Elizabeth Ray

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Elizabeth Ray was the central figure in a scandal in the 1970's that ended the national political career of powerful U.S. Rep. Wayne Hays (D-Ohio). The Washington Post reported in 1976 that Ms. Ray---blonde, voluptuous, and in her twenties---had been on the office payroll of a congressional committee run by Rep. Hays (about forty years her senior) for two years as a clerk-secretary. During that time, she declared, her actual job duties were essentially limited to giving Congressman Hays sexual favors. The 33-year-old Ms. Ray admitted that "I can't type, I can't file, I can't even answer the phone." Ms. Ray won the title of Miss Virginia in 1975.

After the scandal broke, a book appeared in her name, entitled “The Washington Fringe Benefit”; she posed for Playboy magazine several times and she also tried acting and stand-up comedy.

External links

• [Washington Post article from May 23, 1976 which broke the scandal.]

 

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