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
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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
Oxon Hill Manor
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Oxon Hill Manor is a neo-Georgian house of 49 rooms, located at Forest Heights, Prince George's County, Maryland. It was designed in 1928 for Sumner Welles by the Washington architect, Jules Henri de
Sumner Welles
…as he declined to comment on charges made by McCarthy about communists in the State Department. He sold his estate outside Washington in 1952, when Oxon Hill Manor became the home of a "huge collection of Americana." In 1956, Confidential, a scandal magazine, published a report of the 1940 Pullman incident and…
Oxon Hill Manor, December 2010
Front Facade, December 2010
Front Entry Detail, December 2010
John Hanson Obelisk, December 2010