Washington Dulles International Airport is named after John Foster Dulles, the United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.
The airport was under construction when John Foster Dulles died in 1959, and US Senator Homer Capehart introduced a bill to posthumously name it in his honor.
The airport, located some 26 miles (or 42 kilometers) west of downtown Washington, DC, opened in 1962.
