Myles Cooper
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Myles Cooper was the 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 |
