| Clark Titus Hinman | |
| Office: | 1st President of Northwestern University |
| Term Start: | 1854 |
| Term End: | 1854 |
| Birth Date: | 3 August 1819 |
| Birth Place: | Kortright, New York |
| Death Place: | Troy, New York |
| Successor: | Henry S. Noyes (interim) |
| Alma Mater: | Wesleyan University Ohio Wesleyan University |
| Profession: | Educator |
| Spouse: | Martha A. Morse Hinman |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Clark Titus Hinman (August 3, 1819 – October 21, 1854) was the first president of Northwestern University. Hinman was born in Delaware County, New York into a Methodist family. He attended Wesleyan University, and after graduation served as an instructor at a seminary in Newbury, Vermont. In 1846, Hinman left Newbury and went to the Wesleyan seminary in Albion, Michigan (which later became Albion College, where he served as president from 1846 – 1853). While at Albion, Hinman met Erastus O. Haven (a future president of NU), and they discussed the formation of a new University. Hinman was unanimously elected president of Northwestern University by the board of trustees on August 23, 1853.[2]
Hinman also was one of the co-founders of the Eclectic Society, originally a college fraternity at Wesleyan. The Eclectic Society was founded in 1838, making it one of older fraternal college organizations in the United States.