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JOHN FOSTER DULLES, 64, lawyer and diplomat.
Family & Early Years: He was born in the Washington, D.C. home of his maternal grandfather, John Watson Foster, veteran diplomat who was President Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State (1892-93). Dulles' father, Presbyterian Pastor Allen Macy Dulles of Watertown, N.Y., wanted eldest son John to follow the ministry, but grandfather Foster swayed the boy to international law and diplomacy, sending him to Switzerland for six months to study French, a few years later taking him along to an international conference at The Hague....
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