List of presidents of the College of William & Mary

This is a list of the presidents of the College of William & Mary in Virginia, a public university located in Williamsburg, Virginia. ^[1]

List

No.	Image	President	Term start	Term end	Ref.
1		James Blair	1693	April 18, 1743 [a]	[2] [3]
2		William Dawson	July 18, 1743	July 1752 [a]	[2] [4]
3		William Stith	1752	September 19, 1755 [a]	[2] [5]
4		Thomas Dawson	November 1, 1755	November 29, 1760 [a]	[2] [6]
5		William Yates	1761	October 5, 1764 [a]	[2] [7]
6		James Horrocks	1764	June 21, 1771	[2] [8]
7		John Camm	June 21, 1771	Spring 1777	[2] [9]
8		James Madison [b]	October 1777	March 6, 1812 [a]	[2] [10]
9		John Bracken	Spring 1812	October 1, 1814	[11] [12]
10		John Augustine Smith	1814	June 1826	[11] [13]
interim		William Holland Wilmer	June 1826	October 1826
11			October 1826	early 1827	[11] [14]
12		Adam Empie	early 1827	summer 1836	[11] [15]
13		Thomas Roderick Dew	October 1, 1836	August 6, 1846 [a]	[11] [16]
14		Robert Saunders Jr.	June 17, 1847	June 30, 1848	[11] [17]
15		John Johns	July 1, 1849	1854	[11] [18]
16		Benjamin Stoddert Ewell	1854	May 11, 1888	[11] [19]
17		Lyon Gardiner Tyler [c]	August 23, 1888	June 30, 1919	[11] [20]
18		J. A. C. Chandler	July 1, 1919	May 31, 1934 [a]	[21] [22]
interim		Kremer J. Hoke [d]	May 31, 1934	June 30, 1934	[23]
19		John Stewart Bryan	July 1, 1934	January 1, 1943	[21] [24]
20		John Edwin Pomfret	January 1, 1943	September 13, 1951 [e]	[21] [25]
interim		James W. Miller	September 14, 1951	October 8, 1951
21		Alvin Duke Chandler	October 9, 1951	May 1960	[21] [26]
22		Davis Young Paschall	August 16, 1960	August 31, 1971	[21] [27]
23		Thomas Ashley Graves Jr.	September 1, 1971	January 9, 1985 [f]	[21] [28]
interim		George R. Healy	January 10, 1985	June 30, 1985	[29]
24		Paul R. Verkuil	July 1, 1985	January 7, 1992 [g]	[21] [30] [31] [32]
interim		Melvyn D. Schiavelli [h]	January 7, 1992	May 31, 1992	[33]
25		Timothy J. Sullivan	June 1, 1992	June 30, 2005	[21] [34] [35] [36]
26		Gene Nichol	July 1, 2005	February 12, 2008 [i]	[37] [38] [39] [40]
interim		W. Taylor Reveley III	February 12, 2008	September 5, 2008	[41]
27			September 5, 2008	June 30, 2018	[42] [43] [44] [45] [46]
28		Katherine Rowe	July 1, 2018	present	[47] [48] [49]

Table notes:

1. Died in office.
2. Cousin of U.S. President James Madison, Jr. (1751-1836)
3. Son of John Tyler, tenth President of the United States (1841-1845)
4. After Chandler's death on May 31, 1934, Hoke became the interim president until June 30, 1934.
5. Resigned
6. Resigned to lead Winterthur Museum and Garden in Wilmington, Delaware.
7. Resigned
8. Provost
9. Forced to resign

References

1. "Presidents". The College of William & Mary.
2. "William & Mary – 18th Century Presidents". The College of William & Mary. Archived from the original on March 5, 2011. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
3. "James Blair". The College of William & Mary.
4. "William Dawson". The College of William & Mary.
5. "William Stith". The College of William & Mary.
6. "Thomas Dawson". The College of William & Mary.
7. "William Yates". The College of William & Mary.
8. "James Horrocks (1734-1772)". The College of William & Mary.
9. "John Camm". The College of William & Mary.
10. "James Madison (1749-1812)". The College of William & Mary.
11. "William & Mary – 19th Century Presidents". The College of William & Mary. Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
12. "John Bracken (c. 1745 - 1818)". The College of William & Mary.
13. "John Augustine Smith". The College of William & Mary.
14. "William Holland Wilmer". The College of William & Mary.
15. "Adam Empie (1785-1860)". The College of William & Mary.
16. "Thomas Roderick Dew". The College of William & Mary.
17. "Robert Saunders (1805-1868)". The College of William & Mary.
18. "John Johns". The College of William & Mary.
19. "Benjamin Stoddert Ewell (1810-1894)". The College of William & Mary.
20. "Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935)". The College of William & Mary.
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23. "Kremer Jacob Hoke". The College of William & Mary.
24. "John Stewart Bryan". The College of William & Mary.
25. "John Edwin Pomfret". The College of William & Mary.
26. "Alvin Duke Chandler". The College of William & Mary.
27. "Davis Young Paschall". The College of William & Mary.
28. "Thomas Ashley Graves, Jr". The College of William & Mary.
29. "George R. Healy". The College of William & Mary.
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34. "Timothy J. Sullivan". The College of William & Mary.
35. "Timothy J. Sullivan". The College of William & Mary.
36. "William and Mary president to step down". United Press International . June 19, 2004.
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38. "Gene R. Nichol". The College of William & Mary.
39. "Gene R. Nichol". The College of William & Mary.
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42. "W. Taylor Reveley III". The College of William & Mary.
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44. "Taylor Reveley". The College of William & Mary.
45. Whitson, Brian (September 5, 2008). "W. Taylor Reveley III named William and Mary's 27th president". The College of William & Mary.
46. Langley, Cortney; Whitson, Brian (April 7, 2017). "Taylor Reveley, announces plans to retire in 2018". The College of William & Mary.
47. "Katherine A. Rowe". The College of William & Mary.
48. "Katherine A. Rowe". The College of William & Mary.
49. "William & Mary announces Katherine Rowe as 28th President". The College of William & Mary. February 20, 2018.