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Photographer: Michael Herrick
Taken: November 10, 2009
Caption: John Jay 1745 – 1829
Additional Description: [ detail from the marker ]
John Jay served as President of the Continental Congress, Minister to Spain, and Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He was an author and a key negotiator of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War, and was appointed first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by President George Washington. Jay was also principal author of the first state constitution for New York and served as its second governor.
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart.
Submitted: November 21, 2009, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.
Database Locator Identification Number: p86437
File Size: 0.192 Megabytes

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