| Honorific Prefix: | The Reverend |
| Daniel Dana | |
| Order: | 4th |
| President of Dartmouth College | |
| Term Start: | 1820 |
| Term End: | 1821 |
| Predecessor: | Francis Brown |
| Successor: | Bennet Tyler |
| Birth Date: | 24 July 1771 |
| Birth Place: | Ipswich, Massachusetts |
| Death Place: | Newburyport, Massachusetts |
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. He graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1788.
Daniel Dana was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts on July 21, 1771.[2]
He was married twice, to Elizabeth Coombs on December 30, 1800, and to Sarah Emery on November 8, 1814.[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.[2]
He died in Newburyport on August 26, 1859.[2]