BIOGRAPHY John Foster Dulles Secretary of State,  Term of Appointment: 01/21/1953 to 04/22/1959

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• Born in Washington, DC, February 25, 1888;
• Graduated from Princeton University in 1908;
• Attended the Sorbonne 1908-1909, and George Washington University Law School, 1910-1911;
• Practiced law in New York City, 1911-1917;
• Married Janet Pomeroy Avery in 1912;
• Served in the United States Army attaining the rank of major, 1917-1918;
• Resumed the practice of law;
• Adviser to President Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference and a member of the Reparations Commission and Supreme Economic Council in 1919;
• Delegate to the Berlin Debt Conferences in 1933, to the United Nations Conference at San Francisco in 1945, and to the United Nations General Assembly in 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1950;
• Interim Senator from New York in 1949; was a consultant to the Secretary of State in 1950;
• Special representative of the President, with the rank of ambassador, to negotiate the Japanese peace treaty, 1950-1951;
• Secretary of State in President Eisenhower's Cabinet from January 21, 1953, to April 22, 1959;
• As Secretary of State headed American delegations to numerous international conferences, endeavored to create harmony among the free nations and peace throughout the world, and has traveled more widely in the course of his duties than any previous Secretary of State;
• Died in 1959.