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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkJohn Foster DULLES
(1888-1959)
Senate Years of Service:
1949-1949Party: RepublicanDULLES, 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
Dictionary of American Biography; Guhin, Michael A. John
Foster Dulles: A Statesman and His Time. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1972; Hoopes, Townsend. The Devil and John
Foster Dulles. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1973.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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