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Andrew V. Corry

Andrew Vincent Corry was a career foreign service officer who served as the United States ambassador to Sierra Leone from 1964 until 1967. He was then appointed U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, serving from 1967 until his retirement in 1970.

Education
Corry was born on September 22, 1904, in Missoula, Montana, the son of Arthur Vincent Corry (Snr) and Mary Anne née Armstrong. 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 returning to Montana to earn a M.S. in 1931 from the Montana School of Mines in Butte. ==Career==
Career
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. and was buried at Saint Patricks Cemetery in Butte, Montana. ==References==
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