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Bookmark or Share- Sumner Welles - WikipediaBenjamin Sumner Welles (October 14, 1892 – September 24, 1961) 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 1936 to 1943, during Roosevelt's presidency.
- Sumner Welles | Encyclopedia.comSumner Welles (1892-1961) was an American diplomat who helped create the good-neighbor policy with Latin America during the 1930s. Sumner Welles was born in New York City on Oct. 14, 1892. He was educated at Groton School and graduated from Harvard in 1914.
- Sumner Welles - The New York Times Web ArchiveThe Sumner Welles who broke his health working for Franklin Roosevelt and then, through personal weakness, fell victim to political intriguers was born to a family molded for three...
- Benjamin Sumner Welles | Legacy Project ChicagoExcluded both formally and informally from the foreign policy establishment for life, Welles resignation robbed the U.S. of its likely Secretary of State in the middle of World War II, underscoring the damage homophobia did to mid-century American foreign policy.
- The Trouble with Sumner Welles: Sexuality, Race, and the Limits of ...First, Welles's behavior shows how deeply queer sexuality was inflected by race and class in 1940s America. Welles's utilization of, and more importantly improvisation around, cruising etiquette were direct consequences of his high status and the racial segregation of Jim Crow America.
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