Commission In Paris In 1898: After the election McKinley rewarded Hay with the post of ambassador to Britain. Hay arrived in London on April 21, 1897, and his 17 months there were the happiest of his life. Although always drawn to Britain, he now became a confirmed Anglophile, a trait that was later to plague him. In August 1898, President McKinley invited him to become secretary of state in place of William R. Day, who was to head the peace Commission in paris in 1898 in Paris at the close of the Spanish-American War. Hay was sworn in on Sept. 30, 1898, 12 days before his 60th birthday.
Rodriguez moved to the United States in 1869. In 1890 he was made secretary to the International American Conference and in 1891 secretary to the International American Monetary Commission. At Paris in 1898, Rodriguez acted as private adviser in matters of Spanish law to the American Peace Commission in paris in 1898. In 1902-1903 he was secretary to the United States delegation to the Pan American Conference at Mexico City.
In 1898 he was made chief of the Oriental Department of the New York Public Libra' . An ardent Zionist, he was the first president of the American Federation of Zionists, from 1898 to 1904, and a delegate to the world Zionist congresses from 1898 to 1903. He died in New York City on May 22, 1936.
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