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The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

Samuel M. Inglis, Easterns first elected president. Inglis was unable to serve in the position of president because he died shortly before he was set to begin.

Samuel Inglis: Eastern’s first elected president

Corryn Brock, Editor-in-Chief November 7, 2021

Livingston C. Lord served as Eastern’s first president, serving in his role from the founding of the institution in 1898 until his death in 1933, but he was not Eastern’s first elected president. That...

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