Samuel Duke’s career included Farmville’s teacher-training school

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Before the Madison presidency.

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A Farmville appointment

The Library of Virginia records Samuel Page Duke joining Farmville’s State Normal School for Women in autumn 1914. He headed its education department and directed its teacher-training school as principal.

The institution later became Longwood University.

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He became Virginia’s supervisor of high schools in 1918, before leading the Harrisonburg institution later named Madison College. Reading the earlier appointment makes his Farmville work visible beside his later presidency.

It does not make the Farmville and Harrisonburg schools the same institution or describe a current training program.

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Library of Virginia — Marianne E. Julienne

2015 biography; primary body retrieved October 18, 2026.

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