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Sumner Welles

American diplomat (1892–1961)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

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 to 1943, during Roosevelt's presidency.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sumner Welles” is american diplomat (1892–1961). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sumner, Welles and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 1943—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sumner, Welles and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sumner Welles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.