Career
He was born on May 2, 1895 to George Walbridge Perkins. He graduated from Princeton in 1917, where he worked to abolish eating clubs. He worked at Merck & Company, Incorporated. from 1927 to 1948.
In 1950, he successfully persuaded Congress to assist Josip Broz Tito in his defiance of the Stalin regime.
Perkins died of a heart attack in Manhattan on January 11, 1960.