Eleazar Wheelock

The Reverend Eleazar Wheelock
Portrait by Joseph Steward
1st President of Dartmouth College
In office 1768–1779
Succeeded by	John Wheelock
Personal details
Born	(1711-04-22)April 22, 1711 Windham, Connecticut Colony, British America
Died	April 24, 1779(1779-04-24) (aged 68) Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Alma mater	Yale College (1733)

Eleazar Wheelock (April 22, 1711 – April 24, 1779) was an American Congregational minister, orator, and educator in present-day Columbia, Connecticut, for 35 years before founding Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He had tutored Samson Occom, a Mohegan who became a Presbyterian minister and the second Native American to publish writings in English. Before founding Dartmouth, Wheelock founded and ran the Moor's Charity School in Connecticut to educate Native Americans. The college was primarily for the sons of American colonists.