Dean Acheson
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Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) was born in Middletown, Connecticut, son of a British-born Anglican priest. A lawyer, he was appointed Under-Secretary of the Treasury by President Franklin D Roosevelt in 1933, and during the Second World War he was Assistant Secretary at the State Department. Between 1945 and 1953 he served as Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman, a period that saw the hardening of the Cold War and the victory of Communism in China, an event which conservative politicians led by Joseph McCarthy blamed on Acheson and the State Department. In 1970 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoirs.
