Politics · Law · 1888–1959

John Foster Dulles

American diplomat and Secretary of State during the Cold War

Did you know?Washington's major international airport was named in his honour just a few years after his death in 1959.

John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959. A member of the Republican Party, he was briefly a U.S. senator from New York in 1949.

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