biography
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Alexander, Archibald
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| lived:
| (1772–1851)
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| biography:
| Protestant clergyman and educator, born near Lexington, Virginia, USA. The son of a merchant farmer, he underwent a religious conversion in 1789, began to evangelize, and proved to be a fluent and persuasive preacher. Ordained in the Presbyterian ministry (1794), he served two terms as president of Hampden-Sidney College (1796–1801, 1802–7). He became a professor at the newly established Princeton Theological Seminary (1812) and remained there for the rest of his life. His teaching, along with a series of published essays, reviews, tracts, and sermons, gave him wide influence among the Presbyterians of his time. |
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