Neighbor Council of North Carolina. He also served on the board of directors of the National Conference on Citizenship in 1960. In 1966, Hays ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Arkansas. It was a crowded field of eight candidates, following 12 years of control by Governor Orval Faubus, who was stepping down. Hays finished third, ahead of the man who had defeated him as a write-in candidate in 1958, Dale Alford, but behind Frank Holt and "Justice Jim" Johnson. Johnson, the eventual party nominee, a former Arkansas Supreme Court justice from Conway and avowed segregationist, was defeated in the November general election by the Republican Winthrop Rockefeller of Morrilton. In 1972 Hays was the Democratic nominee for election to the Ninety-third Congress as a representative from North Carolina, but lost to the Republican incumbent, Wilmer Mizell (also known as "Vinegar Bend" Mizell). Death With his career at an end, Hays took up residence in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He died on 11 October 1981 in Chevy Chase and was buried at Oakland Cemetery in Russellville, Arkansas. See also List of Southern Baptist Convention affiliated people Southern Baptist Convention Southern Baptist Convention Presidents References Further reading Atto, William J., "Brooks Hays and the New Deal," Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 168–86. Brooks, Hays, A Hotbed of Tranquility; My Life in Five Worlds (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968). Caner, Emir, and Ergun Caner. The Sacred Trust: Sketches of the Southern Baptist Convention Presidents (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2003) pp 114–117. External links Finding aid for the Brooks Hays Oral History, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Audio recording of Brooks Hays' lecture for the Marshall-Wythe Symposium at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, 20 March 1959. 1898 births 1981 deaths People from Pope County, Arkansas George Washington University Law School alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty North Carolina Democrats Southern Baptist Convention presidents Southern Baptists Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas 20th-century American politicians Baptists from Arkansas American anti-communists