Jonathan Dickinson | |
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1st President of Princeton University | |
In office 1747–1747 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Aaron Burr Sr. |
Personal details | |
Born | Hatfield, Massachusetts Bay | April 22, 1688
Died | October 7, 1747 Elizabethtown, Province of New Jersey | (aged 59)
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Jonathan Dickinson (April 22, 1688 – October 7, 1747) was a Congregational, later Presbyterian, minister, a leader in the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s, and a co-founder and first president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University.