Difference between revisions of "Myles Cooper"

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Revision as of 01:14, 5 April 2007

Second president of King's College and a loyalist who opposed the American Revolution. Allegedly saved from an angry revolutionary mob by Alexander Hamilton.

He is notable for proposing that King's College become the center of a university encompassing all the previously-founded North American colleges (including Harvard, Yale, etc.)

Preceded by
Samuel Johnson
President of Columbia University 
1763-1775
Succeeded by
William Samuel Johnson