With John Nicolay, this man was one of President Lincoln's personal secretaries.
This man's father served as a surgeon to the militia that lynched Joseph Smith. This man displayed a proclivity for writing while working for the New York Tribune under Whitelaw Reid and brought his experience managing the investments of this father-in-law Amasa Stone into his novel The Bread-Winners. With John Nicolay, this man was one of President Lincoln's personal secretaries. In a speech before Congress, this man claimed that American intervention in (*) East Asia was unnecessary. In his most famous post, one of this man's actions repudiated the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. For 10 points, name this Secretary of State under McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt who negotiated the creation of the Panama Canal with Bunau-Varilla.
This man's father served as a surgeon to the militia that lynched Joseph Smith.
John Milton Hay