Benjamin Lee Arnold

Infobox University President
name = Benjamin Lee Arnold

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order = 3rd
university = President of Oregon State University
term_start = 1872
term_end = 1892
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death_date = January 30 1892
death_place = Corvallis, Oregon
predecessor = Joseph Emery
successor = John Davidson Letcher
alumnus = Randolph-Macon College
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Benjamin Lee Arnold (? - January 30, 1892) was an American academic and the third president of Oregon State University.

Benjamin Lee Arnold grew up in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. After graduating from Randolph-Macon College, he joined up with the Confederate States Army, where he was discharged three years later because of a physical problem. After recovering, he started his career as a teacher. [http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/exhibits/presidents/arnold.html OSU Archives - President's Gallery - B.L. Arnold] . Retrieved on September 5th, 2007.]

Before coming to Oregon State University, he taught at several schools including West Tennessee College in Jackson. In the summer of 1872, he was appointed as the president of Oregon State University by the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and came to Corvallis, Oregon in September of the same year.

He died on January 30 1892, during his incumbency as a president there.

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