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John Hay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Hay Whitney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Hay Whitney (27 August 1904 – 8 February 1982), colloquially known as "Jock" Whitney, was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune , and a member of the ...
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John Hay, the Assistant Private Secretary to Abraham Lincoln, co-authored the 10-volume Abraham Lincoln: A History. He was clerking his uncle's law office in Springfield in 1859-60 when he came to know President-elect Lincoln.
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AKA John Milton Hay ... John Hay is the grandfather of newspaperman John Hay Whitney. ... A Poet in Exile (1910); The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay (1916, poetry); A College Friendship: A Series of Letters... (1938, letters); Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay (1939);
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John G. Nicolay and John M. Hay were Lincoln's private secretaries and biographers. Nicolay, the older of the two, was born in 1832 in Bavaria, and came with his family to the United States in 1838. They finally settled in Pike County, Illinois, where his father and brothers operated a flour mill.
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