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William Harrison Hays Sr. (/ h eɪ z /; November 5, 1879 – March 7, 1954) was an American politician, and member of the Republican Party. As chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1918 to 1921, Hays managed the successful 1920 presidential campaign of Warren G. Harding .
It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945. Under Hays's leadership, the MPPDA, later the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), adopted the Production Code in 1930 and began ...
His sister Jessie was the wife of Will H. Hays (1879–1954), Republican National Committee Chairman, U.S. Postmaster General and President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), later named the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). [4] [5]
William B. Hays (1844–1912), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Will H. Hays (1879–1954), RNC chair, postmaster general, Hays Code film industry self-censorship advocate; William Hercules Hays (1820–1880), U.S. federal judge; William Shakespeare Hays (1837–1907), American poet and lyricist; William Torrance Hays (1837–1875), Ontario ...
Will Gardner, on the American TV series The Good Wife; Will Griggs, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours; Will Herondale from Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices; Will Horton, on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives; Will Hunting, protagonist of the 1997 film Good Will Hunting; Will Ladislaw, character in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Howard H "Tim" Hays Jr. was born in Chicago on June 2, 1917. His parents, Howard H Hays Sr. and Margaret Mauger Hays, moved Tim and his brothers Dan and William H. Hays with them first to Yellowstone National Park and then Glacier National Park, where his father ran the Red Bus tours. [2] The Hays family eventually moved to Riverside in 1924. [1]
He was one of two sons and three daughters of William Robert Hay (1859–1920) and his wife, Elizabeth (1859–1910) (née Ebden). [1] When Will Hay Jr. was less than a year old the family moved to Lowestoft in Suffolk. [2] [3] By his late teens, Hay had become fluent in Italian, French and German and secured employment as an interpreter. [4]
In 1922, after some risqué films and a series of off-screen scandals involving Hollywood stars, the studios enlisted Presbyterian elder Will H. Hays to rehabilitate Hollywood's image. Hays, later nicknamed the motion picture "Czar", was paid the then-lavish sum of $100,000 a year (equivalent to more than $1.7 million in 2022 dollars).