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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

literal who?

  • Minister to Spain during the Revolutionary War.
  • A negotiator for the Treaty of Paris. Later negotiated "Jay's Treaty" which was deeply unpopular but arguably delayed another war with Britain until Madison got drunk on imperialism one night and started the War of 1812.
  • Secretary of Foreign Affairs when the US was still under the Articles of Confederation.
  • Third co-author of The Federalist Papers with Hamilton and Madison.
  • First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court (albeit at this time the caseload was light, and the court's stature was nothing like it became under Marshall). This mainly included establishing how the court was actually supposed to do its job.
  • Governor of New York for six years and got emancipation passed there.

Jay was incredibly influential in the early success of the US, but no one thing he did is individually "sexy", so he's not liable to be the focus of a secondary school US history lesson.