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John Foster Dulles

1888 - 1959

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John Foster Dulles ( DUL-iss; February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) 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 (due to his colon cancer diagnosis) and was briefly a Senator from New York in 1949. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Foster Dulles has received more than 2,011,184 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). John Foster Dulles is the 3,854th most popular politician (down from 3,128th in 2019), the 1,274th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,029th in 2019) and the 94th most popular American Politician.

John Foster Dulles is most famous for being the Secretary of State for the Eisenhower administration. He was the architect of the Cold War policy of containment.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Foster Dulles ranks 3,854 out of 15,577Before him are Kunigunde of Austria, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Vojislav Šešelj, Carolina Herrera, and Vukašin of Serbia. After him are Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, Askar Akayev, Albert VI, Archduke of Austria, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Teispes, and Empress Jingū.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, John Foster Dulles ranks 49Before him are Katherine Mansfield, Ernst Heinkel, Irving Berlin, Fritz Klein, Max Steiner, and W. O. Bentley. After him are Vladimir K. Zworykin, Abul Kalam Azad, August Kubizek, Inayatullah Khan, Thea von Harbou, and Heinrich Neuhaus. Among people deceased in 1959, John Foster Dulles ranks 27Before him are Ritchie Valens, Edward C. Tolman, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Ettore Majorana, Raphael Lemkin, and Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal. After him are Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Cecil B. DeMille, Enrico De Nicola, Alfred Kubin, Mario Lanza, and Wanda Landowska.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Foster Dulles ranks 1,274 out of 18,182Before him are Joseph Erlanger (1874), Irwin Shaw (1913), Anthony Mann (1906), Cormac McCarthy (1933), Joseph Kosuth (1945), and John Brown (1800). After him are J. J. Cale (1938), Sam Cooke (1931), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Chevy Chase (1943), Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), and John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, John Foster Dulles ranks 94Before him are Jill Biden (1951), Dred Scott (1795), Avery Brundage (1887), Condoleezza Rice (1954), Andrew Dickson White (1832), and Aaron Burr (1756). After him are Mike Pence (1959), Red Cloud (1822), Charles G. Dawes (1865), Allen Dulles (1893), John Dickinson (1732), and George Papandreou (1952).