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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.
Benjamin Sumner Welles 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. Era figlio di Benjamin J. Welles e di Frances Wyeth Swan ...
27 giu 2024 · Despite his prominence, his reputation among diplomatic historians has been overshadowed by the sex scandal that occasioned his demise. Conversely, he has attracted cursory attention from scholars of the history of sexuality. This article examines that historiographic dialectic.
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 così utile agli Stati Uniti nel corso della seconda Guerra mondiale.
Sumner Welles was a member of the White House foreign policy inner circle and FDR's most trusted advisor on Latin America.
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.
14 mag 2018 · Sumner 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.
