Faculty/Administration
Noted former faculty and administration include inventors, politicians, and seven College Presidents, including four Presidents of Amherst College:
- George W. Atherton, President of the Pennsylvania State University
- Simeon Baldwin, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Representative, Justice on the Superior Court of Connecticut
- Theodric Romeyn Beck, forensic medicine pioneer
- William H. Campbell, President of Rutgers University
- John Chester, the second president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- George Hammell Cook, chemistry professor and surveyor
- Merrill Edwards Gates, President of Amherst College and Rutgers University
- Julian Gibbs, President of Amherst College
- Joseph Henry, natural philosopher, telegraphy pioneer, first Curator of the Smithsonian Institution
- Albert Hull, physicist, inventor of the magnetron and dynatron
- Alexander Meiklejohn, President of Amherst College, Dean of Brown University, winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- David Murray, American educator and government adviser in Meiji period Japan
- George Olds, President of Amherst College
- Charles Emory Smith, U.S. Minister to Russia (1890–1892), U.S. Postmaster General (1898–1902)
- Frederick Townsend, Union officer in the American Civil War, Adjutant General of the State of New York (1857–1861, 1880)
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Famous quotes containing the word faculty:
“Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)