Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . s the firsttreasurer of Connecticut and afterwards governor of that colony, was bornat Glastenburv, Connecticut, July 1, 1802. He studied law, then be-came editor and proprietor of the Hartford Times, which he controlledfrom 1826 to 1837. He was a member of the State legislature 1827-35 ;postmaster at Hartford, 183l>-41 ; State comptroller, 1842; chief of oneof the bureaus of the navy department, 1846-9. He was a Democratin politics until se
Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . s the firsttreasurer of Connecticut and afterwards governor of that colony, was bornat Glastenburv, Connecticut, July 1, 1802. He studied law, then be-came editor and proprietor of the Hartford Times, which he controlledfrom 1826 to 1837. He was a member of the State legislature 1827-35 ;postmaster at Hartford, 183l>-41 ; State comptroller, 1842; chief of oneof the bureaus of the navy department, 1846-9. He was a Democratin politics until separating from that party on the question of the intro-duction of slavery into new territory; supported Fremont in 1856; waschairman of the Connecticut delegation to the Chicago convention nomi-nating Lincoln in 1860; was appointed secretary of the navy March,1861, and served until March, 1*!). Mr. Welles was a frequent con-tributor to the press, and in 1*74 published a small but interesting work, Lincoln and Seward. He died at Hartford, Connecticut, on February11, 1878. Lincolns first secretary of the interior was Caleb B. Smith, who was.
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