Edward R. Hays

Edward Retilla Hays ( * May 26, 1847 in Fostoria, Ohio; † February 28, 1896 in Knoxville, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1890 and 1891 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Hays attended the public schools of his home and then the Heidelberg College in Tiffin. During the Civil War he was 1862-1865 soldier in an artillery regiment from Ohio. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1869 admitted to the bar he began in Knoxville (Iowa) to work in his new profession.

Politically, Hays member of the Republican Party. Following the resignation of Congressman Edwin H. Conger, who had been appointed to the American ambassador in Brazil, Hays was at the election due in the seventh election district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he finished between November 4, 1890, March 3, 1891, the legislature begun by his predecessor. In the regular congressional elections of 1890 Hays gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his short time in Congress Edward Hays again worked as a lawyer in Knoxville. There he died on 28 February 1896.

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