Harlan Cleveland, University of Hawai'i president during the latter stages of the Vietnam War, and who presided over the creation of the UH law school, died recently in Virginia. He was 90.

Cleveland served as UH president from 1969 to 1974. In addition to the law school, the UH medical school was expanded from a two-year program to a four-year program, and UH-Hilo gained autonomy.

He was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Cleveland spent much of his career as a diplomat. He was President Lyndon B. Johnson's ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969, and before that was assistant secretary of state for International Affairs.

He was born on Jan. 19, 1918, in New York City.

After leaving UH, Cleveland served as president of the World Academy of Art

and Science and was founding dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of

Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.