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John Foster Dulles
United States Secretary of State
Male
Born
Feb 25, 1888
Died
May 24, 1959
Death Place
Washington, D.C.
Political Party
U.S. Republican P...
Religion
Presbyterian
Alma Mater
Princeton Univers...
John Foster Dulles served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world. He advocated support… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1888
Birth
Born on February 25, 1888.
TWENTIES
1912
24 Years Old
On June 26, 1912, he married Janet Avery, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.
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THIRTIES
1918
30 Years Old
In 1918, Woodrow Wilson appointed Dulles as legal counsel to the United States delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference where he served under his uncle, Robert Lansing, then Secretary of State.
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1924
36 Years Old
In 1924, he was the defense counsel in the church trial of Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who had been charged with heresy by opponents in the denomination, a case settled when Fosdick, a liberal Baptist, resigned his pulpit in the Presbyterian Church, which he had never joined.
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FORTIES
1933
45 Years Old
Following Adolf Hitler's appointment as Reichskanzler in 1933, Dulles oversaw the direction of investment worth more than $1 billion in businesses in Nazi Germany.
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1934
46 Years Old
In addition, throughout 1934 Dulles was a very public supporter of Hitler.
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1935
47 Years Old
In 1935, Dulles closed Sullivan & Cromwell's Berlin office; later he would cite the closing date as 1934, no doubt in an effort to clear his reputation by shortening his involvement with Nazi Germany.
FIFTIES
Dulles was a close associate of Thomas E. Dewey, who became the presidential candidate of the Republican Party in the 1944 election and 1948.
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1945
57 Years Old
In 1945, Dulles participated in the San Francisco Conference and worked as adviser to Arthur H. Vandenberg and helped draft the preamble to the United Nations Charter.
1946
58 Years Old
He subsequently attended the United Nations General Assembly as a United States delegate in 1946, 1947 and 1950.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
Dulles was appointed by Dewey to the United States Senate as a Republican from New York on July 7, 1949, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Democrat Robert F. Wagner.
In 1950, Dulles published War or Peace, a critical analysis of the American policy of containment, which at the time was favored by many of the foreign policy elites in Washington.
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1951
63 Years Old
As Secretary of State, Dulles still carried out the “containment” policy of neutralizing the Taiwan Strait during the Korean War, which had been established by President Truman in the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951.
When Dwight Eisenhower became President in January, 1953, he appointed Dulles as his Secretary of State.
1954
66 Years Old
Dulles was also the architect of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) that was created in 1954.
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Dulles upset the leaders of several non-aligned countries when on June 9, 1956, he argued in one speech that "neutrality has increasingly become an obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception."
However, by 1958, he was an outspoken opponent of President Gamal Abdel Nasser and stopped him from receiving weapons from the United States.
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In January 1959, he returned to work, but with more pain and declining health underwent abdominal surgery in February at Walter Reed Hospital when recurrence of the cancer became evident.
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