Born: 25-Feb-1888
Birthplace: Washington, DC
Died: 24-May-1959
Location of death: Bethesda, MD
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Remains: Buried, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA

Gender: Male
Religion: Presbyterian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Eisenhower's Secretary of State

Military service: US Army (WWI, Intelligence 1917-18; War Industries Board, 1918)

Father: Allen Macy Dulles (Presbyterian minister)
Mother: Edith Foster Dulles (dau. of John W. Foster)
Brother: Allen W. Dulles (CIA Director)
Wife: Janet Pomeroy Avery (m. 1912, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Avery Robert Dulles (Roman Catholic priest)
Son: John Watson Dulles
Daughter: Lillian Pomeroy Avery

    University: BA, Princeton University (1900)
    University: Sorbonne (1908-09)
    Law School: LLB, George Washington University (1911)

    US Secretary of State (1953-59)
    US State Department Consultant to the Secretary of State (1951-53)
    US Senator, New York (1949)
    New York State Official State Banking Board (1946-49)
    Sullivan & Cromwell
    Alfalfa Club 1953
    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Chairman, Board of Trustees
    Pilgrims Society
    Rockefeller Foundation Trustee
    Presidential Medal of Freedom
    Time Man of the Year 1954

Author of books:
War or Peace (1950)

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