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Born in 1790, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet was the first of four Yale
graduates to serve as president of the University, and he was the first
of three presidents to be an ordained minister. A man of many trades,
Longstreet worked as a lawyer, legislator, judge, and journalist in
Georgia, where he started his own publication, The Sentinel, in Augusta.
He also was a prominent author. His Georgia Scenes, a collection of
humorous stories, was published by Harper in 1840. Longstreet served as
president of Emory College in Oxford, Georgia, and of Centenary College
in Shreveport, Louisiana, before being elected to the post at The University
of Mississippi. During his tenure, several social fraternities were
organized, the School of Law was started, and a professorship of
governmental science and law was added to the faculty.
