John Foster Dulles
1888 – 1959 American lawyer, Secretary of State
The Cold War Secretary of State whose firm had ties to United Fruit before the Guatemala coup.
- Religion
- Presbyterian
- Affiliations
- Sullivan & Cromwell; United Fruit ties; Eisenhower administration
John Foster Dulles served as US Secretary of State under Eisenhower and was a hard-line architect of Cold War anti-communist policy. His former law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, had represented the United Fruit Company, whose interests were entangled in the 1954 Guatemala coup. He shaped US interventions across the Global South alongside his brother Allen, who ran the CIA.
Connections
- family of Allen Dulles — His older brother, who served as Secretary of State.
- family of Allen Dulles — His younger brother, who ran the CIA.
In the timeline
- 1888 Birth of John Foster Dulles central figure
- 1911 John Foster Dulles joins Sullivan & Cromwell central figure
- 1953 Dulles's first speech as Secretary of State mentioned
- 1953 The Dulles brothers and Sullivan & Cromwell mentioned
- 1958 John Foster Dulles retires and dies central figure
- 1959 Death of John Foster Dulles central figure
- 1962 Dulles International Airport dedicated mentioned