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{{Short description|American diplomat}}
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| order2 = 3rd
| ambassador_from2 = United States
| country2 = Sierra Leone
| term_start2 = February 25, 1964
| term_end2 = May 19, 1967
| president2 = [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]<br> [[Richard Nixon]]
| predecessor2 = [[A. S. J. Carnahan]]
| successor2 = [[Robert Graham Miner]]
| order1 = 9th
| ambassador_from1 = United States
| country1 = Sri Lanka and the Maldives
| term_start1 = Oct 30, 1964
| term_end1 = June 17, 1967
| president1 = [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]<br> [[Richard Nixon]]
| predecessor1 = [[Cecil B. Lyon]]
| successor1 = [[Robert Strausz-Hupé]]
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1904|09|22}}
| birth_place = [[Missoula, Montana]], US
| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|11|24|1904|09|22}}
| death_place = [[San Diego, California]], US
| occupation = Diplomat
| education = Harvard University
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'''Andrew Vincent Corry''' (September 22, 1904, [[Missoula, Montana]] - November 24, 1981 [[San Diego, California]]<ref name="Find">{{cite web |title=Andrew V. Corry |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132858428/andrew-v-corry |website=Find A Grave |accessdate=19 October 2019}}</ref>) was a career foreign service officer who was the US Ambassador to [[Sierra Leone]] from 1964 until 1967. He then immediately served, concurrently, as US Ambassador to the [[MaldivesSri Lanka]] and the [[Sri LankaMaldives]].,<ref name="Foggy Bottom">{{cite web |title=Montana Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Sierra Leone) Appointed: January 29, 1964 Presentation of Credentials: February 25, 1964 Termination of Mission: Left post on May 19, 191967 |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/corry-andrew-vincent |website=Office of the Historian |accessdateaccess-date=19 October 2019}}</ref><ref name="Congress1967">{{cite book|author=United States. Congress|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the United States Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BNZwcP4UuZEC&pg=PA13686|year=1964|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|volume=110|pages=1267}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4SHm4a43KsC&pg=PA1169|year=1967|publisher=Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration|pages=1169}}</ref> until 1970.▼
 
==Education==
▲Andrew Vincent Corry (September 22, 1904, [[Missoula, Montana]] - November 24, 1981 [[San Diego, California]]<ref name="Find">{{cite web |title=Andrew V. Corry |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132858428/andrew-v-corry |website=Find A Grave |accessdate=19 October 2019}}</ref>) was a career foreign service officer who was the US Ambassador to Sierra Leone from 1964 until 1967. He then immediately served, concurrently, as US Ambassador to the [[Maldives]] and [[Sri Lanka]].<ref name="Foggy Bottom">{{cite web |title=Montana Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Sierra Leone) Appointed: January 29, 1964 Presentation of Credentials: February 25, 1964 Termination of Mission: Left post on May 19, 19 |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/corry-andrew-vincent |website=Office of the Historian |accessdate=19 October 2019}}</ref>
Corry was born on September 22, 1904, in [[Missoula, Montana]], the son of Arthur Vincent Corry (Snr) and Mary Anne née Armstrong.<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Montana|author=Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|date=1913|page=886}}</ref>
 
Corry graduated from Carroll High School in [[Helena, Montana]], in 1922. From 1922 –to 1924, he studied at [[Carroll College]] (also in Helena) before graduating with an A.B. from [[Harvard]]. He studied inat [[Merton College, Oxford]], from 1927 –to 1930 (A.B. 1929, B.Sc. 1930) as a Rhodes Scholar<ref name=DSN>[{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Department_of_State_News_Letter.html?id=BOOOHMEgdtcC |journal=Department of State News Letter - United States.|title=Corry named Envoy to Ceylon and Maldive Islands|publisher=Department of State|page=18 -|date=1967 Google}}</ref><ref Books]name="MCreg">{{fullcite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College citationRegister needed1900–1964|date=October1964|publisher=Basil 2019Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=190}}</ref> returning to Montana to earn a M.S. in 1931 from the [[Montana School of Mines]] in Butte.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37663317/andrew_corry/|title=Alumni of Mines Work in Remote Argentine Area|newspaper=[[The Montana Standard]]|date=September 25, 1938|access-date=October 22, 2019|pages=5}}</ref>
 
==Career==
Corry joined the Foreign Service in January 1947 as Special Assistant to the Director in the Office of American Republic Affairs. ThatIn summer,August that year he was assigned to be Mineral Attaché to New Delhi with concurrent assignments, in the same capacity, to Colombo, Karachi, Rangoon and Kathmandu. HeFrom went on1955 to become1957 he was the Deputy Director of the US Operations Mission, as well as the Economic OfficeOfficer ofat the American Embassy in Madrid. He’sHe alsothen worked inas the Consul General office in [[Lahore, Pakistan]] and as the Coordinator of the [[Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy]] at the Foreign Service InsituteInstitute. <ref name=DSN/> On January 24, 1964, he was appointed as the [https://books.google.com/books/about/Department_of_State_News_Letter.html?id=BOOOHMEgdtcC[List Departmentof ambassadors of Statethe NewsUnited LetterStates -to Sierra Leone|US envoy to Sierra Leone]] and remained at that post until May 19, 1967, where he was subsequently appointed on May 24 as the [[List of ambassadors of the United States. Departmentto ofSri StateLanka -and Googlethe Maldives|ambassador to Sri Lanka and the BooksMaldives]{{full]. citationHe needed|date=Octoberretained 2019}}</ref>that post until he retired on March 21, 1970.
 
Corry died of [[emphysema]] on November 24, 1981, in [[San Diego, California]]<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituaries|journal=State|publisher=Department of State|page=62|date=January 1982|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u7G9LiCWHGIC&dq=%22andrew+Vincent+corry%22&pg=PA62}}</ref> and was buried at Saint Patricks Cemetery in [[Butte, Montana]].
 
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