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| x Samuel Andrew |
Samuel Andrew (1656 – 1738) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served as the rector of Yale University between 1707 and 1719.
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| x James Rowland Angell |
James Rowland Angell (born May 8, 1869, Burlington, Vt., U.S. died March 4, 1949, Hamden, Conn.) was an American psychologist and educator. He served as the president of Yale University between 1921 and 1937. His father, James Burrill Angell (1829...
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| x Kingman Brewster, Jr. |
Kingman Brewster, Jr., (June 17, 1919 – November 8, 1988) was an educator, president of Yale University, and American diplomat.
Brewster was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, the son of Florence Foster Besse, a 1907 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of...
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| x Thomas Clap |
Thomas Clap, also spelled Thomas Clapp (June 26, 1703 - January 7, 1767), was an American academic and educator, a Congregational Minister, and college administrator. He was both the fifth rector and the earliest to be called "president" of Yale...
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| x Timothy Cutler |
Timothy Cutler (May 31, 1684 – August 17, 1765) was an American Episcopal clergyman and rector of Yale College.
Cutler was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, a descendant of Robert Cutler who settled there prior to October 28, 1636. His father was...
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| x Naphtali Daggett |
Rev. Naphtali Daggett (September 8, 1727 - November 25, 1780) graduated from Yale University in 1748. Three years later, he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Smithtown, Long Island. In 1755, the Yale Corporation persuaded him to return to...
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| x Jeremiah Day |
Jeremiah Day (August 3, 1773 – August 22, 1867) was an American academic, a Congregational minister and President of Yale College (1817–1846).
Day the son of Rev. Jeremiah and Abigail (Noble) Osborn Day, and a descendant of Robert Day who came from...
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| x Timothy Dwight IV |
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Timothy Dwight (May 14, 1752 – January 11, 1817) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He was the eighth president of Yale College (1795-1817).
Dwight was the eldest son of merchant and farmer...
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| x Timothy Dwight V |
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Timothy Dwight V (November 16, 1828 – May 26, 1916) was and American academic and educator, a Congregational minister, and president of Yale College (1886-1898). During his years as head of the institution, Yale developed as a university.
Dwight was...
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| x A. Bartlett Giamatti |
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Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti (April 4, 1938–September 1, 1989) was the President of Yale University, and later, the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti agreed to the deal that terminated the Pete Rose betting scandal by...
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| x Hanna Holborn Gray |
Hanna Holborn Gray (born October 25, 1930), is an historian of political thought in the area of the Renaissance and Reformation, and an emerita professor and former President of the University of Chicago.
She was born in Heidelberg, Germany, the...
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| x Alfred Whitney Griswold |
Alfred Whitney Griswold (27 October 1906 - 19 April 1963) was an American historian and educator, and President of Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Born in Morristown, New Jersey, he attended The Hotchkiss School before obtaining his B.A. from Yale...
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| x Arthur Twining Hadley |
Arthur Twining Hadley (1856-1930) was an economist who served as President of Yale University from 1899 to 1921.
He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of James Hadley, Professor of Greek at Yale 1851-1872, and his wife née Anne Loring...
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| x Howard R. Lamar |
Howard Roberts Lamar (born 1923) is a historian of the American West, and a former president of Yale University.
He was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S., and was drawn into history in part by his rich family history which includes two United States...
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| x Rick Levin |
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Richard Charles Levin (born 1947) is a professor and American economist who has served as president of Yale University since 1993. He is currently the longest-tenured Ivy League president.
Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American...
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| x Abraham Pierson |
Reverend Abraham Pierson (1646-1707) was the first rector, from 1701 to 1707, and one of the founders of the Collegiate School — which later became Yale University. He was born in Southampton, Long Island, where his father, the Rev. Abraham Pierson ...
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| x Noah Porter |
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Noah Porter (December 14, 1811 - March 4, 1892), American academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer and President of Yale College (1871-1886).
He graduated from Yale College in 1831 and was employed as a Congregational minister in Connecticut and...
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| x Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. |
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. is a former president of Yale University, where he served from 1986 to 1992 as the university's sixteenth president. He was Dean, Columbia Law School immediately before leading Yale, and its Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of...
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| x Charles Seymour |
Charles Seymour (January 1, 1885 - August 11, 1963) was an American academic, historian and President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951.
Seymour was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Thomas Day Seymour, who taught classics at Yale. His...
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| x Ezra Stiles |
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The Rev. Ezra Stiles (November 29, 1727 - May 12, 1795) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author. He was president of Yale College (1778-1795).
Born the son of the Rev. Isaac Stiles in North Haven,...
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| x Elisha Williams |
The Reverend Elisha Williams (26 August 1694-22 October 1755) was a Congregational minister, legislator, jurist, and rector of Yale College from 1726 to 1739.
The son of Rev. William Williams and his wife Elizabeth, née Cotton (daughter of Seaborn...
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| x Theodore Dwight Woolsey |
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Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801 - 1889) was an American academic, author and president of Yale College (1846-1871).
He was born in New York City, graduated at Yale in 1820, spent a year in legal study in Philadelphia, and two years of the study of...
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