Biography of john hay
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Biographies of the Secretaries of State: John Milton Hay (–)
John Milton Hay - People - Department History
Introduction
John Milton Hay was appointed Secretary of State in President William McKinley’s Cabinet on September 30, , and entered into duty the same day. He continued in office beneath President Theodore Roosevelt following McKinley’s assassination in and served until his death in office on July 1,
John Milton Hay, 37th sekreterare of State
Rise to Prominence
Hay was born in Salem, Indiana in to a physician who had moved westward from Virginia, living for a time in Kentucky and eventually settling in Indiana. Educated first at home and then at a private academy, Hay attended Illinois State College in Three years later, he enrolled in Brown University and graduated in Hay studied lag in the office of his uncle and was admitted to the Illinois bar in During this time, he met Abraham Lincoln and played a small part in his presidential campaign. After Lincoln’s elect
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Relatives and Residents: John Hay ()
John Hay, the Assistant Private Secretary to Abraham Lincoln, co-authored the volume Abraham Lincoln: A History. He was clerking his uncle&#;s law office in Springfield in when he came to know President-elect Lincoln. John G. Nicolay, Mr. Lincoln&#;s secretary, insisted that Hay accompany them to Washington. Mr. Lincoln acquiesced in hiring the youthful graduate of Brown University. During Lincoln&#;s presidency, Hay was a social companion of Robert Lincoln when the President&#;s son was in the capital. In and , Hay served on military missions to South Carolina and Florida and was appointed an army major to investigate an insurrection plot in St. Louis.
Cheerful and convivial, cosmopolitan and debonair, his personality meshed easily with that of his more rustic boss, for whom he was almost a surrogate son. Historian Michael Burlingame wrote: &#;The relationship between Hay and Lincoln was like that which had developed between Alexander Hamilt
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John M. Hay (–)
John Milton Hay was born in in Salem, Indiana. He attended local schools and a private academy in Pittsfield before going to college in Springfield, Illinois, and finally graduating from Brown University in Hay actively campaigned for presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, and when Lincoln won, the new President appointed Hay his assistant private secretary. Because of his access to Lincoln, Hay, together with Lincoln's private secretary, John G. Nicolay, ultimately published a ten-volume biography of Lincoln and a two-volume collection of the President's speeches, papers, and writings. During the Civil War, Hay served as a major in the United States Army but spent most of his time running special errands for the President. Following Lincoln's assassination, Hay served as first secretary for the American Legation in Paris and then as the charge d'affaires in the U.S. embassy in Vienna. In , Hay headed to Madrid, where he became the secretary to the American Lega