Dean, Arthur Hobson (1898-1987)

US lawyer and government official. He combined his career, mainly in the field of international financial law, with many years of for government service, serving on US delegations to conferences on international sea law, a nuclear test ban, and disarmament.

He was born in Ithaca, New York. He interrupted his undergraduate studies at Cornell to serve with the US Navy in World War I, and then went on to take a law degree from Cornell Law School. He joined the New York City law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in 1923 and would remain with them until 1976. He was also directly involved in drafting federal legislation involving the securities and financial markets. During World War II he served with the Coast Guard Reserve, and in 1953, as special deputy secretary of state, he was the chief US negotiator in the ending of the Korean War. He is credited with helping persuade President Lyndon Johnson to stop the bombing of North Vietnam in 1968.