19th Century Presidents
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Rev. John Bracken 1812-1814 Educated at William and Mary. Episcopal clergyman; rector of Bruton Parish; master of the grammar school and professor of humanity at William and Mary; mayor of Williamsburg. |
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Dr. John Augustine Smith 1814-1826 Educated at William and Mary and St. Thomas' Hospital, London. Physician and educator; professor of anatomy, surgery and physiology; president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. |
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Dr. William Holland Wilmer 1826-1827 Graduate of Washington College, Kent County, Maryland, and Brown University. Episcopal clergyman and educator; rector of St. Paul's Church in Alexandria and Bruton Parish; professor of moral philosophy. |
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Rev. Adam Empie 1827-1836 Graduate of Union College. Episcopal clergyman; rector of parishes in New York, North Carolina, and Richmond, as well as Bruton Parish. |
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Thomas Roderick Dew 1836-1846 Graduate of William and Mary. Political economist; educator; author; professor of history and political law. |
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Robert Saunders, Jr. 1847-1848 Educated at William and Mary and the University of Virginia. Professor of mathematics at the College; mayor of Williamsburg; president of the board of directors of the Eastern Lunatic Hospital. |
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Bishop John Johns 1849-1854 Graduate of Princeton. Episcopal clergyman; professor of moral philosophy; assistant bishop and bishop of the Diocese of Virginia. |
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Benjamin S. Ewell 1854-1888 Graduate of the United States Military Academy. Soldier, civil engineer, and educator; professor of mathematics and military science; colonel of the college company in the 32nd Virginia Infantry. |
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Lyon G. Tyler 1888-1919 Graduate of the University of Virginia. Educator, lawyer, legislator, historian, genealogist, and author; founder of the William and Mary Quarterly and publisher of Tyler's Quarterly Historical Magazine. |
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