Robert Cutler

Robert C. Cutler
1st U.S. National Security Advisor
In office March 23, 1953 – April 2, 1955
President	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Succeeded by	Dillon Anderson
4th U.S. National Security Advisor
In office January 7, 1957 – June 24, 1959
President	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded by	William Harding Jackson
Succeeded by	Gordon Gray
Personal details
Born	June 12, 1895 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	May 8, 1974(1974-05-08) (aged 78)
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Occupation	Attorney, Writer
Profession	Administrator

Robert Cutler (1895 – 1974) was a U.S. government official. He was the first person appointed to the newly created position of National Security Advisor during the Eisenhower Administration, serving between 1953 and 1955, and again from 1957 to 1958. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School he became an attorney and bank executive in Boston, Massachusetts before taking public office. Cutler was also very involved with the Army during his career. He served as an infantry officer in World War I, and acted under Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson during World War II. Cutler was an amateur writer; he was Class Poet at Harvard, and authored two novels — Louisburg Square (1917) and The Speckled Bird (1923) — by the time he received his degree. An autobiography, No Time for Rest, was released in 1966.

Cutler's brother, Elliott Carr Cutler, was a professor at the Harvard Medical School and a famous surgeon. His maternal relatives, the Carrs, were a prominent political and mercantile family in Bangor, Maine

See also

References

• "Bostonian at Work", Time, 04-06-1953. Retrieved 07-03-2007.
• "Cutler, Robert", S9.com, 05-14-2007. Retrieved 06-23-2007.

External links

• Papers of Robert Cutler, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
• Records of the White House Office of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

v t e Assistants to the President for National Security Affairs Cutler Anderson Jackson Cutler Gray Bundy Rostow Kissinger Scowcroft Brzezinski Allen Clark McFarlane Poindexter Carlucci Powell Scowcroft Lake Berger C. Rice Hadley Jones Donilon S. Rice