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Name \/ Dates of Birth-Death<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Term of Office <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Amos Dean<\/a>\u00a0 \/ <\/strong>\u00a0 January 16, 1803 – January 26, 1868<\/p>\n

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1855-1859<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Silas Totten<\/a>\u00a0 \/ <\/strong>\u00a0 March 26, 1804 – October 7, 1873<\/p>\n

\n

1859-1862<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oliver M. Spencer\u00a0 \/ <\/strong>\u00a0 [?], 1829 – July 27, 1895<\/p>\n

\n

1862-1867<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nathan Ransom Leonard \u00a0 \/ <\/strong>\u00a0 November 29, 1832 – July 8, 1917<\/p>\n

\n

(acting) 1867-1868<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

James Black\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>April 27, 1826 – December 22, 1890<\/p>\n

\n

1868-1870<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nathan Ransom Leonard\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>November 29, 1832 – July 8, 1917<\/p>\n

\n

(acting) 1870-1871<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

George Thacher\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>July 25, 1817 – December 27, 1878<\/p>\n

\n

1871-1877<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Christian W. Slagle\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>November 17, 1821 – September 26[?], 1882<\/p>\n

\n

(acting) 1877-1878<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Josiah Little Pickard<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>March 17, 1824 – March 28, 1914<\/p>\n

\n

1878-1887<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Charles Ashmead Schaeffer<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>August 14, 1843 – September 23, 1898<\/p>\n

\n

1887-1898<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Amos Noyes Currier<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>October 3, 1832 – May 16, 1909<\/p>\n

\n

(acting) 1898-1899<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

George Edwin MacLean<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>August 31, 1850 – May 4, 1938<\/p>\n

\n

1899-1911<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

John Gabbert Bowman<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 May 18, 1877 – December 2, 1962<\/p>\n

\n

1911-1914<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thomas Huston Macbride<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 July 31, 1848 – March 27, 1934<\/p>\n

\n

1914-1916<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Walter Albert Jessup<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 August 12, 1877 – July 5, 1944<\/p>\n

\n

1916-1934<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Eugene Allen Gilmore<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>July 4, 1871 – November 4, 1953<\/p>\n

\n

1934-1940<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Chester Arthur Phillips\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>July 17, 1882 – December 1, 1976<\/p>\n

\n

(acting) 1940<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Virgil Melvin Hancher<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>September 4, 1896 – January 30, 1965<\/p>\n

\n

1940-1964<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Howard Rothmann Bowen<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>October 27, 1908 – December 22, 1989<\/p>\n

\n

1964-1969<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Willard Lee ‘Sandy’ Boyd, Jr.<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>March 29, 1927 –<\/p>\n

\n

1969-1981<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Duane Caryl ‘Sprie’ Spriestersbach<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>September 5, 1916 –<\/p>\n

\n

(acting) 1981-1982<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

James Oliver Freedman<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>September 21, 1935 – March 21, 2006<\/p>\n

\n

1982-1987<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Richard Delleraine Remington<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>August 2, 1931 – July 26, 1992<\/p>\n

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(interim) 1987-1988<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hunter Ripley Rawlings III<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 December 14, 1944 –<\/p>\n

\n

1988-1995<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Peter E. Nathan<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>April 18, 1935 – May 8, 2016<\/p>\n

\n

(interim) 1995<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mary Sue (Wilson) Coleman<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>October 2, 1943 –<\/p>\n

\n

1995-2002<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Willard Lee ‘Sandy’ Boyd, Jr.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \/<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 March 29, 1927 –<\/p>\n

\n

(interim) 2002-2003<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

David Jan Skorton\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>November 22, 1949 –<\/p>\n

\n

2003-2006<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gary Craig Fethke\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>January 16, 1942 –<\/p>\n

\n

(interim) 2006-2007<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sally Kay (Viparina) Mason\u00a0\u00a0 \/<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 May 29, 1950 –<\/p>\n

\n

2007-2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jean Robillard\u00a0\u00a0 \/<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 November 5, 1943 –<\/p>\n

\n

(interim) 2015<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

J. Bruce Harreld \/ December 12, 1950 –<\/p>\n

\n

2015-<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also visit the online gallery of the University of Iowa’s presidents at http:\/\/www.iowalum.com\/magazine\/presidents\/presidents.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Hosted by the University of Iowa Alumni Association, the Web site features portraits and brief biographies.<\/p>\n

Return to the Resource Guide to University Presidents<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Name \/ Dates of Birth-Death Term of Office Amos Dean\u00a0 \/ \u00a0 January 16, 1803 – January 26, 1868 1855-1859 Silas Totten\u00a0 \/ \u00a0 March 26, 1804 – October 7, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6982,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-special-shiny.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11345,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7347\/revisions\/11345"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}