Background
Lay, Tracy Hollingsworth was born on November 5, 1882 in Gadsden, Alabama, United States. Son of William Patrick and Laura Josephine (Hollingsworth) Lay.
Lay, Tracy Hollingsworth was born on November 5, 1882 in Gadsden, Alabama, United States. Son of William Patrick and Laura Josephine (Hollingsworth) Lay.
Student Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. George Washington University, School of Political Science and Diplomacy, Washington, District of Columbia (non-graduate).
Reporter and editor, 1904. Advisory manager department store, Montgomery, Alabama, 1904-1907. Manager department store, Birmingham, Alabama, 1907-1908.
Secretary to member of Congress, 1908-1911. Clerk to Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, National House of Representatives, 1911-1912. Deputy consul general, London, England., 1912-1914.
Vice and deputy consul, Dublin, 1914. Vice and deputy consul general, Paris, 1914-1915. Consul, Paris, 1915-1919.
Assigned to Department of State, Washington, District of Columbia, 1919. Detailed to Conference on Limitation of Armament, 1921. Consul general, Munich, 1923-1925, at Buenos Aires, 1926-1928.
Served as captain Alabama National Guard. Member American Foreign Service Association, American Political Science Association, American Economie Association, Sigma Nu. Member Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Married Marcia Bliss, of Washington, District of Columbia, October 5, 1921.