| 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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