John R. Yale

[1] He was a real estate expert and assessor; and engaged in a variety of businesses, among them the construction of roads and the Brewster water supply system.

Yale was a member of the New York State Assembly (Putnam Co.) in 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913; and was Chairman of the Committee on Electricity, Gas and Water Supply from 1908 to 1910, and in 1912.

His father, Morgan Howes Hoyt, was County Chairman for the Democrats and launched President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political career during his first campaign as Senator in 1910.

[4][5][6][7] He was the publisher, editor, and co-owner of the Beacon Standard and Matteawan Journal, important Democratic journals at the time, and became a lifelong friend and correspondant of President FDR from the White House, to which he would refer Hoyt as "Morgan Hoyt has been introducing me for 100 years", and his featured in the President's personal letters.

[8][5][9][7] James Forrestal, the 1st United States Secretary of Defense worked under him at his journal, and became a close friend of his son Philip at Princeton.