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Ezra Stiles

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American theologian, clergyman, Yale President 1727-1795

United StatesActorsLived 1727 to 1795 · aged 67
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Ezra Stiles was an American educator, academic, Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He is noted as the seventh president of Yale College (1778-1795) and one of the founders of Brown University. According to religious historian Timothy L.

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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Ezra Stiles was an American educator, academic, Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He is noted as the seventh president of Yale College (1778-1795) and one of the founders of Brown University. According to religious historian Timothy L. Hall, Stiles' tenure at Yale distinguishes him as "one of the first great American college presidents."

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Lived 1727 to 1795 · aged 67
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