The Albany Academy - Faculty/Administration

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)