Editing Andrew Dickson White (section)

===Diplomat===
[[File:AD White Russia.jpg|thumb|White's official portrait as [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Russia|U.S. ambassador to Russia]], where he served from 1892 to 1894]]
While at Cornell, in 1871, he took leave to serve as a Commissioner to [[Dominican Republic#Restoration republic|Santo Domingo]], along with [[Benjamin Wade]] and [[Samuel Gridley Howe|Samuel Howe]], at the request of President [[Ulysses Grant]] to determine the feasibility of an American annexation of the [[Dominican Republic]]. Their report ([https://books.google.com/books?id=mUd9AAAAMAAJ available here]) supported the annexation, but Grant was unable to gain sufficient political support to take further action.

Later, White was appointed as the American ambassador to Germany (1879–1881). After returning to the United States, he was elected as the first president of the [[American Historical Association]] (1884–1886). Upstate [[New York Republican State Committee|New York Republicans]] nominated him for [[list of Governors of New York|governor]] in 1876 and for Congress in 1886, but he did not win either primary.

Following his resignation in 1885 as Cornell's president, White served as the minister to Russia (1892–1894), president of the American delegation to [[Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)|The Hague Peace Conference (1899)]], and again as ambassador to Germany (1897–1902).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/presidents/view_item.php?sec=3&sub=8 |title= Andrew Dickson White, President, 1866-1885|website=Cornell University|access-date=January 30, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610110419/http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/presidents/view_item.php?sec=3&sub=8|archive-date=June 10, 2007}}</ref>

In 1904, White published his ''Autobiography'', which he had written while he was relaxing in Italy after his retirement from the Department of State with the change in administrations. Cornell's third president, [[Jacob Gould Schurman]], was appointed as ambassador to Germany from 1925 to 1929.

At the onset of [[World War I]], White supported the German cause within Europe because he had strong professional and emotional ties to Germany. By the summer of 1915, he retreated from this position and refrained from offering any support either publicly or privately.<ref>Finch, pg. 65</ref> In the fall of 1916, President [[Woodrow Wilson]] appointed White to a peace commission to prepare a treaty with China.<ref name="Finch, pg. 66">Finch, pg. 66</ref> As of December 1916, White had reduced some of his obligations, resigning from the [[Smithsonian Institution#Administration|Smithsonian Board of Regents]] and the trustees of the [[Carnegie Institution for Science|Carnegie Institution]].<ref name="Finch, pg. 66"/>