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Theodore Dwight Woolsey
10th President of Yale University
In office
1846–1871
Preceded byJeremiah Day
Succeeded byNoah Porter
Personal details
BornOctober 31, 1801
New York City, New York
DiedJuly 1, 1889(1889-07-01) (aged 87)
New Haven, Connecticut

Theodore Dwight Woolsey (31 October 1801 – 1 July 1889) was an American academic, author and President of Yale College from 1846 through 1871.[1]: 445 

  1. ^ Lewis Sheldon Welch; Walter Camp (1899). Yale, Her Campus, Class-rooms, and Athletics. Boston: L. C. Page and Company. OCLC 2191518.

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