Name / Dates of Birth-Death
Term of Office
Amos Dean / January 16, 1803-January 26, 1868
1855-1859
Silas Totten / March 26, 1804-October 7, 1873
1859-1862
Oliver M. Spencer / [?], 1829-July 27, 1895
1862-1867
Nathan Ransom Leonard / November 29, 1832-July 8, 1917
(acting) 1867-1868
James Black / April 27, 1826-December 22, 1890
1868-1870
Nathan Ransom Leonard / November 29, 1832-July 8, 1917
(acting) 1870-1871
George Thacher / July 25, 1817-December 27, 1878
1871-1877
Christian W. Slagle / November 17, 1821-September 26 [?], 1882
(acting) 1877-1878
Josiah Little Pickard / March 17, 1824-March 28, 1914
1878-1887
Charles Ashmead Schaeffer / August 14, 1843-September 23, 1898
1887-1898
Amos Noyes Currier / October 3, 1832-May 16, 1909
(acting) 1898-1899
George Edwin MacLean / August 31, 1850-May 4, 1938
1899-1911
John Gabbert Bowman / May 18, 1877-December 2, 1962
1911-1914
Thomas Huston Macbride / July 31, 1848-March 27, 1934
1914-1916
Walter Albert Jessup / August 12, 1877-July 5, 1944
1916-1934
Eugene Allen Gilmore / July 4, 1871-November 4, 1953
1934-1940
Chester Arthur Phillips / July 17, 1882-December 1, 1976
(acting) 1940
Virgil Melvin Hancher / September 4, 1896-January 30, 1965
1940-1964
Howard Rothmann Bowen / October 27, 1908-December 22, 1989
1964-1969
Willard Lee 'Sandy' Boyd, Jr. / March 29, 1927-
1969-1981
Duane Caryl 'Sprie' Spriestersbach / September 5, 1916-
(acting) 1981-1982
James Oliver Freedman / September 21, 1935-March 21, 2006
1982-1987
Richard Delleraine Remington / August 2, 1931-July 26, 1992
(interim) 1987-1988
Hunter Ripley Rawlings III / December 14, 1944-
1988-1995
Peter E. Nathan / April 18, 1935-
(interim) 1995
Mary Sue (Wilson) Coleman / October 2, 1943-
1995-2002
Willard Lee 'Sandy' Boyd, Jr. / March 29, 1927-
(interim) 2002-2003
David Jan Skorton / November 22, 1949-
2003-2006
Gary Craig Fethke / January 16, 1942-
(interim) 2006-2007
Sally Kay (Viparina) Mason / May 29, 1950-
2007-
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