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Charles Hays
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 4th district |
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| In office March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1877 |
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| Preceded by | Charles W. Pierce |
| Succeeded by | Charles M. Shelley |
| Member of the Alabama Senate from the 24th district |
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| In office 1868 |
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Charles Hays
February 2, 1834 Greene County, Alabama |
| Died | June 24, 1879 (aged 45) Greene County, Alabama |
| Political party | Republican |
Charles Hays (February 2, 1834 – June 24, 1879) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Biography
Hays was born at "Hays Mount," in Greene County, Alabama near Boligee where he completed preparatory studies under private teachers.
He attended the University of Georgia at Athens and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
He was a cotton planter and also engaged in other agricultural pursuits before becoming a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1860.
During the Civil War he was a major in the Confederate States Army but returned to politics after the war serving first as member of the constitutional convention of Alabama in 1867 and then in the State senate in 1868.
Hays was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1877) and served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Forty-third Congress).
He died at his home, "Myrtle Hall," in Greene County, Alabama, June 24, 1879 and was interred in the family cemetery, "Hays Mount" plantation.
