John Newton Waddel
Chancellor of the University of Mississippi
About John Newton Waddel
Lived 1812 – 1895 (aged 82–83). John Newton Waddel was an American clergyman, educator, university teacher and academic administrator.
John Newton Waddel (born Willington, South Carolina, April 2, 1812; died 1895) was the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1865 to 1874.
Biography Waddel was the son of Moses Waddel and Eliza Woodson Waddel. He was a graduate of the University of Georgia (1829). He then became the Chair of the Ancient Languages Department at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. From 1865 to 1874, he served as its chancellor. He resigned to become secretary of education for the Southern Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee. He would later serve as Chancellor of Rhodes College from 1879 to 1887.
Waddel was married to Martha A. Robertson in 1832.
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Chancellor of the University of Mississippi
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John Newton Waddel was born on 2 April 1812.
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John Newton Waddel died in 1895.
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John Newton Waddel was a clergyman, educator, university teacher and academic administrator.
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