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The search seeks the exact word or phrase that you type, so if you donât find your choice, try searching for a key word in your topic or recheck the spelling of a word or name. Andrew Dickson White Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918), American educator and diplomat. Born in Homer, New York, White graduated from Yale University in 1853 and then studied in Paris and Berlin. He was an attach© at the United States embassy in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from 1854 to 1855. From 1857 to 1863 he taught history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and then served four years in the New York Senate. In 1867 White became president of Cornell University, of which he was a founder and to which he contributed $300,000 (equivalent to $3.4 million in current dollars). He also taught history there, and upon his resignation in 1885 he donated his historical library of 30,000 volumes to the university. White was U.S. minister to Germany from 1879 to 1881, minister to Russia from 1892 to 1894, and ambassador to Germany from 1897 to 1902. In 1899 he was chairman of the U.S. delegation to the , which established the Hague Tribunal for arbitrating conflicts between nations. White was elected the first president of the American Historical Association in 1884. Among his writings are | |
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