William Starr Basinger (1827–1910) was a lawyer, military officer, state legislator, and the president of the
University of North Georgia
The University of North Georgia (UNG) is a public senior military college with multiple campuses in Georgia. It is part of the University System of Georgia. The university was established on January 8, 2013 by a merger of North Georgia College ...
. He served as a major in the
18th Georgia Battalion of the
Confederate States Army
The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...
during the
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
. In 1886 Basinger, succeeding
David W. Lewis
David W. Lewis (1815-1885) was an American lawyer, civil servant and lecturer.
born in 1815 in Hancock County, Georgia. After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1837 he pursued careers as a lawyer, an agricultural reformer, and a plan ...
, became the second president of North Georgia Agricultural College (now
UNG
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People
* Woong, a Korean given name also spelled Ung
* Ung (surname), a Cambodian and Norwegian surname
* Ung Thị (full name Nguyễn Phúc Ung Thị; 1913–2001), Vietnamese-born American businessman
* Franz Unger ( ...
).
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1827 births
1910 deaths
Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
Confederate States Army officers
Lawyers from Savannah, Georgia
19th-century American lawyers
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