William L. Breckinridge

William L. Breckinridge

American educator and academic administrator

📍 Lexington, Kentucky USA

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William Lewis Breckinridge was an American pastor and educator. The son of Senator John Breckinridge, he was born near Lexington, Kentucky, and attended college at Transylvania University. Early in his career, he became an emancipationist, and he entered academia in 1831 when he began teaching ancient languages at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1836 to 1858, and was moderator of the 1859 Presbyterian Church General Assembly. He was president of Oakland College near Rodney, Mississippi, for one year prior to the

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