Andrew V. Corry
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Andrew Vincent Corry (September 22, 1904, Missoula, Montana - November 24, 1981 San Diego, California[1]) 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,[2][3][4] until 21 March 1970.
Corry graduated from Carroll High School in Helena, Montana in 1922. From 1922 – 1924, he studied at Carroll College (also in Helena) before graduating with an A.B. from Harvard. He studied in Oxford from 1927 – 1930 (A.B. 1929, B.Sc. 1930) as a Rhodes Scholar[5] returning to Montana to earn a M.S. in 1931 from the Montana School of Mines in Butte.[6]
Career
Corry joined the Foreign Service in January 1947 as Special Assistant to the Director in the Office of American Republic Affairs. That summer, he was assigned to be Mineral Attaché to New Delhi with concurrent assignments, in the same capacity, to Colombo, Karachi, Rangoon and Kathmandu. He went on to become Deputy Director of the US Operations Mission as well as the Economic Office of the American Embassy in Madrid. He’s also worked in the Consul General office in Lahore, Pakistan and as the Coordinator of the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy at the Foreign Service Insitute. [7]
References
- ^ "Andrew V. Corry". Find A Grave. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ "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". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ United States. Congress (1967). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 13686–.
- ^ Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 1967. pp. 1169–.
- ^ Department of State News Letter - United States. Department of State - Google Books[full citation needed]
- ^ "Alumni of Mines Work in Remote Argentine Area". The Montana Standard. September 25, 1938. p. 5. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
- ^ Department of State News Letter - United States. Department of State - Google Books[full citation needed]
- American diplomat stubs
- 1904 births
- 1981 deaths
- Carroll College (Montana) alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Ambassadors of the United States to Sri Lanka
- Ambassadors of the United States to the Maldives
- Ambassadors of the United States to Sierra Leone
- Montana Tech of the University of Montana alumni
- American Rhodes Scholars
- Alumni of the University of Oxford