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He is notable for proposing that [[King's College]] become the center of a university encompassing all the previously-founded North American colleges (including [[Harvard]], [[Yale]], etc.)
 
He is notable for proposing that [[King's College]] become the center of a university encompassing all the previously-founded North American colleges (including [[Harvard]], [[Yale]], etc.)
  
{{succession|preceded=[[Samuel Johnson]]|succeeded=[[William Samuel Johnson]]|office=President of Columbia University|years=1787=1800}}
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[[Category:University presidents]]
 
[[Category:University presidents]]

Revision as of 19:33, 4 April 2007

Second president of King's College and a loyalist who opposed the American Revolution. Allegedly saved from an angry revolutionary mob by Alexander Hamilton.

He is notable for proposing that King's College become the center of a university encompassing all the previously-founded North American colleges (including Harvard, Yale, etc.)

Preceded by
Samuel Johnson
President of Columbia University 
1787-1800
Succeeded by
William Samuel Johnson