John Breese Hay (January 8, 1834 – June 29, 1916) was a

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Biography

John B. Hay was born in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois on January 8, 1834. He received a common school education, worked on a farm, and as a printer, after which he studied law. He was

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in 1851 and commenced practice in Belleville. He served as prosecuting attorney for the twenty-fourth judicial district of Illinois 1860-1868. He served as delegate to the Republican State convention in 1860. He served in the

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during the

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in the 130th Illinois Infantry Regiment. Hay was elected as a

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to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1873). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress and for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Belleville, and served as postmaster there from 1881 to 1885. He served as judge of St. Clair County Court 1886-1900. He served as mayor of Belleville from 1901 to 1905, when he resigned, having been again elected county judge, and served until 1914. He died at his son's home in

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on June 29, 1916. He was interred in Green Mount Cemetery.

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