Philip Cornelius Hayes (3 February 1833-13 July 1916) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-IL 7) from 4 March 1877 to 3 March 1881, succeeding Alexander Campbell and preceding William Cullen.
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Philip Cornelius Hayes was born in Granby, Connecticut in 1833, and he was went to college at Oberlin, Ohio. Hayes served in the Union Army's 103rd Ohio Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of brevet brigadier-general by the war's end. After the war, he became superintendent of schools in Mount Vernon, Ohio in 1866 before moving to Circleville in 1867 and to Bryan in 1869. In 1874, he moved to Morris, Illinois, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1877 to 1881. He moved to Joliet in 1892 and worked as a journalist until his death in 1916.