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Welles, Gideon 1802-1878
Naval officer; born in Glastonbury, Conn., July 1, 1802; studied law under Judges Williams and Ellsworth, and in 1826 became editor and a proprietor of the Hartford Times, advocating the election of General Jackson to the Presidency.
He served in the Connecticut legislature in 1827-35; was comptroller, and in 1836-41 postmaster, at Hartford.
In 1846 he was chief of a bureau in the Navy Department, having given up his editorial duties.
He became identified with the Republican party in 1857, and was chairman of the Connecticut delegation in the convention at Chicago that nominated Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency, who in 1861
Gideon Welles. called Mr. Welles to his cabinet as Secretary of the Navy, in which capacity he served until 1869.
He died in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 11, 1878.