He was named after his grandfather, who served as secretary of state under Benjamin Harrison and also happened to be the nephew of Robert Lansing, who was Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State.  In 1949, Thomas Dewey appointed him to Robert Wagner's vacant U.S. Senate seat in New York, which he served in for a year.  The next year, as an ambassador at large, he negotiated the peace treaty with Japan and he would move on to his most famous post in 1953, setting foreign policy for the next six years
He was named after his grandfather, who served as secretary of state under Benjamin Harrison and also happened to be the nephew of Robert Lansing, who was Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State.  In 1949, Thomas Dewey appointed him to Robert Wagner's vacant U.S. Senate seat in New York, which he served in for a year.  The next year, as an ambassador at large, he negotiated the peace treaty with Japan and he would move on to his most famous post in 1953, setting foreign policy for the next six years.  FTP, identify this secretary of state under Eisenhower and namesake of a Washington D.C. airport.
He was named after his grandfather, who served as secretary of state under Benjamin Harrison and also happened to be the nephew of Robert Lansing, who was Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State.  
John Foster Dulles