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| 1. | (George) Orson, 1915–85, U.S. actor, director, and producer. |
| 2. | Gideon, 1802–78, U.S. journalist, legislator, and government official: Secretary of the Navy 1861–69. |
| 3. | Sumner, 1892–1961, U.S. diplomat and government official. |
| Welles, Gideon 1802-1878. American editor and politician. A founder of the Republican Party (1854), he established a partisan newspaper, the Hartford Evening Press (1856), and was U.S. secretary of the navy (1861-1869) during the Civil War. |