Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (29 November 1791 in Kingston, New York – 23 February 1879 in Kingston, New York) was the sixth President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) serving from 1840 to 1850.

Hasbrouck, born in 1791, studied at the Kingston Academy in New York before entering Yale College where he graduated in 1810. Studying the law under Tapping Reeve and James Gould , he returned to Kingston, New York in 1814 to practice law. Hasbrouck was elected to the Nineteenth Congress in 1824 serving from 1825 to 1827. In 1840, he was appointed by the Trustees of Rutgers College to be the sixth president, and the first layman to hold the office. During his tenure as President, in which he also taught Rhetoric, Constitutional Law , and Political Economy, he strove to establish independence from the Dutch Reformed Church and added modern languages and expanded scientific instruction to the curriculum. He resigned in 1849, remaining in office until 1850 when Theodore Frelinghuysen had been appointed his successor. Hasbrouck retired to Kingston, New York, where he died on 23 February 1879.

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• Rutgers University
• Leadership on the Banks: Rutgers' Presidents, 1766–2004
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress