Dean Acheson AKA Dean Gooderham Acheson Born: 11-Apr-1893 Birthplace: Middletown, CT Died: 12-Oct-1971 Location of death: Sandy Spring, MD Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
Gender: Male Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Government Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States Executive summary: US Secretary of State, 1949-53 Military service: US Navy Was savaged by Joseph McCarthy and Richard M. Nixon as a Communist sympathizer. Father: Edward Campion Acheson Mother: Eleanor Gooderham Wife: Alice Stanley (m. 5-May-1917, two daughters, one son) Daughter: Jane Son: David Campion Acheson Daughter: Mary Eleanor
High School: Groton School University: BA, Yale University (1915) Law School: LLB, Harvard Law School (1918)
US Secretary of State (1949-53) US Under Secretary of State (1945-47) US Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1941-45) US Treasury Department Undersecretary of the Treasury (1933, resigned) Covington & Burling Partner (1926-46)
Covington & Burling (1921-26)
Law Clerk for Louis D. Brandeis (1919-21) Alfalfa Club 1933 American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Bar Association Council on Foreign Relations 1947 Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn Pilgrims Society Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Phi Beta Kappa Society Scroll and Key Harvard Law Review Presidential Medal of Freedom 1964 Pulitzer Prize for History 1970 for Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR On Company Business (Feb-1980) · Himself
Author of books:
A Democrat Looks at His Party (1955) A Citizen Looks at Congress (1957) Power and Diplomacy (1958) Sketches of Men I Have Known (1965) Morning and Noon (1965) Present at the Creation: My Years In The State Department (1970, memoir)
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