Timothy Dwight V

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Timothy Dwight V (1828 - 1916) was president of Yale University from 1886 through 1899.

He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, the son of James Dwight and his wife Susan Breed, and the grandson of Yale President Timothy Dwight IV. In 1849, he received his undergraduate degree at Yale where he was a member of Skull & Bones. Appointed professor of sacred literature at Yale, he assisted in the reorganization of the divinity school, edited the New Englander (later the Yale Review), and served on the American committee on the revision of the Bible (1873–1885).

In 1886, he succeeded Noah Porter as president of Yale. Called "Timothy Dwight the Younger," he expanded the institution, securing the legislative charter that authorized the title "university" instead of "college," and retired in 1898. His writings include an Address Delivered at the Funeral of President Porter (1892) and a Commemorative Address in honor of W. D. Whitney and J. D. Dana (1895). He is the author of sermons entitled Thoughts of and for the Inner Life (1899); Boston at the Beginning of the 19th Century; and Memories of Yale Life and Men (1903). Dwight's full-length portrait by Edmund C. Tarbell hangs in the stairwell of Woodbridge Hall, the Yale administration building.

He married Jane Wakeman Skinner, the daughter of Roger Sherman Skinner and the great-granddaughter of Roger Sherman

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• F. Parsons, Six Men of Yale (1936, repr. 1971).

Academic Offices
Preceded by Noah Porter III	President of Yale College/Yale University 1886–1899	Succeeded by Arthur Twining Hadley