Andrew Cordier

Andrew Wellington Cordier (born March 1, 1901 in Canton , Ohio , † July 11, 1975 in Manhasset , New York ) was a senior official in the United Nations General Secretariat under Dag Hammarskjöld , also President of Columbia University and publisher of the Public Papers of the secretary general of united nations .

Cordier was born on a farm near Canton. He attended Hartville High School , where he became quarterback for the football team. Cordier graduated from Manchester College in Indiana in 1922 and received his PhD in Medieval History from the University of Chicago in 1927 . In 1924 he married Dorothy Butterbaugh and continued to study at the Geneva University Institute for International Studies between 1930 and 1931. Eventually Cordier returned to the United States to teach history and political science at Manchester College and Indiana University .

In 1944 he became an international security advisor in the State Department and was part of a US delegation to the San Francisco Conference . The State Department sent him to London in 1945 to help build the United Nations.

Cordier worked as an undersecretary at the United Nations from 1946 to 1961. He played an important role in the Korean War and during the Suez Crisis and the Congo Crisis. In 1962, Cordier resigned from his post at the UN after criticism, especially from the Soviet side, of the extent to which he interfered with the concerns of the Secretary General.

After leaving the UN, he taught at the University of International Affairs (SIA) at Columbia University. When Grayson L. Kirk stepped down from the university's presidency in 1968, Cordier took the post for two years, but continued to teach. In 1970 he was awarded the highest distinction of the " Alexander Hamilton " medal by the university for his commitment

Cordier died of liver failure in 1975 in Manhasset Hospital, Long Island.