Harvey Hollister Bundy

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Harvey Hollister Bundy Sr., (March 30, 1888 - October 7, 1963), was an American lawyer and Special Assistant to the Secretary of War during the second World War. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to McGeorge Bundy, a lawyer, he was grandson to Solomon Bundy, a lawyer and New York Congressman.^[1] Harvey attended Yale and was initiated in the Skull & Bones in 1909.^{[citation needed]}

In 1914, Harvey began working for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1917, he married Katherine Lawrence Putnam, niece to Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell.

Harvey became Assistant Secretary of State in July 1931 until March 1933 under Henry Lewis Stimson, also a Skull & Bones member. Harvey’s son McGeorge would co-author a book with Stimson entitled On Active Service in Peace and War in 1940. Harvey was special legal assistant to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. During World War II he served again under Stimson, now Secretary of War, as his Special Assistant on Atomic Matters^[2], liasing between Stimson and director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush^[3].

He did liaison work between the War Department and Office of Scientific Research and Development. He succeeded John Foster Dulles as chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, serving from 1952 to 1958.^[4]

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