James Wright (historian)

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James Edward Wright
16th President of Dartmouth College
Term	1 August 1998 – present
Predecessor	James Oliver Freedman
Successor	Jim Yong Kim
Born	1939 Madison, Wisconsin
Alma mater	Wisconsin State University
Residence	Hanover, New Hampshire
Website: Office of the President

James Edward Wright (born 1939) is a historian and currently the sixteenth president of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire. He has served in this position since 1998, and has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1969. In February 2008, it was announced that he would step down as President in June 2009.^[1]

[edit] Works

• The Galena Lead District: Federal Policy and Practices, 1824–1847 (1966);
• The West of the American People (1970);
• The Politics of Populism: Dissent in Colorado (1974);
• The Great Plains Experience: Readings in the History of a Region (1978); and
• The Progressive Yankees: Republican Reformers in New Hampshire (1987).

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

1. ^ Lowe, Allie (2008-02-04). "President Wright to step down in June of 2009". The Dartmouth. http://thedartmouth.com/2008/02/04/news/wright/. Retrieved on 2008-02-05. 

[edit] External links

• President of Dartmouth College
• Dartmouth College
• Wheelock Succession