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- ↑ "Nina M. Wells's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- ↑ Obama Citizenship - Supreme Court Declines To Hear Challenge Washington Post
- ↑ State of New Jersey biography for Nina Mitchell Wells, State of New Jersey, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 31, 2007. Accessed February 24, 2011. "Secretary Wells and her husband, Ted Wells, Esq. reside in Livingston, NJ and have two grown children, Teresa and Phillip."
- ↑ "Nina Wells". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
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