Hay, John Milton ___ 1838-1905 ___ American ___ writer diplomat

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Hay was born in Salem, Indiana, and studied at Brown University. He began practicing law at the office of Milton Hay in Springfield, Illinois. During the Civil War he fought with the Union, achieved the rank of colonel, and served as private secretary to Abraham Lincoln. After the war, Hay was given various diplomatic posts in Europe - in Paris, Vienna and Madrid. The, in the first half the 1870s, he was an editorial writer with the New York Tribune (a newspaper he went on to edit after 1981). In 1874, he married Clara Louise. Between 1879 and 1881, he served as Assistant Secretary of State. When his friend William McKinley was elected President, Hay was named Ambassador to Great Britain. He stayed in that post two years before being appointed Secretary of State, an office he held between 1898 and 1905 under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio
The Diary Review -The witty, dapper Mr. Hay

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1861-1870 ___ political people historyeye

WEB TEXT LINKS
some extracts
googlebooks
about

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress - possibly

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay
Letters of John Hay and Extracts from the Diary
 

November 2005, July 2008, April 2013
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