John D. Whitney
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John Dunning Whitney, S.J. (July 19, 1850 – November 27, 1917) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who became president of Georgetown University in 1898. Born in Massachusetts, he joined the United States Navy at the age of sixteen, where he was introduced to Catholicism by way of a book that accidentally came into his possession, and prompted him to become a Catholic. He entered the Society of Jesus and spent the next twenty-five years studying and teaching mathematics at Jesuit institutions around the world, including in Canada, England, Ireland, and around the United States in New York, Maryland, Boston, and Louisiana. He became the vice president of Spring Hill College in Alabama, before being appointed President of Georgetown University.
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19 July 1850 Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States
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27 November 1917 (aged 67) Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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