Dean Acheson

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American politician United States Secretary of State diplomat human lawyer

Dean Acheson was a prominent American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State and was a principal architect of Cold War foreign policy, including the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.

Aliases (2)

Acheson ×1
Dean Gooderham Acheson ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American politician → United States Secretary of State → diplomat → human → lawyer →
awardReceived	Presidential Medal of Freedom → Pulitzer Prize for History →
causeOfDeath	stroke →
child	David Campion Acheson →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1893-04-11 →
dateOfDeath	1971-10-12 →
educatedAt	Harvard Law School → Yale University →
employer	Covington & Burling → United States Department of State → United States Department of the Treasury →
familyName	Acheson →
fieldOfWork	foreign policy → international relations → law →
fullName	Dean Gooderham Acheson →
genre	political memoir →
givenName	Dean →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOfPoliticalParty	Democratic Party (United States) →
notableFor	being a principal architect of U.S. Cold War strategy → shaping post–World War II Western alliance system →
notableWork	book "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department" → containment policy toward the Soviet Union → decision-making during the Korean War → design of the Truman Doctrine → role in founding NATO → support for the Marshall Plan →
officeEnd	1953-01-20 →
officeStart	1949-01-21 →
placeOfBirth	Middletown, Connecticut, United States →
placeOfDeath	Sandy Spring, Maryland, United States →
positionHeld	Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs → Under Secretary of State → Under Secretary of the Treasury of the United States → United States Secretary of State →
precededBy	George C. Marshall →
religion	Episcopalian →
residence	Washington, D.C., United States →
servedUnder	Harry S. Truman →
spouse	Alice Caroline Stanley →
succeededBy	John Foster Dulles →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Dean Acheson ("Acheson") →	familyName
David C. Acheson →	father
Dean Acheson ("Dean Gooderham Acheson") →	fullName
Groton School →	hasAlumni
Covington & Burling →	hasNotableAlumni
Truman administration →	notableCabinetMember
David C. Acheson →	notableRelative