page_title: The Albany Academy
section_title: Faculty/administration
hierarchical_section_title: The Albany Academy / Faculty/administration
caption_attribution_description: English: Merrill Edwards Gates (1848-1922)
context_page_description: The Albany Academy is an independent college preparatory day school for boys in Albany, New York, USA, enrolling students from Preschool to Grade 12. It was established in 1813 by a charter signed by Mayor Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer and the city council of Albany. In July 2007, the once separate Albany Academy and Albany Academy for Girls merged into The Albany Academies. Both schools retain much of their pre-merger tradition and character and each continues to give diplomas under its own name. Tuition ranges from $13,500 for Preschool, up to $23,100 for grade 12.
context_section_description: Noted former faculty and administration include inventors, politicians, and seven College Presidents, including four presidents of Amherst College:
  George W. Atherton, president of the Pennsylvania State University
  Simeon Baldwin, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Representative, justice on the Superior Court of Connecticut
  Theodric Romeyn Beck, forensic medicine pioneer
  William Henry Campbell, president of Rutgers University
  John Chester, the second president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  George Hammell Cook, chemistry, geology professor, vice president of Rutgers University, director New Jersey Geological Survey
  Merrill Edwards Gates, president of Amherst College and Rutgers University
  Peter Gansevoort, member of the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate
  Julian Gibbs, president of Amherst College
  Joseph Henry, natural philosopher, telegraphy pioneer, first curator of the Smithsonian Institution
  Albert Hull, physicist, inventor of the magnetron and dynatron
  Alexander Meiklejohn, president of Amherst College, Dean of Brown University, winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  David Murray, American educator and government adviser in Meiji period Japan, professor, Rutgers University
  George Olds, president of Amherst College
  Charles Emory Smith, U.S. Minister to Russia (1890–1892), U.S. Postmaster General (1898–1902)
  Frederick Townsend, Union officer in the American Civil War, Adjutant General of the State of New York (1857–1861, 1880)
caption: Headmaster Merrill Edward Gates
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