Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the United States, but he found the job so underwhelming — a Court that heard only a handful of cases, plus miserable circuit-riding duty — that in 1795 he resigned outright. What did he leave the nation’s top judicial post to go do?
Hint: While still on the bench, he negotiated the 1794 Jay Treaty with Britain which was so reviled that he was denounced as a traitor and burned in effigy up and down the coast.
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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the United States, but he found the job so underwhelming — a Court that heard only a handful of cases, plus miserable circuit-riding duty — that in 1795 he resigned outright. What did he leave the nation’s top judicial post to go do?
Hint: While still on the bench, he negotiated the 1794 Jay Treaty with Britain which was so reviled that he was denounced as a traitor and burned in effigy up and down the coast.
