Background
Hays, Will H. was born on November 5, 1879 in in Sullivan, Indiana, United States. Son of John T. and Mary (Cain) Hays.
Hays, Will H. was born on November 5, 1879 in in Sullivan, Indiana, United States. Son of John T. and Mary (Cain) Hays.
Bachelor of Arts, Wabash College, Indiana, 1900, Master of Arts, 1904. Doctor of Laws, Lincoln Memorial University, 1919. Doctor of Laws, Mount Union College, 1926.
Doctor of Laws, Wabash College, 1940.
1 son, Will H.; married second, Jessie Herron Stutsman, November 27, 1930. Admitted to Indiana bar, 1900. City attorney, Sullivan, 1910-1913.
Member Hays & Hays.
Elected Republican precinct committeeman before age of 21. Chairman Republican County Committee, Sullivan County, and member Republican State Advisory Committee, Indiana, 1904-1908. Chairman speakers’ bureau Republican State Committee, 1906-1908.
District chairman Republican State Committee, 2d District, Indiana, 1910-1914.
Chairman Republican State Central Committee, Indiana, 1914-1918. Chairman Indiana State Council of Defense, 1917-1918.
Chairman Republican National Committee, February 1918-June 7, 1921. Postmaster general of the United States by appointment of President Harding, March 5, 1921-March 4, 1922.
President Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Incorporated., 1922-1945, advisor, 1945-1950.
Director Continental Banking Company, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company. Vice president Roosevelt Memorial Association. Trustee Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men.
Member National Council Boy Scouts of America, Citizens Committee of Salvation Army, American and Indiana State bar associations, National Institute Social Science, Academy Political Science, Phi Delta Theta (president for Indiana 6 years, national president, 1920-1922).
Chairman coördinating committee American Red Cross and Near East Relief, by appointment of President Harding, October 1922.
Member Hays & Hays. Elected Republican precinct committeeman before age of 21. Member National Council Boy Scouts of America, Citizens Committee of Salvation Army, American and Indiana State bar associations, National Institute Social Science, Academy Political Science, Phi Delta Theta (president for Indiana 6 years, national president, 1920-1922). Member National Board of Incorporators, American Red Cross.
Colonel O.R.C. Elder Presbyterian Church.
Mason (33°, Knights Templar, Shriner). Clubs: Columbia, Indianapolis Athletic, Sullivan Rotary (honorary), Indianapolis Country (Indiana).
Married Helen Louise Thomas, November 18, 1902. Married second, Jessie Herron Stutsman, November 27, 1930.