BIOGRAPHY Dean Gooderham Acheson Secretary of State,  Term of Appointment: 01/21/1949 to 01/20/1953

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• Born in Middletown, Connecticut, April 11, 1893;
• Graduated from Yale University in 1915 and from Harvard Law School in 1918;
• Married Alice Stanley in 1917;
• Ensign in the United States Navy 1918-1919;
• Served as private secretary to Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1919-1921;
• Admitted to the bar and practiced in Washington, DC, 1921-1933 and 1934-1941;
• Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933;
• Assistant Secretary of State, 1941-1945 and Under Secretary of State 1945-1947;
• Resumed the practice of law;
• Appointed by the President a member of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government in 1947;
• Chairman of the American section of the Permanent Joint Defense Board 1947-1948;
• Secretary of State in President Truman's Cabinet from January 21, 1949, until January 20, 1953;
• As Secretary of State, was the United States member of the Council of Foreign Ministers at Paris in 1949, participated in the negotiation and signing of the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949, and served as chairman of the third session of the North Atlantic Council at Washington in 1950;
• Resumed the practice of law;
• Died in 1971.