Joseph Edgerton Willet, Acting President 1893
- Educator, scientist (1826-1897); A.B., A.M., M.D., LL.D. degrees; married to Emily Sanders (1851)
- Unexpectedly elected professor of natural philosophy and chemistry while attending commencement in 1847, a position he occupied for forty-six years, and becoming a mainstay of Mercer's faculty during the years immediately before and during the Civil War
- Became acting president between Tucker and Battle, and then Nunnally and Gambrell
- Known by Edwin S. Davis of Macon, a student in one of the last classes Willet taught at Mercer, as a "learned scientist, who was respected by the student body because of his abundant store of knowledge, and was admired for his genius to teach....With him a lesson in chemistry was also a lesson in courtesy."
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