Increase Sumner
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Increase Sumner was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Massachusetts. He was the fifth governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1797 to 1799. Trained as a lawyer, he served in the provisional government of Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War, and was elected to the Confederation Congress in 1782. Appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the same year, he served there as an associate justice until 1797.
John Hancock appointed Sumner to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Sumner's grave in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, 2009
Sumner Welles
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Benjamin Sumner Welles 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.
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