Jonathan Dickinson (New Jersey minister)

Jonathan Dickinson
Edward Ludlow Mooney, Jonathan Dickinson (1688–1747), President (1747), Princeton University Art Museum
1st President of Princeton University
In office
1747–1747
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byAaron Burr Sr.
Personal details
Born(1688-04-22)April 22, 1688
Hatfield, Massachusetts Bay
DiedOctober 7, 1747(1747-10-07) (aged 59)
Elizabethtown, Province of New Jersey
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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.