Rep. Wayne Hays

Former Representative from Ohio's 18^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1976	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District
1959-1960	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District
1957-1958	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District
1953-1956	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District
1949-1952	Representative	Ohio's 18^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Hays was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Hays’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Hays to other members of the House of Representatives in the 94^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of Hays’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1949 to Sep 1976, Hays missed 833 of 5,563 roll call votes, which is 15.0%. This is worse than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1949 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jul-Sep	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jul-Jul	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Aug	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Aug	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	11	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	11	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jul-Aug	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	6	21.4%	95^th
1965 Apr-Jun	51	14	27.5%	95^th
1965 Jul-Sep	97	11	11.3%	72^nd
1965 Oct-Oct	16	9	56.3%	98^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	7	25.0%	92^nd
1966 Apr-Jun	49	8	16.3%	74^th
1966 Jul-Sep	67	10	14.9%	61^st
1966 Oct-Oct	39	9	23.1%	58^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	1	1.7%	90^th
1967 Oct-Dec	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	77	1	1.3%	58^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	3	3.3%	65^th
1968 Oct-Oct	24	5	20.8%	77^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	5	17.9%	75^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	5	11.1%	62^nd
1969 Oct-Dec	83	25	30.1%	90^th
1970 Jan-Mar	30	9	30.0%	89^th
1970 Apr-Jun	70	26	37.1%	92^nd
1970 Jul-Sep	76	19	25.0%	81^st
1970 Oct-Dec	78	22	28.2%	79^th
1971 Jan-Mar	20	3	15.0%	81^st
1971 Apr-Jun	85	17	20.0%	77^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	5	6.9%	43^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	132	23	17.4%	74^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	11	17.2%	81^st
1972 Apr-Jun	109	22	20.2%	73^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	100	15	15.0%	72^nd
1972 Oct-Oct	48	11	22.9%	72^nd
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	187	28	15.0%	80^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	20	15.4%	88^th
1973 Oct-Dec	176	46	26.1%	92^nd
1974 Jan-Mar	75	3	4.0%	32^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	166	28	16.9%	78^th
1974 Jul-Sep	146	12	8.2%	70^th
1974 Oct-Dec	138	45	32.6%	95^th
1975 Jan-Mar	60	15	25.0%	97^th
1975 Apr-Jun	195	28	14.4%	84^th
1975 Jul-Sep	144	35	24.3%	94^th
1975 Oct-Dec	184	14	7.6%	64^th
1976 Jan-Mar	104	14	13.5%	80^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	163	61.0%	98^th
1976 Jul-Sep	147	80	54.4%	97^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Wayne Hays [D-OH18, 1961-1976] leaves office as Representative for Ohio's 18th congressional district

Oct 01, 1976

Elections and Offices

Rep. Wayne Hays [D-OH18, 1961-1976] takes office as Representative for Ohio's 18th congressional district

Jan 03, 1961

Elections and Offices

Rep. Wayne Hays [D-OH18, 1961-1976] leaves office as Representative for Ohio's 18th congressional district

Sep 01, 1960

Elections and Offices

Rep. Wayne Hays [D-OH18, 1961-1976] takes office as Representative for Ohio's 18th congressional district

Jan 07, 1959

Elections and Offices

Rep. Wayne Hays [D-OH18, 1961-1976] leaves office as Representative for Ohio's 18th congressional district

Aug 24, 1958