Claim: Native New Yorker and Princeton graduate (with three degrees--including a Ph.D) Thomas Hoving was appointed by John V. Lindsay to serve as the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Evidence: Thomas Hoving Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art John V. Lindsay Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving
(1931-01-15)January 15, 1931
New York City, New York, U.S. Princeton University in 1958, and a Ph.D. in 1959, all from Princeton University. He received a B.A. in 1953, an M.F.A.