Background
Dean, Gordon Evans was born on December 28, 1905 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of John Marvin and Beatrice Alice (Fisken) Dean.
Dean, Gordon Evans was born on December 28, 1905 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of John Marvin and Beatrice Alice (Fisken) Dean.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Redlands, California, 1927, Doctor of Laws, 1950. Juris Doctor, University of Southern California, 1930. Master of Laws, Duke U. Law School, Durham, North Carolina, 1932.
Dean received his Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California in 1930 and an Master of Laws from Duke University Law School in 1932. In 1934, Dean joined the United States. Department of Justice during the New Deal administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Dean served under Attorneys General Homer South. Cummings and Frank Murphy as a Criminal Division attorney and press spokesperson.
He had taught at Duke Law before being hired as assistant to Brien McMahon in the Criminal Division.
In 1940, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson made Dean the press spokesperson for the Department of Justice. After World World War II military service, Dean served as press spokesperson for now Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson who was the chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials.
Prior to his work with the Atomic Energy Commission, Dean was professor of criminal law at the University of Southern California (1946–1949). Dean was appointed by President Harry South. Truman as one of the original Commissioners of the Atomic Energy Commission in May 1949, by which time McMahon had become Senator (in 1944), author of the Atomic Energy Acting of 1946, and chair of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee of Congress.
Dean was then appointed as the second Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission beginning in May 1950, following David Lilienthal, again with McMahon"s backing.
As early as 1950, Dean advocated for the appointment of a Presidential Science Advisor and science advisory task force. Dean served at the time of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory"s creation in 1952. During Dean"s tenure as Chairman, McCarthyism reached its peak.
Robert Oppenheimer came under attack by Lewis Strauss, Edward Teller and others for his alleged foot-dragging at Los Alamos.
As Cold War tensions heightened and the Korean War raged on, Dean led a massive industrialization of the United States nuclear facilities. The hydrogen bomb, a nuclear weapon of massive and unprecedented force, was perfected during his tenure as Chairman with the detonation of the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb, based on Edward Teller"s design in October 1952.
Dean served for a brief period under President Eisenhower as well, staying until the completion of his term on June 30, 1953. On leaving government service, Dean joined investment bankers Lehman Brothers.
He became an executive of General Dynamics in 1955.
From 1954, Dean chaired a Council on Foreign Relations study group on nuclear weapons and United States. foreign policy. Henry Kissinger joined as study group director in 1955. Dean would also join the International Security Objectives and Strategy panel of the Rockefeller Brothers" Special Studies Project in 1956.
Dean was killed in a commercial aviation accident on August 15, 1958, when the Northeast Airlines Convair CV-240 he was traveling in crashed on its approach to Nantucket Airport.
Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, and the Bible is the divinely inspired word of God that serves as the final written authority for living out the Christian faith.
Dean helped draft expansions of the federal criminal law and defended them in cases argued before the United States Supreme Court. Dean defended Oppenheimer.
Member Committee to Draft Rules of Criminal Procedure for United States Court Justices, 1941. Member Western States Loyalty Board. since 1949. Member American Bar Association, Kappa Sigma Sigma, Phi Delta Phi, Pi Kappa Delta, Order of Coif.
Clubs: Burning Tree Country, Cosmos (Washington).
Married Adelaide Williamson, August 9, 1930 (divorced). Married second, Mary Benton Gore, December 19, 1953. Children: Martha, Franklin Evans.