Richard Henry Jesse

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Jesse as President of the University of Missouri
Jesse as President of the University of Missouri

Richard Henry Jesse was a American educator and eighth president of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.[1] He was born in Lancaster County, Virginia 1853 and attended the University of Virginia.[2] He went on to teach at the University of Louisiana and Tulane University before assuming the presidency 1891. He retired in 1908. Jesse Hall on the David R. Francis Quadrangle is named in honor of him.

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  1. ^ http://www.umsystem.edu/ums/president/former.shtml
  2. ^ http://whmc.umsystem.edu/invent/3806.html

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Preceded by
Samuel Laws		 President of the University of Missouri
1891-1908		 Succeeded by
Albert Ross Hill