GOP Financier and U.S. Ambassador
Fay served as chairman of his state's Republican finance committee, as a member of the national Republican finance committee (1968–1976), a member of the Texas Republican Executive Committee, and a member of the executive committee of the Republican National Committee. He was a delegate to three consecutive national conventions: 1960 in Chicago, 1964 in San Francisco, and 1968 in Miami Beach; he served as co-chairman of the state delegation in 1960 and vice chairman of the state delegation in 1964.
In October 1969 President Richard M. Nixon appointed Fay to the 13-member board of governors overseeing the Panama Canal Company. He retained that position until February of 1976, when President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., named him ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. He served in that capacity for over a year, until April of 1977, some months after Democrat Jimmy Carter assumed the presidency.
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