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C. Douglas Dillon

1909 - 2003

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Clarence Douglas Dillon (born Clarence Douglass Dillon; August 21, 1909 – January 10, 2003) was an American diplomat and politician who served as the United States ambassador to France from 1953 to 1957 and as the 57th United States secretary of the treasury from 1961 to 1965. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm) during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His conservative economic policies while Secretary of the Treasury were designed to protect the U.S. dollar. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. C. Douglas Dillon is the 17,055th most popular politician (down from 17,015th in 2024), the 671st most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 679th in 2019) and the 115th most popular Swiss Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, C. Douglas Dillon ranks 17,055 out of 19,576. Before him are Nicole Bricq, Tom Vilsack, Osbald of Northumbria, John Kotelawala, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, and André Nzapayeké. After him are Shalva Natelashvili, Maxime Verhagen, Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, Andriy Sadovyi, María Jesús Montero, and Clemente Yerovi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, C. Douglas Dillon ranks 390. Before him are Don Finlay, Raúl Landini, Marcel Balsa, Andrei Bărbulescu, Julius J. Epstein, and Piero Scotti. After him are Sam Balter, Frank Henry, Frank Albertson, Karen Morley, Alan Curtis, and Evelyne Hall. Among people deceased in 2003, C. Douglas Dillon ranks 337. Before him are Peter Hacks, Jan-Just Bos, Éva Janikovszky, Robert Detweiler, Robert John Braidwood, and Lou Harrison. After him are Sheb Wooley, Karen Morley, Sultan Rakhmanov, Rajko Žižić, Trevor Goddard, and Dezső Lemhényi.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, C. Douglas Dillon ranks 671 out of 1,015. Before him are Kurt Schmid (1932), Barış Arduç (1987), Franco Forini (1958), Manuel Akanji (1995), Henry Wirz (1823), and Roger Staub (1936). After him are Burkhard Gantenbein (1912), Georges Bregy (1958), Patty Schnyder (1978), Johnny Leoni (1984), Edy Hubacher (1940), and Urs Fischer (1966).

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Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, C. Douglas Dillon ranks 115. Before him are Klaus Tschütscher (1967), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (1939), Werner Meyer (1914), Pierre Jaccoud (1905), Viktor Rossi (1968), and Uri Rosenthal (1945). After him are Hoyte van Hoytema (1971), Mario Frick (1965), Ruth Metzler (1964), Elly Schlein (1985), Magnus Brunner (1972), and Mirjam Ott (1972).

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