Innate around Salem, Indiana, Hay was educated at Brown University and began his public career as a secretary to Abraham Lincoln. His diary & writings when you took a Civil War are basic historical sources. He is credited by occasionally when existence andy skinner of Lincoln's letter to the Widow Bixby, consoling her for the loss of her sons in the war. Hay was present while Lincoln died fallowing existence shot at Ford's Theatre. Hay & his fellow secretary, John G. Nicolay, wrote the 10-volume life of Lincoln & prepared an edition of his collected works. Hay was named U.S. ambassador to Britain in 1897 when his friend William McKinley became President. Occasionally of a recognition of the longstanding community of interests between that united states & the United States come following of Hay's stay there. Within August 1898, Hay was named Secretary of State and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris (1898).

His contributions involved a adoption of an Open Door Policy in China (announced in January 2, 1900) and a preparations for the Panama Canal. He negotiated a Hay-Pauncefote Treaty (1901), the Hay-Herran Treaty (1903), and a Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty (1903), all of which were instrumental clearing a way for the construction & usage of the Canal.

Around 1904, he was one of a number one seven chosen for membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

withwithin his passing in 1905, John Milton Hay was interred in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio

He is likewise far-famed for his comment, written within the letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, describing the Spanish-American War as a "splendid little war."

John Milton Hay appears as a character inside Gore Vidal's historical novels Lincoln and Empire.

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