Transylvania University

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The Transylvania University (also Transylvania or Transy ) is a private, designed for undergraduate courses in liberal arts college in Lexington, in the State of Kentucky in the United States. It belongs to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

History

After approval by the Virginia General Assembly, the Transylvania University was founded in 1780. It was the first university west of the Allegheny Mountains at that time, as well as the nation's 16th school of its kind in the run-up drew the original school, which had its roots in a log cabin in Boyle County, 1789 to Lexington. First site was a small building that was in today's Gratz Park Historic District, a district that is listed on the NRHP as historic. After a fire in 1829 destroyed the school building, a new building under the supervision of Henry Clay was built in 1833, the Old Morrison Building, where the present school stands with campus now.

In the early years of the program of the school involved disciplines of medicine, law, theology and art.

Supporters of the school were, inter alia, Figures such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Aaron Burr.

Origin of the name

Originating from the Latin Transylvania ( " beyond the forest " ), was at the foundation of the university, selected on the basis of the then Western and densely forested area of the state of Virginia, which now belongs to Kentucky.

Known graduates

  • David Rice Atchison (1807-1886), American politician
  • Stephen F. Austin (1793-1836), American politician and Günder of present-day U.S. state of Texas
  • William T. Barry (1784-1835), American politician of the Democratic-Republican Party
  • Ned Beatty ( b. 1937 ), American actor
  • James G. Birney (1792-1857), American abolitionist, politician and jurist
  • Francis Preston Blair senior (1791-1876), American journalist and politician
  • Francis Preston Blair Jr. (1821-1875), American politician and major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
  • John C. Breckinridge (1821-1875), officer in the U.S. Army, Vice President of the United States and U.S. senator for the state of Kentucky
  • Benjamin Gratz Brown (18826-1885), American politician, and 1871 to 1873 the 20th Governor of the U.S. state of Missouri
  • William Orlando Butler (1791-1880), American politician and Democratic candidate for the vice-presidency on the side of Lewis Cass in the 1848 presidential election
  • Alexander Campbell (1779-1857), American politician in the U.S. state of Ohio
  • Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler (1898-1991), American politician and Governor of the State of Kentucky
  • Thomas James Churchill (1824-1905), American politician and Major General of the Confederate Army
  • Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903), American politician and abolitionist
  • Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), American politician from 1861 to 1865, the first and only President of the Confederate States
  • John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911), American judge at the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Richard Mentor Johnson (1780-1850), American politician and the ninth Vice President of the United States
  • Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862), officer of the U.S. Army
  • Beriah Magoffin (1815-1885), American politician and Governor of the State of Kentucky
  • Stevens Thomson Mason (1811-1843), American politician and first governor of the State of Michigan
  • John Calvin McCoy (1811-1889), founding father of Kansas City
  • Frank Daniel Mongiardo ( born 1960 ), American physician and Lieutenant Governor of the State of Kentucky
  • James Sidney Rollins (1812-1888), American lawyer and politician
  • Wilson Shannon (1802-1877), American politician
  • James Speed ​​(1812-1887), American lawyer, politician and Minister of Justice
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