Daniel Dana (July 24, 1771 – August 26, 1859) was an American Presbyterian minister[1] in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and president of Dartmouth College from 1820 to 1821.

[2] Dana was reluctant to take on the presidency of an institution so recently embattled following the Dartmouth College case.

He was finally convinced by the Trustees to become the fourth president in the Wheelock Succession in August 1820.

Plagued by ill health and exhausted by the strain of the presidency, he resigned less than a year later, in May 1821.

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