Politics
Hays, a Democrat, was elected to the 81st Congress in 1948, and was subsequently elected to thirteen succeeding Congresses. He was chairman of the powerful Committee on House Administration.
Hays received 5 votes for president at the 1972 Democratic National Convention without campaigning for the office. In 1976 Hays ran for the party's nomination for President as a favorite son candidate in the Ohio primary.
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