Monroe Leland Hayward (December 22, 1840December 5, 1899) was a politician from

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. He was elected to become a Senator of Nebraska in 1899, dying before taking the oath of office.

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Hayward was born in

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. He served during the Civil War in the Twenty-second Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and in the Fifth Regiment, New York Volunteer Cavalry. He graduated from Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, New York, in 1865. Hayward then studied law in

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; he was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in

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. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1873. He became judge of the district court of Nebraska in 1886. Hayward was elected as a

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to the

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on March 8, 1899, to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1899. This delay was caused by the failure of the

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to elect a Senator by the start of the term. He did not take the Senate's

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before his death and was hence never officially a Senator, both because his health deteriorated after his election, and the Senate had adjourned. He died in

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on December 5, 1899, while in a coma. He was interred in

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. Sources at the time noted that while he was a Republican, the Governor appointing his replacement,

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was a

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. He was hence replaced by Populist William V. Allen. ''The Courier'' wrote: "Ethically as a republican senator was elected and has died a republican should be appointed to take his place, but such transcendental politics is still unheard of in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-nine." His son, Colonel William Hayward, commanded the 369th Infantry Regiment during the First World War, known as the

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. His grandson was Broadway producer

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, and the writer

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is his great-granddaughter.

References

*U.S. Congress. ''Memorial Addresses for Monroe L. Hayward''. 56th Cong., 1st sess., 1900. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. Retrieved on 2008-11-05

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