United States, 39.76, -98.5Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994Rusk, RichardSchoenbaum, Thomas1985Dean Rusk (1909-1994), attorney and U.S. Secretary of State, was born in Cherokee County, Georgia. Rusk joined the Department of State from 1947-1952 and Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs and for Far Eastern Affairs. From 1952-1960, he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Rusk to the office of Secretary of State. He remained in this position until 1969. In 1970, he became the Samuel H. Sibley Professor of International Law at the University of Georgia, a position he held until his death in 1994.Related collections in this repository: Dean Rusk Personal Papers, D.W. Brooks Oral History Collection, Martin Hillenbrand Papers.Interviewed by Richard Rusk and Thomas Schoenbaum.Dean Rusk discusses World War II and his years as Deputy Chief of War Plans in the China-Burma-India theater.audio/mpegenghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Dean Rusk Oral History Collectionhttp://russelldoc.galib.uga.edu/russell/view?docId=ead/RBRL214DROH-ead.xmlWorld War, 1939-1945Dean Rusk interviewed by Richard Rusk and Thomas Schoenbaum ca. 1985Sound