Horace Webster

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|name = Horace Webster

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|image = Horace Webster, First President of CCNY.jpg

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|caption = 1930 portrait of Horace Webster by Julia Redding Kelly (1873-1939)

|order = 1st

|office = President of City College of New York

|term_start = 1847

|term_end = 1869

|successor = Alexander S. Webb

|birth_date = September 21, 1794

|birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut

|death_date = {{death date and age|1871|7|12|1794|9|21}}

|death_place = Geneva, New York

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Horace Webster (Hartford, Connecticut, September 21, 1794 - Geneva, New York, July 12, 1871) was an American educator who graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1818. Webster remained at West Point as a mathematics professor until 1825, leaving with the rank of first lieutenant. He then moved to Geneva College, where he taught as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy until he left in 1848 to head the Free Academy of New York, where he continued until retirement in 1869.{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1871/07/14/78768124.pdf|title=Prof. Horace Webster|date=July 14, 1871|work=The New York Times|accessdate=June 6, 2009 }} The school was renamed City College in 1866. Horace Webster served as its first president.{{s-start}}

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| title = President of City College of New York

| before = New Position

| after = Alexander S. Webb

| years = 1847–1869

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