Arkansas.
See also
- List of Southern Baptist Convention affiliated people
- Southern Baptist Convention
- Southern Baptist Convention Presidents
References
- ^ "FindLaw's United States Seventh Circuit case and opinions".
- ^ Rudin, Ken (23 August 2006). "What Happens if Lieberman Wins?". NPR.
- ^ http://www.sbhla.org/downloads/97.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Baptist Leaders plan Baptist Peace Mission". Miami News. March 1, 1958.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Cornell, George (July 26, 1957). "Closer cooperation noted by North, South Baptists". Milwaukee Sentinel (AP).[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Abstract: Brooks Hayes Personal Papers". John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
Further reading
- Atto, William J., "Brooks Hays and the New Deal," Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 168–86.
- Brooks, Hays, A Hotbed of Tranquility; My Life in Five Worlds (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968).
- Caner, Emir, and Ergun Caner. The Sacred Trust: Sketches of the Southern Baptist Convention Presidents (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2003) pp 114–117.
External links
- United States Congress. "Brooks Hays (id: H000405)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Finding aid for the Brooks Hays Oral History, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
- Audio recording of Brooks Hays' lecture for the Marshall-Wythe Symposium at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, 20 March 1959.