Everis Anson Hayes (March 10, 1855 – June 3, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a

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from

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from 1905 to 1919.

Biography

Born in

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to Anson and Mary Hayes, Hayes attended the public schools. He was graduated from the Waterloo High School in 1873 and from the literary and law departments of the

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in 1879. He was

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in 1879 and commenced practice in

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. He moved to

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, in 1883 and in 1886 to

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, and continued the practice of his profession. He moved to

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, in 1886 and engaged in the mining of ore. He moved to

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, in 1887 and engaged in fruit raising and mining. With his brother, Jay Orley Hayes, he purchased the ''

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'' in 1900 and the ''San Jose Herald'' the following year, becoming publisher and proprietor of the two papers. The Hayes family built the

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in 1903.

Congress

Hayes defeated incumbent Democratic congressman William J. Wynn and was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905 – March 3, 1919). He was an outspoken anti-Japanese nativist. On April 5, 1917, he was one of the 50 representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

Later career

He resumed his newspaper activities in San Jose, with mining interests in

, and

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Death

He died in San Jose, June 3, 1942. He was interred in

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Cemetery.

Electoral history

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayes, Everis Anson 1855 births 1942 deaths People from Waterloo, Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Wisconsin Law School alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California Editors of California newspapers Wisconsin lawyers Burials at Oak Hill Memorial Park The Mercury News people 20th-century American newspaper publishers (people) 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives