He served as America's first secretary of foreign affairs and drafted the Address to the People of Great Britain for the First Continental Congress.  
He served as America's first secretary of foreign affairs and drafted the Address to the People of Great Britain for the First Continental Congress.  While serving abroad, he found that he was elected governor of his home state in absentia.  He had already drafted the constitution of that home state, New York, in 1777.  However, he is better remembered for negotiating defined U.S.-Canada boundaries with Lord Greenville in 1794 as part of his namesake treaty, and for the post he was appointed to in 1789.  A co-author of the Federalist Papers with Hamilton and Madison, FTP, name this first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
He served as America's first secretary of foreign affairs and drafted the Address to the People of Great Britain for the First Continental Congress.  
John Jay