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Sidney Willard
American educator and politician

Sidney Willard

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American educator and politician
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Place of birth
Beverly
Place of death
Cambridge
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76 years
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Sidney Willard (September 19, 1780 – December 6, 1856) was an American academic and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, on the Massachusetts Governor's Council and as the second Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Willard was the Librarian of Harvard from 1800 to 1805. From 1807 to 1831 he was the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages at Harvard College. Willard was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1808.
Willard was the son of Harvard president Joseph Willard and Mary (Sheafe) Willard.
Willard was a member of the Anthology Club, and a founder of The Literary Miscellany, established and edited the American Monthly Review (4 vols., 1832/3), was editor of The Christian Register, contributed to numerous periodicals, and published a Hebrew Grammar (Cambridge, 1817), and Memoirs of Youth and Manhood (2 vols., 1855).
His son in law, John Bartlett, was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death.

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