BIOGRAPHY Dean David Rusk Secretary of State,  Term of Appointment: 01/21/1961 to 01/20/1969

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• Born in Cherokee County, Georgia, February 9, 1909;
• Graduated from Davidson College in 1931;
• As a Rhodes Scholar studied at St. John's College, Oxford University 1931-1934;
• From 1934 to 1940 on the faculty of Mills College, Oakland, California and appointed Dean of Faculty in 1938;
• Married Virginia Foisie in 1937;
• Assistant chief of the Department of State's Division of International Security Affairs in 1946;
• Special assistant to the Secretary of War 1946;
• From 1947 to 1949 served in the Department of State as director of the Office of Special Political Affairs which later became the Office of United Nations Affairs;
• In 1949 appointed Deputy Under Secretary of State;
• In 1950 appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs;
• President of the Rockefeller Foundation 1952-1961;
• Commissioned Secretary of State in President Kennedy's Cabinet on January 21, 1961, entered upon his duties the same day, continued in office under President Johnson, and served until January 20, 1969;
• Helped deal with such problems as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the Dominican Republic intervention, the Pueblo incident, the closure of the border between East and West Berlin, and especially the Vietnam war;
• Professor of international law at the University of Georgia 1969 to 1984;
• Rusk died in Athens, Georgia, December 20, 1994.