Background
AYRES, William A. was born on April 19, 1867 in Elizabethtown, 111. Son of William Warren and Catherine (Drumm) Ayres.
United States representative lawyer politician
AYRES, William A. was born on April 19, 1867 in Elizabethtown, 111. Son of William Warren and Catherine (Drumm) Ayres.
He attended the common schools and Garfield University in Wichita, Kansas.
He was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Wichita, Kansas. He was clerk of the Court of Appeals of Kansas from 1897 to 1901, and prosecuting attorney of Sedgwick County, Kansas, from 1906 to 1910. Ayres was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress.
Interment in Old Mission Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas.
He was elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation effective August 22, 1934, having been appointed a member of the Federal Trade Commission on June 30, 1934, in which capacity he served until his death in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1952.
Spouse Dula Pease, Carbondale, 111., December 50, 1896.