presided over by Edward Thompson, then president of Ohio Wesleyan University. In February 1857 it was announced that Rev. John F. Wright was appointed the first president of Wilberforce University. However, minutes of WU board meetings indicate that there was an on-going active search committee for a WU president at the time Wright served in that post. Wright was the presiding elder of the East Cincinnati District and had spent two years lobbying the MEC Cincinnati Conference for the creation the school prior to the 1856 ratification. He had led the original 1854 committee and was the one responsible for negotiating the collaborative process with the AME Church with meetings that began in August 1855. He, along with M. French and A. Lowery, were responsible for negotiating the purchase of Tawawa Springs; a process which went through difficult deliberations with several rejected offers made in 1855 and 1856 before a successful one was made on May 22, 1856.
Wright served as the WU's president during its first academic …
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