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1858Pres-JWJohnson
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John W. Johnson
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- 1864-1867 (Creation)
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President from 1864-1867
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John W. Johnson (1864-1867) - Linfield’s second president, born in 1836 in Missouri and died in 1893. Before his time as president, Johnson taught at Linfield in 1857; he then left to teach at Yale for a period before assuming the role of Linfield’s president. During his presidency, he expanded the college’s student population and made the college briefly debt-free. After resigning, he became a principal for Portland High School and in 1876, was elected to be University of Oregon’s first president, where he stayed for 17 years. Johnson received his education at Pacific University and his law degree from Yale University.