 | John Foster Dulles
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As Secretary of State
Headed American delegations to numerous international conferences
Had striven for harmony among free nations and for peace throughout world
Traveled more widely in the course of his duties than any previous Secretary of State; he made some 60 foreign trips and journeyed a total of almost a half a million miles
Intrumental in expanding the free world alliance system
Foreign Travels of Secretary of State John Dulles
Foreign Relations of the United
States:
1951-1954 (vol. 1-12), 1955-1957 (vol. 1-27),1958-1960
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FRUS online
1953-1959
Profile
Born:
February 25, 1888
Died: May 24, 1959
Married: Janet Pomeroy Avery
Education:
Princeton University; Sorbonne; George Washington University Law School
Occupation: Lawyer
Government Positions
Served in the United States Army 1917-1918; attaining rank of major
Advisor to President Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919
Member of the Reparations commission and Supreme Economic Council in 1919
Delegate to the Berlin Debt Conferences in 1933
Delegate to the United Nations Conference at San Francisco in 1945, and to the United Nations General Assembly in 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1950
interim Senator from New York in 1949
Consultant to the Secretary of State in 1950
Special representative of the President, with rank of ambassador, to negotiate the Japanese peace treaty 1950-1951
Notable Events
Grandson and namesake of one U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster, and nephew of another, Robert Lansing (Collier's Encyclopedia)