[sammyg2]

Wow. A quick wiki search came up with the following. Seems our Mr. Jay was a very important person, more than most of our founding fathers. President of the continental congress, first supreme court chief justice, mayor of new York, wrote the treaty with Britain, and started the emancipation movement which eventually led to the civil war. I wonder why his name was left out of the history books I studied? Doesn't seem right to me. Conspiracy I tell you. Maybe i did learn about him and my CRSS is kicking in (can't remember ***** syndrome). Maybe the government put something in the water to mess with my memory. Yeah, that must be it. Where's my tin foil hat?

John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, and jurist. Considered one of the "founding fathers" of the United States, Jay served in the Continental Congress, and was elected President of that body in 1778. During and after the American Revolution, he was a minister (ambassador) to Spain and France, helping to fashion American foreign policy and to secure favorable peace terms from the British and French. He co-wrote the Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. Jay served on the U.S. Supreme Court as the first Chief Justice of the United States from 1789 to 1795. In 1794 he negotiated the Jay Treaty with the British. A leader of the new Federalist party, Jay was elected Governor of New York state, 1795-1801. He was the leading opponent of slavery and the slave trade in New York. His first attempt to pass emancipation legislation failed in 1777, and failed again in 1785, but he succeeded in 1799, signing the law that eventually emancipated the slaves of New York; the last were freed before his death.