[5] That same year, he began working as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Working under President Herbert Hoover, Stimson appointed Bundy as Assistant Secretary of State in July 1931 until March 1933.

[10] In 1952, he succeeded John Foster Dulles as chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, serving until 1958.

(Note: son William Bundy became embroiled in a 1953 scandal, when Senator Joseph McCarthy cited his earlier $400 contribution to Alger Hiss's defense fund in the Hiss-Chambers case.

At the age of 75, Harvey Hollister Bundy Sr died on Monday, October 7, 1963, at his home in the city of Boston, Massachusetts.