Dillon Anderson

Dillon Anderson (* July 14, 1906 in McKinney, Texas, † January 29, 1974 in Houston, Texas) was an American lawyer and 1955-1956 National Security Advisor of the United States.

Life

After schooling Anderson studied at Texas Christian University and then at the University of Oklahoma, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in 1927. A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the Law School of Yale University, he finished 1929 with a Juris Doctor ( JD).

Then he was after his legal admission as a lawyer and worked since 1940, a partner at Baker Botts, a law firm with 700 lawyers today and headquartered in Houston. During the Second World War he served between 1942 and 1945 his military service in the U.S. Army and was rewarded for his services with the Legion of Merit.

After he was a member of the National Security 1953-1955, he was between April 1955 and September 1956 National Security Advisor of the United States.

Subsequently, he was back as a partner at Baker Botts works as well as in the private sector as a member of the board of directors of Federated Department Stores. He was also temporarily a member of the editorial board of the magazine The Atlantic Monthly, a Trustee of the Andrew Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and was also involved in the Brookings Institution.