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The Reverend
Timothy Dwight IV
An 1817 portrait of Dwight by John Trumbull
8th President of Yale University
In office
1795–1817
Preceded byEzra Stiles
Succeeded byJeremiah Day
Personal details
Born(1752-05-14)May 14, 1752
Northampton, Province of Massachusetts Bay
DiedJanuary 11, 1817(1817-01-11) (aged 64)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting placeGrove Street Cemetery
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
SpouseMary Woolsey
Children8, including Sereno and William
RelativesTheodore (brother)
Theodore Dwight Woolsey (nephew)
Theodore Dwight (nephew)
Timothy Dwight V (grandson)
Alma materYale College

Timothy Dwight (May 14, 1752 – January 11, 1817) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He was the eighth president of Yale College (1795–1817).[1]

  1. ^ Welch & Camp 1899, pp. 445.

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