John Newton Waddel (born Willington, South Carolina, April 2, 1812; died 1895) was the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1865 to 1874.
[1] He worked as a cotton farmer in Alabama, taught at the Willington Academy in South Carolina, and established the Montrose Academy in Jasper County, Mississippi.
[1] A Presbyterian minister, he preached to the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
[4] He then became the Chair of the Ancient Languages Department at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
[1][4][7] He resigned to become secretary of education for the Presbyterian Church of the United States.