James Burrill Angell
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James Burrill Angell (born January 7, 1829 near Scituate, Rhode Island-died April 1, 1916, Ann Arbor, Michigan) was president of the University of Michigan (1871-1909). He was the longest-serving president of Michigan, and under his leadership Michigan gained prominence as an elite public university. Today, he is often cited by Michigan administrators for providing the vision of Michigan as a university that should provide "an uncommon education for the common man."
Angell was a graduate from and professor of languages at Brown University, editor of the Providence Journal (1860-1866), president of the University of Vermont (1866-1871). He also served as U.S. Minister to China (1880-1881) and to Turkey (1897-1898). He was the father of James Rowland Angell, who was a psychologist at the University of Chicago and president of Yale University, and uncle of Frank Angell, who was a psychologist at Cornell University and Stanford University.
The Angells were a prominent family in Providence, R.I., dating back to colonial times. A street named after the family runs by Brown University.
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- American National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 521-522.
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