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Stuart, John Leighton

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Stuart, John Leighton (1876–1972)

Chinese-born US Protestant missionary and educator who was the son of Presbyterian missionaries. He was a professor at Nanking Theological Seminary from 1908 to 1919; in the latter year he became first president of Yenching University in Peking.

He was born in Hangchow, China. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College, was ordained a Presbyterian minister, and returned to China in 1904. Named US ambassador to China in 1946, he returned to the USA in 1949 after the consolidation of communist power. His memoirs, Fifty Years in China, appeared in 1954.



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