Tyler Dennett collection relating to John Hay, 1861-1937

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1883, June 13	Born, Spencer, Wis.
1904	B.A., Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
1908	B.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y.
1911	Married Maybelle Raymond
1924	Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
1924-1929	Chief, Division of Publications of the Department of State
1929-1931	Historical advisor, Department of State
1931-1934	Professor of international relations, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
1933-1934	Published and received Pulitzer Prize in biography for John Hay: From Poetry to Politics. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1933.
1934-1937	President, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
1939	Published Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay.New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939.
1949, Dec. 29	Died, Geneva, N.Y.

Date	Event
1838, Oct. 8	Born, Salem, Ind.
1858	Graduated, Brown University, Providence, R.I. Entered the law office of his uncle, Milton Hay, Springfield, Ill.
1861-1864	Assistant private secretary to Abraham Lincoln
1864-1965	Assistant adjutant general, United States Army
1865-1867	Secretary of American legation, Paris, France
1867-1868	Charge d'affaires, Vienna, Austria
1869-1870	Secretary of American legation, Madrid, Spain
1870-1875	Editorial writer, New York Tribune
1874	Married Clara Louise Stone (died 1914)
1879-1881	Assistant secretary of state
1897-1898	Ambassador to Great Britain
1898-1905	Secretary of state
1905, July 1	Died, Lake Sunapee, N.H.