Dean Rusk
February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994
Dean Rusk (1909–1994) was U.S. secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest-serving secretary of state. He had been a senior government official in the 1940s and early 1950s and served as a staff officer in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. He was a Rhodes scholar at St John's College, Oxford.
Offices held
Jan 21, 1961 – Jan 20, 1969
Preceded by
Livingston T. Merchant Succeeded by
William P. Rogers
Livingston T. Merchant Succeeded by
William P. Rogers
