Philip C. Hayes
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Birth name | Philip Cornelius Hayes |
Born | Granby, Connecticut | February 3, 1833
Died | July 13, 1916 Joliet, Illinois | (aged 83)
Place of burial | Elmhurst Cemetery, Joliet, Illinois |
Allegiance | United States of America Union |
Service/ | United States Army Union Army |
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Unit | 103rd Ohio Infantry |
Battles/wars | American Civil War |
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Philip Cornelius Hayes (February 3, 1833 – July 13, 1916) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Background
[edit]Born in Granby, Connecticut, Hayes moved with his father's family to LaSalle County, Illinois. He attended the country schools and graduated from Oberlin (Ohio) College in 1860 and from the Theological Seminary, Oberlin, Ohio, in 1863.
Civil war
[edit]He enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War and was commissioned as a captain in the 103rd Ohio Infantry on July 16, 1862. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on November 18, 1864. On December 3, 1867, President Andrew Johnson nominated Hayes for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from March 13, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on February 14, 1868.[1]
Public office and politics
[edit]Following the war, Hayes returned to Ohio. He became the superintendent of schools in Mount Vernon, Ohio, in 1866. He moved to Circleville, Ohio, in 1867, and then to Bryan, Ohio, in 1869.
In 1874, Hayes moved from Ohio to Morris, Illinois. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872. Hayes was elected as a Republican to the 45th United States Congress in 1876, unseating independent incumbent Alexander Campbell, a theoretician of the Greenback movement; and was re-elected to the Forty-sixth Congress in 1878. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1880.
He moved to Joliet, Illinois, in 1892, where he resumed journalism. Philip C. Hayes died in Joliet on July 13, 1916, and was interred in Elmhurst Cemetery.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1 p. 747.
References
[edit]- Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1.
- United States Congress. "Philip C. Hayes (id: H000391)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-08-14
External links
[edit]- "Philip C. Hayes". Find a Grave. Retrieved August 14, 2008.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- 1833 births
- 1916 deaths
- People from Granby, Connecticut
- Journalists from Illinois
- People of Ohio in the American Civil War
- Union Army colonels
- Oberlin College alumni
- People from Morris, Illinois
- People from LaSalle County, Illinois
- People from Bryan, Ohio
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois
- 19th-century American legislators
- Journalists from Ohio
- Military personnel from Illinois