List of presidents of Dartmouth College

The Reverend Eleazar Wheelock

The following is a list of presidents of Dartmouth College.

Presidents

Order Name Position(s) Joined College Ascended presidency Left/retired Alumnus/na? Reference
1 Eleazar Wheelock President and founder of Dartmouth College 1769 1769 1779 no
2 John Wheelock President 1779 1779 1815 1771
3 Francis Brown President 1815 1815 1820 1805
4 Daniel Dana President 1820 1820 1821 1788
5 Bennet Tyler President 1822 1822 1828 no
6 Nathan Lord President 1828 1828 1863 no
7 Asa Dodge Smith President 1863 1863 1877 1830
8 Samuel Colcord Bartlett President 1877 1877 1892 1836
9 William Jewett Tucker President 1893 1893 1909 1861
10 Ernest Fox Nichols President, Professor of Physics 1898–1903 1909 1916 no
11 Ernest Martin Hopkins President 1916 1916 1945 1901
12 John Sloan Dickey President 1945 1945 1970 1929
13 John George Kemeny President, Professor of Mathematics 1953 1970 1981 no
14 David T. McLaughlin President, member of the Board of Trustees 1971 1981 1987 1954, T'1955
15 James O. Freedman President 1987 1987 1998 no
16 James Wright President, Dean of the Faculty, Professor of History 1969 1998 July 1, 2009 no
17 Jim Yong Kim President, Department of Anthropology Faculty July 1, 2009 July 1, 2009 2012 no
18 Philip J. Hanlon President June 10, 2013 June 10, 2013 1977

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