John Foster Dulles

John Foster Dulles was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. A member of the Republican Party, Dulles served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959 and was briefly a Senator from New York in 1949. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, who advocated an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world.

25 February 1888

Born on the same birth day (25 February): Alexei Rykov • Anton Volchenkov • Ed Balls • Emma Catherine Embury • Farokh Engineer • Fred VanVleet • Friedrich Spee • Giovanni Morelli • Herb Elliott • Hugh Huxley • Joey Dunlop • Kana Hanazawa • Larry Gelbart • Maria Margaretha Kirch • René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou • Robert Bond • Sabahattin Ali • Tony Lema • Veronica Webb

Born in the same month (February 1888): Chandrashekhar Agashe • Clemence Dane • Edith Evans • Georges Bernanos • Georgios Papandreou • Giuseppe Ungaretti • John Warren Davis (college president) • José Eustasio Rivera • Lotte Lehmann • Otto Stern • Owen Brewster • Roberto Assagioli • Ronald Knox • Stephen McKenna (novelist)