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Acheson, Dean Gooderham (b. 11 Apr. 1893, d. 12 Oct. 1971). US Secretary of State 1949–53 Born at Middletown, Connecticut, he was educated at Yale and Harvard Law School. He served as a personal assistant to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis between 1918 and 1921, and built a successful New York law practice thereafter. Having briefly served as Under-Secretary of the Treasury in 1933, he became Assistant Secretary of State for economic affairs for President F. D. Roosevelt in 1941, and in 1944 became a key figure in promoting the establishment of the Bretton Woods conference . As Under-Secretary for President Truman , 1945–7, he urged international control of atomic ...

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