David Jayne Hill

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David Jayne Hill
United States Ambassador to Germany
In office June 14, 1908 – September 2, 1911
President	Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft
Preceded by	Charlemagne Tower
Succeeded by	John G. A. Leishman
United States Ambassador to the Netherlands
In office July 15, 1905 – June 1, 1908
Preceded by	Stanford Newel
Succeeded by	Arthur M. Beaupre
United States Ambassador to Switzerland
In office January 7, 1903 – July 1, 1905
Preceded by	Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Succeeded by	Brutus J. Clay II
24th United States Assistant Secretary of State
In office October 25, 1898 – January 28, 1903
Preceded by	John Bassett Moore
Succeeded by	Francis Loomis
2nd President of the University of Rochester
In office 1889–1896
Preceded by	Martin Brewer Anderson
Succeeded by	Benjamin Rush Rhees
Personal details
Born	(1850-06-10)June 10, 1850 Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	March 2, 1932(1932-03-02) (aged 81) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouses	Anna Amelia Liddell ​ ​ (m. 1874; died 1880)​ Juliet Lewis Packer ​ ​ (m. 1886; died 1923)​
Profession	Author, University President, diplomat
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Rev. David Jayne Hill (June 10, 1850 – March 2, 1932) was an American academic, diplomat and author. He was president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester.

Early life

The son of Baptist minister David T. Hill, David Jayne Hill was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on June 10, 1850. He graduated from Bucknell University in 1874 and was professor of rhetoric there from 1877 to 1879. In 1878 he received his Master of Arts degree, and he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He also undertook graduate studies at the University of Berlin and the University of Paris.

Career

In 1879, Hill received his ordination and was appointed Bucknell's president. From 1889 to 1896, he was president of the University of Rochester. In 1888 and 1897 he studied at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris.

In 1900, he received an honorary Docteur ès lettres from the University of Geneva. He received an honorary LL.D. from Colgate University in 1884 and he received additional honorary degrees from Union University (1902), and the University of Pennsylvania (1902). He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1910.

He was later a professor of European diplomacy at the School of Comparative Jurisprudence and Diplomacy.

Diplomatic career

Hill began a diplomatic career when he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State in 1898, serving to 1903.

He was appointed United States Minister to Switzerland in 1903. Two years later he was appointed United States Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

From 1908 to 1911 he was Ambassador to Germany. He was also a member of the Permanent Administrative Council of The Hague Tribunal.

Hill was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate from New York in 1914.

Later career

During World War I he wrote articles critical of Woodrow Wilson's decision to ask for a declaration of war and the Wilson administration's conduct of the war effort. In July 1920 he was chairman of the Republican State Convention in New York.

In 1922 Hill received France's Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor.

Personal life

In 1874, Hill married Anna Amelia Liddell. Together they had three sons; Anna died two weeks after giving birth to her third child.

• Walter Hill (1875–1944)
• Arthur Hill (1878–1884)
• David Jayne Hill, Jr. (born and died in 1880).

In 1886, he married Juliet Lewis Packer (1853–1923). They were the parents of twins:

• Catherine Hill (1890–1973)
• David Jayne Hill, Jr. (1890–1975).

Juliet Hill died in Washington, D.C., after being struck by a delivery wagon while crossing the street. He died in Washington, D.C., on March 2, 1932.

Works

Bust of Hill displayed at the Rush Rhees Library on the campus of the University of Rochester

Hill was an author of biography and also wrote works on religion, psychology, and other topics. His published works include:

• The Life of William Cullen Bryant (1878)
• The Science of Rhetoric (1877)
• Elements of Rhetoric and Composition (1878)
• The Life of Washington Irving (1879)
• The Elements of Psychology (1886)
• The Social Influence of Christianity (1888)
• Principles and Fallacies of Socialism (1888)
• Genetic Philosophy (1893)
• An Honest Dollar the Basis of Prosperity (1900)
• The Conception and Realization of Neutrality (1902)
• The Contemporary Development of Diplomacy (1904)
• History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe, embracing A Struggle for Universal Empire (1905)
• The Establishment of Territorial Sovereignty (1906)
• World Organization as Affected by the Nature of the Modern State (1911)
• The Diplomacy of the Age of Absolutism (1914)
• The People's Government (1915)
• Americanism: What It Is (1916)
• The Rebuilding of Europe (1917)
• Impressions of the Kaiser (1918)
• Present Problems in Foreign Policy (1919)
• American World Policies (1920)

Further reading

• Leslie, W. Bruce, Gentlemen and Scholars: College and Community in the “Age of the University,” 1865–1917 (1992) on Bucknell.
• May, Arthur J. A History of the University of Rochester, 1850–1962 (1977).

• Oliphant, J. Orin, The Rise of Bucknell University (1962).

• Parkman, Aubrey. David Jayne Hill and the Problem of World Peace (1975).

External links

• Works by or about David Jayne Hill at the Internet Archive
• Articles by Hill at the Wayback Machine (archived November 5, 2004)