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Phi Gamma Delta's College and University Presidents

The institution name is listed first, followed in parentheses by the previous name of the institution, if it differed during the brother's tenure as president.  Send corrections/additions to the Curator of Archives. Also see our list of college and university buildings named after Phi Gams.
 

Acadia University - George Barton Cutten (Yale 1897) 1910-1922

Agnes Scott College - Marvin Banks Perry, Jr. (Virginia 1940) 1973-1982

University of Alabama - John Morin Gallalee (Alabama Faculty) 1948-1953
University of Alabama - James H. Newman (Alabama 1929) 1957 interim president

Albertson College Of Idaho (College of Idaho) - William Webster Hall (Westminster Faculty) 1939-1948

Albion College - John W. Laird (Syracuse 1909) 1921-1924

Alderson-Broaddus College (Broaddus College) - Elkanah Hulley (Bucknell 1892) 1906-1927

Allegheny College - James Montgomery (Allegheny 1877) 1902 acting president
Allegheny College - Wilbur Garretson Williams (Allegheny 1875) 1888-1889
Allegheny College - Chester Arthur Darling (Allegheny Faculty) 1947-1948 acting president

Arcadia University (Beaver College) - Nicholas Howell Holmes (Allegheny 1870) 1896-1898

University of Arizona - Alfred Atkinson (Iowa State 1904) 1937-1947

Athens College - Guy Snavely (Allegheny Faculty) c.1966 interim president

Auburn University - Ralph Brown Draughon (Auburn initiate) 1948-1965

Austin College - William Daniel Vinson (Washington and Lee 1870) 1881-1882 acting president

Baker University - Patterson McNutt (DePauw 1860) 1870-1871

Ball State University - Richard W. Burkhardt (Knox 1939) 1978-1979 acting president
Ball State University - Lemuel A. Pittenger (Indiana 1900) 1927-1942

Bethel College (defunct) - Leslie Waggener (Union 1856, Bethel 1860) 1876-1883
Bethel College (defunct) - James Henry Fuqua (Bethel 1858) 1883-1887, 1902-1903 acting

Birmingham-Southern College - Guy E. Snavely (Allegheny Faculty) 1921-1937, 1955-1957

Blackburn College - Thomas W. Lingle (Davidson Faculty) 1904-1908

Bluefield College - David W. Olive (Tennessee Tech 1985) 2007-present

Boston University - Daniel L. Marsh (Northwestern 1906) 1926-1951

Butler University (Northwest University) - William Francis Black (DePauw 1868) 1872-1874

University of California [system] - Richard C. Atkinson (Chicago 1949) 1995-2003

University of California, San Diego - Richard C. Atkinson (Chicago 1949) 1980-1995 chancellor

California Institute of Technology (Throop Polytechnic Institute/Throop College of Technology) - James A. B. Scherer (Roanoke 1890) 1908-1920

Carson-Newman College (Mossy Creek Baptist College/Carson College) - N. B. Goforth (Maryville 1854) 1859-1862 and 1870-1882
Carson-Newman College (Carson College) - William Allen Montgomery (Jefferson 1852) 1888-1892

Chaddock College, Illinois (defunct) - Harvey Cleveland DeMotte (Illinois Wesleyan Faculty) 1884-1887
Chaddock College, Illinois (defunct) - Malvern Porter Lackland (Illinois Wesleyan 1878)

Chatham College (Pittsburgh Female College/Pennsylvania College for Women) - James Black (Washington College 1848) 1870-1875
Chatham College (Pittsburgh Female College/Pennsylvania College for Women) - Nicholas Howell Holmes (Allegheny 1870) 1896-1897

University of Cincinnati - Charles W. Dabney (Hampden-Sydney 1873, Virginia 1878) 1904-1920
University of Cincinnati - Walter C. Langsam (Union Faculty) 1955-1971

Clayton College - Julius Caldeen Gunter (Washington and Lee 1876, Virginia 1879)

Coe College - Samuel B. McCormick (Washington and Jefferson 1880) 1897-1904
Coe College - Harry Morehouse Gage (Wooster 1900) 1920-1941, 1956-1958

Colgate University - Melbourne S. Read (Cornell 1895) 1921-1922 president pro tem
Colgate University - George Barton Cutten (Yale 1897) 1922-1942
Colgate University - Franklin W. Wallin (Wisconsin 1946) c.1969 president pro tem

University of Colorado - George F. Norlin (Colorado Faculty) 1919-1939

Colorado University - Julius Caldeen Gunter (Washington and Lee 1876, Virginia 1879

Cottey College - Jon O. Hondrum (Minnesota 1942) c.1969

Crane College, Texas (defunct) - Charles Henry Wedemeyer (Baylor 1859) 1886-1887

University of the Cumberlands (Cumberland College; Williamsburg Institute) - Edwin E. Wood (Denison 1890) 1890-___

Cumberland University - Edward Powell Childs (Denison 1894) 1917-1920

University of Delaware - Samuel Chiles Mitchell (Richmond Faculty) 1914-1920
University of Delaware - Edward A. Trabant (Occidental 1940) 1968-1987, 1988-1990

Denison University - Clark W. Chamberlain (Denison 1894) 1913-1925

University of Denver - William F. McDowell (Ohio Wesleyan 1879) 1890-1899(?)

DePauw University (Indiana Asbury) - Reuben Andrus (DePauw faculty) 1872-1875

Des Moines University - John W. Million (William Jewell 1887)

Dillard University (New Orleans University) - Louis G. Adkinson (DePauw 1871) 1887-__

Earlham College - Franklin W. Wallin (Wisconsin 1946) 1974-1983

Eastern Washington University (Eastern Washington College of Education) - Raymond Mylar Mosher (Idaho Faculty) 1953 interim president

Elmira College - Lewis Eldred (Williams 1933) c.1954

Emporia State University (Kansas State Normal College) - Rudolph Blair Welch (Illinois Wesleyan initiate) 1879-1882

University of Evansville (Moores Hill College) - Louis G. Adkinson (DePauw 1871) 1882-1887

University of Florida - Hadrath Harold Hume (Iowa 1890) 1947-1948 interim president

Florida State University - Milton W. Carothers (Alabama 1919) 1960 acting president

Fort Worth University (defunct) - Albinus Alonzo Johnson (DePauw 1875)

Franklin and Marshall College - William Webster Hall (Westminster Faculty) 1955-1956

Furman University - William J. McGlothlin (Bethel 1889) 1919-1933

Georgia Institute of Technology - Arthur G. Hansen (Purdue 1947) 1969-1971
Georgia Institute of Technology - Gerald W. Clough (Georgia Tech 1964) 1994-2008

University of Georgia - Jere W. Morehead (Georgia Faculty) 2013-present

Gettysburg College - Walter C. Langsam (Union Faculty) 1952-1955

Ghent College (defunct) - James Shannon Blackwell (Hanover 1868) 1877-1879

Goucher College - David A. Robertson (Chicago 1902) 1930-1948
Goucher College - Marvin Banks Perry, Jr. (Virginia 1940) 1967-1973

Granville Female College, Ohio (defunct) - Dwight B. Hervey (Jefferson 1857) c.1882-1893

Hampden-Sydney College - William H. Whiting, Jr. (Hampden-Sydney 1880, Virginia 1880) 1904-1905 and 1908-1909 acting president

University of Illinois - David Kinley (Johns Hopkins 1892) 1920-1930
University of Illinois - Arthur Hill Daniels (Illinois 1897) 1933-1934 acting president

Illinois Wesleyan University - William Henry Wilder (Illinois Wesleyan 1873) 1888-97
Illinois Wesleyan University - Harvey Cleveland DeMotte (Illinois Wesleyan Faculty) 1973-1874, 1880, 1904 acting president

Indiana University - John Merle Coulter (Hanover 1870, Indiana 1870) 1891-1893

University of Iowa (State University of Iowa) - James Black (Washington College 1848) 1868-1870

Jacksonville University - James J. Brady, Jr. (Jacksonville Faculty) 1989-1996

Jubilee College, Illinois (defunct) - William Edward McLaren (Jefferson 1851) 1875-1878

Juniata College - John N. Stauffer (Wittenberg Faculty) 1968-19__

Kansas Wesleyan University - Edgar K. Morrow (Ohio Wesleyan 1905)

University of Kentucky - Frank LeRond McVey (Ohio Wesleyan 1893) 1917-1940

King College, Tennessee - Henry Weiser Naff (Hampden Sydney 1875) 1894-1895

Lafayette College - Guy E. Snavely (Allegheny Faculty) 1957-1958 interim president

Lake Forrest University - John Merle Coulter (Hanover 1870, Indiana 1870) 1893-1896

Lake Michigan College - Robert H. Plummer (Wabash 1937) 1966-1967

Lenox College (defunct; Bowen Collegiate Institute) - James William McKean (Jefferson 1859) c.1862

Lewis and Clark College (Albany Collegiate Institute) - Howard Whittlesey Stratton (Washington 1855) 1876-1878

Lewis College, Missouri (defunct) - Henry Godden Jackson (DePauw 1857) 1885
Lewis College, Missouri (defunct) - James C. Hall (DePauw 1867)

Lindenwood University - Harry Morehouse Gage (Wooster 1900) c.1940s

Lingnan University, China (Canton Christian College) - James M. Henry (Wooster 1901) 1924-1927

Linfield College (McMinnville College) - Leonard W. Riley (Denison 1894) 1906-1931

Longwood University (Longwood College) - James H. Newman (Alabama 1929) 1965-1967

MacMurray College (Illinois Conference Female College/Illinois Female College) - Reuben Andrus (DePauw initiate) 1855-1856

University of Maine - James Norris Hart (Maine 1882) 1910 acting president
University of Maine - Joseph Magee Murray (Maine 1923) 1958 acting president

Marietta College - Harry Kelso Eversull (Wabash 1919) 1937-1942(?)

Marshall College (Illinois) - Patterson McNutt (DePauw 1858), 1864-1868

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Massachusetts Agricultural College) - Edward Morgan Lewis (Williams 1896) 1924-1927

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Howard Wesley Johnson (Chicago Faculty) 1966-1971

Medical College of Virginia - Samuel Chiles Mitchell (Richmond Faculty) 1913-1914

Mills College - Lynn T. White, Jr. (Stanford 1928) 1943-1958

University of Minnesota - Lotus D. Coffman (Indiana 1906) 1920-1938

University of Minnesota, Duluth (Duluth State Teachers College) - Eugene W. Bohannon (Indiana 1890) 1902-1937

University of Missouri - James Shannon Blackwell (Hanover 1868) acting president 1891

Montana State University - Alfred Atkinson (Iowa State 1904) 1919-1937

Montreat College - Robert Campbell Anderson (Hampden Sydney 1885) 1916-1946

Murray State College - Charles E. Grady, Jr. (Oklahoma 1932) c.1969

Muskingum College - J. Knox Montgomery (Indiana 1888) 1904-1931

University of Nevada - Leroy Decatur Brown (Ohio Wesleyan 1874) 1887-1890

Newberry College - James A. B. Scherer (Roanoke 1890) 1904-1908

University of New Hampshire - Edward Morgan Lewis (Williams 1896) 1927-1936

University of New Mexico - William George Tight (Denison 1886) 1901-1909

New School University - J. Robert Kerrey (Nebraska 1967) 2001-2010

New York University - L. Jay Oliva (New York 1967) 1991-2002

Normal and Collegiate Institute, Asheville NC (defunct) - Edward P. Childs (Denison 1894) 1909-1916

University of North Carolina at Greensboro (North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College/North Carolina College for Women) - Julius I. Foust (North Carolina 1890) 1907-1934

North Carolina College (defunct) - Melanchthon Gideon Groseclose Scherer (Roanoke 1880) 1896-1899

University of North Dakota - Frank L. McVey (Ohio Wesleyan 1893) 1909-1917

North Dakota State University (North Dakota Agricultural College) - Edwin F. Ladd (Maine 1884) 1916-1921

Northwestern Michigan College - James M. Davis (Ohio State 1937) 1970-1973

Norwich University - Homer L. Dodge (Colgate 1910) 1944-1950

Occidental College - Arthur G. Coons (Occidental 1920) 1946-1965

Ohio Wesleyan University - John Washington Hoffman (Washington and Jefferson 1892) 1916-1928

Oklahoma City University - John Frederick Olsen (DePauw 1941) 1964-1969

Oklahoma College for Women/Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts (now University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma) - Charles E. Grady Jr. (Oklahoma 1932) 1962-1966

Oakland College, Mississippi (defunct) - George Shotwell Roudebush (Jefferson 1854) two years

University of Oregon - Donald M. Erb (Illinois 1922) 1938-1943

Oregon State University - Francois A. Gilfillan (Oregon State 1918) 1940-1942 acting president

University of Pittsburgh - John A. Brashear (Pittsburg initiate) 1901-1904 (acting)
University of Pittsburgh - Samuel B. McCormick, Sr. (Washington and Jefferson 1880) 1904-1920

Pomona College - Charles K. Edmunds (Johns Hopkins 1897) 1928-1941

University of Puget Sound - Crawford R. Thoburn (Allegheny 1885) 1892-1898

Purdue University - Arthur G. Hansen (Purdue 1947) 1971-1982
Purdue University -  Mitch Daniels (Purdue initiate) 2012-present

Queens College (New York) - John J. Theobald (Columbia 1925) 1949-1955

Raritan Valley Community College (Somerset County College) - Henry C. J. "Hank" Evans (Syracuse 1938, Rutgers Faculty) 1967-19__ (first president of institution)

University of Rhode Island (Rhode Island State College) - Carl R. Woodward, Sr. (Rutgers 1914) 1941-1958

Roanoke College - Julius D. Dreher (Roanoke 1871) 1878-1903

Rollins College - William F. Blackman (Yale 1880) 1902-1915

Santa Ana College - John E. Johnson (Occidental 1938) 1957-19__

Shimer College - Francis J. Mullin (Missouri 1929) 1954-1968

Shippensburg University (Shippensburg State Normal School) - John Frederick McCreary (Gettysburg 1860)

Silliman University (Philippines) - Charles Robert Hamilton (Hanover 1893) 1930-1932 acting president

University of Southern California - Marion McKinley Bovard (DePauw 1873) 1880-1892, first president

University of South Carolina - James Woodrow (Jefferson 1849) 1891-1897
University of South Carolina - Samuel Chiles Mitchell (Richmond Faculty) 1908-1913
University of South Carolina - William Spenser Currell (Washington and Lee 1874) 1914-1922

Southwestern College (Kansas College) - John E. Earp (DePauw initiate) 1886-1890

Stetson University - Lincoln Hulley (Bucknell 1888) 1904-1934

Stillman College - Samuel Burney Hay (Davidson 1916) 1948-1965

University of Tampa - Fred D. Learey (Ohio Wesleyan 1928) 1972 acting president

University of Tennessee - Charles W. Dabney (Hampden-Sydney 1873, Virginia 1878) 1887-1904

Tennessee College, Murfreesboro (defunct) - George J. Burnett (Bethel 1894) 1907-c.1923

University of Texas - Leslie Waggener (Union 1856, Bethel 1860) 1876-1883, 1884-1896 [first as head of faculty, highest University office prior to 1895 establishment of president, then as acting president]
University of Texas - William L. Prather (Washington and Lee 1871) 1899-1905
University of Texas - William S. Livingston (Ohio State 1942) 1992-1993 (acting)

Texas Wesleyan University - Albinus Alonzo Johnson (DePauw 1875)

Thiel College - Henry Warren Roth (Gettysburg 1861) 1870-1887
Thiel College - William A. Beates (Muhlenberg 1872) 1887-1890
Thiel College - Theophilus B. Roth (Thiel 1874) 1893-1902

University of Toronto - Henry N.R. "Hal" Jackman (Toronto 1952) 1997-2003 chancellor
University of Toronto - Frank Iacobucci (British Columbia 1962) 2004-2005 interim president

Transylvania University (Kentucky University) - Alexander Milligan (Kentucky U. 1861) 1899-1901 (acting)
Transylvania University - Charles L. Shearer (Kentucky 1964) 1983-2010

Tullahoma College (defunct) - Thomas Coke Carter (DePauw 1875) four years (prior to 1886)

Union University - Duncan Hyde Selph (Union University 1852) 1868-1870

United States Military Academy at West Point - Robert L. Eichelberger (Ohio State 1907) 1940-1942 superintendent (analogous to president)

Upper Iowa University - Thomas J. Bassett (DePauw 1875) c.1903

Valpariso University - Thomas Bond Wood (DePauw 1863) 1867-1869

Vermont College - William L. Irvine (Maine 1942) 1966-1972

University of Virginia - Colgate W. Darden (Virginia 1918) 1947-1959

Wabash College - Daniel F. Evans (Wabash 1943) 1992-1993 acting president

Wagner College - Walter C. Langsam (Union Faculty) 1945-1952

Washington College, Maryland - Gilbert W. Mead (Allegheny 1911) 1933-1949

University of Washington - Charles Francis Reeves (Penn State Faculty) 1897-1898 acting president
University of Washington - Henry Schmitz (Washington 1914) 1953-1958

Washington and Jefferson College - James D. Moffat (Washington and Jefferson 1869) 1882-1915

Washington and Lee University - Francis P. Gaines (Richmond 1912) 1930-1957

West Virginia University - Frank B. Trotter (Roanoke 1890) 1914-1916 acting; 1916-1928 president

Westminster College, Missouri - William Webster Hall (Westminster Faculty) 1948-1955

Wheelock College - William L. Irvine (Maine 1942) 1972-1973 acting president

Whitewater College (Indiana; defunct) - William H. Barnes (DePauw 1857) prior to 1865

William Jewell College - John F. Herget (William Jewell 1895) 1928-1942

Willamette University - Charles Edward Lambert (Baker 1873, Northwestern 1875) 1879-1880
Willamette University - Thomas Van Scoy (Northwestern 1875) 1880-1891

Wittenberg University (Wittenberg College) - John N. Stauffer (Wittenberg Faculty) 1963-1968

University of Wyoming - Albinus Alonzo Johnson (DePauw 1875) 1891-1896

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