HAYS, CHARLES, a Representative from Alabama; born at ``Hays Mount,'' near Boligee,
Greene County, Ala., February 2, 1834; completed preparatory studies under
private teachers; attended the University of Georgia at Athens and the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville; was a cotton planter and also
engaged in other agricultural pursuits; was a delegate to the Democratic
National Convention at Baltimore in 1860; during the Civil War was a major in
the Confederate Army; member of the constitutional convention of Alabama in
1867; served in the State senate in 1868; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3,
1877); chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Forty-third Congress); died at his
home, ``Myrtle Hall,'' in Greene County, Ala., June 24, 1879; interment in the
family cemetery, ``Hays Mount'' plantation.
