Drury Lacy Jr.

Drury Lacy Jr. was the third president of Davidson College.

A native of Virginia, he was a Presbyterian pastor at a church in New Bern, North Carolina and then in Raleigh, North Carolina before becoming president.

[1] As president, Davidson received a large financial commitment from a Maxwell Chambers, making Davidson the wealthiest private college in the entire South.

[1] Lacy left Davidson in 1860 and eventually became a chaplain in the Confederate States Army.

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