Charles Henry Wharton

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Charles Henry Wharton was officially president of Columbia College for a few months in 1801. A clergyman who had returned to the U.S. after being educated in England, he was offered the presidency after taking up the position of rector in a church in New Jersey, but did not show up for convocation in August, and officially resigned that same fall.

Preceded by
William Samuel Johnson
President of Columbia University 
1801-1801
Succeeded by
Benjamin Moore