Harvey Hollister Bundy Sr., was an American lawyer, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War during WWII.
He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to McGeorge Bundy, a lawyer, he was grandson to Solomon Bundy, a lawyer and New York Congressman.
He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1914 and that same year began working for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1917, he married Katherine Lawrence Putnam, niece to Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
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.
He died on October 7, 1963.
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