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Carl Trumbull Hayden was born on October 2, 1877 in Hayden's Ferry (now Tempe), Arizona, United States. He was the son of Charles Trumbull Hayden and Sallie Calvert Davis. A descendant on his father's side of seventeenth-century English colonists, Hayden grew up in the frontier world of Arizona when it was still a territory in the town named for his father, who had settled there just after the Civil War.
Graduating from the Normal School of Arizona at Tempe in 1896, Hayden went on to Stanford University.
After earning his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford in 1900, Hayden returned to Tempe, where he entered the flour-milling business and successfully ran for town council.
When Hayden entered national political life, he became known for the intensity of his reelection campaigns, even in the years when he faced no serious challenger.
For two years he served as treasurer of Maricopa County and then in 1907 was elected county sheriff, holding that post for five years.
In 1912, when Arizona entered the Union as the forty-eighth state, Hayden was chosen as its first representative to Congress. For the next fifty-six years, forty-two of them in the Senate, Hayden would be Arizona's "man in Washington. "
During World War I, Hayden, who had been a member of the First Arizona National Guard, was posted to Camp Lewis, Washington, as a major of infantry in the United States Army. He was elected to the Senate in 1926 and would serve there until 1968, longer than any person before him. Unknown to the country at large for much of that time, Hayden remained inconspicuous in Washington as well.
Nonetheless he came to wield great power in the Senate because of his attention to its traditions, his dedication to hard work, and his remarkable diplomatic skill in roaming the Senate corridors and cloak room in search of the votes that were needed for measures he supported. What made his influence all the more remarkable was his public reticence. He once said that he owed his longevity in Congress to the principle that if a man keeps his mouth shut, he can't put his foot in it.
President Johnson designated September 30, 1968 Carl Hayden Day at the White House to mark the signing of the Lower Colorado River Basin bill. The measure, providing $1. 3 billion for water development, was one Hayden had long championed and the passage of which he had finally secured.
In 1957, Hayden, as the longest-serving member, assumed the unofficial title of dean of the Senate. Because the Democrats controlled the chamber, he became president pro tempore, presiding in the absence of the vice-president. On the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963, he stood second in line for the presidency by virtue of that position. He retired from the Senate five years later.
Hayden died in Mesa, Arizona.
Carl Trumbull Hayden went down in history as the first United States Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as Arizona's first Representative for eight terms before entering the Senate, Hayden set the record for longest-serving member of the United States Congress more than a decade before his retirement from politics. The longtime Dean of the United States Senate, he served as its president pro tempore and chairman of both its Rules and Administration and Appropriations committees.
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Hayden was a member of the Democratic Party.
As a freshman in Congress, he announced his interests in irrigation and water rights, in the commercial use of public lands, and in federal policies affecting mining rights, three areas that would remain priorities on his political agenda for most of his legislative career because of their self-evident importance to the economy of the Southwest.
In his fourteen years in the House, he served on both the Irrigation and Public Lands Committees, on the Flood Control Committee, and on the Committee for Indian Affairs.
He was a political moderate, whose votes at times reflected liberal policy, as when he supported the creation of the United States Children's Bureau in 1912 to assist state welfare agencies in caring for homeless and dependent children.
He also supported woman suffrage and the prohibition of child labor. On other occasions, Hayden took a more conservative position, voting for immigration quotas and Prohibition, and against a bill that made lynching a federal crime.
Between 1927 and 1947, he took the Senate floor only once: to mount a six-week filibuster against certain provisions in the bill creating Boulder Dam. Ironically his third Senate speech, given in 1949, called for time limits on filibustering, which in the postwar years had become a favorite weapon of the southern bloc.
In the 1930s Hayden generally supported the New Deal, voting in favor of such measures as the repeal of Prohibition, Social Security, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. He continued to press for irrigation and roads in the West. Asked by Franklin Roosevelt why he always mentioned roads when he came to the White House, whatever else might be under discussion, Hayden replied, "Because Arizona has two things people will drive thousands of miles to see--the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest. They can't get there without roads. "
In the 1950s he was the key figure in establishing the formulas for the vast federal highway aid program. His legislative record continued to reflect a middle-ground approach to government. He supported the desegregation of the military after World War II but voted against Medicare in 1962. He voted in favor of the Marshall Plan but opposed portions of the North Atlantic Security Pact, which established NATO.
From the 1950s on, he advocated equal rights for women, and in the 1960s he went on record in favor of President Kennedy's program for federal aid to education.
Known as the "Silent Senator", Hayden rarely spoke on the Senate floor. When he did speak, he rarely spoke for more than five minutes at a time, in a dry, clear monotone without embellishment.
The refusal to take anything for granted, he said, went back to his years at Stanford when, in a race for student body president, he lost the only election of his life. "It taught me a lesson, " he told a reporter in 1950. "I've been running like a rabbit ever since. "
Quotes from others about the person
President John F. Kennedy said of Hayden: "Every Federal program which has contributed to the development of the West - irrigation, power, reclamation - bears his mark, and the great Federal highway program which binds this country, together, which permits this State to be competitive east and west, north and south, this in large measure is his creation. "
A colleague said of him: "No man in Senate history has wielded more influence with less oratory, " while the Los Angeles Times wrote that Hayden had "assisted so many projects for so many senators that when old Carl wants something for his beloved Arizona, his fellow senators fall all over themselves giving him a hand. They'd probably vote landlocked Arizona a navy if he asked for it. "
On February 15, 1908, Hayden married Nan Downing, who died in 1962; they had no children.
