Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1904 — SECRETARY HAY TO REMAIN IN THE PRESIDENT’S CABINET. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SECRETARY HAY TO REMAIN IN THE PRESIDENT’S CABINET.

John Hay, who will continue in the cabinet as Secretary of State, was born at Salem, ind., Oct. 8, 1838, was graduated frofti Brown University in 1858, and later was admitted to the Illinois bar. Mr. Hay served as one of the private secretaries of President Lincoln. He also M-as a colonel .of volunteers and assistant adjutant general. He has been secretary of legation at Paris, Madrid and Vienna, and in 1897-8 was ambassador to England, previous to which time he held the office of first assistant Secretary of State. He has been Secretary of State of the United States since 1898.