Walter I. Hayes

Walter Ingalls Hayes ( born December 9, 1841 in Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan, † March 14, 1901 ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1895 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter Hayes attended the common schools. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1863 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in his home town of Marshall. Between 1864 and 1865 he was also a lawyer in his home town. At the same time, he served as Legal Officer of the Federal Government ( Commissioner) for the eastern part of Michigan. Thereafter, he practiced from 1865 to 1875 in the same business for the state of Iowa. In 1870, Hayes was the city attorney Clinton in Iowa. Between 1875 and 1887 he served as a district judge in the Seventh Judicial District of Iowa.

Politically, Hayes was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1884 and 1892 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, on each of which Grover Cleveland was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1886, he was in the second electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jeremiah Henry Murphy on March 4, 1887. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 four related legislative periods. Between 1891 and 1893 he was Chairman of the Education Committee. For the 1894 elections, he was defeated by Republican George M. Curtis. Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, Hayes was the only Democratic Representative from Iowa who could spend more than two coherent legislative sessions in Congress.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Walter Hayes again worked as a lawyer. Between 1897 and 1898 he was also a member of the House of Representatives from Iowa. He died on 14 March 1901 in his birthplace of Marshall and was buried in Clinton.