List of presidents of Dartmouth College
The following is a list of presidents of Dartmouth College.
Presidents
Order | Name | Position(s) | Joined College | Ascended presidency | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? | Reference |
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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 |