predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place title birth_date term_start order image article_title term_end name
jeremiah day noah porter 1 july 1889 new york city , new york new haven , connecticut president of yale university october 31 , 1801 1846 10th theodore 1871.jpg dwight woolsey president of yale college 1846 to theodore dwight woolsey
 1871 theodore dwight woolsey
theodore dwight woolsey

theodore dwight woolsey -lrb- october 31 , 1801 -- july 1 , 1889 -rrb- was an american academic , author and president of yale college from 1846 through 1871 .
