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Dean Acheson

1893–1971

American

Lawyer and U.S. secretary of state (1949-1953). He expressed values of devotion to country and extreme personal rectitude. Some thought him the embodiment of the so-called White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP).

Contemporaries

1907–1964
1897–1980
1842–1910
1835–1919
1820–1906
1902–1987
1837–1921
1860–1935
1857–1938
1859–1952
1821–1912