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Jonathan Dickinson

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Born:
April 22, 1688, Hatfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died:
October 7, 1747, Elizabethtown, New Jersey (aged 59)
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Jonathan Dickinson (born April 22, 1688, Hatfield, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1747, Elizabethtown, New Jersey) was a prominent Presbyterian clergyman of the American colonial period and the first president of Princeton University. Joining the newly founded Presbyterian body in the Middle Colonies in 1717, he soon became a leader in theological thought and debate. When in 1721–29 its synod deliberated over adoption of a constitution, it was largely through Dickinson’s efforts that the undefined powers were given to the presbyteries rather than to the synod, or central body. When the two factions, known as the Old Side and the New ...(100 of 171 words)

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