| 词条 | James Manning (minister) |
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|name=James Manning |image=James Manning head by Cosmo Alexander.JPG |order=1st |office=President of Brown University |term_start=1765 |term_end=1791 |successor=Jonathan Maxcy |order2=Delegate to the Continental Congress for Rhode Island & Providence Plantations |office2= |term_start2=1786 |term_end2=1786 |birth_date={{birth date|1738|10|22}} |birth_place=Elizabethtown, New Jersey, British America |death_date={{death date and age|1791|7|29|1738|10|22}} |death_place=Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |resting_place=North Burial Ground Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |profession=University president Minister Politician |alma_mater=The College of New Jersey |religion=Baptist |spouse=Margaret Stites |nationality=American |signature= |footnotes= }} James Manning (October 22, 1738 – July 29, 1791) was an American Baptist minister, educator and legislator from Providence, Rhode Island best known for being the first president of Brown University and one of its most involved founders. Early life and educationManning was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. At the age of 18, he attended the Hopewell Academy in Hopewell, New Jersey under the direction of Reverend Isaac Eaton in preparation for his religious studies. In 1762, he graduated from the College of New Jersey, which would later become Princeton University. At Princeton, Manning studied under president Samuel Finley who served under a board of trustees that declared, "Our idea is to send into the World good Scholars and useful members of Society." One of the 130 graduates Finley sent out during his five-year presidency was, notably, the Rev. James Manning.[1] He married Margaret Stites in the year of his graduation from Princeton and a few weeks after the marriage he was publicly ordained by the Scotch Plains, New Jersey Baptist Church.[2] Brown University presidencyIn 1764, Manning was sent by the Philadelphia Baptist Association to found a college in Rhode Island, the cradle of American Baptists. Along with prominent Rhode Islanders, Manning was one of the founders of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (now Brown University) during the British colonial period. Manning served as Brown's first president from 1765 to 1791. He first ran the university at his parsonage and the Baptist meeting house in Warren, Rhode Island. The University moved to Providence in 1770 and during his tenure built its first buildings on college hill, with the help of the Brown family. While serving as Brown's first president, Rev. James Manning "arrived in Rhode Island accompanied by a personal slave".[3][4] Reverend Manning gave the library of the College its first book, Valentin Schindler's Lexicon Pentaglotton Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum & Arabicum, which was printed in Hanover, Germany in 1612.[5] In February 1786, prominent Virginian Robert Carter III of the Nomony Hall plantation in Virginia, wrote to President Manning regarding his two sons George and John Tasker Carter who were to be enrolled at the college and board with Manning that: "they [are] to be Sent from Boston immediately upon their Arrival there to your College in Providence. I beg leave to appoint you their Foster Father intimating that my desire is that both my Said Sons shd. be active Characters in Life."[6] Manning presided over Brown's first commencement in 1769, at which time seven students received the degree of Bachelor of Arts and 21 honorary degrees were conferred. During his tenure, 165 men earned degrees from the college including 43 clergymen, 29 lawyers, 19 physicians, 19 teachers, 12 judges, 12 business men, 6 professors, 6 congressmen, 2 college presidents, 2 United States ministers, 1 United States consul, 1 governor, and 1 librarian.[6] American revolutionary periodIn 1774, Dr. Manning reportedly presented an argument in favor of religious freedom in an address at Philadelphia's Carpenter's Hall to leading figures from Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and other colonies: It has been said by a celebrated writer in politics, that but two things are worth contending for--Religion and Liberty. For the latter we are at present nobly exerting ourselves through all this extensive continent; and surely no one whose bosom feels the patriotic glow in behalf of civil liberty can remain torpid to the more ennobling flame of RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.[7] In the course of the American Revolution, Manning was serving as president of Brown in 1780 when French troops under the command of the Comte de Rochambeau, who led troops sent by King Louis XVI of France, landed in Newport, Rhode Island to aid American troops under the command of General George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. These allied troops were based in Rhode Island for a year before they embarked on a 600-mile (970 km) march in 1781 from Rhode Island to Virginia, where they fought and defeated British forces sent by King George III of the United Kingdom on the Yorktown, Virginia peninsula in the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake. During the year of preparation in Rhode Island, the Brown campus was turned into an encampment site for soldiers, and the College Edifice at Brown (later renamed University Hall) was converted into a military hospital.[8] Civic leadership for Rhode Island in CongressIn 1786, the Rhode Island General Assembly unanimously elected James Manning to serve as its delegate in the 7th Congress of the Confederation. In that role, he served on the Grand Committee, which proposed fundamental amendments to the Articles of Confederation.[9] Manning served in Congress along with future President James Monroe and future United States Senator and Governor of South Carolina Charles Pinckney. In A History of the Baptists, President Manning is reported to have played an inspirational role in persuading the Massachusetts ratifying convention to adopt the United States Constitution: When the Constitution of the United States was presented to the States for ratification it was doubtful whether it would pass. Massachusetts and Virginia were the pivotal States. Massachusetts was evenly divided and it was only through the labors of Manning, Stillman and Backus that the Constitution was adopted by that State. The majority was nineteen votes. There were 187 yeas and 168 nays on the last day of the session, and "before the final question was taken, Governor Hancock, the president, invited Dr. Manning to close the solemn invocation with prayer. The prayer was one of lofty patriotism and every heart was filled with reverence.[10] Baptist ministryWhile serving as president of Brown, Manning was first the minister of the Baptist church in Warren, and then moved to become the minister of the First Baptist Church in America in Providence for the period of July 1771 through April 1791. Like the college, in 1774-1775, Manning led the church in building. Its present building was dedicated to "publick worship" and for "holding commencement in" 1775.[11] Manning's nephew Stephen Gano became pastor in 1792.[6] The President James Manning MedalThe Brown University Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life annually awards a medal in honor of Manning to a member of the graduating class based upon the award description described in the nomination form: The President James Manning Medal is awarded to a [graduating senior] whose pursuit of excellence in the study and practice of religion is exemplary. This award is given in honor of Brown's first president, who exemplified the synthesis of intellectual precision and spiritual engagement. The academic study of religion enables students to become critical thinkers and move beyond personal piety into responsible leadership achieving a balance between the particularity of respective faith traditions and a sense of community and global responsibility.[12] References1. ^A Princeton Companion http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/finley_samuel.html 2. ^Guild, Reuben Aldridge. The Life and Times of James Manning and the Early History of Brown University. Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1864. 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/documents/SlaveryAndJustice.pdf|title= Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice|author= Brenda A. Allen, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, B. Anthony Bogues, et. all|pages= 12-13|date= |publisher= Brown University |accessdate=}} 4. ^Among the schools that would centuries later create the Ivy League, when Reverend Manning assumed the Brown presidency, The Reverend Myles Cooper was serving as President of King's College (predecessor of today's Columbia University), The Reverend Edward Holyoke was serving as President of Harvard College, The Reverend William Smith was serving as the first Provost of the College of Philadelphia (predecessor of today's University of Pennsylvania), The Reverend Samuel Finley was serving as President of the College of New Jersey (predecessor of today's Princeton University), and The Reverend Thomas Clap was serving as the first President of Yale College. Dartmouth College and Cornell University had not yet been established. 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/libs/hay/history/hist2.htm |title=The History of Special Collections at Brown University: Colonial Period |publisher=Brown.edu |date=2007-07-26 |accessdate=2012-06-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005230432/http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/libs/hay/history/hist2.htm |archivedate=2012-10-05 |df= }} 6. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=M0100 |title=Encyclopedia Brunoniana | Manning, James |publisher=Brown.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-06-06}} 7. ^{{cite web|author=Sam Hughey |url=http://www.reformedreader.org/history/armitage/ch11.htm |title=History of the Baptists, Thomas Armitage |publisher=The Reformed Reader |date= |accessdate=2012-06-06}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2005-06/05-137.html |title=05-137 (March to Yorktown) |publisher=Brown.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-06-06}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1587 |title=Proposed Amendments to the Articles of Confederation |publisher=Teachingamericanhistory.org |date=1980-01-01 |accessdate=2012-06-06}} 10. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.pbministries.org/History/John%20T.%20Christian/vol1/history_21.htm |title=CHAPTER XXI-The Origin of the American Baptist Churches |publisher=Pbministries.org |date= |accessdate=2012-06-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530181705/http://pbministries.org/History/John%20T.%20Christian/vol1/history_21.htm |archivedate=2012-05-30 |df= }} 11. ^{{cite web|author=|url=http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/manning-james.html |title=James MANNING — |publisher=Infoplease.com |date= |accessdate=2012-06-06}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/Chaplains/News/0322011_awardsnominations2011.html |title=Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life |publisher=Brown.edu |date=2011-04-08 |accessdate=2012-06-06}} External links{{Baptist}}
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