Author:John Jay

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John Jay (1745–1829)

related portals: Supreme Court of the United States. sister projects: Wikipedia article, quotes. An American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat and first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by U.S. President George Washington. His successor as Chief Justice was John Rutledge.

John Jay

Works

• Address to the People of Great Britain
• The Federalist Papers
• Jay's Treaty

Supreme Court Opinions

Separate Opinions

• Chisholm v. Georgia 2 U.S. 419 (1793)

About

• “Jay, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1881.
• John Jay, “Jay, John,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1892.
• “Jay, John,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Jay, John” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Jay, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Jay, John,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Jay, John” by Alton B. Parker  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Jay, John,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

On his works

• “Jay Treaty,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Federalist, The,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Jay's Treaty” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

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