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Founded
  
1855

Ceased operations
  
1917

National Normal University httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Notable alumni
  
John J Lentz, Benjamin F Stapleton, Charles Marley Anderson, Joseph McGhee, Myers Y Cooper

Similar
  
Grove City College, Wilmington College, Cumberland University, Northwest Nazarene University

National Normal University was a teacher's college in Lebanon, Ohio. It opened in 1855 as Southwestern Normal School and took the name National Normal University in 1870. Alfred Holbrook was the first president and the school's guiding force for most of its existence. He resigned in 1897 after 42 years. In 1907 the NNU changed its name again to Lebanon University. The school went bankrupt in 1895 and finally closed in 1917. The school merged with Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. The Warren County (Ohio) Historical Society in Lebanon, Ohio, now holds Lebanon University's records. In 1933 Alfred Holbrook College opened on the same campus. AHC moved to Manchester, Ohio where it closed in 1941. The original campus was demolished in 1977.

Notable alumni

  • Horatio C. Claypool, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • Clement L. Brumbaugh, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • Francis B. De Witt, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • Lucien J. Fenton, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • William T. Fitzgerald, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • John W. Harreld, a U.S. Representative and Senator from Oklahoma
  • Cordell Hull, a U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Isaac C. Ketler, Presbyterian scholar, founder of Grove City College
  • Andrew Armstrong Kincannon, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi
  • Monroe Henry Kulp, a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
  • John J. Lentz, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • John A. McDowell, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, an autodidact US physicist and meteorologist
  • Stephen Morgan, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • Will E. Neal, a U.S. Representative from West Virginia
  • Miner G. Norton, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • James D. Post, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • John M. Robsion, a U.S. Representative and Senator from Kentucky
  • W. D. Twichell (Class of 1883, civil engineering), Texas surveyor
  • George M. Wertz, a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
  • Edward E. Moore, Indiana state senator and Los Angeles City Council member

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