Dean Acheson

Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and played a central role in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Dean Gooderham Acheson was born in Middletown, Connecticut. His father, Edward Campion Acheson, was an Englishborn Church of England priest who, after several years in Canada, moved to the U.S. to become Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut. His mother, Eleanor Gertrude , was a Canadianborn granddaughter of prominent Canadian distiller William Gooderham , a founder of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery. Like his father, he was a staunch Democrat and opponent of prohibition.

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