Sumner Welles
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican government official and diplomat (1892-1961)
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Benjamin Sumner Welles III was an American government official and diplomat. He was a major foreign policy adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served as Under Secretary of State from 1937 to 1943, during Roosevelt's presidency.
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Miss Mathilde Townsend, John Singer Sargent, 1907
Welles, holding hat at left, greeting Cuba's Fulgencio Batista at Union Station, Washington, D.C., on November 10, 1938
1939 hand signed issued passport by under Secretary of State Sumner Welles
Cordell HullSecretary of State, 1933-1944
Confidential expose, March 3, 1956
Welles home, the Townsend Mansion, taken in 2010
Mathilde Townsend,second wife of Sumner WellesWriters from United States 6
About this person
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United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1892 to 1961 · aged 68
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