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Was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was United States Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.
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Was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in New York.
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Throughout his presidency, he sought colonies and ports all over the world to exert American influence.
