Alan Patrick Cordyne (June 8, 1844 - January 27, 1926) was an American politician and diplomat, and a political trailblazer for Irish-American Catholics, in that he was the first Irishman and Catholic to serve as Secretary of State during the James Blaine administration, and the first Catholic to head a major party's Presidential ticket in 1900. Despite anti-Catholic sentiment at the time, Cordyne is regarded as a pioneer for Irish-American politicians and made the election of non-Protestant candidates "safe" - for this reason, he is often seen as equally influential to his contemporary, Eliezer Weschel, who became the first Jewish Governor of New York in 1911.