Background
HAYES, RUFUS was born on May 15, 1913 in Liberty Hill, Texas, United States.
HAYES, RUFUS was born on May 15, 1913 in Liberty Hill, Texas, United States.
Louisiana College (Bachelor of Arts, 1934). Louisiana State University (Bachelor of Laws, 1937). Gamma Eta Sigma. District Attorney, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, 1948.
Chairman, Board of Tax Appeals, 1948-1952.
State Insurance Commissioner of Louisiana, 1956-1964.
He was also a former district attorney in East Baton Rouge Parish and in 1958 the Louisiana Democratic state chairman. He was a delegate to the 1956 and 1960 Democratic National Conventions held in Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California, respectively. He received his law degree from Louisiana State University Law Center.
During World World War II he fought in the Pacific Theater of Operations.
Hayes was appointed insurance commissioner by Governor Earl Kemp Long after Long convinced the legislature to remove the insurance duties from the domain of Secretary of State Wade O. Martin, Junior., with whom Long had quarreled. Hayes ran on the Jimmie Davis ticket, all of whose members prevailed in the runoff election.
After the elimination of Bill Dodd in the gubernatorial primary, Tate ran on the Morrison intraparty ticket, which was defeated by Davis. Thereafter, Hayes was the only statewide Democratic nominee unopposed in the general election held on April 19, 1960, but none of the Democrats faced a serious threat to election.
In 1963-1964, Hayes did not seek a second elected term as insurance commissioner and was succeeded by Dudley A. Guglielmo, who carried the endorsement of defeated gubernatorial candidates Gillis Long, Shelby M. Jackson, Robert F. Kennon, and Claude Kirkpatrick.
In 1985, Hayes sold for $750,000 a 14-acre (57,000 m2) parcel on Highland Road to Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. Hayes was a judge after his time as insurance commissioner ended. At the time of his death, Hayes was residing in Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish.
He was living in Oklahoma at the time he acquired his Social Security card.
Louisiana State, Federal and American Bar Associations. International Association of Defense Counsel. (Resident, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Office) [United States.
Navy, active duty, 1942-1946.
Captain, United States Navy Reserve].