Presidents of Rutgers University
The following 19 individuals have served as President of Rutgers University from the creation of the office in 1655 to the present. Those enumerated below with their names emboldened graduated from Rutgers.
| President | Birth Year–Death Year | Years as President | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh | (1735–1790) | (1785–1790) |
| 2 | William Linn | (1752–1808) | (1791–1795) |
| 3 | Ira Condict | (1764–1811) | (1795–1810) |
| 4 | John Henry Livingston | (1746–1825) | (1810–1825) |
| 5 | Philip Milledoler | (1775–1852) | (1825–1840) |
| 6 | Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck | (1791–1879) | (1840–1850) |
| 7 | Theodore Frelinghuysen | (1787–1862) | (1850–1862) |
| 8 | William Henry Campbell | (1808–1890) | (1862–1882) |
| 9 | Merrill Edward Gates | (1848–1922) | (1882–1890) |
| 10 | Austin Scott | (1848–1922) | (1891–1906) |
| 11 | William Henry Steele Demarest | (1863–1956) | (1906–1924) |
| 12 | John Martin Thomas | (1869–1952) | (1925–1930) |
| 13 | Philip Milledoler Brett | (1871–1960) | (1930–1931) |
| 14 | Robert Clarkson Clothier | (1885–1970) | (1932–1951) |
| 15 | Lewis Webster Jones | (1899–1975) | (1951–1958) |
| 16 | Mason Welch Gross | (1911–1977) | (1959–1971) |
| 17 | Edward J. Bloustein | (1925–1989) | (1971–1989) |
| 18 | Francis L. Lawrence | (b. 1937) | (1990–2002) |
| 19 | Richard Levis McCormick | (b. 1947) | (2002 – 2012) |
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“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
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