Samuel W. Hayes | |
|---|---|
| Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court | |
| In office 1913–1914 | |
| Preceded by | John B. Turner |
| Succeeded by | Matthew John Kane |
| Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court | |
| In office November 16, 1907 – 1914 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | F. E. Riddle |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Samuel Wesley Hayes September 17, 1875 Huntsville, Arkansas |
| Died | March 14, 1941 (aged 65) Oklahoma City |
Samuel W. Hayes (1875–1941) was born in Arkansas, and moved to Texas with his parents when he was a small child. He completed his basic education in Texas, then attended the University of Virginia. He apparently did not graduate, but his college experience sufficed to qualify him as a school teacher. He spent the next three years teaching in the community of Ryan in the Chickasaw Nation, then part of the Indian Territory. He also began studying law in a local law office and was admitted to the Territorial Bar in 1899.
After becoming a lawyer, he moved to Chickasha, joined a law firm, and became active in Democratic party politics. Noticed by party officials, he was elected as a delegate to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention in Guthrie in 1906.[a] After Oklahoma became a state in 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt named him as an associate justice on the Oklahoma State supreme Court, where he served until he resigned in 1914. He then returned to his private law practice in Oklahoma City. He also served as a regent of the University of Oklahoma, a director of the 10th District of the Federal Reserve Bank and as President of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce until his death in 1941.
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