William Augustus Ayres

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William A. Ayres
Ayres, 1905–1945

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas
In office March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1921
Preceded by	Victor Murdock
Succeeded by	Richard E. Bird
Constituency	8th district
In office March 4, 1923 – August 22, 1934
Preceded by	Richard E. Bird (8th) James G. Strong (5th)
Succeeded by	District eliminated (8th) John M. Houston (5th)
Constituency	8th district (1923-33) 5th district (1933-34)

Personal details
Born	(1867-04-19)April 19, 1867 Elizabethtown, Illinois, U.S.
Died	February 17, 1952(1952-02-17) (aged 84) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Party	Democratic

William Augustus Ayres (April 19, 1867 – February 17, 1952) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas and a Federal Trade Commissioner.^{[citation needed]}

Political career

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Ayres was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress. He was elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served 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 served until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1952. He is buried in the Old Mission Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas.^{[citation needed]}

References

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United States Congress. "William Augustus Ayres (id: A000354)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
The Political Graveyard

U.S. House of Representatives

Preceded by

Victor Murdock

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 8th congressional district
1915 - 1921

Succeeded by

Richard Ely Bird

Preceded by

Richard Ely Bird

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 8th congressional district
1923 - 1933

District eliminated

Preceded by

James George Strong

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 5th congressional district
1933 - 1934

Succeeded by

John Mills Houston

v t e United States representatives from Kansas
1st district	Phillips Anderson Morrill Broderick Curtis Anthony Lambertson Cole H. Miller Avery Dole Sebelius Roberts Moran Huelskamp Marshall Mann
2nd district	Goodin Haskell Funston H. Moore O. Miller M. Peters Bowersock Scott Mitchell Taggart E. Little Guyer C. Little Guyer Scrivner N. George Ellsworth Avery Mize Roy Keys Jeffries Slattery Brownback Ryun Boyda Jenkins Watkins LaTurner Schmidt
3rd district	Brown Ryan Perkins Clover Hudson Kirkpatrick Ridgely A. Jackson Campbell Sproul McGugin Patterson Winter Meyer M. George Hargis McVey Ellsworth Winn Meyers Snowbarger D. Moore Yoder Davids
4th district	Ryan Kelley Otis Curtis J. Miller F. Jackson Doolittle Hoch Carpenter E. Rees Shriver Glickman Tiahrt Pompeo Estes
5th district	Anderson Davis Calderhead Vincent Calderhead R. Rees Helvering Strong Ayres Houston Hope Breeding Skubitz Whittaker Nichols
6th district	Hanback Turner Baker McCormick Reeder Young Connelly White Sparks McCarthy Carlson Smith Dole
7th district	S. Peters Simpson Long Simpson Long Murdock Madison Neeley Shouse Tincher Hope
8th district	Murdock Ayres Bird Ayres
At-large	Conway Wilder Clarke Lowe (1873–1875: Lowe Cobb Phillips) (1883–1885: Hanback Morrill Perkins S. Peters) Harris Blue Botkin Bailey Scott
Territory	Whitfield Parrott

Kansas's delegation(s) to the 64th–66th and 68th–70th United States Congresses (ordered by seniority)

64th	Senate: ▌C. Curtis (R) ▌W. Thompson (D)	House: ▌P. Campbell (R) ▌D. Anthony (R) ▌J. Taggart (D) ▌J. Connelly (D) ▌D. Doolittle (D) ▌G. Helvering (D) ▌W. Ayres (D) ▌J. Shouse (D)
65th	Senate: ▌C. Curtis (R) ▌W. Thompson (D)	House: ▌P. Campbell (R) ▌D. Anthony (R) ▌J. Connelly (D) ▌D. Doolittle (D) ▌G. Helvering (D) ▌W. Ayres (D) ▌J. Shouse (D) ▌E. Little (R)
64th	Senate: ▌C. Curtis (R) ▌W. Thompson (D)	House: ▌P. Campbell (R) ▌D. Anthony (R) ▌J. Taggart (D) ▌J. Connelly (D) ▌D. Doolittle (D) ▌G. Helvering (D) ▌W. Ayres (D) ▌J. Shouse (D)

68th	Senate: ▌C. Curtis (R) ▌A. Capper (R)	House: ▌D. Anthony (R) ▌W. Ayres (D) ▌E. Little (R) ▌H. Hoch (R) ▌J. Strong (R) ▌J. Tincher (R) ▌H. White (R) ▌W. Sproul (R) ▌U. Guyer (R)
69th	Senate: ▌C. Curtis (R) ▌A. Capper (R)	House: ▌D. Anthony (R) ▌W. Ayres (D) ▌H. Hoch (R) ▌J. Strong (R) ▌J. Tincher (R) ▌H. White (R) ▌W. Sproul (R) ▌C. Little (D)
70th	Senate: ▌C. Curtis (R) ▌A. Capper (R)	House: ▌D. Anthony (R) ▌W. Ayres (D) ▌H. Hoch (R) ▌J. Strong (R) ▌H. White (R) ▌W. Sproul (R) ▌U. Guyer (R) ▌C. Hope (R)

v t e Chairs of the Federal Trade Commission
Member-selected (1915–1950)	Joseph E. Davies (1915–1916) • Edward N. Hurley (1916–1917) • William J. Harris (1917–1918) • William Byron Colver (1918–1919) • John Franklin Fort (1919) • Victor Murdock (1919–1920) • Samuel Huston Thompson (1920–1921) • Nelson B. Gaskill (1921–1922) • Victor Murdock (1922–1923) • Samuel Huston Thompson (1923–1924) • Vernon W. Van Fleet (1924–1925) • John F. Nugent (1925–1926) • Charles W. Hunt (1926–1927) • William E. Humphrey (1927–1928) • Abram F. Myers (1928–1929) • Edgar A. McCulloch (1929) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1930) • Charles W. Hunt (1931) • William E. Humphrey (1932) • Charles H. March (1933) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1934) • Ewin L. Davis (1935) • Charles H. March (1936) • William Augustus Ayres (1937) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1938) • Robert E. Freer (1939) • Ewin L. Davis (1940) • Charles H. March (1941) • William Augustus Ayres (1942) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1943) • Robert E. Freer (1944) • Ewin L. Davis (1945) • William Augustus Ayres (1946) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1947) • Robert E. Freer (1948) • Lowell B. Mason (1949–1950)
Presidential appointments (1950–present) Acting chairs italicized	James M. Mead (1950–1953) • Edward F. Howrey (1953–1955) • John W. Gwynne (1955–1959) • Earl W. Kintner (1959–1961) • Paul Rand Dixon (1961–1969) • Caspar Weinberger (1970–1970) • Everette MacIntyre (1970–1973) • Lewis A. Engman (1973–1975) • Paul Rand Dixon (1976) • Calvin J. Collier (1976–1977) • Michael Pertschuk (1977–1981) • David A. Clanton (1981) • James C. Miller III (1981–1985) • Terry Calvani (1985–1986) • Daniel Oliver (1986–1989) • Janet Dempsey Steiger (1989–1995) • Robert Pitofsky (1995–2001) • Timothy Muris (2001–2004) • Deborah Platt Majoras (2004–2008) • William Kovacic (2008–2009) • Jon Leibowitz (2009–2013) • Edith Ramirez (2013–2017) • Maureen Ohlhausen (2017–2018) • Joseph Simons (2018–2021) • Rebecca Slaughter (2021) • Lina Khan (2021–2025) • Andrew N. Ferguson (2025–present)