Isaac T. Tichenor
{{For|the governor and senator from Vermont|Isaac Tichenor}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Isaac T. Tichenor
| image = Isaac Taylor Tichenor.jpg
| caption =
| title = President of the Auburn University
| term_start = 1872
| term_end = 1881
| predecessor = James Ferguson Dowdell
| successor = William Leroy Broun
| birth_date = {{birth date|1825|11|11}}
| birth_place = Spencer County, Kentucky
| death_place = Atlanta, Georgia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1902|12|2|1825|11|11}}
}}
Isaac Taylor Tichenor (November 11, 1825 – December 2, 1902), a pastor and a planter, was President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, now known as Auburn University, from 1872 to 1881.[http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/533/itt-bio.htm Auburn library]{{Cite web |url=http://ocm.auburn.edu/presidential_installation/gogue_installation_program.pdf |title=Program |access-date=2010-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716073029/http://ocm.auburn.edu/presidential_installation/gogue_installation_program.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}
Early life
Isaac Taylor Tichenor was born in Kentucky on November 11, 1825.[https://books.google.com/books?id=RE7PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA6 The Baptist Home Mission Monthly]
Career
From 1852 to 1867, he was pastor at the First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D3G9AwAAQBAJ |page=7 |title=Confederate Home Front: Montgomery During the Civil War |first=William Warren |last=Rogers |publisher=University of Alabama Press |year=2001 |isbn=9780817311537}}
During the American Civil War, he was a chaplain in the Confederate States Army. In 1863, he still defended slavery in his sermons.[https://www.jstor.org/pss/25162922 The Civil War and the Use of Sermons as Historical Documents] After the war, he spent three years on his plantation in Shelby County, Alabama.
In 1871, he became pastor at the First Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, but resigned shortly after. He also was a pastor in Kentucky and Mississippi.
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From 1872 to 1881, he served as President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, now known as Auburn University. In 1882, he became President of the Southern Baptist Home Missionary Board in Atlanta, Georgia.
Death
He died on December 2, 1902, and is buried in Westview Cemetery.
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Category:People from Spencer County, Kentucky
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