Brewster, Kingman

Kingman Brewster Jr. (1919-88, age 69). An American educator, academic and diplomat.

He served as the 17th president of Yale University and as United States ambassador to the United Kingdom.

He is also well known for his handling of the student protests on the Yale campus during the Vietnam War era, a war that Brewster openly criticized and opposed. He never allowed such convictions to disrupt the University’s operations, especially classes.

He was educated at Yale and Harvard, as well as Amherst College.

Born in Massachusetts in 1919, he died in Oxford, U.K. in 1988 at the age of 69. He is buried in New Haven, Connecticut.