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Corry joined the Foreign Service in January 1947 as Special Assistant to the Director in the Office of American Republic Affairs. In 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. From 1955 to 1957 he was the Deputy Director of the US Operations Mission, as well as the Economic Officer at the American Embassy in Madrid. He then worked as the Consul General in [[Lahore, Pakistan]] and as the Coordinator of the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy at the Foreign Service Institute.<ref name=DSN/> On January 24, 1964 he was appointed as the [[List of ambassadors of the United States 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 to Sri Lanka and the Maldives|ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives]]. He retained 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
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