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Benjamin Sumner Welles (New York, 14 ottobre 1892 – Bernardsville, 24 settembre 1961) fu un funzionario del Servizio diplomatico statunitense. Fu Sottosegretario di Stato presso il Dipartimento di Stato degli Stati Uniti dal 1937 al 1943 ed uno dei più ascoltati consiglieri di politica estera del presidente Franklin Delano Roosevelt .
Benjamin 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.
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.
WELLES, Sumner in "Enciclopedia Italiana" - Treccani - Treccani. WELLES, Sumner. Diplomatico americano, nato a New York il 14 ottobre 1892. Dopo aver iniziato la carriera a Tōkyō nel 1915, nel 1917 fu trasferito a Buenos Ayres ove cominciò a dar prova di quella sua particolare sensibilità ai problemi interamericani, che doveva poi rivelarsi ...
1892-1910. The 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 centuries by New England's harsh climate and its Puritan values. From 1636, when Thomas, the first Welles to arrive in America, stepped ashore at Boston ...
By analyzing literature about Welles, conducting a close reading of sources that catalogued Welles’s sexuality, and applying an inter-sectional lens to the scandal that ended his career, this article seeks to redress historiographic misunderstandings and omissions about Welles.
1 apr 2010 · Sumner Welles was arguably the most influential assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs that the United States has had. He began his State Department career during World War I and completed it near the end of the next global conflict. The supposed reason for his forced resignation in the summer of 1943 was his homosexual behavior.
