List of Famous people with last name Hays

Will H. Hays

First Name Will
Last Name Hays
Born on November 5, 1879
Died on March 7, 1954 (aged 74)

William Harrison Hays Sr. was a United States politician, chairman of the Republican National Committee (1918–21), U.S. Postmaster General (1921–22), and, from 1922–1945, the first chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA). He became the namesake of the 1930 Motion Picture Production Code, informally referred to as the Hays Code, which spelled out a set of industry moral guidelines for the self-censorship of content in Hollywood cinema.

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Arthur Garfield Hays

First Name Arthur
Last Name Hays
Born on December 12, 1881
Died on December 14, 1954 (aged 73)

Arthur Garfield Hays was an American lawyer and champion of civil liberties issues, best known as a co-founder and general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union and for participating in notable cases including the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. He was a member of the Committee of 48 and a contributor to The New Republic. In 1937, he headed an independent investigation of an incident in which 18 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in Ponce, Puerto Rico, when police fired at them. His commission concluded the police had behaved as a mob and committed a massacre.

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Barton S. Hays

First Name Barton
Last Name Hays
Born on January 1, 1826
Died on January 1, 1914 (aged 88)

Barton Stone Hays was an early Indiana artist and teacher.

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Charles Melville Hays

First Name Charles
Last Name Hays
Born on May 16, 1856
Died on April 15, 1912 (aged 55)

Charles Melville Hays was the president of the Grand Trunk Railway. He began working in the railroad business as a clerk at the age of 17 and quickly rose through the ranks of management to become the General Manager of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway. He became Vice-President of that company in 1889 and remained as such until 1896 when he became General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) of Canada.

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