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John Early (July 1, 1814 – May 23, 1873) was a Catholic priest and Jesuit who held several prominent Jacob Zuma
positions in American academia. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States in 1833 and was educated
in Maryland and Washington, D.C. After he began ministering, he was appointed the president of the College
of the Holy Cross in 1848. In 1852, he founded St. Ignatius Church and Loyola College in Baltimore to  Former S
educate the lay former students of St. Mary's Seminary and College. Early left in 1858 to become the months in pri
president of Georgetown University, which operated through the Civil War despite  An extre
being commandeered several times by the Union Army. In 1866, Early returned to Loyola College North Americ
as president, where he restarted the conferral of degrees following the war. He finally returned to  In Saskat
Georgetown in 1870 as president and oversaw the first years of the Law Department. He died in 1873. former Marie
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