Ebenezer (Eben) Hayes (1798 - 1881) was a farmer, Methodist preacher and a member of the

South Carolina House of Representatives The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly. It consists of 124 representatives elected to two-year terms at the same time as U.S. congressional elections. Unlike many legislatures, seati ...

, during the Reconstruction era. Ebenezer Hayes was born in

Marion, South Carolina Marion is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, South Carolina, United States. It is named for Francis Marion, a brigadier general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War. The population was 6,939 at the 2010 census. Histo ...

, in 1798, the eldest of three sons to William Hayes, whose family came from Virginia and were of English descent. Hayes married Nancy Ann Dew (1806 - 1870) and his brother, Henry, married Nancy's sister, Marina. Ebenezer and Nancy had nine children, born between 1826 and 1854. Hayes represented

Marion County, South Carolina Marion County is a county located in the coastal plain of the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 29,183. Its county seat is Marion. It is a majority-minority county. Early European traders in the Caroli ...

in the

, during the Reconstruction era. He was elected twice, serving from 1868 to 1870 and 1872 to 1874. He was a member of the

Radical Republicans The Radical Republicans (later also known as "Stalwarts") were a faction within the Republican Party, originating from the party's founding in 1854, some 6 years before the Civil War, until the Compromise of 1877, which effectively ended Reco ...

, a party faction with a goal of immediate, complete and permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hayes, Eben 1798 births 1881 deaths People from Marion, South Carolina South Carolina Republicans 19th-century American politicians