John Dunning Whitney
American Jesuit educator · United States · On the map · Religious Figures · Lived 1850 to 1917 · aged 67
John Dunning Whitney was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who became the president of Georgetown University in 1898.
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Born in Massachusetts, he joined the United States Navy at the age of 16, where he was introduced to Catholicism by way of a book that accidentally came into his possession and prompted him to become a Catholic. He entered the Society of Jesus and spent the next twenty-five years studying and teaching mathematics at Jesuit institutions around the world, including in Canada, England, Ireland, and around the United States in New York, Maryland, Boston, and Louisiana. He became the vice president of Spring Hill College in Alabama before being appointed the president of Georgetown University.
