Dean Acheson

Dean Acheson was born in Middletown, Connecticut in 1893. Acheson attended Groton School, Yale College, and Harvard Law School. During WWI, he served in the National Guard. As a young lawyer, Acheson worked as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and then at a Washington D.C. law firm before he was appointed as Undersecretary of the United States Secretary by FDR in 1933. From 1949 to 1953, Acheson was the U.S. Secretary of State for Harry S. Truman, helping design the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Most famously, Acheson convinced President Truman to intervene in the Korean War. Acheson returned to private life in 1963 and died in 1971 at age 78.