Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971

LC control no.	n 79043447
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Acheson, Dean Gooderham, 1893-1971 Atseson, D̲ēin, 1893-1971
Other standard no.	0000000110715083
Birth date	1893-04-11
Death date	1971-10-12
Place of birth	Middletown (Conn.)
Place of death	Sandy Spring (Md.)
Affiliation	United States. Department of the Treasury United States. Department of State
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Statesmen
Found in	Power and diplomacy, 1958: title page (Dean Acheson) Fragments of my fleece, c1971: t.p. (Dean Acheson) Britannica Academic Edition, via WWW, July 11, 2013 (Dean Acheson; in full Dean Gooderham Acheson; born April 11, 1893, Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.; died October 12, 1971, Sandy Spring, Maryland, U.S.; Secretary of State (1949-1953) and adviser to four presidents; became the principal creator of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War period following World War II; he helped to create the Western alliance in opposition to the Soviet Union and other communist nations; a graduate of Yale University and of Harvard Law School, Acheson served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis; in 1921 he joined a law firm in Washington, D.C.; his first government post was in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as undersecretary of the Treasury in 1933; he entered the Department of State in 1941 as an assistant secretary and was undersecretary from 1945 to 1947; he shaped what came to be known as the Truman Doctrine (1947); in the same year he outlined the main points of what became known as the Marshall Plan; appointed secretary of state by President Harry S. Truman in January 1949, Acheson promoted the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); after leaving office Acheson returned to private law practice but continued to serve as foreign-policy adviser to successive presidents; his account of his years in the Department of State, Present at the Creation, won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1970; other works include Power and Diplomacy (1958), Morning and Noon (1965), The Korean War (1971), and Grapes from Thorns (posthumous, 1972))