Atlanta University was founded on September 19, 1865,[12] by two former slaves, James Tate and Grandison Daniels.[13] Two years later, Edmund Asa Ware of the American Missionary Association was appointed the first president;[14][15] and Atlanta University was chartered in 1867 with the assistance from Oliver Otis Howard of the Freedmen's Bureau. He also appointed William J. White as educational agent of the Freedmen's Bureau on January 12, 1867. William J. White was the half-brother of founder James Tate and was the co-founder of the Augusta Institute in 1867, which would become Morehouse College.