Gideon Welles

Gebundenes Buch

Prize Vessels (1868)

Beschreibung

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Autor

GIDEON WELLES (1802-1878), born into a wealthy Connecticut family, studied law, co-founded the Hartford Times in 1826, and joined the Connecticut legislature in 1827 as a Jacksonian Democrat. In 1854, Welles quit the Democrats and joined the Republican Party. In 1856 he founded the Hartford Evening Press , one of the first Republican papers in New England. Due to his strong support for Abraham Lincoln, he became Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 86
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781162049397
• ISBN-10: 1162049391
• Artikelnr.: 30999800