What is Gideon Welles?
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox US Cabinet official | name=Gideon Welles | image=Gideon Welles - Ambrotype.jpg | order=24th | title=[[United States Secretary of the Navy]] | term_start=March 7, 1861 | term_end=March 4, 1869 | predecessor=[[Isaac Toucey]] | successor=[[Adolph E. Borie]] | birth_date={{birth date|1802|7|1|mf=y}} | birth_place=[[Glastonbury, Connecticut]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date={{death date and age|1878|2|11|1802|7|1}} | death_place=[[Hartford, Connecticut]], [[United States|U.S.]] | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | religion= | signature= Gideon Welles Signature.svg }} '''Gideon Welles''' (July 1, 1802 – February 11, 1878) was the [[United States]] [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]] during the presidencies of [[Abraham Lincoln]] and [[Andrew Johnson]]. He served from March 7, 1861 until March 4, 1869. He was from Glastonbury, Connecticut. He was also the great grandfather of director, actor and screenwriter Orson Welles. ==References== {{reflist}} {{USSecNavy}} {{American Civil War}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Welles, Gideon}} [[Category:United States Secretaries of the Navy]] [[Category:1802 births]] [[Category:1878 deaths]] [[Category:Politicians from Connecticut]] [[Category:American abolitionists]] [[Category:Journalists from Connecticut]] [[Category:Lawyers from Connecticut]] [[Category:American literature]] [[Category:Members of the Cabinet of the United States]] {{US-biography-stub}}