Robert Plunkett

Robert Plunkett (1752–1815) was the first President of Georgetown University.[1]

An alumnus of English College, Douai, Plunkett became a Jesuit four years before the congregation's suppression.[2] He was later ordained to the priesthood and sailed to the United States in 1790 as a missionary, alongside the priest Charles Neale[2] (whose two brothers, Francis Neale and the Leonard Neale, would eventually become Presidents of Georgetown). He was posted at a plantation in White Marsh, Maryland, before being named to the presidency of Georgetown University by John Carroll, the university's founder.[3] In 1791, Carroll persuaded the reluctant Plunkett to accept the position.[4]

Plunkett oversaw the division of the university into three parts: "college", "preparatory", and "elementary".[5] After eighteen months in office, Plunkett stepped down as the President of Georgetown University and was succeeded by Robert Molyneux in 1793.[5]

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Curran, Robert Emmett (1993). The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University. Volume I: From Academy to University, 1789–1889. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-0-87840-485-8.
Currier, Charles Warren (1890). Carmel in America: A Centennial History of the Discalced Carmelites in the United States. Baltimore, Maryland: John Murphy & Co. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
O'Neill, Paul R.; Williams, Paul K. (2003). Georgetown University. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-1509-0.
Academic offices
New office President of Georgetown University
1791–1793		 Succeeded by
Robert Molyneux


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