HAYS BROOKS
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CIA-RDP01-01773R000300110062-2
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Document Creation Date:
December 21, 2016
Document Release Date:
February 27, 2007
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BIO
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HAYS, BROOKS, Democrat, of Little Rock, Ark. ; born in London,
Ark. , August 9, 1898, son of Steele and Sallie Butler Hays;
attended Russellville, Ark., public schools; received A. B.
degree, University of Arkansas, 1919; LL. B. degree, George
Washington University, 1922; served in the United States Army
September to December 1918; married Marian Prather, of
Fort Srni
assistant attorney general
of Arkansas, 1925-27; Democratic national committeeman for
Arkansas, 1932-39: held administrative and legal positions in
Department of Agriculture, 1936-42; president of the Arkansas
Conference of Social Work, 1932-34; member of board of
trustees of George Peabody College for Teachers and George
Washington University; Sigma Chi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi
Alpha Delta fraternities, the American Legion, and Lions Club
(district governor, 1926-27); member of National Council,
Boy Scouts of America and in 1957 received Silver Buffalo
award; Baptist; president of the Southern Baptist Convention,
1957.58; thirty-third degree Mason (KCCH); elected November
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3, 1942, to Seventy-eighth Congress and reelected to succeeding
Congresses; member: Select Committee To Investigate Tax-Exempt
Foundations (82d Congress), Commission on Intergovernmental
Relations (Kestnbauin), United States Delegation to United Nations
General Assembly, 1955.
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