Benjamin Labaree

For the American historian (born 1927), see Benjamin Woods Labaree.

Benjamin Labaree (June 3, 1801 – November 15, 1883)^[1] was a minister, professor and the longest serving president of Middlebury College from 1840 until 1866.

Benjamin Labaree
President of Middlebury College
In office 1840–1866
Preceded by	Joshua Bates
Succeeded by	Harvey Denison Kitchel
Personal details
Born	(1801-06-03)June 3, 1801 Charlestown, New Hampshire
Died	November 15, 1883(1883-11-15) (aged 82) Walpole, New Hampshire

Labaree was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire.^[1] He was an 1828 graduate of Dartmouth College,^[1] as well as a recipient of graduate degrees from the University of Vermont and Dartmouth.

His two sons were John C. Labaree, a Congregational minister at Randolph, Massachusetts, and Benjamin Labaree, a Presbyterian missionary to Persia from 1861 until his death in 1904.^[1][2]