Witherspoon was the president of which college? yale harvard edinburgh princeton

John Witherspoon was the president of the Princeton college. He accepted the invitation to be the president from Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton. He became  he became the sixth President of the college at the age of 45, in year 1766. Later the college was known as Princeton University. Witherspoon purchased books for the library and scientific equipment  and instituted a number of reforms. He transformed the college in a good way.