Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck
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Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (29 November 1791 – 23 February 1879) was the sixth President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) serving from 1840 to 1850.
[edit] Biography
He was born in 1791 in Kingston, New York to Jonathan Hasbrouck (1763-1846) and Catherine Wynkoop (1765-?).
He studied at the Kingston Academy in New York before entering Yale College where he graduated in 1810. Studying the law under Tapping Reeve, Elisha Williams, and James Gould, he returned to Kingston, New York in 1814 to practice law. In 1817 he started a law practice with Charles H. Ruggles.
He married on 12 September 1819 to Julia Frances Ludlum (1795-1869), the sister of Judge Gabriel W. Ludlum. Together they had eight children, including a son: Jonathan Howard Bruyn Hasbrouck (1820-1899).
Hasbrouck was elected to the Nineteenth United States Congress in 1824 serving from 1825 to 1827 as a Whig. In 1840, he was appointed by the Trustees of Rutgers College as the sixth president, and the first layman to hold the office. During his tenure as President, he taught Rhetoric, Constitutional Law, and Political Economy. He strove to establish independence from the Dutch Reformed Church and added modern languages, and expanded scientific instruction to the curriculum. He resigned in 1849, remaining in office until 1850 when Theodore Frelinghuysen was appointed his successor.
Hasbrouck retired to Kingston, New York, where he died of pneumonia on 23 February 1879.
A street named after him in Newburgh, New York.
[edit] External links
- Rutgers University
- Hasbrouck's biography at Leadership on the Banks: Rutgers' Presidents, 1766–2004
- Hasbrouck children
- Congressional biography
| Preceded by ? |
U.S. Representative from New York 1824–1827 |
Succeeded by ? |
| Preceded by Philip Milledoler |
President of Rutgers University 1840–1850 |
Succeeded by Theodore Frelinghuysen |
