List of Ivy League university presidents
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According to the Mudd Library at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, February 1954 is the accepted founding date of the Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...

 as an athletic consortium. However, the first Ivy League institution, Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, was founded in 1636 under the leadership of Nathaniel Eaton
Nathaniel Eaton
Nathaniel Eaton was the first schoolmaster of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later became a clergyman.- Biography :...

. Beyond the sphere of athletic competition among its members, the Ivy League association also represents a tradition of scholarly distinction unique to some of the oldest colleges in the United States
Colonial colleges
The Colonial Colleges are nine institutions of higher education chartered in the American Colonies before the United States of America became a sovereign nation after the American Revolution. These nine have long been considered together, notably in the survey of their origins in the 1907 The...

.

By certain counts, 34 of the Ivy League presidents presided over their respective institutions during the British colonial period prior to the American Revolution
American Revolution
The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America...

. Graduates of these institutions, who had typically studied very closely with their university president, were heavily involved in leadership roles in business, religion and politics across the original thirteen colonies
Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were English and later British colonies established on the Atlantic coast of North America between 1607 and 1733. They declared their independence in the American Revolution and formed the United States of America...

. A disproportionate number of the colonial period presidents (if not all), as well as several in the post-Independence period governed by the Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution...

 and the Constitution of the United States were ordained ministers (including a few bishops) in the Anglican, Baptist
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

, Congregationalist, Presbyterian or Puritan
Puritan
The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England...

 religious traditions. That academic tradition of close relationship with religious traditions was maintained at many of these universities well into the 19th century or beyond. Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 is unique for being entirely nonsectarian from its inception. Since the 20th century, a greater emphasis on secular academic inquiry and religious diversity has predominated among all eight of the Ivy League universities.

In this context, an overview of the leadership of the Ivy League universities is helpful to appreciating their role in the cultural history of the United States from the pre-Revolutionary British colonial period through the present.

Brown University

The following is a list of presidents of Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

, formerly known as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the College of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

President Brown Class Tenure Events
1. The Reverend James Manning 
1738–1791 1765–1791 The College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is established. American Revolution. The College of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is established.
2. The Reverend Jonathan Maxcy
Jonathan Maxcy
Jonathan Maxcy was the second president of Brown University ; the third president of Union College; and the first president of the University of South Carolina.Born in Attleboro, Massachusetts on September 2, 1768, Maxcy was educated at an academy in Wrentham, Massachusetts and...

1787 1768–1820 1792–1802
3. The Reverend Asa Messer
Asa Messer
Asa Messer was an American Baptist clergyman and educator. He was President of Brown University from 1804 to 1826.-Life and career:...

1790 1769–1836 1802–1826 The College of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is renamed as Brown University; first Medical School founded.
4. The Reverend Francis Wayland
Francis Wayland
Francis Wayland , American Baptist educator and economist, was born in New York City, New York. He was president of Brown University and pastor of the First Baptist Church in America in Providence, Rhode Island. In Washington, D.C., Wayland Seminary was established in 1867, primarily to educate...

 
1796–1865 1827–1855 Suspension of the Medical School
5. The Reverend Barnas Sears
Barnas Sears
Barnas Sears graduated from Brown University in 1825. Sears was the general agent of the Peabody Education Fund who was sent to Staunton, Virginia, by George Peabody to offer leadership in Public Education. Sears was General Agent of the fund from 1867 until February 1880...

1825 1802–1880 1855–1867
6. The Reverend Alexis Caswell
Alexis Caswell
Alexis Caswell was an American educator, born in Taunton, Massachusetts. He graduated Brown University in 1822, and entered the Baptist ministry....

1822 1799–1877 1868–1872
7. The Reverend Ezekiel Gilman Robinson
Ezekiel Robinson
Ezekiel Gilman Robinson was an American Baptist clergyman, theologian and educator, born at Attleboro, Massachusetts, and educated at Brown University and at Newton Theological Institution...

1838 1815–1894 1872–1889 Graduate study instituted
8. The Reverend Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1870 1844–1917 1889–1898 Women's College founded
9. The Reverend William H. P. Faunce
William H. P. Faunce
William Herbert Parry Faunce was an American clergyman, educator and the son of Daniel Faunce, born at Worcester, Massachusetts He graduated in 1880 at Brown University , and at 1884 at Newton Theological Seminary, and from 1884 to 1889 was pastor of the State Street Baptist Church of Springfield,...

1880 1859–1930 1899–1929 Women's College renamed to Pembroke College
10. The Reverend Clarence Augustus Barbour
Clarence Barbour
Clarence Augustus Barbour was an American Baptist clergyman and educator most notable for having served as the president of Brown University. He was born on April 21, 1869 in Hartford, Connecticut and died on January 16, 1937 in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from Brown University in 1888...

1888 1867–1937 1929–1937 Last of long line of Baptist minister Presidents
11. Henry M. Wriston
Henry Wriston
Henry Merritt Wriston was a United States' educator, presidential advisor, and served as president at both Brown University and Lawrence University.-Biography:...

1889–1978 1937–1955
12. Barnaby C. Keeney
Barnaby Keeney
Barnaby Conrad Keeney was president of Brown University from 1955 to 1966 where he was known and loved by the student body for openness and his dry wit...

1914–1980 1955–1966
13. Ray L. Heffner
Ray L. Heffner
Raymond Lorenzo Heffner served in the United States Navy during World War II. Heffner is a 1948 graduate of Yale College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the Elizabethan Club, and Scroll and Key...

1925- 1966–1969 New Curriculum passed
14. Donald F. Hornig
Donald Hornig
Donald Frederick Hornig is an American chemist, explosives expert, teacher and presidential science advisor. He served as president of Brown University, 1970–1976....

1920- 1970–1976 Pembroke merged with Brown, Medical School founded
15. Howard R. Swearer 
1932–1991 1977–1988
16. Vartan Gregorian
Vartan Gregorian
Vartan Gregorian is an Armenian-American academic, serving as the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. He is an ethnic Armenian, born in Iran....

1934- 1989–1997
17. E. Gordon Gee
Gordon Gee
Elwood Gordon Gee is an American academic. He is in his second term as the president of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio; he was previously president from 1990 to 1998....

 
1944- 1998–2000
17.1 Sheila E. Blumstein
Sheila Blumstein
Sheila Blumstein served as the interim president of Brown University after Gordon Gee departed and before Ruth Simmons took the position. Although Dr. Simmons is deemed the first female president of the university, Dr. Blumstein's portrait hangs in Sayles Hall along with those of past presidents. ...

 
1943- 2000–2001 Interim President
18. Ruth J. Simmons 
1945- 2001-

Columbia University

The following is a list of presidents of Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 (formerly known as King's College, Columbia College in the State of New York, Columbia College in the City of New York, and Columbia University in the City of New York).

President Birth Year–Death Year Years as President Name of Institution; Notes
1 The Reverend Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (1696-1772)
The Reverend Doctor Samuel Johnson was a clergyman, educator, and philosopher in colonial British North America...

 
(1696–1772) (1754–1763) King's College
2 The Reverend Myles Cooper
Myles Cooper
Myles Cooper was a figure in colonial New York. An Anglican priest, he served as the President of King's College from 1763 to 1775, and was a public opponent of the American Revolution....

 
(1735–1785) (1763–1775) King's College
2.1 The Reverend Benjamin Moore
Benjamin Moore
Benjamin Moore was the second Episcopal bishop of New York.-Early life and family:Moore was born in Newtown, New York, in 1748, the son of Samuel Moore and Sarah Fish Moore and the great-grandson of John Moore, the first Independent minister allowed in New England...

 
(1748–1816) (1775–1784) King's College; acting president; American Revolution.
2.2 George Clinton
George Clinton (vice president)
George Clinton was an American soldier and politician, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was the first Governor of New York, and then the fourth Vice President of the United States , serving under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. He and John C...

 
(1739–1812) (1784–1787) Columbia College "in the State of New York"; Chancellor (Regents government)
3 William Samuel Johnson
William Samuel Johnson
William Samuel Johnson was an early American statesman who was notable for signing the United States Constitution, for representing Connecticut in the United States Senate, and for serving as president of Columbia University.-Early career:...

 
(1727–1819) (1787–1800) Columbia College "in the City of New York" (Trustees government)
4 The Reverend Charles Henry Wharton
Charles Henry Wharton
Charles Henry Wharton was a clergyman.The family plantation, Notley Hall, was presented to his grandfather by Lord Baltimore...

 
(1748–1833) (1801–1801) Columbia College
5 The Right Reverend Benjamin Moore (1748–1816) (1801–1810) Columbia College; Assistant Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of New York
Episcopal Diocese of New York
The Episcopal Diocese of New York is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, encompassing the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island in New York City, and the New York state counties of Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Sullivan, and...

6 The Reverend William Harris
William Harris (academic)
William Harris , an Episcopalian minister, was the sixth president of Columbia College, serving from 1811 to 1829. In a compromise, John Mitchell Mason, a Presbyterian minister who was denied the presidency, became the university's first provost and chief operating officer.William Harris was born...

 
(1765–1829) (1811–1829) Columbia College; shares authority with Provost John Mitchell Mason until 1816
7 William Alexander Duer
William Alexander Duer
William Alexander Duer was an American lawyer, jurist, and educator from New York City. He was a president of Columbia University, then Columbia College.-Biography:...

 
(1780–1858) (1829–1842) Columbia College
8 Nathaniel Fish Moore
Nathaniel Fish Moore
Nathaniel Fish Moore was the eighth president of Columbia College; he had earlier been a lawyer and served on the faculty. He was the nephew of the college's former president Benjamin Moore.-Notes:...

 
(1782–1872) (1842–1849) Columbia College
9 Charles King
Charles King (academic)
Charles King was an American academic, politician and newspaper editor. He succeeded Nathaniel Fish Moore to become the ninth president of Columbia College , holding the role from 7 November 1849 to 1864...

 
(1789–1867) (1849–1863) Columbia College; presides over move to Madison Avenue campus
10 Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard  (1809–1889) (1864–1889) Columbia College
11 Seth Low
Seth Low
Seth Low , born in Brooklyn, New York, was an American educator and political figure who served as mayor of Brooklyn, as President of Columbia University, as diplomatic representative of the United States, and as Mayor of New York City...

 
(1850–1916) (1890–1901) Columbia College; presides over move to Morningside Heights campus; name changes to "Columbia University in the City of New York"
12 Nicholas Murray Butler  (1862–1947) (1902–1945) Columbia University
12.1 Frank D. Fackenthal
Frank D. Fackenthal
Frank Diehl Fackenthal was an American educator.Fackenthal graduated from Columbia University in 1906. He served Columbia as chief clerk , secretary , and provost . Between the retirement of Nicholas Murray Butler and the installation of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as president , Dr...

 
(1883–1968) (1945–1948) Columbia University (acting)
13 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

 
(1890–1969) (1948–1953) Columbia University; on leave while Supreme Commander of NATO; resigned upon becoming President of the United States
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

14 Grayson L. Kirk
Grayson L. Kirk
Grayson Louis Kirk was president of Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968. He was also a Professor of Government, advisor to the State Department, and instrumental in the formation of the United Nations.-Early life:Kirk was born to a farmer and schoolteacher in...

 
(1903–1997) (1953–1968) Columbia University; resigned after 1968 protests
Columbia University protests of 1968
The Columbia University protests of 1968 were among the many student demonstrations that occurred around the world in that year. The Columbia protests erupted over the spring of that year after students discovered links between the university and the institutional apparatus supporting the United...

15 Andrew W. Cordier
Andrew W. Cordier
Andrew Wellington Cordier was a United Nations official and President of Columbia University.-Early life:Cordier was born on a farm near Canton, Ohio and attended high school in Hartville, Ohio where he became quarterback of the football team and valedictorian of his graduating class...

 
(1901–1975) (1969–1970) Columbia University
16 William J. McGill
William J. McGill
William James McGill was an American psychologist, author and academic administrator.-Biography:McGill was born in New York City to a musician and labor organizer. He attended parochial Catholic schools and in 1939 began his college education at Fordham University, where he earned bachelor's and...

 
(1922–1997) (1970–1980) Columbia University
17 Michael I. Sovern
Michael I. Sovern
Michael Ira Sovern was the 17th president of Columbia University. He is currently the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is a noted legal scholar of Labor Law and an expert in employment discrimination....

 
(1931– ) (1980–1993) Columbia University
18 George Erik Rupp
George Erik Rupp
George Erik Rupp is an American educator and theologian, the former President of Rice University and later of Columbia University, and president of the International Rescue Committee since July 2002.-Biography:...

 
(1942– ) (1993–2002) Columbia University
19 Lee C. Bollinger  (1947– ) (2002– ) Columbia University

Cornell University

The following is a list of presidents of Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

.

President Life Tenure
Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White was a U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University.-Family and personal life:...

 
1832–1918 1866–1885
Charles Kendall Adams  1856–1902 1885–1892
Jacob Gould Schurman  1854–1942 1892–1920
Livingston Farrand  1867–1939 1921–1937
Edmund Ezra Day
Edmund Ezra Day
Edmund Ezra Day was a U.S. educator.Day received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Dartmouth College and his doctorate in economics from Harvard. While at Dartmouth, be became a brother of Theta Delta Chi. He went on to serve as the fifth president of Cornell University from 1937 to 1949...

 
1883–1951 1937–1949
Deane Waldo Malott
Deane Waldo Malott
Deane Waldo Malott was an American academic and administrator.The son of a banker, Malott was born in Abilene, Kansas and went on to study at the University of Kansas. While at school there, he wrote for the University Daily Kansan and was a brother in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity...

 
1898–1996 1951–1963
James A. Perkins
James A. Perkins
James A. Perkins was the seventh president of Cornell University. Born in 1911 in Philadelphia, Perkins graduated with high honors in 1934 from Swarthmore College and received a doctorate in political science from Princeton University in 1937...

 
1911–1998 1963–1969
Dale R. Corson
Dale R. Corson
Dale R. Corson was the eighth president of Cornell University. Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1914, Corson received a B.A. degree from the College of Emporia in 1934, his M.A. degree from the University of Kansas in 1935, and his Ph.D...

 
b. 1914 1969–1977
Frank H. T. Rhodes  b. 1926 1977–1995
Hunter R. Rawlings III
Hunter R. Rawlings III
Hunter Ripley Rawlings III is an American classics scholar and academic administrator. He is best known for serving as the 17th President of the University of Iowa from 1982 until 1995 and as the 10th President of Cornell University from 1995 until 2003. He also served as Cornell's interim...

 
b. 1944 1995–2003
Jeffrey S. Lehman
Jeffrey S. Lehman
Jeffrey Sean Lehman is an American scholar, lawyer and academic administrator who is currently serving as the chancellor and founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China...

 (B.A. 1977)
b. 1956 2003–2005
David J. Skorton
David J. Skorton
David Jan Skorton is an American professor of medicine and an academic administrator. He is currently serving as the president of Cornell University.- Education :...

 
b. 1949 2006-

Dartmouth College

The following is a list of presidents of Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

.

President Life Tenure
The Rev. Eleazer Wheelock  1711-1779 1769-1779
John Wheelock
John Wheelock
John Wheelock was the eldest son of Eleazar Wheelock who was the founder and first president of Dartmouth College; John Wheelock succeeded his father as the College’s second president.-Early life:...

 
1754-1817 1779-1815
The Rev. Francis Brown
Francis Brown (1784-1820)
The Rev. Francis Brown served as the president of Dartmouth College. He graduated from the College in 1805 and from 1806–1809 held a tutorship there. He also served a pastor in a Congregational church in North Yarmouth, Maine...

 
1784-1820 1815-1820
The Rev. Daniel Dana  1771-1859 1820-1821
The Rev. Bennet Tyler  1783-1858 1822-1828
The Rev. Nathan Lord
Nathan Lord
Nathan Lord was a U.S. Congregational clergyman and educator. His pro-slavery views, unusual in abolitionist New England, brought him notoriety during the American Civil War....

 
1792-1870 1828-1863
The Rev. Asa Dodge Smith
Asa Dodge Smith
The Rev. Asa Dodge Smith D.D., L.L.D. served as the 7th president of Dartmouth College from 1863 until his death in 1877.- Dartmouth Presidency :...

 
1804-1877 1863-1877
The Rev. Samuel Colcord Bartlett
Samuel Colcord Bartlett
The Rev. Samuel Colcord Bartlett was the president of Dartmouth College from 1877–1892. He graduated from Dartmouth with the Class of 1836.-Biography:...

 
1817-1898 1877-1892
The Rev. William Jewett Tucker
William Jewett Tucker
The Rev. William Jewett Tucker served as the 9th President of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States, from 1893 to 1909.- Dartmouth presidency :...

 
1839-1926 1892-1909
Ernest Fox Nichols
Ernest Fox Nichols
Ernest Fox Nichols was a U.S. educator and physicist. He was born in Leavenworth County, Kansas, and received his undergraduate degree from Kansas State University in 1888. After working for a year in the Chemistry Department at Kansas State, he matriculated to graduate school at Cornell...

 
1869-1824 1909-1916
Ernest Martin Hopkins
Ernest Martin Hopkins
Ernest Martin Hopkins served as the 11th President of Dartmouth College from 1916 to 1945.- Dartmouth Presidency :...

 
1877-1964 1916-1945
John Sloan Dickey
John Sloan Dickey
John Sloan Dickey was an American diplomat, scholar, and intellectual. Dickey served as President of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, from 1945 to 1970, and helped revitalize the Ivy League institution....

 
1907-1991 1945-1970
John George Kemeny
John George Kemeny
John George Kemeny was a Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas E. Kurtz. Kemeny served as the 13th President of Dartmouth College from 1970 to 1981 and pioneered the use of computers in...

 
1926-1992 1970-1981
David Thomas McLaughlin  1932-2004 1981-1987
James Oliver Freedman  1935-2006 1987-1998
James Edward Wright  b.1939 1998-2009
Jim Yong Kim  b.1959 2009-present

Harvard University

The following is a list of presidents
President of Harvard University
The President of Harvard University is the chief administrator of the university. Ex officio the chairman of the Harvard Corporation, he or she is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body, who delegate to him or her the day-to-day running of the university...

 of Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 (formerly known as New College and Harvard College).


President Life Tenure
Nathaniel Eaton
Nathaniel Eaton
Nathaniel Eaton was the first schoolmaster of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later became a clergyman.- Biography :...

 ("schoolmaster")
1610–1674 1637-1639
The Reverend Henry Dunster
Henry Dunster
Henry Dunster was an Anglo-American Puritan clergyman and the first president of Harvard College...

1640–1654
The Reverend Charles Chauncy
Charles Chauncy
Charles Chauncy was an Anglo-American clergyman and educator.He was born at Yardleybury , Hertfordshire, England and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he later was a lecturer in Greek. After serving as a pastor in England at Marston St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire , he emigrated to...

1654–1672
The Reverend Leonard Hoar
Leonard Hoar
Leonard Hoar was an English-born early American minister and educator, who spent a short and troubled term as President of Harvard College.-Life:...

1672–1675
Urian Oakes
Urian Oakes
Urian Oakes was an English-born American minister and educator.-Life:He was born in England in 1631 or 1632, and went when a child with his father to Massachusetts; Thomas Oakes was his brother. He graduated at Harvard College in 1649. While in America he married Ruth, daughter of the...

(acting president, 1675–1680; president, 1680–1681)
John Rogers
John Rogers (Harvard)
John Rogers was an English academic in early Colonial America. Eldest son of minister Nathaniel Rogers, he was born in Coggeshall, a small town in Essex, and immigrated to New England with his family in 1636. In 1649, at age 19, in the recent settlement of Cambridge , he earned a B.A...

1682–1684
The Reverend Increase Mather
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay . He was a Puritan minister who was involved with the government of the colony, the administration of Harvard College, and most notoriously, the Salem witch trials...

(acting president, 1685–1686; rector, 1686–1692; president, 1692–1701)
The Reverend Samuel Willard
Samuel Willard
Reverend Samuel Willard was a Colonial clergyman. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard in 1659; and was minister at Groton from 1663 to 1676, whence he was driven by the Indians during King Philip's War. The Reverend Willard was pastor of the Third Church, Boston, from...

(acting president, 1701–1707)
John Leverett
John Leverett the Younger
John Leverett was an early American lawyer, politician, educator, and President of Harvard University.John Leverett was the son of Hudson Leverett, an attorney, and Sarah Leverett,...

1708–1724
The Reverend Benjamin Wadsworth
Benjamin Wadsworth
Benjamin Wadsworth was an early American clergyman and educator. He was trained at Harvard College...

1725–1737
The Reverend Edward Holyoke
Edward Holyoke
Edward Holyoke was an early American clergyman, and the 9th President of Harvard College.-Background:Edward Holyoke was the son of a wealthy and influential businessman, Elizur Holyoke Jr, who held several local town offices and served in the legislature...

1737–1769
The Reverend Samuel Locke
Samuel Locke
Samuel Locke was a U.S. Congregational clergyman and educator. After serving as pastor in Sherborn, Massachusetts, he was appointed president of Harvard University. He held that post from 1770 to 1773 when he resigned. He then returned to Sherborn where he died of apoplexy.-Notes:...

1770–1773
The Reverend Samuel Langdon
Samuel Langdon
Samuel Langdon was a American Congregational clergyman and educator. After serving as pastor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he was appointed president of Harvard University in 1774. He held that post until 1780....

  - presidency during the American Revolution
1774–1780
The Reverend Joseph Willard
Joseph Willard
Joseph Willard was a U.S. Congregational clergyman and academic. He was educated at the Dummer Academy and Harvard College and served as pastor in Beverly, Massachusetts...

1781–1804
Eliphalet Pearson
Eliphalet Pearson
Eliphalet Pearson U.S. educator; 1st principal of Phillips Academy 1778-1786; acting president of Harvard University 1804-1806.Pearson graduated from Harvard in 1773 after having attended Dummer Charity School ....

acting president, 1804–1806
The Reverend Samuel Webber 1806–1810
The Reverend John Thornton Kirkland
John Thornton Kirkland
John Thornton Kirkland served as President of Harvard University from 1810 to 1828. A religious minister like many of his predecessors, he is remembered chiefly for his lenient treatment of students...

1810–1828
Josiah Quincy
Josiah Quincy III
Josiah Quincy III was a U.S. educator and political figure. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives , Mayor of Boston , and President of Harvard University...

1829–1845
Edward Everett
Edward Everett
Edward Everett was an American politician and educator from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whig, served as U.S. Representative, and U.S. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State...

1846–1849
Jared Sparks
Jared Sparks
Jared Sparks was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as President of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853.-Biography:...

1849–1853
James Walker
James Walker (Harvard)
James Walker was a Unitarian minister, professor, and President of Harvard College from February 10, 1853, to January 26, 1860....

1853–1860
Cornelius Conway Felton
Cornelius Conway Felton
Cornelius Conway Felton was an American educator. He was regent of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as professor of Greek literature and president of Harvard University....

1860–1862
Thomas Hill
Thomas Hill (clergyman)
-References:...

1862–1868
Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university...

1869–1909
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Abbott Lawrence Lowell was a U.S. educator and legal scholar. He served as President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933....

1909–1933
James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant was a chemist, educational administrator, and government official. As thePresident of Harvard University he reformed it as a research institution.-Biography :...

1933–1953
Nathan Marsh Pusey 1953–1971
Derek Curtis Bok  *Former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is the largest of the seven faculties that constitute Harvard University.Headquartered principally in Cambridge, Massachusetts and centered in the historic Harvard Yard, FAS is the only division of the university responsible for both undergraduate and...

 Henry Rosovsky
Henry Rosovsky
Henry Rosovsky is an American economist and university administrator. From 1973 to 1984 and 1990 to 1991, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. At Harvard, where he was a Professor of Economics, he also served as Acting President in 1984 and 1987...

 served as acting president for three months in 1987 while Bok traveled abroad
1971–1991
Neil L. Rudenstine 1991–2001
Provost Albert Carnesale
Albert Carnesale
Albert Carnesale is an American academic. He is a former chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, provost of Harvard University, and dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. In November 1994, while serving as Dean and Provost, Carnesale also served as Acting President...

(served as acting president, November 1994-February 1995, during Rudenstine's leave of absence for exhaustion)
Lawrence H. Summers July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2006
Derek Curtis Bok (interim president, July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007)
Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust
Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian, college administrator, and the president of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard's president and the university's 28th president overall. Faust is the fifth woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university, and...

July 1, 2007–present


John Winthrop served as acting president in 1769 and again in 1773, but both times he declined the offer of the full presidency on grounds of old age. Other minor acting presidents have included William Brattle, Edward Wigglesworth
Edward Wigglesworth
Edward Wigglesworth was a clergyman and teacher in Colonial America.-Life:His father was clergyman and author Michael Wigglesworth ....

, Henry Ware
Henry Ware
Henry Ware may refer to:*Henry Ware , U.S. preacher and theologian*Henry Ware, Jr. , Unitarian theologian, son of the above*Henry Ware , Bishop of Chichester...

 (1810, 1828–1829), Andrew Preston Peabody
Andrew Preston Peabody
Andrew Preston Peabody was an American clergyman and author.Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Peabody was descended from Lieut. Francis Peabody of St. Albans, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1635...

 (1862, 1868–1869), and Henry Pickering Walcott.

University of Pennsylvania

The following is a list of heads of the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

 (formerly known as the Church and Charity School of Philadelphia, the Academy of Philadelphia, and the College of Philadelphia).

Provost birth–death Years as provost Name of institution Notes
1 The Reverend George Whitefield
George Whitefield
George Whitefield , also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican priest who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain, and especially in the British North American colonies. He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally...

 
1714–1770 1740–1746 Church and Charity School of Philadelphia
2 Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...

 
1706–1790 1749–1754 Academy of Philadelphia
3 The Reverend William Smith
William Smith (Anglican priest)
William Smith was the first provost of the University of Pennsylvania.thumb|300px|right|Dr William Smith's residence as it appeared circa 1919-Biography:...

 
1727–1803 1754–1779 College of Philadelphia American Revolution
4 The Reverend John Ewing
John Ewing
John Ewing may refer to:* John Ewing , professional baseball player* John Ewing , U.S. Representative from Indiana* John Ewing , U.S. Minister to Honduras, 1913–1918...

 
1732–1802 1779–1802 University of Pennsylvania American Revolution
5 The Reverend William Smith
William Smith (Anglican priest)
William Smith was the first provost of the University of Pennsylvania.thumb|300px|right|Dr William Smith's residence as it appeared circa 1919-Biography:...

 
1751–1820 1802–1806 University of Pennsylvania
6 The Reverend John McDowell 1732–1802 1807–1810 University of Pennsylvania
7 The Reverend John Andrews  1746–1813 1810–1813 University of Pennsylvania
8 The Reverend Frederick Beasley  1777–1845 1813–1828 University of Pennsylvania
9 The Right Reverend William Heathcote DeLancey
William Heathcote DeLancey
The Right Reverend William Heathcote DeLancey was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and the sixth Provost of the University of Pennsylvania...

 
1797–1865 1828–1834 University of Pennsylvania
10 The Reverend John Ludlow
John Ludlow
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow was an English lawyer and leader of the Christian socialist movement.-Biography:...

 
1793–1857 1834–1852 University of Pennsylvania
11 The Reverend Henry Vethake  1790–1866 1853–1859 University of Pennsylvania
13 The Reverend Daniel Goodwin  1811–1890 1860–1868 University of Pennsylvania
14 Charles Janeway Stillé  1819–1899 1868–1880 University of Pennsylvania
15 William Pepper
William Pepper
William Pepper, Jr., M.D. , an American physician, was a leader in medical education in the nineteenth century, and a longtime Provost of the University of Pennsylvania.-Early life:...

 
1843–1898 1881–1894 University of Pennsylvania
16 Charles Custis Harrison  1844–1929 1894–1910 University of Pennsylvania
17 Edgar Fahs Smith
Edgar Fahs Smith
Edgar Fahs Smith was an American scientist who is best known today for his interests in the history of chemistry...

 
1854–1928 1910–1920 University of Pennsylvania
18 Josiah Harmar Penniman  1868–1940 1923–1930 University of Pennsylvania

Presidents of the University of Pennsylvania Years as president
1 Thomas Sovereign Gates
Thomas Sovereign Gates
Thomas Sovereign Gates was an American investment banker and educator. He was the first president of the University of Pennsylvania from 6 October 1930 until 1944, and was the father of United States Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates, Jr.Born in Philadelphia, Gates was a student at University...

 
1930–1944
2 George William McClelland
George William McClelland
-Sources:*...

 
1944–1948
3 Harold Edward Stassen  1948–1953
4 William Hagan DuBarry
William Hagan DuBarry
William Hagan DuBarry was the acting President of the University of Pennsylvania during parts of 1950-51, 1952, and 1953. He held the position of Executive Vice President from 1944-1954....

 
1953–1953, Acting President
5 Gaylord Probasco Harnwell  1953–1970
6 Martin Meyerson
Martin Meyerson
Martin Meyerson was a United States city planner and academic leader best known as the President of the University of Pennsylvania between 1970 and 1981....

 
1970–1981
7 Sheldon Hackney
Sheldon Hackney
Francis Sheldon Hackney is a prominent U.S. educator. He is the Boies Professor of United States History at the University of Pennsylvania. Hackney earned his Ph.D. in American History at Yale University, where he worked with eminent Southern historian C. Vann Woodward. He began his career as a...

 
1981–1993
8 Claire Fagin
Claire Fagin
Claire M. Fagin, RN, Ph.D, FAAN is an American nurse, educator, academic, and consultant. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Science from Wagner College, a Master's in Nursing from Columbia University and a Ph.D from New York University, all in New York City....

 
1993–1994, Interim President
9 Judith Rodin
Judith Rodin
Judith Rodin was the 7th president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994 to 2004 and the first permanent female president of an Ivy League university. She is currently the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, a position she has held since 2005. A University of Pennsylvania alumna, she...

 
1994–2004
10 Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann is the eighth President of the University of Pennsylvania and the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Communications, and Philosophy...

 
2004–present

Princeton University

The following is a list of presidents
President of Princeton University
Princeton University is led by a President selected by the Board of Trustees. Until the accession of Woodrow Wilson, a political scientist, in 1902, they were all clergymen, as well as professors. President Tilghman is a biologist; her two predecessors were economists.-Presidents:# Reverend...

 of Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 (formerly known as the College of New Jersey).

Acting Presidents are in italics
  1. The Reverend Jonathan Dickinson
    Jonathan Dickinson (of New Jersey)
    Jonathan Dickinson was a Congregational, later Presbyterian, minister, a leader in the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s, and a co-founder and first president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University.-Biography:Born in Hatfield, Massachusetts on April 22, 1688,...

     1747
    Aaron Burr, Sr.
  2. The Reverend Aaron Burr, Sr.
    Aaron Burr, Sr.
    The Reverend Aaron Burr, Sr., was a notable divine and educator in colonial America. He was a founder of the College of New Jersey and the father of the third United States Vice President, Aaron Burr , who killed Alexander Hamilton.-Biography:A native of Connecticut, Burr was born in 1716 in...

     1748-1757
  3. The Reverend Jonathan Edwards 1758
    Jacob Green
  4. The Reverend Samuel Davies
    Samuel Davies (Presbyterian educator)
    Samuel Davies was President of Princeton University, then known as the College of New Jersey.Born to Baptist parents in New Castle County, Delaware, Davies received his early education under the tutelage of Rev. Samuel Blair at the academy he conducted in Faggs Manor, Londonderry Township, Chester...

     1759-1761
  5. The Reverend Samuel Finley
    Samuel Finley
    The Rev. Samuel Finley , 1763 DD University of Glasgow . Evangelical preacher and academic, he founded the West Nottingham Academy, and was the fifth president and an original trustee of the College of New Jersey from 1761 until 1766.-Family and students:Finley was the...

     1761-1766
    John Blair
  6. The Reverend John Witherspoon
    John Witherspoon
    John Witherspoon was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey. As president of the College of New Jersey , he trained many leaders of the early nation and was the only active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration...

     1768-1794 - presidency during the American Revolution
  7. The Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith
    Samuel Stanhope Smith
    Samuel Stanhope Smith was a Presbyterian minister, founding president of Hampden-Sydney College and the seventh president of the College of New Jersey from 1795 to 1812. His stormy career ended in his enforced resignation...

     1795-1812
  8. The Reverend Ashbel Green
    Ashbel Green
    Ashbel Green, D.D. was an American Presbyterian minister and academic.Born in Hanover Township, New Jersey, Green served as a sergeant of the New Jersey militia during the American Revolutionary War, and went on to study with Dr. John Witherspoon and graduate as valedictorian from Princeton...

     1812-1822
    Philip Lindsly
  9. The Reverend James Carnahan
    James Carnahan
    James Carnahan was an American clergyman and educator who served as the ninth President of Princeton University....

     1823-1854
  10. The Reverend John Maclean, Jr.
    John Maclean, Jr.
    John Maclean, Jr., D.D. was an American Presbyterian clergyman and educator who served as the tenth President of Princeton University, then known as the College of New Jersey. Maclean, the son of the first professor of chemistry at the College of New Jersey, grew up in Princeton, New Jersey...

     1854-1868
  11. The Reverend James McCosh
    James McCosh
    James McCosh was a prominent philosopher of the Scottish School of Common Sense. He was president of Princeton University 1868-1888.-Biography:...

     1868-1888
  12. The Reverend Francis L. Patton
    Francis Landey Patton
    Francis Landey Patton , American educationalist and theologian, and the twelfth president of Princeton University.-Background, 1843-1871:He was born in Warwick Parish, Bermuda and attended Warwick Academy...

     1888-1902
  13. Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson
    Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

     1902-1910
    John Aikman Stewart
  14. John Grier Hibben
    John Grier Hibben
    John Grier Hibben was a Presbyterian minister, a philosopher, and educator. He served as president of Princeton University from 1912–1932, succeeding Woodrow Wilson and implementing many of the reforms started by Wilson.-Early life:Hibben was born in Peoria, Illinois, just before the start...

     1912-1932
    Edward Dickinson Duffield
  15. Harold W. Dodds
    Harold W. Dodds
    Harold Willis Dodds was the fifteenth President of Princeton University.-Early life and education:Dodds was born on June 28, 1889 in Utica, Pennsylvania, the son of a professor of Bible Studies at Grove City College...

     1933-1957
  16. Robert F. Goheen
    Robert F. Goheen
    Robert Francis Goheen was an American academic, president of Princeton University and United States Ambassador to India.-Biography:...

     1957-1972
  17. William G. Bowen
    William G. Bowen
    William G. Bowen is President Emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation where he served as President from 1988 to 2006. He was the president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988....

     1972-1988
  18. Harold T. Shapiro
    Harold T. Shapiro
    Harold Tafler Shapiro, Ph.D is a former president of Princeton University and of the University of Michigan.-Biography:Born in Montreal, Quebec Harold Shapiro attended Lower Canada College, a prestigious independent school in Montreal, then trained as an economist, earning his B.Comm from McGill...

     1988-2001
  19. Shirley M. Tilghman
    Shirley M. Tilghman
    Shirley Marie Tilghman, FRS is a scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator, the President of Princeton University. She is the first woman to hold the position and only the second female president in the Ivy League...

     2001–present

Yale University

The following is a list of heads of Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 (formerly known as
Collegiate School and Yale College).

Rectors of Yale College birth–death years as rector
1 The Reverend Abraham Pierson
Abraham Pierson
Reverend Abraham Pierson was the first rector, from 1701 to 1707, and one of the founders of the Collegiate School — which later became Yale University. He was born in Southampton, Long Island, where his father, the Rev. Abraham Pierson , was the pastor of the Puritan church...

 
(1641–1707) (1701–1707) Collegiate School
2 The Reverend Samuel Andrew
Samuel Andrew
Samuel Andrew was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served as the rector of Yale University between 1707 and 1719.-Notes:...

 
(1656–1738) (1707–1719) (pro tempore)
3 The Reverend Timothy Cutler
Timothy Cutler
Timothy Cutler was an American Episcopal clergyman and rector of Yale College.-Family background:Cutler was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, a descendant of Robert Cutler who settled there prior to October 28, 1636. His father was Major John Cutler, an anchorsmith, and his mother, Martha Wiswall...

 
(1684–1765) (1719–1726) 1718/9: renamed Yale College
4 The Reverend Elisha Williams
Elisha Williams
Elisha Williams was a Congregational minister, legislator, jurist, and rector of Yale College from 1726 to 1739.-Life:The son of Rev. William Williams and his wife Elizabeth, née Cotton Elisha Williams (August 24, 1694 – July 24, 1755) was a Congregational minister, legislator, jurist, and...

 
(1694–1755) (1726–1739)
5 The Reverend Thomas Clap
Thomas Clap
Thomas Clap, also spelled Thomas Clapp , was an American academic and educator, a Congregational Minister, and college administrator. He was both the fifth rector and the earliest to be called "president" of Yale College .He was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, and studied with Rev...

 
(1703–1767) (1740–1745)

Presidents of Yale College birth–death years as president
1 The Reverend Thomas Clap
Thomas Clap
Thomas Clap, also spelled Thomas Clapp , was an American academic and educator, a Congregational Minister, and college administrator. He was both the fifth rector and the earliest to be called "president" of Yale College .He was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, and studied with Rev...

 
(1703–1767) (1745–1766)
2 The Reverend Naphtali Daggett
Naphtali Daggett
Naphtali Daggett was an American academic and educator. He graduated from Yale University in 1748. Three years later, he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Smithtown, Long Island...

 
(1727–1780) (1766–1777) (pro tempore) - presidency during the American Revolution
3 The Reverend Ezra Stiles
Ezra Stiles
Ezra Stiles was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author. He was president of Yale College .-Early life:...

 
(1727–1795) (1778–1795) - presidency during the American Revolution
4 The Reverend Timothy Dwight IV
Timothy Dwight IV
Timothy Dwight was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author...

 
(1752–1817) (1795–1817)
5 The Reverend Jeremiah Day
Jeremiah Day
Jeremiah Day was an American academic, a Congregational minister and President of Yale College .-Early life:Day was the son of Rev...

 
(1773–1867) (1817–1846)
6 Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Theodore Dwight Woolsey was an American academic, author and president of Yale College from 1846 through 1871.-Biography:Theodore Dwight Woolsey was born October 31, 1801 in New York City...

 
(1801–1899) (1846–1871)
7 The Reverend Noah Porter III  (1811–1892) (1871–1886)
8 The Reverend Timothy Dwight V
Timothy Dwight V
Timothy Dwight V was an American academic, an educator, a Congregational minister, and president of Yale College...

 
(1828–1916) (1886–1899) 1887: renamed Yale University
9 Arthur Twining Hadley
Arthur Twining Hadley
Arthur Twining Hadley was an economist who served as President of Yale University from 1899 to 1921.-Biography:...

 
(1856–1930) (1899–1921)
10 James Rowland Angell
James Rowland Angell
James Rowland Angell was an American psychologist and educator. He served as the president of Yale University between 1921 and 1937...

 
(1869–1949) (1921–1937)
11 Charles Seymour
Charles Seymour
Charles Seymour was an American academic, historian and President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951.-Early life:...

 
(1885–1963) (1937–1951)
12 Alfred Whitney Griswold
Alfred Whitney Griswold
Alfred Whitney Griswold was an American historian and educator, and President of Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.-Biography:...

 
(1906–1963) (1951–1963)
13 Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Kingman Brewster, Jr., was an educator, president of Yale University, and American diplomat.-Early life:...

 
(1919–1988) (1963–1977)
14 Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray , is a historian of political thought in the area of the Renaissance and Reformation, and an emerita professor and former President of the University of Chicago.-Biography:...

 
(1930– ) (1977–1977) (acting)
15 A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti was the president of Yale University and later the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti negotiated the agreement that terminated the Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport, avoiding further...

 
(1938–1989) (1977–1986)
16 Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Benno Charles Schmidt, Jr. is the Chairman of Avenues: The World School, a worldwide system of for profit, private K-12 schools. He is a former president of Yale University, where he served from 1986 to 1992 as the university's sixteenth president...

 
(1942– ) (1986–1992)
17 Howard R. Lamar
Howard R. Lamar
Howard Roberts Lamar is a historian of the American West, and a former president of Yale University.-Biography:He was born in 1923 in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S., and was drawn into history in part by his rich family history which includes two United States Supreme Court justices and the second...

 
(1923– ) (1992–1993) (acting)
18 Richard C. Levin  (1947– ) (1993– )

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