Dean Acheson

Business Positions

Covington & Burling LLP Business and corporate law firm with offices in the District of Columbia, New York, and San Francisco, as well as London and Brussels.

• Partner ('26→'46)

Covington & Burling Washington office Original office of the firm

• Position ('21→?)

Board Memberships

Yale Corporation Yale University's highest governing body

• Board Member ('36→?)

In the office of

Louis Brandeis Associate justice on the US Supreme Court (1916-1939)

• law clerk ('19→'21)

Government Positions

US Department of State Federal executive department responsible for carrying out U.S. foreign policy and international relations

• Secretary of State (Jan 21 '49→Jan 20 '53) [+1]

• Under Secretary of State ('45→'47)

Memberships

Phi Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon Yale fraternity

• Member

Yale class of 1915

• Member

Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn One of four Inns of Court in London

• Member (past)

Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington, D.C. One of Washington's oldest private clubs

• Member (past)

Scroll and Key Secret Yale organization

• Member

Council on Foreign Relations US foreign policy think tank

• Member (past)

Pilgrims of the United States Fosters Anglo-American relationships through cooperation of top banking and manufacturing institutions

• Member (past)

The Georgetown set DC power social group

• Member (past)

Alfalfa Club Exclusive DC club for the rich and powerful since 1913

• Member ('33→?)

Family

Mary Acheson

• daughter

William P Bundy Advised 3 Presidents on American Policy in Vietnam

• son-in-law

Edward Campion Acheson Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut

• father ('93→?)

Jane Acheson

• daughter ('19→?)

David C Acheson

• son ('21→?)

Schools

Yale University Private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut - founded in 1701

• BA (?→'15)

The Groton School Private school in Groton, MA

• High School