California State Officials Biographies 1911

EVERIS ANSON HAYES

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS
Fifth District
Counties: San Mateo, Santa Clara, and the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, 
Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and 
Thirty-ninth Assembly Districts of San Francisco. Population (1910), 372,632

EVERIS ANSON HAYES (Republican) was born at Waterloo, Wisconsin, March 10, 1855, 
and educated in the public schools; upon graduating from the Waterloo High 
Schools he entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1873, and graduated 
from both the literary and law departments of that institution, receiving the 
degree of B.L. and LL.B.; he engaged in the practice of law at Madison for four 
years, and at Ashland for three years; about that time he became interested in 
iron mines at Ironwood, Michigan, and at Hurley, Wisconsin, and since then has 
not been actively engaged in his profession, but has devoted his time to the 
management of his various properties; while residing in Madison he was City 
Alderman for two years, and for one year he was a member of the Board of 
Supervisors of Gogebic County, Michigan; in 1887 he removed to Santa Clara 
County, California, where he engaged in fruit raising, and together with his 
brother is publisher and proprietor of the San Jose Daily Morning Mercury and 
the Evening Herald; elected Representative in Congress for the Fifth District, 
November 8, 1904, reelected November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican 
and Union Labor parties; again reelected November 3, 1908, and also November 8, 
1910; at the last election, he received 33,265 votes to 15,345 votes for Thomas 
E. Hayden (Democrat), 7,052 for E. L. Reguin (Socialist), and 357 for T. E. 
Caton (Prohibitionist).
 
Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913