Tag: Gideon Welles
Facial Hair Friday: Gideon Welles, Bearded and Bright
Since the new film Lincoln has spent a few weeks in theaters, we thought it’d be interesting to learn more about President Lincoln’s fantastically hairy cabinet. First up is Gideon Welles, who served as President Lincoln’s and then as President Johnson’s Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, the longest anyone had held the [...]
Posted by Nikita on December 7, 2012, under - Civil War, Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: abraham lincoln, Andrew Jackson, andrew johnson, beard, Cabinet, civil war, Connecticut, facial hair, Gideon Welles, journalism, Norwich University, postmaster, Secretary of the Navy
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