Martin Hehir
American catholic priest and university president
Died when: 79 years 211 days (954 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Martin A.Hehir C.S.Sp. (/'h??r/;November 10, 1855 – June 9, 1935) was a Roman Catholic priest and the fourth president of Pittsburgh Catholic College (later called Duquesne University).
Hehir served as president of the university from 1899 until 1930.In Hehir's thirty-one years of presidency, the small college grew to become a university and the seventh largest Catholic school in the United States.
After his retirement, Hehir served as Superior of the Holy Ghost Missionary College near Philadelphia, and then as the Superior of the Spiritan Fathers at Ferndale Seminary in Norwalk, Connecticut until his death.
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