Personal Life
Hay married Clara Stone, daughter of Amassa Stone of Cleveland, Ohio. They are buried together in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Their daughter Helen Julia Hay, a writer and poet, married Payne Whitney of the influential Whitney family; their children were U.S. ambassador John Hay Whitney and Joan Whitney Payson.
Hay and Hillary Rodham Clinton are the only future secretaries of state to have resided in the White House prior to becoming Secretary of State.
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