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Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine, in the United States, founded in 1794. Its graduates include the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and President Franklin Pierce. In 1826 John Brown Russwurm became its first African American graduate, one of the first Black graduates of any American college.
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