John Foster Dulles Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. Both his grandfather, Foster, and his uncle, Robert Lansing, the husband of Eleanor Foster, had held the position of Secretary of State. His younger brother, Allen Welsh Dulles, served as Director of Central Intelligence under Dwight D. Eisenhower, and his younger sister Eleanor Lansing Dulles was noted for her work in the successful reconstruction of the economy of post-war Europe during her twenty years with the State Department. On June 26, 1912, Dulles married Janet Pomeroy Avery (1891–1969), a first cousin of David Rockefeller. They had two sons and a daughter. Their older
John Welsh Dulles John Welsh Dulles John Welsh Dulles (November 4, 1823 – April; 13, 1887) was an American Presbyterian minister and author. He was the grandfather of John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles. Dulles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1823, the son of Joseph Heatly Dulles and Margaret (Welsh) Dulles. He graduated from Yale College in 1844. After pursuing the study of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania in 1844 and 1845, he entered the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, in January, 1846, and completed the course there in 1848. On October 2, 1848, he was ordained by