Charles F. Dunbar

Charles Franklin Dunbar (1830 - 1900) was an American economist. He occupied the first department of political economy at Harvard University in 1871. He graduated from Harvard University in 1851. From 1885 to 1898 he was a trustee and then president of the Board of Trustees of the Philips Exeter Academy; Dunbar Hall, a dormitory on the campus of this school, was named after him in 1901, as was his replacement after it was destroyed by fire in 1907.