biography
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| (1909–94)
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| biography:
| US secretary of state (1961–9), born in Cherokee Co, Georgia, USA. He studied at Davidson College and at Oxford, and in 1934 was appointed associate professor of government at Mills College, Oakland, CA. After World War 2, he held various governmental posts: special assistant to the secretary of war (1946–7), assistant secretary of state for UN affairs, deputy under-secretary of state, and assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs (1950–1). In 1952 he was appointed president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and from 1961 was secretary of state under Kennedy, in which capacity he played a major role in handling the Cuban crisis of 1962. He retained the post under the Johnson administration, retiring in 1969. After leaving public service, he became professor of international law at the University of Georgia. |
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