Andrew Dickson White (S&B 1853)
Republican. Diplomat. Politician. American Historian. Yale College. Skull and Bones. Alpha Sigma Phi. Sigma Phi.
1916 - President Woodrow (Col. Edward M. House) appointed Andrew D. White (S&B 1853) to a peace commission to prepare a treaty with China[1,27] As of Dec 1916, White had reduced some of his obligations, resigning from the Smithsonian Board of Regents and the Trustees of the Carnegie Institution.[1,27]
12 Jun 1897 to 27 Nov 1902 - 24th United States Ambassador to Germany by President William McKinley (Freemason. Odd Fellows)
1 Nov 1894 - Alexander III son, Nicholas II, inherits the crown. Of the skills required to run a country in pre-revolutionary ferment, it has to be said Nicholas had none. He was a shy man and had always been treated like a child by his family. He danced gracefully, rode well and spoke good English but his agonised cry when his father died at forty-nine was entirely appropriate: “What is going to happen to me and all of Russia ? I was not prepared to be a Tsar. I never wanted to become one.”[15]
1 Nov 1894 - Czar Alexander III, Emporer of Russia died in Livadiya, Crimea.[2] (1945, Yalta Conference - to shape postwar peace was held there.)
22 Jul 1892 to 1 Oct 1894 - 41st United States Ambassador to the Russian Empire by President Grover Cleveland.
2 weeks prior to be appointed the Ambassador to Russia, their first child borne by Helen Magill dies. The New York Times was pleasantly suprised that White had accepted the Russian Mission, “which can hardly be regarded as a sepcially important or desirable place for a man of his experience and abilities.”[4]
In the months before he was named minister to Russia, White became involved in several controversies that complicated Russo-American relations. Faced with polifical dissension, the tsar had exiled hundreds of people to Siberia.[4]
Accepted Andrew Carnegie’s invitation to visit California and Mexico.
1890 - Married Helen Magill, daughter of Edward Magill, Swathmore College’s second President. First women in the U.S. to earn a PhD. Magill accompanied her husband when he was appointed to diplomatic posts in St. Petersburg (1892–94) and Berlin (1897–1903). Magill was presented at both courts and was a noted conversationalist, discussing architecture, sculpture, music, and literature with Kaisar Wilhelm II.[12]
1884 to 1885 - 1st President of the American Historical Association
19 Jun 1879 to 15 Aug 1881 - 16th United States Ambassador to German Empire by President Rutherford B. Hayes (Odd Fellows).
1866 to 1885 - Co-founder and 1st President of Cornell University
Succeeded by Charles Kendall Adams (student of Andrew D. White S&B 1853)
1864 to 1867 - Member of the New York Senate from the 22nd District.
1853 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch. Phi Beta Kappa.
1850 - Inducted into Alpha Sigma Phi.
Psi Upsilon.
Died 4 Nov 1918, from slight paralyti stroke following a severe illness of several days[1,6]. Age 85.
Note: Classmate with Daniel Coit Gilman (S&B 1852. 1st President of Johns Hopkins University)
Sculptor Lee Oskar Lawrie completed his sarcophagus in 1926. He is also known for his Atlas statue at Rockefeller Center in NYC.
Notable Students:
David Starr Jordan (Bohemian)
1913 to 1916 - 1st Chancellor of Stanford University.
1891 to 1913 - 1st President of Stanford University.
1884 to 1891 - 7th President of Indiana University.
[1] - FYI - Wiki - Andrew Dickson White
[3] - Cornell University Website
[4] - Book - Andrew D. White: Educator, Historian, Diplomat by Glenn Altschuler
[5] - 2017 $681,712 2017: $1,047,165 2016: $282,152 …..
[6] - Book - Autobiography of A. D. White, Vol. 1, Chapter XXII, at Project Gutenberg
[7] - President Grover Cleveland - President: 10,000 Famous Freemasons reports: “Not a Freemason, but favorable to the fraternity. At the banquet following the dedication by the Grand Lodge of Virginia of the monument erected to Mary, the mother of Washington, he said he “regarded it as his misfortune that he had never been made a Mason.” At one time there was talk of making him a Mason “at sight” in the Grand Lodge of New Jersey, but it was never accomplished.”[7.1] Some considered Cleveland to be an Illuminati Pawn. William Collins Whitney, (of the Satanic Collins family) was thought, by many, to be the power behind the Presidency, He also directed a group of powerful and important capitalists called the Whitney Group.[7.2]
[7.1] Denslow, 10,000 Famous Freemasons, 1957
[7.2 ] Springmeier, The Illuminati Bloodlines, 2005
[9] - Article - The last days of Alexander III
[11] - Book - Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White by White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918 (1906)
[15] - Book - Anna of all the Russias : the life of Anna Akhmatova by Feinstein, Elaine (2007)
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