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  2. History of Georgetown University - Wikipedia

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    The history of Georgetown University spans nearly 400 years, from the early European settlement of America to the present day. Georgetown University has grown with both its city, Washington, D.C. , and the United States , each of which date their founding to the period from 1788 to 1790.

  3. Georgetown University - Wikipedia

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    Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States.Founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789, [d] it is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the United States, the oldest university in Washington, D.C., [e] and the nation's first federally chartered university.

  4. List of presidents of Georgetown University - Wikipedia

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    Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States that was founded as Georgetown College by Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore in 1789. [2] The president of Georgetown University is its chief executive officer , [ 3 ] and from its establishment until the 1960s was also the rector of the university's ...

  5. Patrick Francis Healy - Wikipedia

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    Patrick Francis Healy SJ (February 27, 1834 – January 10, 1910) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was an influential president of Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second founder".

  6. Eleanor Darnall Carroll - Wikipedia

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    Eleanor Darnall Carroll (1703–1796) was a prominent heiress in colonial Maryland. She married Daniel Carroll, a wealthy planter, and together they became the parents of two notable figures in American history: Daniel Carroll, a Founding Father of the United States, and John Carroll, the first Archbishop of Baltimore and the founder of Georgetown University.

  7. John Carroll (archbishop) - Wikipedia

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    The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University: From Academy to University, 1789–1889. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-0-87840-485-8. Archived from the original on March 25, 2020 – via Google Books. DeStefano, Michael. "John Carroll, the Amplitude Apologetic and the Baltimore Cathedral."

  8. John B. Creeden - Wikipedia

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    Following the renaming of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service for Edmund A. Walsh in 1958, Henri J. Wiesel, a Jesuit contemporary and acquaintance of both Creeden and Walsh, wrote to the archivist of Georgetown University; Wiesel stated that although Walsh was instrumental in the creation of the school, the true founder of the School of ...

  9. Robert J. Henle - Wikipedia

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    Robert John Henle SJ (September 12, 1909 – January 20, 2000) was an American Catholic priest, Jesuit, and philosopher who was the president of Georgetown University from 1969 to 1976.