Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Ayres, William Augustus

Ayres, William Augustus, a Representative from Kansas; born in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ill., April 19, 1867; moved with his parents to Sedgwick County, Kans., in 1881; attended the common schools and Garfield University (now Friends University), Wichita, Kans.; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Wichita, Kans.; clerk of the Court of Appeals of Kansas 1897-1901; prosecuting attorney of Sedgwick County 1906-1910; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, 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 is now serving; is a legal resident of Wichita, Kans.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Ayres, William Augustus," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.799 Original Sources, accessed June 9, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H62REZXF2Y3PPRL.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Ayres, William Augustus." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.799, Original Sources. 9 Jun. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H62REZXF2Y3PPRL.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Ayres, William Augustus' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.799. Original Sources, retrieved 9 June 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H62REZXF2Y3PPRL.