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Born in the city of Caesarea (now Kayseri), Ottoman Empire on December 1, 1882 or 1883, Cardashian studied in the local French lyceum and Talas American College.
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He emigrated to the United States in 1902. He got accepted at Yale University in 1904 and earned a Law degree in 1908. In the same year, he wrote a book named "The Ottoman Empire of the Twentieth Century".
Cardashian entered the New York State Bar Association in 1909 and began practicing law.
In 1913 he was the Fiscal Agent of the Ottoman Empire in the United States. Prior to the Armenian Genocide of 1915, he served as a counselor and statistician to the Ottoman Chamber of Commerce in America and was a counselor for the Ottoman Embassy in Washington, District of Columbia and then to the Ottoman Consulate General in New York from 1910 to 1915. He authored several books on the Armenian Question.
In early 1919 he founded the American Committee for the Independence of Armenia (ACIA), the predecessor of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). He continued his efforts until his death.
