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Hayes (PATRICK JOSEPH an American)

PATRICK JOSEPH, an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, born at New York in 1867. He was educated at De la Salle Institute and Manhattan College, New York City; St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy, and the Catholic University of America. In 1892 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest and did his first parish service under Mgr. Farley at St. Gabriel's in New York City. He served as secretary to Bishop, subsequently Archbishop and Cardinal, Farley. Appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of New York in 1903, he was further honored by being made first president of the Cathedral College in the same year. He became domestic Prelate to His Holiness, the Pope, in 1907, and was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of New York in 1914; pastor of St. Stephen's 1915-1919; Bishop-Ordinary of the U. S.

Army and Navy, 1917; member of the National War Council in same year, and Archbishop of New York in 1919.

HAYS 1875 he was nominated and elected as the sound-currency candidate for the governorship. This victory determined the Republicans of his State to present him as their candidate at the National Convention of 1876, where he was nomi nated for the presidency against J. G.

Blaine, O. P. Morton, B. H. Bristow, and other popular candidates. The election came into dispute, both parties claiming the electoral votes of Louisiana, Florida, Oregon, and South Carolina. The contest was left to a special commission of 15, who decided by a vote of 8 to 7 that all of the votes in question should be counted for Hayes, and for his colleague for Vice-President, Wheeler, thus giving him the presidency. The popular plurality, however, was against him. His administration was characterized by the resumption of specie payment, the inaguration of civil-service reforms, the restriction of Chinese immigration, and reconstruction measures for the South.

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