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'' Charles Hays (February 2, 1834 – June 24, 1879) was a

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from

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Biography

Hays was born at "Hays Mount," in

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near Boligee where he completed preparatory studies under private teachers. He attended the

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at Athens and the

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. He was a cotton planter in Greene County and also engaged in other agricultural pursuits before becoming a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1860. Hays was elected as a

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to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1877) and served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture ( Forty-third Congress). He died at his home, "Myrtle Hall," in

, June 24, 1879 and was interred in the family cemetery, "Hays Mount" plantation.

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