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John Hay

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John Hay
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Secretary of State under McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, Hay issued the Open Door Notes of 1899 and 1900, asking the powers to keep trade with China equal and its territory intact. He also negotiated the Hay-Pauncefote and Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaties that cleared the way for the Panama Canal.
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