William Augustus Ayres
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William Augustus Ayres (April 19, 1867 – February 17, 1952) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas.
William A. Ayres was born in Elizabethtown, Illinois. He moved with his parents to Sedgwick County, Kansas, in 1881. He attended the common schools and Garfield University in Wichita, Kansas. He was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Wichita, Kansas. He was clerk of the Court of Appeals of Kansas from 1897 to 1901, and prosecuting attorney of Sedgwick County, Kansas, from 1906 to 1910.
Ayres was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress. He was elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation effective August 22, 1934, having been appointed a member of the Federal Trade Commission on June 30, 1934, in which capacity he served until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1952. Interment in Old Mission Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas.
References
- William Augustus Ayres at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- The Political Graveyard
- William Augustus Ayres at Find a Grave
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 8th congressional district 1915 - 1921 |
Succeeded by Richard Ely Bird |
| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 8th congressional district 1923 - 1933 |
District eliminated |
| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 5th congressional district 1933 - 1934 |
Succeeded by John Mills Houston |
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