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| Name | Asa Messer |
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, Rhode Island , United States |
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May 31, 1769
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| Died | October 11, 1836
(67 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Mar 04, 2024 01:39am |
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| Info | Asa Messer (May 31, 1769 – October 11, 1836) was an American Baptist clergyman and educator. He was President of Brown University from 1804 to 1826.
Messer was born in Methuen, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University (then called Rhode Island College) in 1790. He was named tutor in the College in 1791, and served as librarian from 1792 to 1799. He was appointed professor of learned languages in 1796, and professor of natural philosophy in 1799. In 1802 he succeeded Jonathan Maxcy as president pro tempore for two years before being named president in 1804.
In 1818 he declined an appointment as justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, finding the appointment incompatible with his college office. Though Messer worked to make an education available to students of differing means, the student body became increasingly unruly during Messer's tenure, culminating in numerous incidents of vandalism to the chapel and library in the 1820s. Messer resigned as president on September 23, 1826.
Though ordained in 1801, Messer was never a Baptist minister. He patented two flumes in the 1820s and owned a farm in Fishersfield, New Hampshire and part of a cotton mill in Wrentham, Massachusetts. Messer was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Rhode Island in 1830.
Asa Messer Elementary School in Providence, Rhode Island is named in his honor.
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