National Normal University was a teacher's college in Lebanon, Ohio. Located in southwestern Ohio, it opened in 1855 as Southwestern Normal School and took the name National Normal University in 1870. Alfred Holbrook was the first president and the school's guiding force for most of its existence. He resigned in 1897 after 42 years. In 1907 the NNU became public and changed its name to Lebanon University. The school went bankrupt in and finally closed in 1917. The school merged with Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. The Warren County (Ohio) Historical Society in Lebanon, Ohio, now holds Lebanon University's records. In 1933 Alfred Holbrook College opened on the same campus. AHC moved to Manchester, Ohio where it closed in 1941. The original campus was demolished in 1977. Notable alumni Stanley P. V. Arnold, an Illinois state representative and newspaper editor Horatio C. Claypool, United States Representative from Ohio Myers Y. Cooper, former Governor of Ohio Clement L. Brumbaugh, United States Representative from Ohio Francis B. De Witt, United States Representative from Ohio Lucien J. Fenton, United States Representative from Ohio William T. Fitzgerald, United States Representative from Ohio John W. Harreld, United States Representative and Senator from Oklahoma Cordell Hull, United States Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt James R. Keaton, Justice of the Oklahoma Territorial Supreme Court. Isaac C. Ketler, Presbyterian scholar, founder of Grove City College Andrew Armstrong Kincannon, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi Monroe Henry Kulp, United States Representative from Pennsylvania John J. Lentz, United States Representative from Ohio John A. McDowell, United States Representative from Ohio Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, autodidact physicist and meteorologist Stephen Morgan, United States Representative from Ohio Will E. Neal, United States Representative from West Virginia Miner G. Norton, United States Representative from Ohio James D. Post, United States Representative from Ohio John M. Robsion, United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky F. E. Riddle (judge), Attorney and Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court Addison E. Southard, American diplomat W. D. Twichell (Class of 1883, civil engineering), Texas surveyor George M. Wertz, United States Representative from Pennsylvania Edward E. Moore, Indiana state senator and Los Angeles City Council member Mary Creegan Roark, first female president of Eastern Kentucky University See also Normal school References External links Ohio Historical Society article Defunct private universities and colleges in Ohio Education in Warren County, Ohio Educational institutions established