Andrew W. Cordier
| Andrew W. Cordier | |
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| 15th President of Columbia University | |
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In office 1968–1970 |
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| Preceded by | Grayson L. Kirk |
| Succeeded by | William J. McGill |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 1, 1901 Canton, Ohio |
| Died | July 11, 1975 (aged 74) Manhasset, New York |
Andrew Wellington Cordier (March 1, 1901 – July 11, 1975) was a United Nations official and President of Columbia University.
Cordier was born on a farm near Canton, Ohio and attended high school in Hartville, Ohio where he became quarterback of the football team and valedictorian of his graduating class. He graduated in 1922 from Manchester University and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Medieval History at the University of Chicago in 1927. He married the former Dorothy Butterbaugh in 1924. He studied at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Switzerland in 1930–1931 where he made surveys of the situations in the Sudetenland, Danzig, and the Chaco War. He returned to Manchester University to teach in the Department of History and Political Science and at Indiana University extension.
He became an international security advisor at the U.S. State Department in 1944 and was part of the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco Conference. The State Department sent him to London in 1945 to help organize the United Nations.
From 1946 to 1961, Cordier served as Undersecretary in Charge of General Assembly and Related Affairs and took on assignments as a special representative of the Secretary General in the Korean War and the Suez Canal and Congo crises. Cordier was dubbed a "demon parliamentarian" for his ability to cite the specific rules governing matters of procedure on the spot.
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