George Edward Chalmers Hayes (July 1, 1894 – December 20, 1968) was a

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, lawyer who defended Annie Lee Moss on March 11, 1954. He was the lead attorney in '' Bolling v. Sharpe'' (1954). In 1955 he became the first

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to serve on the District of Columbia Public Utilities Commission.

Biography

He was born in Richmond, Virginia, and graduated from Brown University in 1915, and then earned a law degree from Howard University School of Law in 1918. He taught at Howard University School of Law starting in 1924 while he maintained a private practice in the

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. On March 11, 1954, he defended Annie Lee Moss. In 1954 with

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, he was the lead counsel on '' Bolling v. Sharpe'', the companion case to ''

Brown v. Board of Education ''Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'', 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segrega ...

''. Hayes argued that denying

students the liberty to attend non-segregated schools violated due process. Bolling was decided under the Fifth Amendment's ''due process'' clause while Brown was decided under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. In 1955 he became the first

to serve on the District of Columbia Public Utilities Commission. He died on December 20, 1968.

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