Cordell Hull
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Cordell Hull was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States secretary of state for nearly twelve years under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1933 to 1944. A member of th
Hull in 1940
Cordell Hull's boyhood home in Olympus, Tennessee
The Davis-Hull House in Carthage, Tennessee. The house was built by merchant Calvin Davis in 1889, and purchased by William Hull (the father of Cordell Hull) in 1906.
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1913
Sumner Welles
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Benjamin Sumner Welles III 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 1937 t
Cordell Hull
…at the London Economic Conference in 1933. From 1937 onwards, the man who dominated the State Department was Hull's nominal deputy, the Undersecretary Sumner Welles, who had Roosevelt's trust and confidence in a way that Hull did not. Hull found this situation to be very humiliating and he came to hate Welles, who…
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Miss Mathilde Townsend, John Singer Sargent, 1907
Welles, holding hat at left, greeting Cuba's Fulgencio Batista at Union Station, Washington, D.C., on November 10, 1938
1939 hand signed issued passport by under Secretary of State Sumner Welles