• Aug. 9, 1898 Born in London, Arkansas, only child of Sarah Tabitha (Sallie) Butler Hays and Adelbert Steele Hays.
• 1919 Graduated from the University of Arkansas with a B. A. degree.
• Jan. 28, 1922 Married Marion Prather in Arkansas.
• June 1922 Graduated from George Washington University Law School.
• 1922 Helped campaign in father's unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination in the Congressional Election, Fifth District, Arkansas
• 1922-1925 Practiced law in Russellville with his father and another partner, A. B. Priddy.
• Oct. 24, 1923 A daughter, Betty Brooks born in Russellville.
• Mar. 25, 1925 A son, Marion Steele, born.
• 1925-1927 Appointed Assistant State Attorney General. Served 2 years in Little Rock.
• 1928 Candidate in Arkansas Gubernatorial Election. Ran second in the Democratic Primary.
• 1928-1933 Practiced law in Little Rock with partner Bolon B. Turner.
• 1930 Candidate in Arkansas Gubernatorial Election. Ran second in the Democratic Primary.
• 1932-1939 Served as Democratic National Committee man for Arkansas.
• 1932-1935 President of the Arkansas State Conference of Social Work.
• 1933 Candidate to fill the unexpired term of Congressman Heartsill Ragon. Lost in a run-off of the Democratic Primary to D. D. Terry.
• 1934 National Recovery Administration Labor Compliance Officer for Arkansas.
• 1935 Special Assistant to the Administrator of the Resettlement Administration.
• 1935-1937 Assistant Director of Rural Resettlement for the Farm Security Administration.
• 1937-1942 Regional Attorney for the Farm Security Administration.
• 1942-1958 Elected U. S. Congressman for the Fifth District of Arkansas; served 8 consecutive terms.
• 1943 Member of the House Banking and Currencies Committee.
• 1950 Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
• 1955 U. S. Delegate to the United Nations.
• 1957-1959 President of the Southern Baptist Convention for two consecutive terms.
• 1958 This World: A Christian's Workshop published by Broadman Press, Nashville, Tenn.
• Nov. 4, 1958 Lost Congressional Election to "Write-in candidate", Dr. Dale Alford.
• 1959 A Southern Moderate Speaks published by University of North Carolina Press.
• 1959-1961 Appointed Director of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Eisenhower.
• 1961 Appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations by President Kennedy.
• 1961-1963 Appointed Special Assistant to the President by President Kennedy.
• 1963-1966 Retained as Counsel to the President by President Johnson.
• 1963-1965 Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Professor of Public Affairs, Eagleton Institute, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
• 1966 Candidate in the Democratic Primary of the Arkansas Gubernatorial Election, placed third.
• 1966-1967 Visiting Professor of Government, Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amhert, Mass.
• 1968 Hotbed of Tranquility published by Macmillian Co.
• 1969-1972 Director, and later consultant, of the Ecumenical Institute, Wake-Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
• 1970-1974 Chairman of the North Carolina Human Relations Council (formerly the Good Neighbor Council).
• 1970 Co-founder of Former members of Congress, Inc.
• 1972 Democratic candidate in the Congressional Election, Fifth District of North Carolina Lost to Republican incumbent Wilmer Mizell.
• 1981 Politics Is My Parish published by the Louisiana State University Press, Baton Route, La.
• Oct. 12, 1981 Brooks Hays died in his home in Chevy Chase Maryland.

(Biographical note copied from the finding aid for Lawrence Brooks Hays Papers (MS H334s 423))