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John D. Whitney

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/July 19, 2024  by - Dank (push to talk) 13:43, 7 June 2024 (UTC)



John D. Whitney (1850–1917) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was the president of Georgetown University from 1898 to 1901. Born in Massachusetts, he joined the United States Navy at the age of sixteen, where he acquired a book that had fallen overboard, which began his conversion to Catholicism. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1872 and spent the next twenty-five years studying and teaching mathematics at Jesuit institutions in Canada, England, Ireland, and around the United States. He became the vice president of Spring Hill College in Alabama before becoming the president of Georgetown University. He oversaw the completion of Gaston Hall, construction of the entrances to Healy Hall, and the establishment of Georgetown University Hospital and what would become the School of Dentistry. Afterwards, Whitney became the treasurer of Boston College and then engaged in pastoral work in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Baltimore, where he became the prefect of St. Ignatius Church.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Enoch Fenwick
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 * Promoted: September 27, 2023
 * Reasons for nomination: Whitney's 174th birthday
 * Support as nominator.  Ergo Sum  20:49, 29 May 2024 (UTC)