Brooks Hays

Lawrence Brooks Hays ( born August 9, 1898 in London, Pope County, Arkansas, † October 11, 1981 in Chevy Chase, Maryland ) was an American politician. He represented the state of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Brooks Hays attended the public school in Russellville. After that he undertook in 1918 in the U.S. Army. After the war he left the army and began to study in Fayetteville, where he graduated in 1919 from the University of Arkansas. He then attended the law department of George Washington University in Washington. He received his law degree in 1922 and his license to practice law. Then he went back to Russellville and opened a practice.

Hays was between 1925 and 1927 Deputy Attorney General of Arkansas. After that, he was from 1932 to 1939 at the Democratic National Committee as a representative of his state. With the arrival of the New Deal Hays was appointed economic control officer for the National Recovery Administration in Arkansas 1934. After that, he was deputy municipal manager in 1935 and held the administrative and legal position in the Farm Security Administration 1936-1942.

Hays ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and was elected to the 78th Congress. He has been reelected seven more times. His term of office lasted from 3 January 1943 to 3 January 1959.

1953 supported the Hays Resulution 60 to create " a place of retreat as encouragement to prayer " inside the Capitol. This followed a trend of religious legislation, which had declared the previous year in the grounds of the "National Day of Prayer ," and that in the following years this would continue with the introductory words "Under God " in the Pledge of Allegiance (1954). In 1955, the part " In God We Trust ", which was maintained until today ..

Nevertheless, we saw 1953 as the beginning of the "Presidential Prayer Breakfast", later renamed to the " National Prayer Breakfast", a movement sponsored by the International Christian Leadership, also better known as "The Family ". Hays described him, in the column in the Washington Post by Drew Pearson on 20 June 1954 as " one of the leading experts in psychological warfare against communism ", used his Protestant relations to a christian, conservative opinion in favor of offensive International The Family to form, which refers to the " militant liberty " which was favored by the internationalist Republicans and conservative Democrats.

Furthermore, Hays was in 1956 involved in the constitution of the Southern Manifesto that spoke out against racial integration in public institutions.

The choice in 1958

The main concern of the day was President Eisenhower's decision to send federal troops into the Central High School in Little Rock. Most politicians from Arkansas were against this intervention alone Hays tried indirectly from the distance between the Federal Government and Governor Orval Faubus to convey. Hays was not an internationalist, but his actions inflamed the supporters of racial segregation in the state, which then gathered around a citizens council candidate in the Democratic primary. Hays won by a 3-2 margin. Then put, with just a week before the November elections, Dale Alford, a member of the school board in Little Rock, an offer to Hays from. Supported by Faubus ' allies won Alford in a larger uncertainty caused by over 1200 votes ( 51-49 percent). This happened only three times in the last half century ( alleged to 2006) that a just enrolled candidate won a congressional election.

The Nachkongresskarriere

After the end of his term Hays was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. This activity, he held 1957-1958. Then he came to the Supervisory Board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, where he remained from 1959 to 1961. Furthermore Hays in 1961 worked in the Kennedy administration as Secretary of State for Congress Relations ( Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs ) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Special Assistant to the U.S. President by the end of 1961 to February 1964.

Hays was a professor of political science at the Eagleton Institute of Rutgers University and Visiting Professor of Government at the University of Massachusetts. In addition, he worked as director of the Ecumenical Institute at Wake Forest University 1968-1970. Afterwards 1970 he was appointed co - chairman of the Former Members of Congress, Inc. and served as Chairman of the Government Good Neighbor Council in North Carolina.

1972 Hays still made ​​a start on the 93rd Congress as a delegate for North Carolina, but he lost to Republican incumbent Wilmer Mizell.

After the end of his political career, Hays bought a retirement home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He died there on 11 October 1981. He was buried at the Oakland Cemetery in Russellville.