POLITICIAN

Gideon Welles

1802 - 1878

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Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 – February 11, 1878), nicknamed "Father Neptune", was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, a cabinet post he was awarded after supporting Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election. Although opposed to the Union blockade of Southern ports, he duly carried out his part of the Anaconda Plan, largely sealing off the Confederate coastline and preventing the exchange of cotton for war supplies. This is viewed as a major cause of Union victory in the Civil War, and his achievement in expanding the Navy almost tenfold was widely praised. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gideon Welles has received more than 357,898 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gideon Welles is the 16,631st most popular politician (down from 16,526th in 2019), the 10,256th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,920th in 2019) and the 673rd most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gideon Welles ranks 16,631 out of 19,576. Before him are Yaël Braun-Pivet, Grigol Vashadze, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, John O. Brennan, and E. M. S. Namboodiripad. After him are Philippe Douste-Blazy, Amir Ohana, Samuel Huntington, Anthony Carmona, Tekle Giyorgis II, and Anna Komorowska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Gideon Welles ranks 63. Before him are Sylvain Van de Weyer, Édouard Ménétries, Andrei Stackenschneider, Richard Thomas Lowe, Miguel de San Román, and Lydia Maria Child. After him are Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Chand Kaur, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick. Among people deceased in 1878, Gideon Welles ranks 71. Before him are Francisco Linares Alcántara, José Amador de los Ríos, George Henry Lewes, William Stokes, José María Medina, and George Gilbert Scott. After him are Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, Benjamin Bonneville, Charles Magill Conrad, and Bayard Taylor.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gideon Welles ranks 10,256 out of 20,380. Before him are Carl Osburn (1884), Francis Frederick (1907), John Sloan (1871), Dorothy Allison (1949), Josh Homme (1973), and John O. Brennan (1955). After him are Patricia Barber (1955), Erna Schneider Hoover (1926), Don Muraco (1949), Richard Florida (1957), Samuel Huntington (1731), and Richard Fortus (1966).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Gideon Welles ranks 673. Before him are George Ariyoshi (1926), Jo Jorgensen (1957), Eric Holder (1951), Henry Cabot Lodge (1850), Robert J. Bentley (1943), and John O. Brennan (1955). After him are Samuel Huntington (1731), John N. Mitchell (1913), Roland Burris (1937), Steven Mnuchin (1962), William Barr (1950), and Happy Chandler (1898).

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