Henry Durant

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Henry Durant

Henry Durant (Acton, Massachusetts, June 18, 1802 – Oakland, California, January 22, 1875) was the founding president of the University of California.^[1]

Biography

A graduate of Yale College and trained at Phillips Academy, Andover, and the Andover Theological Seminary, he founded the Contra Costa Academy, later chartered as the College of California after leaving his position as headmaster of the Dummer Academy (today known as The Governor's Academy) in Byfield, Mass. The college later disincorporated and merged with the state of California's Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College to create the University of California in 1868 (now the Berkeley campus of the UC system). Durant was elected the first president of the University on August 16, 1870 and resigned only two years later in order to relinquish the position to a younger man (Daniel Coit Gilman). Old age did not keep Durant from being elected the 16th mayor of Oakland, although he only served for three years before dying in office, on January 22, 1875.

References

Biography at UC Berkeley

↑ SF Chronicle, July 25, 2010. "Where to Find Celebrities' Resting Places" by Charlie Wells

Academic offices
Preceded by Position created	President of the University of California 1870–1872	Succeeded by Daniel Coit Gilman

v t e Presidents of the University of California

Le Conte Durant Gilman Reid Holden Davis Kellogg Wheeler Barrows Campbell Sproul Kerr Wellman Hitch Saxon Gardner Peltason Atkinson Dynes Yudof Napolitano

Persondata
Name	Durant, Henry
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	June 18, 1802
Place of birth
Date of death	January 22, 1875
Place of death

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