I think Dwight Eisenhower was the first to be president of a major university, namely Columbia University, Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton when it was just starting to become a university but it is questionable that is was a major university when he was president of it.
Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton U. from 1902 to 1910.
Dwight Eisenhower served as president of Columbia U. from 1948 to 1950.
James A. Garfield was the president of Hiram College in Ohio from 1857 to 1861.
Lincoln University ws founded in 1854
In 1835 when the German based Bertelsmann Co. was founded, Andrew Jackson was the US president.
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The first president of Alcorn State University was Hiram Revels
It was founded in 1944 by Marty Mann. I am not sure if she was the first President.
Her father founded the Drexel University, not Xavier and, no, she was never president.
Thomas Jefferson
No US president ever attended Cornell University.
He founded the University of Virgina after he was President.
The University of Virginia was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson.
The Rev. John Monteith was one of the university's founders and its first President
BU Academy was founded in 1993 under the direction of John Silber, then President of Boston University, and the University Board of Trustees.
The University was founded in 1842.
In 1819 President Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. Jefferson was the principal designer of the University grounds. Its innovative design was an expression of his aspirations for both state-sponsored education and an agrarian democracy in the new Republic.
Princeton Univeristy was founded as "The College of New Jersey." It did not adopt the name "Princeton University" until Woodrow Wilson became the University President in the early 20th century.
The American Psychological Association was founded in July 1892. The APA was founded in July 1892 at Clark University by a group of 26 men. Its first president wasG. Stanley Hall.
He went home to his plantation in Virginia. He also founded the University of Virginia and designed the camps.