Andrew Dickson White
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Andrew Dickson White was an American historian and educator who co-founded Cornell University, one of eight Ivy League universities in the United States, and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of college curricula. S. ambassador to Germany and Russia.
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Andrew and his brother dedicated the spire of St. Paul's Cathedral in Syracuse to their mother
White as a junior or senior at Yale College wearing his Skull and Bones pin
White in 1865, when he and Ezra Cornell co-founded Cornell University
White's official portrait as U.S. ambassador to Russia, where he served from 1892 to 1894
The A. D. White Reading Room at Cornell University Library, named in White's honor
White is interred in Sage Chapel at Cornell University, where his sarcophagus features crests of nations where he served as an ambassador and icons of universities where he studied
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Andrew Dickson White was an American historian and educator who co-founded Cornell University, one of eight Ivy League universities in the United States, and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of college curricula. A politician, he had served as New York state senator and was later appointed as U.S. ambassador to Germany and Russia.
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