Harvey Hollister Bundy Sr., (March 30, 1888 – October 7, 1963), was an American lawyer, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War during WWII, and father of William Bundy and McGeorge Bundy, who both served at high levels as government advisors.

Biography

Harvey Hollister Bundy was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to McGeorge Bundy, a lawyer; he was grandson to Solomon Bundy, a lawyer and New York Congressman. Bundy attended Yale University and was initiated in the Skull and Bones in 1909. He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1914; that same year he began working as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

In 1917, Bundy married Katherine Lawrence Putnam, niece to Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell. They had two sons, William Bundy and McGeorge Bundy. Bundy became a prominent attorney in Boston.

Bundy and his wife Katherine met Colonel Henry L. Stimson, and the three became friends. Their sons grew up knowing Stimson as a family friend and colleague of their father. Working under President Herbert Hoover, Stimson appointed Bundy as Assistant Secretary of State in July 1931 until March 1933. Bundy also served as special legal assistant to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.