Born in
Auburn, New York, on May 20, 1913, John W.F. Dulles was the son of the former Secretary of State of the United States of America,
John Foster Dulles. In 1935 he graduated in philosophy from Princeton University. He received a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University in 1937 and then joined the
Bank of New York, where his father was a director. He worked in a New York mining company where he was sent to
Arizona where he received a bachelor's degree in
metallurgy from the
University of Arizona's School of Mines and Metallurgy in 1943. In 1959 he moved to
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, to fix an unprofitable
Hanna Mining Co. gold mine in the country. He died on June 23, 2008, at
North Central Baptist Hospital in
San Antonio, Texas. His cause of death was
kidney failure. == Works ==