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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkDULLES, John Foster
(1888—1959)
Senate Years of Service:
1949-1949
Party:
Republican
DULLES, John Foster, a Senator from New York; born in Washington, D.C., February 25, 1888; attended the public schools of Watertown, N.Y.; graduated from Princeton University in 1908; attended the Sorbonne, Paris, in 1908 and 1909; graduated from the law school of George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1911; admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in New York City in 1911; special agent for Department of State in Central America in 1917; during the First World War served as a captain and a major in the United States Army Intelligence Service 1917-1918; assistant to chairman, War Trade Board 1918; counsel to American Commission to Negotiate Peace 1918-1919; member of Reparations Commission and Supreme Economic Council 1919; legal adviser, Polish Plan of Financial Stabilization 1927; American representative, Berlin Debt Conferences 1933; member, United States delegation, San Francisco Conference on World Organization 1945; adviser to Secretary of State at Council of Foreign Ministers in London 1945, Moscow and London 1947, and Paris 1949; representative to the General Assembly of the United Nations 1946-1949 and chairman of the United States delegation in Paris 1948; trustee of Rockefeller Foundation; chairman of the board, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; member of the New York State Banking Board 1946-1949; appointed on July 7, 1949, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert F. Wagner and served from July 7, 1949, to November 8, 1949, when a duly elected successor qualified; unsuccessful candidate for election to the vacancy; United States representative to the Fifth General Assembly of the United Nations 1950; consultant to the Secretary of State 1951-1952; appointed Secretary of State by President Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1959; died in Washington, D.C., May 24, 1959; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Bibliography
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. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
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Berding, Andrew Henry Thomas. Dulles on Diplomacy
. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1965.
Challener, Richard, ed. The Correspondence Series and Speeches Series of the Personal Papers of John Foster Dulles (1888-1959)
. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1993. Microfilm. 67 reels and guide.
Comfort, Mildred Houghton. John Foster Dulles, Peacemaker: A Biographical Sketch of the Former Secretary of State
. Minneapolis: T.S. Denison, 1960.
Devine, Michael. “Continuity and Consistency in American Foreign Relations: The Foster/Dulles Approach.” Peace and Change
8 (Fall 1982): 57-69.
Dulles, Eleanor Lansing. John Foster Dulles: The Last Year
. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963.
Dulles, John Foster. “The Allied Debts.” Foreign Affairs
1 (September 15, 1922): 116-32.
___. War or Peace
. New York: MacMillan Co., 1957.
___. War, Peace, and Change
. 1939. Reprint, with new introduction by Charles Chatfield. New York: Garland Publishing 1971.
Gerson, Louis L. John Foster Dulles
. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1968.
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. 1962. Reprint. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1974.
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. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972.
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. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960.
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. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1973.
Ladenburger, John F. “The Philosophy of International Politics of John Foster Dulles, 1919-1952.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Connecticut, 1969.
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. New York: Dial Press, 1978.
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49 (Summer 1971): 157-82.
Platig, Emil Raymond. “John Foster Dulles: A Study of His Political and Moral Thought Prior to 1953, with Special Emphasis on International Relations.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1958.
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8 (1974): 381-410.
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. New York: Free Press, 1982.
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. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1985.
Van Dusen, Henry P., ed. The Spiritual Legacy of John Foster Dulles: Selections from His Articles and Addresses
. 1960. Reprint. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
Yates, Lawrence Arthur. “John Foster Dulles and Bipartisanship, 1944-1952.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, 1981.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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