Myles Cooper
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Myles Cooper was the second president of King's College and a loyalist who opposed the American Revolution. He was allegedly saved from an angry revolutionary mob by Alexander Hamilton (see Banishment of Myles Cooper).
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 also ordered a fence built around College Hall in order to keep the students away from internationally recognized prostitutes that hung around the neighborhood.
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| Preceded by Samuel Johnson |
President of Columbia University 1763-1775 |
Succeeded by William Samuel Johnson |
