George Edwin MacLean (August 31, 1850 – May 3, 1938) was the eighth President of the

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, serving from 1899 to 1911.

Biography

George Edwin MacLean was born in

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on August 31, 1850. He was an alumnus of

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(A.B. 1871, A.M. 1874, LL.D. 1895),

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(B.D. 1874), and

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(Ph.D. 1883). From 1884 to 1895 he was a professor of English language and literature at the

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. From 1895 to 1899 he was the sixth Chancellor of the

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. He married Clara S. Taylor on May 20, 1874. MacLean died at his home in Washington, D.C. on May 3, 1938.

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