Eben Hayes

{{short description|American politician (1789-1881)}}

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| name = Eben Hayes

| image = Eben Hayes.jpg

| birth_name = Ebenezer Hayes

| office = South Carolina House of Representatives

| term_start = 1868

| term_end = 1870

| term_start1 = 1872

| term_end1 = 1874

| birth_date = {{birth year|1798}}

| birth_place = Marion, South Carolina

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Ebenezer (Eben) Hayes (1798 - 1881) was a farmer, Methodist preacher and a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, during the Reconstruction era.{{cite book|title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina being the regular session of 1869-70 |publisher=John W. Denny - Printer to the State|place=Columbia, South Carolina|date=1870}}

Ebenezer Hayes was born in Marion, South Carolina, in 1798, the eldest of three sons to William Hayes, whose family came from Virginia and were of English descent.{{cite book|title=A history of Marion County, South Carolina: from its earliest times to the present, 1901|author=Sellers, William W.|publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company|date=1902|page=267}} Hayes married Nancy Ann Dew (1806 - 1870) and his brother, Henry, married Nancy's sister, Marina. Ebenezer and Nancy had nine children, born between 1826 and 1854.{{cite book|title=Book of Dew: Volume One|author=Dew, Allen Powell|publisher=Lulu|date=2018|page=356|isbn=9781387544363}}

Hayes represented Marion County, South Carolina in the South Carolina House of Representatives, during the Reconstruction era. He was elected twice, serving from 1868 to 1870 and 1872 to 1874.{{cite web|url=https://www.scstatehouse.gov/query.php?search=DOC&searchtext=Edward%25&category=LEGISLATION&session=0&conid=6902064&result_pos=150&keyval=1173695&numrows=50|title=South Carolina Legislature|publisher=South Carolina Legislative Services Agency|accessdate=July 10, 2020 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/post_war/sc_late_1800s_50th_general_assembly_members.html|title=South Carolina During the Late 1800s - 1865 to 1900|publisher=Carolana.com |accessdate=July 10, 2020}} He was a member of the Radical Republicans, a party faction with a goal of immediate, complete and permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise.{{cite web|url=https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2008.9.29?destination=edan-search/collection_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Deben%252Bhayes |title=Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature | work=National Museum of African American History & Culture|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=July 8, 2020}}