[Harvey Hollister Bundy Sr. was an American lawyer, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War during the second World War, and father of William Bundy and McGeorge Bundy, who both served at high levels as government advisors. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to McGeorge Bundy, a lawyer, he was grandson to Solomon Bundy, a lawyer and New York Congressman. Bundy attended Yale University and was initiated in the Skull and Bones in 1909. He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1914, that same year he began working as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
In 1917, he married Katherine Lawrence Putnam, daughter of William Lowell Putnam and niece to Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
They had three sons, Harvey Bundy Jr., William Bundy and McGeorge Bundy. Bundy became a prominent attorney in Boston.
Bundy and his wife Katherine met Colonel Henry L. Stimson, also a Skull & Bones member, and the three became friends. Their sons grew up knowing Stimson as a family friend and colleague of their father. Working under President Herbert Hoover, Stimson appointed Bundy as Assistant Secretary of State in July 1931 until March 1933. Harvey was special legal assistant to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
During World War II he served again under Stimson, now Secretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as his Special Assistant on Atomic Matters beginning in 1941. He served as liaison between Stimson and the director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush.
Bundy also helped implement the Marshall Plan after the war. He became president of the board of trustees of the World Peace Foundation. He succeeded John Foster Dulles as chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, serving from 1952 to 1958.
At the age of 75, Harvey Hollister Bundy Sr died on Monday, October 7, 1963 at his home in the City of Boston, Massachusetts.
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In 1917, he married Katherine Lawrence Putnam, daughter of William Lowell Putnam and niece to Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
They had three sons, Harvey Bundy Jr., William Bundy and McGeorge Bundy. Bundy became a prominent attorney in Boston.
Bundy and his wife Katherine met Colonel Henry L. Stimson, also a Skull & Bones member, and the three became friends. Their sons grew up knowing Stimson as a family friend and colleague of their father. Working under President Herbert Hoover, Stimson appointed Bundy as Assistant Secretary of State in July 1931 until March 1933. Harvey was special legal assistant to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
During World War II he served again under Stimson, now Secretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as his Special Assistant on Atomic Matters beginning in 1941. He served as liaison between Stimson and the director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush.
Bundy also helped implement the Marshall Plan after the war. He became president of the board of trustees of the World Peace Foundation. He succeeded John Foster Dulles as chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, serving from 1952 to 1958.
At the age of 75, Harvey Hollister Bundy Sr died on Monday, October 7, 1963 at his home in the City of Boston, Massachusetts.
from https://www.geni.com/people/Harvey-Hollister-Bundy-Assistant-U-S-Secretary-of-State/6000000010883432721
Contributor: Melissa Winkowski (47438658)]
[Harvey Hollister Bundy Sr. was an American lawyer, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War during the second World War, and father of William Bundy and McGeorge Bundy, who both served at high levels as government advisors. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to McGeorge Bundy, a lawyer, he was grandson to Solomon Bundy, a lawyer and New York Congressman. Bundy attended Yale University and was initiated in the Skull and Bones in 1909. He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1914, that same year he began working as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
In 1917, he married Katherine Lawrence Putnam, daughter of William Lowell Putnam and niece to Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
They had three sons, Harvey Bundy Jr., William Bundy and McGeorge Bundy. Bundy became a prominent attorney in Boston.
Bundy and his wife Katherine met Colonel Henry L. Stimson, also a Skull & Bones member, and the three became friends. Their sons grew up knowing Stimson as a family friend and colleague of their father. Working under President Herbert Hoover, Stimson appointed Bundy as Assistant Secretary of State in July 1931 until March 1933. Harvey was special legal assistant to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
During World War II he served again under Stimson, now Secretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as his Special Assistant on Atomic Matters beginning in 1941. He served as liaison between Stimson and the director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush.
Bundy also helped implement the Marshall Plan after the war. He became president of the board of trustees of the World Peace Foundation. He succeeded John Foster Dulles as chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, serving from 1952 to 1958.
At the age of 75, Harvey Hollister Bundy Sr died on Monday, October 7, 1963 at his home in the City of Boston, Massachusetts.
from https://www.geni.com/people/Harvey-Hollister-Bundy-Assistant-U-S-Secretary-of-State/6000000010883432721
Contributor: Melissa Winkowski (47438658)]
In 1917, he married Katherine Lawrence Putnam, daughter of William Lowell Putnam and niece to Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
They had three sons, Harvey Bundy Jr., William Bundy and McGeorge Bundy. Bundy became a prominent attorney in Boston.
Bundy and his wife Katherine met Colonel Henry L. Stimson, also a Skull & Bones member, and the three became friends. Their sons grew up knowing Stimson as a family friend and colleague of their father. Working under President Herbert Hoover, Stimson appointed Bundy as Assistant Secretary of State in July 1931 until March 1933. Harvey was special legal assistant to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
During World War II he served again under Stimson, now Secretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as his Special Assistant on Atomic Matters beginning in 1941. He served as liaison between Stimson and the director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush.
Bundy also helped implement the Marshall Plan after the war. He became president of the board of trustees of the World Peace Foundation. He succeeded John Foster Dulles as chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, serving from 1952 to 1958.
At the age of 75, Harvey Hollister Bundy Sr died on Monday, October 7, 1963 at his home in the City of Boston, Massachusetts.
from https://www.geni.com/people/Harvey-Hollister-Bundy-Assistant-U-S-Secretary-of-State/6000000010883432721
Contributor: Melissa Winkowski (47438658)]
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