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Finding Aid for the Chancellors Portraits Collection
The Mississippi Legislature chartered the University of Mississippi as the state’s first venue for public higher education in 1844. After construction, the doors to the institution opened to students in Oxford on 8 November 1848. The first two leaders of the university (George Frederick Holmes 1848-1849 and Augustus Baldwin Longstreet 1849-1856) were called “president” until the title changed to “chancellor” in 1858 at the suggestion of then President F.A.P. Barnar