History
| Thomas DeSaille Tucker | 1887 – 1901 |
| Nathan B. Young | 1901 – 1923 |
| William A. Howard | 1923 – 1924 |
| John Robert Edward Lee | 1924 – 1944 |
| J.B. Bragg * | April 5, 1944 – Sept 1, 1944 |
| William H. Gray, Jr. | 1944 – 1949 |
| H. Manning Efferson * | July 7, 1949 – April 1, 1950 |
| George W. Gore | 1950 – 1968 |
| Benjamin L. Perry, Jr. | 1968 – 1977 |
| Walter L. Smith | 1977 – 1985 |
| Frederick S. Humphries | 1985 – 2001 |
| Henry Lewis III ** | Jan. 2002 – June 2002 |
| Fred Gainous | 2002 – 2004 |
| Castell V. Bryant ** | Jan. 2005 – May 2007 |
| Larry Robinson *** | May 2007 – July 2007 |
| James H. Ammons | July 2007 – July 2012 |
| Larry Robinson ** | July 2012 – |
| * Acting President **Interim President ***Chief Executive Officer |
On October 3, 1887, the State Normal College for Colored Students began classes, and became a land grant university four years later when it received $7,500 under the Second Morrill Act, and its name was changed to State Normal and Industrial College for Colored Students. However, it was not an official institution of higher learning until the 1905 Buckman Act, which transferred control from the Department of Education to the Board of Control, creating what was the foundation for the modern Florida A&M University. This same act is responsible for the creation of the University of Florida and Florida State University from their previous institutions. In 1909, the name of the college was once again changed to Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, and in 1953 the name was finally changed to Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. Florida A&M is the only publicly funded historically black college or university in the state of Florida. In the September 2006 issue of Black Enterprise Magazine, Florida A&M was named the number-one college for African Americans in the United States. This ranking based on the graduation rate, and the academic and social atmosphere. FAMU is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. In the fall of 1997, FAMU was selected as the TIME Magazine-Princeton Review "College of the Year" and was cited in 1999 by Black Issues in Higher Education for awarding more baccalaureate degrees to African-Americans than any institutions in the nation.
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