Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller (born 1940 Philadelphia) is an American historian and founding President and CEO Emeritus of The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the emeritus Vice Chancellor at the University of New Orleans.
Career Education and academic career Dr. Mueller earned his bachelor’s degree at Stetson University, an MA and PhD at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and has done postgraduate work at Yale, Harvard, and semesters at Universities of Vienna and Zurich. He is a recipient of the Legion of Honor from the Republic of France, the Grand Cross of Honor from the Republic of Austria and was awarded Honorary Doctorate degrees from Stetson University and the University of New Orleans. He was a professor of European History at the University of New Orleans. He served as Vice Chancellor at the University of New Orleans from 1986 to 1992.
In 1999, he was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education (IACE) Hall of Fame.
National World War II Museum 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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