David Campion Acheson
| David Campion Acheson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 4, 1921 Washington, D.C. |
| Education | Groton School |
| Alma mater |
Yale University Harvard Law School |
| Spouse(s) | Patricia Castles (m. 1943-2000; her death) |
| Children |
Eleanor D. Acheson David C. Acheson Jr. Peter W. Acheson |
| Parent(s) |
Dean Gooderham Acheson Alice Stanley |
| Relatives |
Edward Campion Acheson (grandfather) William Gooderham (2x great grandfather) William Bundy (brother-in-law) Emily C. Hewitt (daughter-in-law) |
David Campion Acheson (born November 4, 1921) is an American attorney, lawyer and son of former United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson. He worked for the United States Atomic Energy Commission and served as an assistant to former Treasury secretary Henry H. Fowler.
David Campion Acheson was born in Washington, D.C. on November 4, 1921 to Dean Acheson (1893–1971) and Alice Caroline Stanley (1895–1996). At the time of his birth, Acheson's father was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. His parents had three children: (1) Jane Acheson (1919-2003), who married Dudley Brown (?-1975), (2) David Campion Acheson, and (3) Mary Eleanor Acheson (born 1924), who married William Bundy (1917-2000), an attorney, analyst with the CIA, and foreign affairs adviser to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
Acheson attended the Groton School, graduating in 1939. In the fall of '39, Acheson entered Yale University and joined the Naval ROTC. While he was at Yale, he was inducted in the honor society of Skull and Bones, ultimately graduating in 1942. In 1948, Acheson received a law degree (LL.B.) from Harvard.
Acheson's paternal grandfather was Edward Campion Acheson (1858–1934), an English-born Church of England priest who, after several years in Canada, moved to the U.S. to become Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut. Acheson's paternal grandmother was Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham, the Canadian-born granddaughter of prominent Canadian distiller William Gooderham (1790–1881), who was a founder of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery.
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