district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party term_end preceded birth_date term_start article_title state name alma_mater
2nd george m. curtis 14 march 1901 marshall , michigan marshall , michigan democratic party march 3 , 1895 jeremiah h. murphy 09 december 1841 march 4 , 1887 walter i. hayes
 iowa walter i. hayes university of michigan
walter i. hayes

walter ingalls hayes -lrb- december 9 , 1841 - march 14 , 1901 -rrb- was a four-term democratic u.s. representative from iowa 's 2nd congressional district during the gilded age .
hayes was born in marshall , michigan .
he attended the common schools and graduated from the university of michigan law school in ann arbor in 1863 , and was admitted to the bar the same year .
hayes commenced practice in marshall and in 1864 and 1865 held the positions of marshall city attorney and united states commissioner for the eastern district of michigan .
hayes relocating to iowa as the civil war came to an end .
he served as united states commissioner for iowa from 1865 to 1875 and was city solicitor of clinton , iowa in 1870 .
hayes was the district judge of the seventh judicial district of iowa from 1875 to 1887 .
in that capacity , in 1882 he presided over one of the most important cases in the state of that era , in which liquor merchants challenged the enforceability of the 1882 amendment to the iowa constitution requiring prohibition .
hayes declared the amendment unconstitutional on procedural grounds , based on the failure of the law to pass both houses of the iowa general assembly in identical form .
the iowa supreme court affirmed hayes ' ruling , but in the next session the iowa general assembly adopted prohibition , by statute , in a constitutional fashion .
hayes served as delegate to the 1884 democratic national convention .
in 1886 , hayes wrested the democratic nomination for the 2nd district away from incumbent jeremiah henry murphy .
to enhance the chances for iowa republicans to hold all other congressional seats in iowa , the state 's general assembly had included many of the most democratic-leaning areas of eastern iowa in a single district -lrb- the second -rrb- .
hayes won the general election that year and represented the 2nd district in the 50th united states congress .
he was also elected to the three succeeding congresses .
however , in 1894 , when seeking a fifth term , hayes was defeated in the general election by republican george m. curtis .
between the civil war and the great depression , hayes was the only democratic congressman from iowa to serve more than two terms , and -lrb- along with murphy -rrb- was one of only two who served two full terms .
while in congress , hayes served as chairman of the committee on education in the fifty-second congress .
in all , he served in congress from march 4 , 1887 to march 3 , 1895 .
after leaving congress , hayes resumed the practice of law in clinton .
he served as member of the iowa house of representatives in 1897 and 1898 .
he died in marshall , michigan , on march 14 , 1901 .
he was interred in springdale cemetery in clinton .
