Robert Everett Pattison (August 19, 1800 – November 21, 1874) was an American clergyman, and served as both the third and sixth president of

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Life

He graduated at

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in 1826, was appointed a tutor in

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, D. C, was ordained in 1829, and in 1830 became pastor of the

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in Providence, RI. From this post he was called to a professorship in Waterville College (now

in Maine, of which he was president from 1836 to 1840. He then became pastor of the second Baptist church of St. Louis, Mo., and in 1841 returned to his pastoral charge at Providence. In 1843 he was elected one of the corresponding secretaries of the

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. He was president and professor of Christian theology in the western Baptist theological institute, at Covington, Ky., from 1845 to 1848, when he was appointed to a similar professorship in the

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, Mass., from which he was again called to the presidency of Waterville college in 1853. In 1858 he resigned and took charge of the

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, at Worcester, Mass. He was professor of systematic theology in

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, Alton, 111., from 1864 to 1870, when he was called to a professorship in the Baptist theological seminary of Chicago, which he resigned on account of ill health in 1874. For one year he was acting president of the

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Publications

* ''Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Practical, on the Epistle to the Ephesians'' (Boston, 1859).

References

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