Landon Garland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American university administration
Date of Birth: 21-Mar-1810
Place of Birth: Nelson County, Virginia, United States
Date of Death: 12-Feb-1895
Profession: academic
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Landon Garland
- Landon Cabell Garland (1810–1895) was an American Professor of Physics and History, and University President 3 times at different Southern Universities(Randolph Macon, Alabama, Vanderbilt) while living in the southern United States for his entire life.
- He served as the second President of Randolph–Macon College in Ashland, Virginia from 1836 to 1846; then Professor from 1847 to 1855, and then third President of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama from 1855 to 1867; and first chancellor of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1875 to 1893.
- He was an apologist for slavery in the United States before the Civil War, but afterward became a vociferous spokesperson against slavery when it because possible to do so.
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