Edward Twichell Ware

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{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}}{{Short description|Third president of Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA}}

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Edward Twichell Ware (1874–May 19, 1927) was an American academic administrator and the third president of Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University) from 1907 to 1919.{{cite web |title=Collection: Edward Twichell Ware records {{!}} Archives Research Center |url=http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:018 |website=findingaids.auctr.edu |publisher=Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library |hdl=20.500.12322/fa:018 |access-date=12 May 2021}}{{cite book |last1=Bush |first1=Harold K. |title=Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age |date=2007 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |isbn=978-0-8173-1538-2 |pages=148 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UH8p5qYGdd0C&pg=PA148 |access-date=12 May 2021 |language=en}} Ware graduated from Yale College in 1897, and returned to Atlanta University to help in fundraising efforts.{{cite book |last1=Range |first1=Willard |title=The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865-1949 |date=1951 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-3452-3 |pages=166–170 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ufARwDMhW8sC&pg=PA166 |access-date=12 May 2021 |language=en}} Students perceived Ware as being different from other white people, because he extended common courtesies to black students.{{cite book |last1=Link |first1=William A. |title=Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath |date=2016 |publisher=UNC Press Books |isbn=978-1-4696-0777-1 |pages=126–130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aI8K-5b0MUAC&pg=PA127 |access-date=12 May 2021 |language=en}} His father was Edmund Asa Ware, the first president of Atlanta University.