JOHN HAY BIOGRAPHY
JOHN HAY BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
HAY, JOHN (1838-1906). —Diplomatist and poet, born at Salem, Indiana, ed. at Brown Univ., and called to the Illinois Bar, served in the army, and was one of President Lincoln's secs. He then held diplomatic posts at Paris, Madrid, and Vienna, was Ambassador to Great Britain, and was in 1898 appointed Sec. of State. He has a place in literature by virtue of his Pike County Ballads , and Castilian Days (1871).