James Wright (historian)

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James Edward Wright

16th President of Dartmouth College
Term 1 August 1998 – present
Predecessor James Oliver Freedman
Born 1939
Madison, Wisconsin
Alma mater Wisconsin State University
Residence Hanover, New Hampshire
Website: Office of the President

James Edward Wright (born 1939) is a historian and currently the sixteenth president of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire. He has served in this position since 1998, and has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1969. In February 2008, it was announced that he would step down as President in June 2009.[1]

[edit] Works

  • The Galena Lead District: Federal Policy and Practices, 1824–1847 (1966);
  • The West of the American People (1970);
  • The Politics of Populism: Dissent in Colorado (1974);
  • The Great Plains Experience: Readings in the History of a Region (1978); and
  • The Progressive Yankees: Republican Reformers in New Hampshire (1987).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lowe, Allie. "President Wright to step down in June of 2009", The Dartmouth, 2008-02-04. Retrieved on 2008-02-05. 

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The Wheelock Succession: Presidents of Dartmouth College
The Rev. Eleazar Wheelock (1769–1779) · John Wheelock (1779–1815) · The Rev. Francis Brown (1815–1820) · The Rev. Daniel Dana (1820–1821) · The Rev. Bennet Tyler (1822–1828) · The Rev. Nathan Lord (1828–1863) · The Rev. Asa Dodge Smith (1863–1877) · The Rev. Samuel Colcord Bartlett (1877–1892) · The Rev. William Jewett Tucker (1893–1909) · Ernest Fox Nichols (1909–1916) · Ernest Martin Hopkins (1916–1945) · John Sloan Dickey (1945–1970) · John George Kemeny (1970–1981) · David Thomas McLaughlin (1981–1987) · James Oliver Freedman (1987–1998) · James Edward Wright (1998–2009)
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