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Biography of David Dean Rusk
Name: David Dean Rusk
Birth Date: February 9, 1909
Death Date: 1994
Place of Birth: Georgia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: secretary of state, politician
David Dean Rusk
America's 54th secretary of state and second only to Cordell Hull in length of service, Dean Rusk (1909-1994) presided over the Department of State during the turbulent Kennedy-Johnson years of the Vietnam War.The life and career of David Dean Rusk, 54th Secretary of State of the United States, is a textbook case of barefoot poverty to black tie success. It must almost inevitably begin: "Where else but in America ...?" This judgment should be modified, however, by recognition of the family, character, and personality traits which marked his life and by the nebulous but indispensable final element luck which often accounts for greatness.Early YearsOn February 9, 1909, David Dean Rusk was born to school teacher Frances (Clotfelter) Rusk and her minister-farmer husband Robert Rusk. The latter, a Presbyterian minister, had taken up farming in Georgia's Cherokee county after a throat condition forced him to retire from his vocation. Four years after Rusk's …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Associated Events Vietnam War, 1959-1975 Further Reading Warren I. Cohen Dean Rusk (1981) is the most complete account of Rusk's life and career. Much information can be gleaned from Henry Graff, The Tuesday Cabinet (1970); Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. A Thousand Days (1965); Lyndon B. Johnson, The Vantage Point (1971); and memoirs of other principals. Some of Rusk's writings and speeches appear in Ernest K. Lindley, ed., The Winds of Freedom (1963); The Owens-Corning Lectures 1968-69 (1969); and Alva Myrdal, Arthur J. Altmeyer, and Dean Rusk, America's Role in International Social Welfare (1967).Rusk shared his later views on the abilities of world leaders to transcend human frailties in an address at Davidson College entitled, "The Threat of Nuclear War," reprinted in 1986 in Vital Speeches of the Day (January 15, 1986). Information about the Dean Rusk Hall and personal papers resides on the Internet on a site maintained by the University of Georgia, at www.libs.uga.edu/russell/ruskdoc.html.
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