Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994

LC control no.	n 80013000
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Rusk, David Dean, 1909-1994
Birth date	1909-02-09
Death date	1994-12-20
Place of birth	Cherokee County (Ga.)
Place of death	Athens (Ga.)
Affiliation	Mills College United States. Army United States. War Department United States. Department of State. Office of Special Political Affairs Rockefeller Foundation United States. Department of State University of Georgia
Profession or occupation	College teachers Politicians Soldiers
Found in	His Universal, regional and bilateral patterns of international organization, 1950. Wikipedia WWW site, Mar. 21, 2006 (under Dean Rusk: David Dean Rusk; b. Feb. 9, 1909, Cherokee County, Ga.; d. Dec. 20, 1994; U.S. secretary of state, 1961-1969) New Georgia Encyclopedia, via WWW, November 14, 2013 (Dean Rusk (1909-1994); David Dean Rusk was born on February 9, 1909 in Cherokee County, Ga,; he earned an A.B. degree from Davidson College in North Carolina in 1931; he subsequently attended England's Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, earning B.S. and M.A. degrees from St. John's College in 1933 and 1934; he was associate professor of government and dean of faculty at Mills College in Oakland, California from1934-1940; he also studied law during this period at the University of California, Berkeley, though he did not complete a degree; Rusk joined the U.S. Army in 1940, serving first with the Third Infantry Division, then in the Military Intelligence Service; he served from 1943 to 1945 in the China-Burma-India theater, achieving the rank of colonel at the end of the war, after the war, Rusk joined the general staff in the War Department in Washington, D.C.; in 1947 he was asked to head the Office of Special Political Affairs in the Department of State; he left government service in 1952 to become president of the Rockefeller Foundation; he served as U.S. secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; he was a primary architect of U.S. intervention in the Vietnam War (1964-1973) on the side of the South Vietnamese; when Richard Nixon won the U.S. presidency in 1969, Rusk left the Department of State and returned to Georgia, where he taught international law at the University of Georgia in Athens; he died in Athens on December 20, 1994)
Associated language	eng