Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (November 29, 1791 – February 23, 1879) was a

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from New York and the sixth President of

Rutgers College Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was a ...

(now

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and wa ...

) serving from 1840 to 1850. He was a slaveholder.

Biography

He was born in 1791 in

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, to Jonathan Hasbrouck (1763–1846) and Catherine Wynkoop (1763–1846). He studied at the

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before entering

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where he graduated in 1810. Studying the law under