The College of William and Mary in Virginia
Presidents of the College in the 19th Century
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Rev. John Bracken
1812-1814Educated 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
1814-1826Educated 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
1826-1827Graduate 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
1827-1836Graduate 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
1836-1846Graduate of William and Mary. Political economist; educator; author; professor of history and political law. |
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Robert Saunders, Jr.
1847-1848Educated 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
1849-1854Graduate of Princeton. Episcopal clergyman; professor of moral philosophy; assistant bishop and bishop of the Diocese of Virginia. |
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Benjamin S. Ewell
1854-1888Graduate 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
1888-1919Graduate 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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