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Article in the Northwest Arkansas Times about Brooks Hays giving a talk at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville N.W. Ark. Times, 2 Nov 75 [handwritten annotation] Ex-Congressman Hays To Lecture Brooks Hays, former United States Congressman from Arkansas, will speak at the University of Arkansas Wednesday on "Reflections of a Troubled Moderate: Little Rock, 1957-58." The lecture, which is being sponsored by the Department of History, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Graduate Education Auditorium. It is open to the public and is free. Hays represented the old Fifth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1959. He played a prominent role in the Little Rock integration crisis, serving as an intermediary between the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower and former Governor Orval Faubus. His role is credited with bringing about his defeat in 1958 by a segregationist eye doctor, Dale Alford of Little Rock. Hays subsequently served on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority and as an assistant secretary of state for congressional relations and presidential assistant under the late President John F. Kennedy. He is a 1919 graduate of the UA and received his law degree from Washington University three years later. In 1972, he became one of the few persons to run for Congress from two states when he lost a race in North Carolina to Wilmer (Vinegar Bend) Mizell, the former major league baseball pitcher. Hays had moved to North Carolina in 1969 to serve as...

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