Jonathan Dickinson (New Jersey minister)
Jonathan Dickinson | |
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Edward Ludlow Mooney, Jonathan Dickinson (1688–1747), President (1747), Princeton University Art Museum | |
| 1st President of Princeton University | |
| In office 1747–1747 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Aaron Burr Sr. |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 22, 1688 Hatfield, Massachusetts Bay |
| Died | October 7, 1747 (aged 59) Elizabethtown, Province of New Jersey |
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Jonathan Dickinson (April 22, 1688 – October 7, 1747) was a Congregational, later Presbyterian, minister, a leader in the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s, and a co-founder and first president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University.