Daniel Dana

Daniel Dana


President of Dartmouth College
In office 1820–1821
Preceded by	Francis Brown
Succeeded by	Bennet Tyler
Personal details
Born	(1771-07-24)July 24, 1771 Ipswich, Massachusetts
Died	August 26, 1859(1859-08-26) (aged 88) Newburyport, Massachusetts

The Rev. Daniel Dana (July 24, 1771 – August 26, 1859) was a minister in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and president of Dartmouth College from 1820 to 1821. He graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1788.

Biography

Dana was reluctant to take on the presidency of an institution so recently embattled following the Dartmouth College case. He was finally convinced by the Trustees to become the fourth president in the Wheelock Succession in 1820. Plagued by ill health and exhausted by the strain of the presidency, he resigned just one year later.

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Presidents of Dartmouth College

Eleazar Wheelock (1769–1779) John Wheelock (1779–1815) Francis Brown (1815–1820) Daniel Dana (1820–1821) Bennet Tyler (1822–1828) Nathan Lord (1828–1863) Asa Dodge Smith (1863–1877) Samuel Colcord Bartlett (1877–1892) William Jewett Tucker (1893–1909) Ernest Fox Nichols (1909–1916) Ernest Martin Hopkins (1916–1945) John Sloan Dickey (1945–1970) John G. Kemeny (1970–1981) David T. McLaughlin (1981–1987) James O. Freedman (1987–1998) James Wright (1998–2009) Jim Yong Kim (2009–2012) Philip J. Hanlon (2013–present)

The Wheelock Succession

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 13729640 LCCN: n85009152

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