United Spanish War Veterans. Personal life Wadsworth was married to Alice Evelyn Hay (1880–1960). She was the daughter of former United States Secretary of State John Hay under President Theodore Roosevelt. Through her sister Helen Hay Whitney, she was the aunt of John Hay Whitney, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Alice, who opposed women's suffrage, served as president of the National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage, which Wadsworth also opposed. Together, they were the parents of: Evelyn Wadsworth (1903–1972), who married Stuart Symington (1901–1988) in 1924. Symington was the first Secretary of the Air Force and a Democratic U.S. Senator from Missouri, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. James Jeremiah Wadsworth (1905–1984), who served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Reverdy J. Wadsworth (1914–1970), who married Eleanor Katherine Roosevelt (1915–1995), the daughter of Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Wadsworth died on June 21, 1952, in Washington, D.C. He was buried in Temple Hill Cemetery in Geneseo. Descendants Through his daughter Evelyn, he was the grandfather of James Wadsworth Symington (b. 1927), who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri as a Democrat, from 1969 to 1977. Through his son James, he was the grandfather of Alice Wadsworth (1928–1998) who was married to Trowbridge Strong (1925–2001) in 1948 at the home of Wadsworth's grandfather, General James Wadsworth. See also List of people on the cover of Time Magazine: 1920s. December 28, 1925. Notes Sources External links |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1877 births 1952 deaths 20th-century American politicians American Episcopalians Military personnel from New York (state) People from Geneseo, New York People from the Texas Panhandle Ranchers from Texas Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) Republican Party United States senators from New York (state) Speakers of the New York State Assembly St. Mark's School (Massachusetts) alumni Candidates in the 1932 United States presidential election Wadsworth family Yale University alumni