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Samuel Ross Hay (1865-1944) was a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in the United States.

Born in Decatur County, Tennessee on October 15, 1865, he was the son of William and Martha (England) Hay.

Hay moved to Texas in about 1881. He attended Centenary College, Southwestern University, and Southern College, Lakeland, Florida and was licensed to preach in the Methodist Church in 1886.

He was elected bishop on May 16, 1922 and placed in charge of all Methodist missionary work in China. Returning to the United States in 1924, he held a series of bishoprics in the south and west of the country and assisted in the development of the Methodist Church in Mexico.

Hay died in Houston, Texas on February 4, 1944.

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