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 Sri Lanka and the Maldives,[1][2][3] until 1970.
Andrew Vincent Corry | |
|---|---|
| 9th United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives | |
| In office Oct 30, 1964 – June 17, 1967 | |
| President | Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Cecil B. Lyon |
| Succeeded by | Robert Strausz-Hupé |
| 3rd United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone | |
| In office February 25, 1964 – May 19, 1967 | |
| President | Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | A. S. J. Carnahan |
| Succeeded by | Robert Graham Miner |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 22, 1904 Missoula, Montana, US |
| Died | November 24, 1981 (aged 77) San Diego, California, US |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
Education edit
Corry was born on September 22, 1904, in Missoula, Montana, the son of Arthur Vincent Corry (Snr) and Mary Anne née Armstrong.[4]
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 at Merton College, Oxford, from 1927 to 1930 (A.B. 1929, B.Sc. 1930) as a Rhodes Scholar[5][6] returning to Montana to earn a M.S. in 1931 from the Montana School of Mines in Butte.[7]
Career edit
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.[5] On January 24, 1964, he was appointed as the US envoy to Sierra Leone and remained at that post until May 19, 1967, where he was subsequently appointed on May 24 as the 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[8] and was buried at Saint Patricks Cemetery in Butte, Montana.
References edit
- ^ "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, 1967". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ United States. Congress (1964). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the United States Congress. Vol. 110. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1267.
- ^ Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 1967. p. 1169.
- ^ Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald (1913). A History of Montana. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 886.
- ^ a b "Corry named Envoy to Ceylon and Maldive Islands". Department of State News Letter - United States. Department of State: 18. 1967.
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 190.
- ^ "Alumni of Mines Work in Remote Argentine Area". The Montana Standard. September 25, 1938. p. 5. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
- ^ "Obituaries". State. Department of State: 62. January 1982.
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