Heman Humphrey
| Heman Humphrey | |
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| President of Amherst College | |
| In office 1823–1845 |
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| Preceded by | Zephaniah Swift Moore |
| Succeeded by | Edward Hitchcock |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 26, 1779 West Simsbury, Connecticut |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
| Spouse(s) | Sophia Porter (1785-1868) |
| Alma mater | Yale class of 1805. |
| Religion | Congregationalist |
Heman Humphrey (March 26, 1779 – April 3, 1861) was born in Hartford County, Conn. He graduated from Yale University with an A.M. in 1805. Humphrey was a 19th-century American author and clergyman who served as 2nd president of Amherst College for 22 years.[1][2][3][4] He was ordained a Congregational minister on March 16, 1807. He pastored in Fairfield, Conn., 1807-1817, and Pittsfield, Mass., 1817-1823.[5] Humphrey was influential in the nineteenth-century temperance movement and typical of the early proponents of prohibition. (Hugins, Walter (ed.), The Reform Impulse, 1825–1850). Columbia, SC 1972. He was the father of U.S. Representative James Humphrey.
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| Preceded by | President of Amherst College 1823–1845 |
Succeeded by Edward Hitchcock |
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