He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1891, 1895, and 1897, serving as speaker in 1897.
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As a member of the Gray Commission, Mays helped draft the Stanley plan, which the Virginia legislature passed in September 1956 and Governor Thomas B. Stanley signed into law.
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He won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 (Harvard University Press, 1952), a biography of the late 18th-century Governor of Virginia Edmund Pendleton.