Thomas S. Gathright

Thomas S. Gathright
2nd President of the Henderson Male and Female College
In office
December 3, 1879 – May 24, 1880
Preceded byOscar H. Cooper
1st President of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
In office
October 4, 1876 – November 21, 1879
Succeeded byJohn Garland James
Mississippi Superintendent of Public Instruction
In office
April 3, 1876 – September 1876
GovernorJohn Marshall Stone
Preceded byThomas Cardozo
Succeeded byJoseph Bardwell
Personal details
Born
Thomas Sanford Gathright

(1829-01-05)January 5, 1829
Monroe County, Georgia, U.S.
DiedMay 24, 1880(1880-05-24) (aged 51)
Henderson, Texas, U.S
Resting placeOld City Cemetery, Henderson, Texas, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Sophronia Ann Prince
(m. 1851)
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionAmerican philosophy
Institutions

Thomas Sanford Gathright (January 5, 1829 – May 24, 1880) was an American educator and the first president of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now known as Texas A&M University, and the second president of Henderson Male and Female College. He founded what would later become the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the American Civil War and was the state Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1876.