Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (November 29, 1791 – February 23, 1879) was a United States Congressman from New York and the sixth President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) serving from 1840 to 1850.
[3] He was born in 1791 in Kingston, New York, to Jonathan Hasbrouck (1763–1846) and Catherine Wynkoop (1763–1846).
During his tenure as president, he taught rhetoric, constitutional Law, and political economy.
[1] Hasbrouck retired to Kingston, New York, where he died of pneumonia on February 23, 1879.
The Hasbroucks were Huguenots, Protestant followers of John Calvin who fled what is today Northern France and South Belgium who fled persecution by the ruling Catholics.