Lawrence University - University Presidents

University Presidents

  • 1849-1853 William Harkness Sampson, principal
  • 1853-1859 Edward Cooke, president
  • 1859-1865 Russell Zelotes Mason, president
  • 1865-1879 George McKendree Steele, president
  • 1879-1889 Elias DeWitt Huntley, president
  • 1883-1889 Bradford Paul Raymond, president
  • 1889-1893 Charles Wesley Gallagher, president
  • 1893-1894 L. Wesley Underwood, acting president
  • 1894-1924 Samuel G. Plantz, president
  • 1925-1937 Henry Merritt Wriston, president
  • 1937-1943 Thomas Nichols Barrows, president
  • 1944-1953 Nathan Marsh Pusey, president
  • 1954-1963 Douglas Maitland Knight, president
  • 1963-1969 Curtis William Tarr, president
  • 1969-1979 Thomas S. Smith, president
  • 1979-2004 Richard Warch, president
  • 2004–present Jill Beck, president

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