Wayne L. Hays

A Representative from Ohio. Born in Bannock, Belmont County, Ohio, May 13, 1911. Attended the public schools of Bannock and St. Clairsville, Ohio. Was graduated from Ohio State University at Columbus in 1933. Student at Duke University, Durham, N. C. , in 1935. Teacher in Flushing, Ohio, 1934-1937 and Findlay, Ohio, in 1937 and 1938. Also engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mayor of Flushing, Ohio, 1939-1945. Served in the State senate in 1941 and 1942. Commissioner, Belmont County, 1945-1949. Member of the Officers' Reserve Corps, United States Army, from 1933 until called to active duty as a second lieutenant on December 8, 1941. Was separated from service with medical discharge in August 1942. Chairman, board of directors, Citizens National Bank, Flushing, Ohio, since December 1953. Delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1960, 1964, and 1968. Chairman, House of Representatives delegation to NATO Parliamentarians Conference since beginning of United States participation, and president of conference in 1956 and 1967. President, North Atlantic Assembly, 1969-1970. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his resignation September 1, 1976. Chairman, Committee on House Administration (Ninety-second through Ninety-fourth Congresses), Joint Committee on Printing (Ninety-second through Ninety-fourth Congresses), Joint Committee on the Library (Ninety-second Congress). Resigned as chairman of Committee on House Administration on June 18, 1976. Successful candidate in the primary in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress but withdrew before the general election. Member of the Ohio state house of representatives, 1978-1980. Was a resident of St. Clairsville, Ohio, until his death in Wheeling, W. Va. , on February 10, 1989. Interment in Union Cemetery, St. Clairsville, Ohio.