I should have done a six-degrees-of-John-Hay chart.” John Taliaferro appears at 7 p.m. Friday at BookPeople, 603 North Lamar Blvd., to sign and discuss “All The Great Prizes.” All the Great ...

HAY WILL RETAIN PORTFOLIO.; Will Be Secretary of State Four Years More, Says the President. Share full article. Nov. 12, 1904. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

U.S. President William Mckinley, left, sits with his cabinet during a meeting in the White House. Second from left, foreground, Secretary of State John Hay, third from left, Secretary of War Elihu ...

In the late winter of 1861 two men left Illinois, bound for the White House. Both would serve in high government office; both would become stalwarts of the same political ...