Ambassadors and ministers to foreign countries have included Brown men since the early nineteenth century, among them: Jonathan Russell1791, ambassador to Sweden and Norway; Henry Wheaton1802, minister to Prussia; Christopher Robinson 1825, minister to Peru; George Van Ness Lothrop 1838, minister to Russia; Lewis Richmond 1842, minister to Portugal; Samuel Sullivan Cox 1846, minister to Turkey; James Burrill Angell1849, minister to China and Turkey; John Hay1858, ambassador to Great Britain; John Meredith Read 1858, minister to Greece; Frederick M. Sackett 1890, ambassador to Germany; Leland Howard Littlefield 1892, ambassador to Great Britain; Noble B. Judah ’04, ambassador to Cuba; Ely E. Palmer ’08, ambassador to Afghanistan; Roy Tasco Davis ’10, minister to Guatemala and Costa Rica, and Panama; Warren Randolph Burgess ’12, ambassador to NATO; Dana Gardner Munro ’12, minister to Haiti; Willard L. Beaulac ’20, ambassador to Paraguay, Columbia, Cuba, Chile, and Argentina; John J. Muccio ’21, ambassador to Korea, Iceland, and Guatemala; Will Mercer Cook A.M.’31, ambassador to Niger and Senegal; Clinton E. Knox A.M.’31, ambassador to Dahomey; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37, ambassador to the U.S.S.R.; Taylor G. Belcher ’41, ambassador to Cyprus; William H. Sullivan ’43, ambassador to Laos; and Nathaniel Davis ’46, ambassador to Guatemala.Ambassadors and ministers
In 1825 the medals, bearing the legend "Alumni Fund of Brown University," were awarded at the "anniversary exercises of the Alumni Society."Associated Alumni
Park’s title was changed in 1811 to professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics, but he also probably continued his usual instruction in languages, since no replacement was appointed until he left the University in 1825.Classics
Romeo Elton was professor of Latin and Greek languages and literature from 1825 to 1843, with Horatio Balch Hackett as adjunct professor from 1835 to 1838.Classics
College and University presidents who have been educated at Brown include nine of the presidents of Brown: Jonathan Maxcy1787, who was also the president of Union College and the University of South Carolina; Asa Messer1790; Barnas Sears 1825, who had formerly been the president of Newton Theological Seminary; Alexis Caswell1822; Ezekiel Gilman Robinson1838, who had been president of Rochester Theological Seminary; Elisha Benjamin Andrews1870, who had been president of Denison University and was later chancellor of the University of Nebraska; William Herbert Perry Faunce 1880; and Clarence Augustus Barbour 1888, who had also been president of Rochester Theological Seminary.College and University Presidents
Robinson Potter Dunn(1825-1867), professor of rhetoric and English literature, was born in Newport on May 31, 1825, the son of a physician.Dunn, Robinson P.
In 1825 Romeo Elton was appointed professor of Latin and Greek at Brown, but did not begin teaching immediately, as President Messer recommended that he first spend two years studying in Europe at his own expense.Elton, Romeo
Calvin Park was a tutor at the College from 1800 to 1804, librarian from 1800 to 1806, professor of learned languages from 1804 to 1811 and of moral philosophy and metaphysics from 1811 to 1825.Park, Calvin
A statistical account of the society in November 1825 reported seventeen members, thirteen beneficiaries, and a library of 135 volumes.Philendean Society
William Giles Goddard succeeded Park from 1825 to 1834, when he switched to the teaching of rhetoric and the evidences of Christianity, and President Wayland became professor of moral and intellectual philosophy.Philosophy
In earlier times the annual catalogues listed Vattel’s "Law of Nations" as one of the textbooks studied in the senior year in 1824 and 1825.Political Science
Barnas Sears entered Brown in 1822 and graduated in 1825, supporting himself by teaching school in the winter vacation and building stone walls in the summer.Sears, Barnas
John Brown was succeeded by his nephew, Nicholas Brown 1786, who held the office for 29 years, from 1796 to 1825.Treasurer
His election as Fellow in 1825 made the office of Treasurer vacant, and his nephew Moses Brown Ives 1812 was elected to fill his place.Treasurer
Francis Wayland gained recognition for his sermon, "The Moral Dignity of the Missionary Enterprise," preached before the Baptist Missionary Society of Boston in 1823, and his discourses of "The Duties of an American Citizen" in 1825.Wayland, Francis
The buildings were named for two Brown presidents and seven alumni, among them two Secretaries of State, three professors, a public health superintendent, and the man who led the Housing and Development campaign to finance the Quadrangle: Marcy House for William Learned Marcy 1808, Governor of New York, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State, Olney House for Richard Olney1856, Attorney General and Secretary of State, Goddard House for William Giles Goddard1812, newspaper editor and professor of moral philosophy and belles-lettres, Diman House for Jeremiah Lewis Diman1851, professor of history and political economy, Sears House for Barnas Sears 1825, president from 1855 to 1867, Wayland House for Francis Wayland, president from 1827 to 1855, Chapin House for Charles V. Chapin1876, professor of physiology, and superintendent of health in Providence, Harkness House for Albert Harkness1842, professor of Greek, and Buxton House for G. Edward Buxton ’02, chairman of the Housing and Development Campaign which built the Quadrangle.Wriston Quadrangle