Marriage and Family
On June 26, 1912, Dulles married Janet Avery, known as Clover, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. Their older son John W. F. Dulles (1913–2008) was a professor of History and specialist in Brazil at the University of Texas at Austin. Their daughter, Lillias Dulles Hinshaw (1914–1987) became a Presbyterian minister. Their son Avery Dulles (1918–2008) converted to Roman Catholicism, entered the Jesuit order, and became the first American priest to be directly appointed as a Cardinal.
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