High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arthur Garfield Hays (December 12, 1881 – December 14, 1954) was a lawyer born in Rochester, New York. His father and mother, both of German descent, belonged to prospering families in the clothing manufacturing industry. After graduating from Columbia College in 1902 where he was one of the early members of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity and Columbia Law School in 1905, Hays formed a law firm with two of his former classmates that gained prominence representing German interests in World War I.