Editing Bennet Tyler

{{Short description|President of Dartmouth College}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [[The Reverend]]
| name        = Bennet Tyler
| image       = Bennet Tyler.jpg
| order       = 5th
| title       = [[List of presidents of Dartmouth College|President of Dartmouth College]]
| term_start  = 1822
| term_end    = 1828
| predecessor = [[Daniel Dana]]
| successor   = [[Nathan Lord]]
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1783|7|10}}
| birth_place = [[Middlebury, Connecticut|Middlebury]], [[Connecticut]]
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1858|5|14|1783|7|10}}
| death_place = [[South Windsor, Connecticut|South Windsor]], [[Connecticut]]
}}
'''Bennet Tyler''' (July 10, 1783 &ndash; May 14, 1858) was an American [[Congregationalism in the United States|Congregational]] clergyman and educator. He served as president of [[Dartmouth College]] between 1822 and 1828.  His [[Reformed tradition|Reformed]] theology was called "Tylerism", as opposed to the post-Reformed [[Nathaniel William Taylor|Taylorism]] of Nathaniel William Taylor.<ref>"Tyler, Bennet", in ''Webster's Biographical Dictionary'' (1943), Springfield. MA:  Merriam.</ref>

==Biography==
To succeed President [[Daniel Dana]], Dartmouth Trustees selected Bennet Tyler, a [[South Britain, Connecticut]], minister and graduate of Yale. Tyler was very devout, and he was especially interested  in preaching in the College church, letting others do the teaching. He was successful in endowing the first scholarship at Dartmouth, intended for "the education of pious, indigent young men for the ministry". He also stabilized the enrollment, which had plummeted during the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]].<ref name=Pres/>

It was in 1824, during President Tyler's administration, that Dartmouth admitted its first African-American student, Edward Mitchell, in 1824.<ref name=Pres>{{cite web
|title=Bennet Tyler, 1822-1828
|accessdate=September 3, 2019
|publisher=Office of the President, [[Dartmouth College]]
|year=2019
|url=https://www.dartmouth.edu/~president/succession/tyler.html}}</ref>

Tyler returned to the ministry after six years as Dartmouth President. He was a founder, theology professor, and president of the Theological Institute of Connecticut, now [[Hartford Seminary]], from 1834 to 1857.<ref>"Tyler, Bennet", in ''Webster's Biographical Dictionary'' (1943), Springfield, MA:  Merriam.</ref>

==Notes==
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==Further reading==
*W. A. Hoffecker, "Taylor, Nathaniel William", in ''[[Evangelical Dictionary of Theology]]'' (1990), Grand Rapids, MI:  Baker.


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