Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller (born 1940
Philadelphia
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) is an American historian and Founding President and CEO Emeritus of
The National WWII Museum
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.
Career
He studied at the
University of Vienna
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, and graduated from the
University of North Carolina
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. He taught at
University of New Orleans
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.
He was Vice Chancellor at the
University of New Orleans
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.
He is credited, along with
Stephen E. Ambrose, with starting the
National WWII Museum, located in New Orleans, in 2000. Mueller served as President of the museum until 2017.
A few years after its founding, the museum gained US Congressional support, and an affiliation with the Smithsonian Institution. He was the closest friend of Stephen Ambrose.
[Comrades, Stephen Ambrose, 1999, Simon and Schuster]
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Living people
1940 births
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
University of Vienna alumni
University of North Carolina alumni
American expatriates in Austria
University of New Orleans faculty
American historians