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A Short Biography of Dean Acheson

Author Name:

Dean Acheson

Born As:

Dean Gooderham Acheson

Other Names:

Born:

11 Apr 1893

Died:

12 Oct 1971




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Statesman and lawyer                          
                          
Mother, Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham, was a granddaughter of  Canadian distiller, William Gooderham, founder of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery.
Father, Edward Campion Acheson, was an English-born Church of England priest who, after several years in Canada, moved to the US to become Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut.