Legal Career
After graduation Hay moved to Portland, Oregon where he practiced law until 1912 when he relocated to Southern Oregon and Klamath Falls. In 1914, he married Edith M. Lawson, with whom he had three children together. In 1915, they moved to neighboring Lakeview, Oregon, the county seat of Lake County. There in 1925 Arthur Hay became the district attorney for the county, serving through the next year. In 1933 Hay was appointed as state circuit court judge, and was twice re-elected.
On November 28, 1942, he was appointed by Oregon Governor Charles A. Sprague to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace John L. Rand who had died in office. Hay won election to a full six-year term on the court in 1944 with re-election to another term in 1950. However, he did not finish the term and died in office on December 19, 1952.
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