Jonathan Dickinson (New Jersey minister)

The Reverend Jonathan Dickinson
Edward Ludlow Mooney, Jonathan Dickinson (1688–1747), President (1747), Princeton University Art Museum
1st President of Princeton University
In office 1747–1747
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Aaron Burr Sr.
Personal details
Born	(1688-04-22)April 22, 1688 Hatfield, Massachusetts Bay
Died	October 7, 1747(1747-10-07) (aged 59) Elizabethtown, Province of New Jersey
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Jonathan Dickinson (April 22, 1688 – October 7, 1747) was a Congregational, later Presbyterian, minister, a leader in the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s, and a co-founder and first president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University.