[1] In 1877, the family moved to Jack County, Texas, where his parents worked on a farm and the boy received his basic education in the public schools.
He then attended the University of Virginia before coming to what would become the state of Oklahoma in 1897, where he taught school in the town of Ryan, then a part of the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory for three years.
[3] He was then selected as a member of a committee of three to go to Washington, D.C., to meet and request his approval for the proposed Oklahoma constitution with President Theodore Roosevelt and Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte.
After statehood became official on November 17, 1907, President Roosevelt appointed Hayes to the first Oklahoma State Supreme Court, where he served until 1914.
He was also selected as a member of a committee of three to go to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Theodore Roosevelt and Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte.
[1] After statehood became official on November 17, 1907, President Roosevelt appointed Hayes to the first Oklahoma State Supreme Court, where he served until 1914.
[3] On January 1, 1915, Judge Hayes joined the Cottingham & Bledsoe law firm, which was housed in Oklahoma City's Colcord Building.
Mamie was a native of Tennessee, but at the time of her marriage to Hayes was head of the English Department in the Northwestern Normal School of Oklahoma at Alva.