Chancellor of the University of Mississippi

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Chancellor of University of Mississippi
Incumbent
Glenn Boyce
since 2019
Formation1848
First holder George Frederick Holmes
Website https://chancellor.olemiss.edu

The chancellor of the University of Mississippi is the chief administrator of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. The position was previously referred to as "president" until chancellor Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard suggested the change in 1858. [1]

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Chancellor John Davis Williams, who served during the Ole Miss riot of 1962 and most of the civil rights movement, attempted to remain neutral, stating "My business is to educate the students sent to me." [2]

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Key
Denotes those who were referred to as president
Table featuring chancellors of the University of Mississippi
PortraitNameTermNotesRef.
George Frederick Holmes 1848–1849
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet.jpg Augustus Baldwin Longstreet 1849–1856
Frederick Augustus Porter Bernard cph.3b31295.jpg Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard 1856–1861Title changed to chancellor in 1858
John Newton Waddel 1865–1874
Alexander P Stewart (1821-1908).jpg Alexander Peter Stewart 1874–1887
Edward Mayes.png Edward Mayes 1887–1891
Robert Burwell Fulton.png Robert Burwell Fulton 1892–1906
Andrew Armstrong Kincannon 1907–1914
Joseph Neely Powers 1914–1924
Alfred Hume 1924–1930
Joseph Neely Powers 1930–1932
Alfred Hume 1932–1935
Alfred Benjamin Butts 1935–1946
John Davis Williams 1946–1968 [2]
Porter Lee Fortune Jr. 1968–1984 [3]
R. Gerald Turner 1984–1995 [4]
Bob Khayat 1961.jpg Robert Khayat 1995–2009 [5]
Daniel Jones 2009–2015 [6]
Jeffrey S. Vitter (cropped).jpg Jeffrey Vitter 2016–2019 [7]
Glenn Boyce 2019–present [8]

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