Bennet Tyler

Bennet Tyler
President of Dartmouth College
Term 1822 – 1828
Predecessor Daniel Dana
Successor Nathan Lord
Born July 10, 1783(1783-07-10)
Middlebury, Connecticut
Died May 14, 1858(1858-05-14) (aged 74)
South Windsor, Connecticut

The Rev. Bennet Tyler (July 10, 1783 – May 14, 1858) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. He served as president of Dartmouth College between 1822 and 1828.

Biography

To succeed President Daniel Dana, Dartmouth Trustees selected Bennett Tyler, a South Britain, Connecticut, minister and Yale graduate. Tyler was a devout leader who insisted on shouldering the responsibility of preaching in the College church, leaving the responsibility for the instruction of the senior class to one of the professors. He was successful in endowing the first scholarship at Dartmouth, intended for "the education of pious, indigent young men for the ministry," and in stabilizing the numbers of enrolled students—numbers which had plummeted during the years of the Revolutionary War.

It was during President Tyler's administration that Dartmouth students successfully petitioned the College to admit its first African American student, Edward Mitchell, in 1824. Tyler returned to the ministry after six years in office.

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See also: Ivy League Presidents
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) · Jim Yong Kim (2009-present)