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	Gideon Welles - LoveToKnow 1911
		GIDEON WELLES (1802-1878), American political leader, was born at Glastonbury, Connecticut, on the 1st of July 1802.
		The number of naval ships was increased between 1861 and 1865 from 90 to 670, the officers from 1300 to 6700, the seamen from 7500 to 51,500, and the annual expenditure from $12,000,000 to $123,000,000; important changes were made in the art of naval construction, and the blockade of the Confederate ports was effectively maintained.
		Welles supported President Johnson in his quarrel with Congress, took part in the Liberal Republican movement of 1872, and returning to the Democratic party, warmly advocated the election of Samuel J. Tilden in 1876.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gideon_Welles (375 words)

	American President
		Gideon Welles was born in 1802 in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
		Welles supported the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and was soon tapped by the new President to become secretary of the Navy.
		Gideon Welles left the cabinet in 1869, retired to Connecticut, and died in 1878.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/abrahamlincoln/cabinet/SecretaryoftheNavy/GideonWelles/email.html (211 words)

	Welles
		Welles was appointed chief of the Navy's Bureau of Provisions and Clothing in 1846.
		Welles patrolled the waters near San Juan from 19 to 23 April before taking part in a battle problem and undergoing her annual military inspection on the 26th.
		Welles soon shifted to the Boston Navy Yard, where she was drydocked, before she sailed—in company with Russell (DD-414) and Herndon on 5 September—for Halifax, Nova Scotia, the designated turnover point.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/w5/welles-i.htm (1571 words)

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		Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1869, was born in Glastonbury, CT, on 1 July 1802.
		Welles was an early and enthusiastic advocate of an ironclad navy; and his energetic promotion of the plans of John Erickson led to the construction of the Monitor, and ultimately to a highly effective ironclad steam navy.
		Welles was also an early advocate of giving protection and employment in the navy yards and aboard ship to runaway slaves -- with pay equivalent to their white counterparts; and he supported the President's emancipation measures.
	www.chs.org /library/ead/htm_faids/wellg1878.htm (1349 words)

	Gideon Welles Papers (Library of Congress)
		Welles was a gifted diarist, correspondent, and essayist, and his papers are a rich source of primary materials for the study of the political and social history of the United States in the nineteenth century.
		While enrolled at the latter school, Welles drafted one of his earliest writings entitled "Journal of an Excursion to the White Mountains," an account of a field trip undertaken by Welles and fifty other students in 1824 under the leadership of Alden Partridge, headmaster and founder of the academy.
		Welles was a lifelong adherent to Jeffersonian principles and, until his departure in 1854, an active participant in the Democratic party.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/welles.html (1420 words)

	Gideon Welles by the Mathew Brady Studio
		The insightful diary Gideon Wells kept during his tenure as secretary of the navy, 1861–1869 (longer than any of his predecessors), is an extraordinary record of the people and events of official Washington during the Lincoln and Johnson administrations.
		Welles had been a bureau chief in the Navy Department between 1846 and 1849.
		This photograph of Welles by Mathew Brady’s studio was taken in 1865, probably in the spring or early summer.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /navies_welles.html (289 words)

	Connecticut State Library Hartford Times. October 23, 1915 1
		Gideon Welles was born in Glastonbury, July 1, 1802.
		Welles was a tried and trusted friend of Jackson, and very soon became one of the leading editors of the country.
		Welles grouped and bound the papers indicates that he had in mind to have a resume of public opinion at different periods, for in many of the volumes are papers from all parts of the country, which to the reader today appear to have no coherence.
	www.cslib.org /newspaper/wellesarticle.htm (1281 words)

	Gideon Welles
		Gideon Welles was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, on 1st July, 1802.
		With the support of the outstanding naval commander, David Farragut, Welles was able to gradually impose a naval blockade that isolated the South from the rest of the world.
		Welles resigned from office in 1869 and was highly critical of President Andrew Johnson and his reconstruction policies.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWwelles.htm (774 words)

	Gideon Welles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gideon Welles was born in 1802, to a long-established Connecticut family; one seventeenth-century ancestor was governor and treasurer of that colony.
		Welles was educated at what is now Norwich University in Vermont, and studied law.
		As a former Jacksonian, Welles resisted measures that he associated with excessive federal power, such as the admission of West Virginia as a state.
	www.tulane.edu /~latner/Welles.html (421 words)

	He (Gideon Welles) Was There
		Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War.
		Welles' grandson and I. It was a wonderful place for children to read.
		Welles had come to Hartford in 1869, after he finished his second term as Secretary of the Navy.
	wesclark.com /jw/welles.html (1419 words)

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		THOMAS Welles, the fourth governor of Connecticut colony, was born in England in 1598, but where he came from hasnot yet been determined.
		Albert Welles, a biographer of the governor, says that his remains were buried “on the top of the hill near the fence on the south side of the old yard, in the rear of the meeting-house, where the remains of the Welles family for many generations now lie grouped.”
		A writer says of the governor: “Governor Welles possessed the full confidence of the people, and many of the most important of the early laws and papers pertaining to the founding of the colony were drafted by him.
	history.rays-place.com /governors/willes-thomas.htm (568 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Welles,
		Welles, Gideon WELLES, GIDEON [Welles, Gideon], 1802-78, American statesman, b.
		Welles, Sumner WELLES, SUMNER [Welles, Sumner] 1892-1961, American diplomat, b.
		Welles began his diplomatic career as secretary of the U.S. embassy at Tokyo (1915-17).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Welles, (569 words)

	Gideon Welles biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802–February 11, 1878) was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, including the entire duration of the American Civil War: his dedication to naval blockades was one of the key reasons for the North's victory over the South.
		Welles shifted allegiance in 1854 to the newly-founded Republican Party, and founded a newspaper in 1856 (the Hartford Evening Press) that would espouse Republican ideals for decades thereafter.
		Welles ultimately left the Cabinet in 1869, having returned to the Democratic Party in 1868: his criticisms of Andrew Johnson and the federal policies of reconstruction had given fuel to his leaving.
	gideon-welles.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888 (380 words)

	Welles, Gideon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		An organizer of the Jacksonian forces in Connecticut, Welles served in the state legislature (1827–35).
		Incorruptible, efficient, and something of a curmudgeon, Welles built the powerful Union navy of the Civil War.
		Welles was a moderate who favored Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan and, retaining his post under Andrew Johnson, stood by the President in his struggle with the radical Republicans in Congress.
	www.bartleby.com /65/we/Welles-G.html (288 words)

	Gideon Welles School - School Life
		All sixth grade students in Glastonbury attend Gideon Welles, and the fifth graders from two of the elementary schools are a part of our community as well.
		Since classes at Gideon Welles are heterogeneously grouped (with the exception of math), it is appropriate to modify materials, expectations and /or evaluation procedures within the class for some students.
		As a result, the homeroom teacher knows your child well and is the best contact person within the school when you have questions about your child and how he or she is doing in school.
	www.glastonburyus.org /schools/gideon/SchoolLife/SchoolLife.htm (2899 words)

	HarpWeek \| Elections \| 1864 Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ideon Welles, secretary of the navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, to Anne Hale Welles and Samuel Welles, a maritime merchant and shipbuilder.
		Welles also turned his attention to the administration of the Navy Department: reorganizing it, improving contracting procedures, and creating a science academy within its structure.
		Welles supported emancipation, but he was more hesitant about federal government recognition and enforcement of civil rights for fl Americans.
	elections.harpweek.com /1864/bio-1864-Full.asp?UniqueID=29&Year=1864 (612 words)

	Gideon Welles Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Gideon Welles (1802-1878), a member of Lincoln's Cabinet, is known especially for the diary he kept throughout the Civil War period.
		Gideon Welles was born at Glastonbury, Conn. He was educated at the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, Conn., and at the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy at Norwich, Vt. (later Norwich University).
		Welles made mistakes at first, but he was well ahead of public opinion in the building of ironclad ships.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/gideon-welles (950 words)

	Cedar Hill Cemetery
		He had attached himself to the Gideon Welles family in Washington during the war and afterward returned with the family to Connecticut.
		Gideon Welles, motioning him to return and saying, 'Go back, Henry, go back!' As he stood in greater awe of her than of the enemy, he returned to his place.
		He remained with the family until his death in 1911 and was buried in the Welles family lot in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, the only colored person buried in the cemetery, with the exception of a family that slipped past the authorities unnoticed.
	www.cedarhillcemetery.org /Welles.htm (441 words)

	Gideon Welles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802–February 11, 1878) was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869.
		Welles strong support of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 made him the logical candidate from New England for Lincoln's cabinet, and in March 1861 Lincoln named Welles his Secretary of the Navy.
		Welles ultimately left the Cabinet in 1869, having returned to the Democratic Party in 1868, after disagreeing with Andrew Johnson's reconstruction policies but supporting him during his impeachment trial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gideon_Welles (657 words)

	Naval History Magazine: "A Flotilla Cries Eureka!" By William J. Bray, Jr.
		Welles recognized that such a squadron would be ideal for blockade duty on the Potomac.
		Wells stated that he built the Eureka new, though it was the engine and boiler of the Antelope that he installed when he constructed his new boat.
		Letter from CDR James H. Ward to Gideon Welles, 22 April 1861; letter from Welles to CAPT Samuel Breese (Commandant of Brooklyn Naval Yard), 27 April 1861, and letter from Breese to Welles, 12 May 1861, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Series I, Volume IV, pp.
	www.usni.org /navalhistory/Articles98/NHbray.htm (2656 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: Gideon Welles (1802-78)
		On July 7, 1863, Welles received a telegram that Vicksburg had fallen to Ulysses S. Grant and brought the news to President Lincoln in his office: "The President was detailing certain points relative to Grant's movements on the map to Chase and two or three others, when I gave him the tidings.
		Welles' critical attitude extended to cabinet meetings about which he repeatedly complained in his diary because of their irregularity and informality.
		Welles, a onetime Democrat, had earlier served as Chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing in the Navy Department under President [James] Polk; during that period he became good friends with the Blair family.
	www.mlwh.org /inside.asp?ID=200&subjectID=2 (1202 words)

	Welding by Pressure -- Welles, Gideon, Hon.: in Cornell University's Making of America
		Welles, Gideon, Admiral Farragut and New Orleans, with an Account of the Origin and Command of the First Three Naval Expeditions of the War.
		Welles, Gideon, Capture and release of Mason and Slidell.
		Welles, Gideon, The Opposition to Lincoln in 1864.
	moa.cit.cornell.edu /moa/browse.author/w.56.html (145 words)

	Gideon Welles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gideon Welles served as Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy.
		Welles hated slavery, and wanted emancipation, but he worried that it was not the right time.
		Gideon Welles advised Abraham Lincoln only to free the slaves if he explained that it was an absolute military necessity necessary to win the war.
	members.cox.net /quarter_3/Emancipation/Gideon_Welles.htm (147 words)

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		Welles was the strongest supporter in the cabinet of President Johnson's white-supremacy views.
		Welles made it clear he did not entertain Negroes at his table or support their right to vote.
		Welles noted in his diary, March 28, 1868, that Senators Wilson and Sumner were attacking his appropriations.
	www.members.cox.net /morebanks/Pages1382-1387 (2254 words)

	Accession
		Welles informs Worden that he has been placed in command of the "Monitor." Endorsed by Commodore Paulding, to the effect that Worden had reported on Jan. 16, for the command.
		Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, to Commander John L. Worden, informing him of his promotion to the rank of Commander in the U.S. Navy.
		Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C. Typewritten report submitted by John L. Worden, Capt., U.S.N., about the conduct of the S.D. Greene, the executive officer of the "Monitor," in her conflict with the "Merrimac."
	www.lmunet.edu /Museum/collection/JWLsummary.html (1999 words)

	The Gideon and Thaddeus Welles Collection
		The Gideon and Thaddeus Welles Collection comprises issues of 676 newspapers and news magazines bound into 72 volumes, spanning a time period from 1819 to the 1840's.
		The Welles Collection came to the Connecticut State Library as a donation from Emily Peabody Welles, the daughter of Thaddeus Welles, in 1915, as related in a
		Issues in the bound Welles Collection volumes are arranged according to a plan of Gideon Welles', a plan not written down and not fathomable to other observers.
	www.cslib.org /newspaper/welles.htm (377 words)

	Hartford Times
		The papers of Gideon Welles, newspaper editor and secretary of the navy, were deposited in the Library of Congress in several installments from 1911 to 1914 by Welles's son, Edgar T. Welles.
		The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Gideon Welles is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
		The papers of Gideon Welles (1802-1878) span the period 1777-1911, with the core of the material concentrated in the years 1820-1878.
	memory.loc.gov /master/mss/eadxmlmss/2003/ms003053.xml (2048 words)

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