http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - John Jay (1745-1829)America's first Secretary of State, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, one of its first ambassadors, and author of some of the celebrated Federalist Papers, Jay was a Founding Father who, by a quirk of fate, missed signing the Declaration of Independence??at the time of the vote for independence and the signing, he had temporarily left the Continental Congress to serve i
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