Charles Hayes

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Charles Hayes

Charles Arthur Hayes (* 17th February 1918 in Cairo , Illinois , † 8. April 1997 in Chicago , Illinois) was an American politician of the Democratic Party , of the State of Illinois for ten years in the US House of Representatives represented.

Life

After Hayes 1935, the Sumner High School was completed in his hometown, he was sent to a work 1,938 union functionary . Most recently, he was Vice President of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, founded in 1979 . In the 1980s, Hayes, who became a member of the civil rights organization Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the 1960s , was arrested for civil disobedience after participating in a demonstration against apartheid in South Africa . In addition, until 1986 he was first executive vice-president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), an advocacy group for African American trade union officials founded in 1972 .

In a by-election ( special election ), he was elected on August 23, 1983 as the Democratic candidate in the US House of Representatives and succeeds Harold Washington , who previously Afro-American for the first mayor of Chicago was chosen. Hayes, also an African American, was a member of the US House of Representatives after several re-elections until January 3, 1993 as a representative of the first congressional electoral district of Illinois. In 1992 he ran unsuccessfully for a new candidacy, but was defeated by his internal party competitor Bobby L. Rush , a former activist of the Black Panther Party , who was ultimately successfully elected to the 103rd  US Congress .

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SURNAME Hayes, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hayes, Charles Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1997
Place of death Chicago , Illinois