Editing Naphtali Daggett

{{Infobox officeholder
| name        = Naphtali Daggett
| image       = Naphtali Daggett.jpg
| caption     = Rev. Naphtali Daggett
| title       = President pro tempore of<br />[[Yale University]]
| term_start  = 1766
| term_end    = 1777
| predecessor = [[Thomas Clap]]
| successor   = [[Ezra Stiles]]
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1727|9|8}}
| birth_place = [[Attleborough, Massachusetts]]
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|1780|11|25|1727|9|8}}
| death_place = [[New Haven, Connecticut]]
| alma_mater  = [[Yale University|Yale College]]
}}
'''Naphtali Daggett''' (September 8, 1727 &ndash; November 25, 1780) was an American academic and educator. He graduated from [[Yale University]] in 1748.<ref name="kelley62">Kelley, Brooks Mather. (1999). [https://books.google.com/books?id=B2aDRhohtx8C&dq=Yale+and+Brooks+Kelley&pg=PA62 ''Yale: A History,'' p. 62.]</ref> Three years later, he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Smithtown, Long Island.  In 1755, the [[Yale Corporation]] persuaded him to return to  [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]] to assist President [[Thomas Clapp]] in the pulpit, and to be considered for appointment as a college professor. On March 4, 1756, the Corporation inducted him as Yale's first professor—officially the Livingstonian Professor of Divinity.<ref name="kelley62"/>

Daggett became the college's president ''pro tempore'' in 1766 after the resignation of President Clap.<ref>Kelley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=B2aDRhohtx8C&dq=Yale+and+Brooks+Kelley&pg=PA73  p. 73.]</ref>  Daggett held the office of President for the next eleven years, until 1777.<ref>Steiner, Herbert Christian. (1893). [https://books.google.com/books?id=L0EXAAAAYAAJ&dq=Naphtali+Daggett&pg=PA115  ''History of Education in Connecticut,'' p. 115.]</ref>

When the British attacked New Haven in 1779, Rev. Daggett took up arms in defense but was taken prisoner and forced to serve as a guide. He was bayoneted by his captors, and died in 1780.<ref>Welch, Lewis ''et al.'' (1899). [https://books.google.com/books?id=V8wWAAAAIAAJ&dq=Naphtali+Daggett&pg=PA410  ''Yale, Her Campus, Class-rooms, and Athletics,'' p. 410.]</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* Kelley, Brooks Mather. (1999). [https://books.google.com/books?id=B2aDRhohtx8C  ''Yale: A History.''] New Haven: [[Yale University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-300-07843-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/810552  OCLC 810552]
* Steiner, Herbert Christian. (1893). [https://books.google.com/books?id=L0EXAAAAYAAJ&dq=Naphtali+Daggett&pg=PA1 ''History of Education in Connecticut,''] [https://books.google.com/books?id=L0EXAAAAYAAJ  Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 2, 1893: ''Contributions to American Educational History,'' No. 14.] Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
* Welch, Lewis Sheldon and [[Walter Camp]]. (1899). [https://books.google.com/books?id=V8wWAAAAIAAJ  ''Yale, Her Campus, Class-rooms, and Athletics.''] Boston: L. C. Page and Co. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/2191518  OCLC 2191518]

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