Anderson, Dillon
Born: Jul 14, 1906 AD
Died: 1974 AD, at 67 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Administrator
Died: 1974 AD, at 67 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Administrator
1906 - Born in McKinney, Texas, on July 14th. Dillon Anderson, statesman and writer.
1927 - He enrolled at Texas Christian University before transferring to the University of Oklahoma, where he received a B.S. degree.
1929 - He graduated from the Yale law school.
- He was admitted to the Texas bar and began practicing with the Houston firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews, and Shepherd.
1931 - He married Lena Carter Carroll on May 30th.
1940 - He was made a partner of the Houston firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews, and Shepherd.
1942-1945 - Anderson served as a colonel in the United States Army.
- He won the Army Commendation Ribbon and the Legion of Merit.
1948 - Anderson met Edward Weeks, editor of Atlantic, who complained that J. Frank Dobie, Tom Lea, and John Lomaxq were the only Texans who ever sent contributions to his magazine.
1949 - Anderson's first submission was "The Revival," a story that Weeks returned several times for revision.
- It won the Doubleday company's O. Henry prize for short fiction. Anderson then began publishing other stories in Atlantic, Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's.
1953 - He was appointed consultant to the National Security Council.
1955 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower chose Anderson to be his special assistant for national security.
- Anderson presided over the National Security Council and accompanied Eisenhower to the summit conference in Geneva and resigned the year after.
- Anderson was a director of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.
1974 - Dillon Anderson died in Houston, Texas.
1927 - He enrolled at Texas Christian University before transferring to the University of Oklahoma, where he received a B.S. degree.
1929 - He graduated from the Yale law school.
- He was admitted to the Texas bar and began practicing with the Houston firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews, and Shepherd.
1931 - He married Lena Carter Carroll on May 30th.
1940 - He was made a partner of the Houston firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews, and Shepherd.
1942-1945 - Anderson served as a colonel in the United States Army.
- He won the Army Commendation Ribbon and the Legion of Merit.
1948 - Anderson met Edward Weeks, editor of Atlantic, who complained that J. Frank Dobie, Tom Lea, and John Lomaxq were the only Texans who ever sent contributions to his magazine.
1949 - Anderson's first submission was "The Revival," a story that Weeks returned several times for revision.
- It won the Doubleday company's O. Henry prize for short fiction. Anderson then began publishing other stories in Atlantic, Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's.
1953 - He was appointed consultant to the National Security Council.
1955 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower chose Anderson to be his special assistant for national security.
- Anderson presided over the National Security Council and accompanied Eisenhower to the summit conference in Geneva and resigned the year after.
- Anderson was a director of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.
1974 - Dillon Anderson died in Houston, Texas.
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