Who is Robert Abercrombie Lovett and what is his importance in the nonfiction book, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made: Acheson, Bohlen,…?

Robert Abercrombie Lovett was the son of Judge Robert Scott Lovett and Lavinia Chilton Abercrombie. Born on September 14, 1895, he was their only child. He grew up in Huntsville, Boston and New York. He attended Hamilton Military Institute and then the Hill School in Philadelphia and then Yale. He was a member of Skull and Bones. He returned to New York after Harvard Law and married Adele Brown in 1919. He worked for Secretary of War Stimson during World War II and then returned to his position with Brown Brothers Harriman. He served on the boards of various companies and became a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. He died on May 7, 1986.