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Princeton University
is led by a President selected by the Board of Trustees. Until the accession of Woodrow Wilson
, a political scientist, in 1902, they were all clergymen, as well as professors. President Tilghman is a biologist; her two predecessors were economists.
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
is led by a President selected by the Board of Trustees. Until the accession of Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
, a political scientist, in 1902, they were all clergymen, as well as professors. President Tilghman is a biologist; her two predecessors were economists.
Presidents
- Acting Presidents are in italics
- Reverend Jonathan DickinsonJonathan Dickinson (of New Jersey)Jonathan Dickinson was a Congregational, later Presbyterian, minister, a leader in the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s, and a co-founder and first president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University.-Biography:Born in Hatfield, Massachusetts on April 22, 1688,...
1747- Aaron Burr, Sr. 1747-1748
- Reverend Aaron Burr, Sr.Aaron Burr, Sr.The Reverend Aaron Burr, Sr., was a notable divine and educator in colonial America. He was a founder of the College of New Jersey and the father of the third United States Vice President, Aaron Burr , who killed Alexander Hamilton.-Biography:A native of Connecticut, Burr was born in 1716 in...
1748-1757 - Reverend Jonathan Edwards 1758
- Jacob Green 1758-1759
- Reverend Samuel DaviesSamuel Davies (Presbyterian educator)Samuel Davies was President of Princeton University, then known as the College of New Jersey.Born to Baptist parents in New Castle County, Delaware, Davies received his early education under the tutelage of Rev. Samuel Blair at the academy he conducted in Faggs Manor, Londonderry Township, Chester...
1759-1761 - Reverend Samuel FinleySamuel FinleyThe Rev. Samuel Finley , 1763 DD University of Glasgow . Evangelical preacher and academic, he founded the West Nottingham Academy, and was the fifth president and an original trustee of the College of New Jersey from 1761 until 1766.-Family and students:Finley was the...
1761-1766- John Blair 1767-1768
- Reverend John WitherspoonJohn WitherspoonJohn Witherspoon was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey. As president of the College of New Jersey , he trained many leaders of the early nation and was the only active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration...
1768-1794 - Reverend Samuel Stanhope SmithSamuel Stanhope SmithSamuel Stanhope Smith was a Presbyterian minister, founding president of Hampden-Sydney College and the seventh president of the College of New Jersey from 1795 to 1812. His stormy career ended in his enforced resignation...
1795-1812 - Reverend Ashbel GreenAshbel GreenAshbel Green, D.D. was an American Presbyterian minister and academic.Born in Hanover Township, New Jersey, Green served as a sergeant of the New Jersey militia during the American Revolutionary War, and went on to study with Dr. John Witherspoon and graduate as valedictorian from Princeton...
1812-1822- Philip Lindsly 1822-1823
- Reverend James CarnahanJames CarnahanJames Carnahan was an American clergyman and educator who served as the ninth President of Princeton University....
1823-1854 - Reverend John Maclean, Jr.John Maclean, Jr.John Maclean, Jr., D.D. was an American Presbyterian clergyman and educator who served as the tenth President of Princeton University, then known as the College of New Jersey. Maclean, the son of the first professor of chemistry at the College of New Jersey, grew up in Princeton, New Jersey...
1854-1868 - Reverend James McCoshJames McCoshJames McCosh was a prominent philosopher of the Scottish School of Common Sense. He was president of Princeton University 1868-1888.-Biography:...
1868-1888 - Reverend Francis L. PattonFrancis Landey PattonFrancis Landey Patton , American educationalist and theologian, and the twelfth president of Princeton University.-Background, 1843-1871:He was born in Warwick Parish, Bermuda and attended Warwick Academy...
1888-1902 - Woodrow WilsonWoodrow WilsonThomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
1902-1910- John Aikman Stewart 1910-1912
- John Grier HibbenJohn Grier HibbenJohn Grier Hibben was a Presbyterian minister, a philosopher, and educator. He served as president of Princeton University from 1912–1932, succeeding Woodrow Wilson and implementing many of the reforms started by Wilson.-Early life:Hibben was born in Peoria, Illinois, just before the start...
1912-1932- Edward Dickinson Duffield 1932-1933
- Harold W. DoddsHarold W. DoddsHarold Willis Dodds was the fifteenth President of Princeton University.-Early life and education:Dodds was born on June 28, 1889 in Utica, Pennsylvania, the son of a professor of Bible Studies at Grove City College...
1933-1957 - Robert F. GoheenRobert F. GoheenRobert Francis Goheen was an American academic, president of Princeton University and United States Ambassador to India.-Biography:...
1957-1972 - William G. BowenWilliam G. BowenWilliam G. Bowen is President Emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation where he served as President from 1988 to 2006. He was the president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988....
1972-1988 - Harold T. ShapiroHarold T. ShapiroHarold Tafler Shapiro, Ph.D is a former president of Princeton University and of the University of Michigan.-Biography:Born in Montreal, Quebec Harold Shapiro attended Lower Canada College, a prestigious independent school in Montreal, then trained as an economist, earning his B.Comm from McGill...
1988-2001 - Shirley M. TilghmanShirley M. TilghmanShirley Marie Tilghman, FRS is a scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator, the President of Princeton University. She is the first woman to hold the position and only the second female president in the Ivy League...
2001-present
- Reverend Jonathan Dickinson