Andrew V. Corry

Andrew Vincent Corry (September 22, 1904, Missoula, Montana - November 24, 1981 San Diego, California) 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, 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 returning to Montana to earn a M.S. in 1931 from the Montana School of Mines in Butte.

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.