List of longest serving higher education presidents in the United States
Eliphalet Nott, longest serving college president in US history
The longest serving president of a United States institution of higher education is Eliphalet Nott, who served at Union College in Schenectady, New York, for 62 years (1805–66). The longest living college or university president is Dr. Jack Evans Sr., who continues at Southwestern Christian College of Terrell, Texas, as president after 50 years of service.
Criteria
According to a 2007 report from the American Council on Education, only about 5% of all in-office college presidents had served longer than 20 years.[1] The table below considers candidates who can be demonstrated to have served for 25 years or longer unless another distinguishing factor warrants inclusion. Records for the longest serving college or university presidents are usually kept by the respective institutions themselves. '
List
| Name | Term | College | Location | Notes[note 1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliphalet Nott | 61 years (1805–1866) | Union College | Schenectady, NY | Longest serving college president in U.S. history. |
| Paul F. Beacham | 59 years (1919–1978) | Holmes Theological Seminary | Greenville, SC | Longest serving seminary president in U.S. history. |
| Abbot Bernard Pennings | 57 years (1898–1955) | St. Norbert College | De Pere, WI | The first and longest serving president of the College. |
| B. B. Dougherty | 56 years (1899–1955) | Appalachian State University | Boone, NC | |
| W. Wilbert Welch | 56 years (1959–2015) | Cornerstone University | Grand Rapid, MI | Served as President until 1983, then Chancellor. |
| Edward W. France | 52 years (1888-1940) | Philadelphia University | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Jack Evans, Sr | 51 years (1967—present) | Southwestern Christian College | Terrell, TX | The longest serving college president still sitting. Served as President until 2016, then Chancellor. |
| Francis H. Smith | 50 years (1839–1889) | Virginia Military Institute | Lexington, VA | Longest serving military superintendent in U.S. history |
| James Blair | 50 years (1693–1743) | College of William and Mary | Williamsburg, VA | The first and longest serving president of the college.[2] |
| Norman Francis | 47 years (1968–2015) | Xavier University of Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | [3] |
| Richard I. Gouse | 47 years (1971–present)[4] | New England Institute of Technology | East Greenwich, RI | Only 24 at the time of assuming his position. |
| William L. Proctor | 47 years (1971–present) | Flagler College | St. Augustine, FL | Served as President until 2001, then Chancellor. |
| Bob Jones III | 47 years (1971–present) | Bob Jones University | Greenville, SC | Served as President until 2005, then Chancellor. |
| Lionel R. Bordeaux | 46 years (1972–present) | Sinte Gleska University | Mission, SD | Provided leadership for the first fully accredited reservation-based institution of higher education at the bachelor's degree level. Black Hills State University named a residence hall in his honor. |
| Ronald E. Carrier | 46 years (1971–2017) | James Madison University | Harrisonburg, VA | Served as President until 1998, then Chancellor. |
| J. Donald Monan | 45 years (1972–2017) | Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA | Served as President until 1996, then Chancellor. |
| Robert H. Spence | 44 years (1974–present) | Evangel University | Springfield, MO | Served until May 1, 2014 as President, and since then as Chancellor |
| Frederic B. Pratt | 44 years (1893–1937) | Pratt Institute | Brooklyn, NY | |
| Frances Shimer | 43 years (1853–1896) | Shimer College | Chicago, IL | Founded Mount Carroll Seminary, which later became Shimer College. |
| Clarence W. Daugette | 43 years (1899–1942) | Jacksonville State University | Jacksonville, AL | State of Alabama's longest serving university president. |
| Nicholas Murray Butler | 43 years (1902–1945) | Columbia University | New York, NY | Columbia's longest serving president. |
| Joseph N. Hankin | 43 years (1971–2014)[5] | Westchester Community College | Valhalla, NY | Longest serving community college president in the US.[6] |
| Luns C. Richardson | 43 years (1974–2017) | Morris College | Sumter, SC | Life Member and Golden Heritage Member of the NAACP |
| Charles A. Blanchard | 43 years (1882–1925) | Wheaton College | Wheaton, IL | |
| William Fletcher King[7] | 43 years (1863-1865, 1865-1873, 1874-1880, 1881-1908) | Cornell College | Mount Vernon, IA | 1863-1865 served as Acting President |
| Leon Botstein | 43 years (1975–present) | Bard College | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones | 41 years (1936–1977) | Grambling State University | Grambling, LA | |
| William Foster Peirce | 41 years (1896–1937) | Kenyon College | Gambier, OH | Assumed the presidency at the age of 28 |
| W. Sam Monroe | 40 years (1974–2014) | Lamar State College-Port Arthur | Port Arthur, TX | |
| Charles William Eliot | 40 years (1869–1909) | Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | |
| Henry N. Snyder | 40 years (1902–1942) | Wofford College | Spartanburg, SC | |
| Stephen B. L. Penrose | 40 years (1894–1934) | Whitman College | Walla Walla, WA | |
| Pat Robertson | 40 years (1978–present) | Regent University | Virginia Beach, VA | |
| William R. Harvey | 40 years (1978–present)[8] | Hampton University | Hampton, VA | |
| Janet Eisner | 39 years (1979–present) | Emmanuel College | Boston, MA | Longest serving female president still sitting.[9] |
| David L. Eubanks | 38 years (1969–2007) | Johnson Bible College | Knoxville, TN | |
| James Burrill Angell | 38 years (1871–1909) | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | UM's longest serving president |
| Philip Pumerantz | 38 years (1977–2015) | Western University of Health Sciences | Pomona, CA | Longest serving president in the state of California. Founding president of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (1977), which became Western University of Health Sciences in 1996 |
| Russell Conwell | 38 years (1887–1925) | Temple University | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Dennis J. Murray | 37 years (1979–2016)[10] | Marist College | Poughkeepsie, NY | |
| Sister Denise Roche | 37 years (1979–2016) | D'Youville College | Buffalo, NY | |
| Mary Emma Woolley | 37 years (1900–1937) | Mount Holyoke College | South Hadley, MA | |
| Marilyn Schlack | 36 years (1982–2018) | Kalamazoo Valley Community College | Kalamazoo, MI | |
| George A. Pruitt | 36 years (1982–2018)[11] | Thomas Edison State University | Trenton, NJ | Longest serving president in the state of New Jersey |
| Jerry Falwell | 36 years (1971–2007) | Liberty University | Lynchburg, VA | |
| Franklin Benjamin Moore | 36 years (1898-1934) | Rider University | Lawrenceville, NJ | |
| Mark Hopkins | 36 years (1836–1872) | Williams College | Williamstown, MA | |
| John Wheelock | 36 years (1779–1815) | Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | Dartmouth's longest serving president |
| Robert L. McLendon Jr. | 36 years (1972–2008) | St. Johns River State College | Palatka, FL | |
| Bevan Morris | 36 years (1980–2016)[12] | Maharishi University of Management | Fairfield, IA | |
| Cornelius P. Haggard | 36 years (1939–1975) | Azusa Pacific University | Azusa, CA | |
| Theodore Hesburgh | 35 years (1952–1987) | University of Notre Dame | South Bend, IN | |
| Franklin Frazee Moore | 36 years (1934-1969) | Rider University | Lawrenceville, NJ | |
| Stephen W. Paine | 35 Years (1937–1972) | Houghton College | Houghton, NY | |
| Charles P. Adams | 35 years (1901–1936) | Grambling State University | Grambling, LA | Founding president of the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School in 1901, which became Grambling State University in 1974. |
| Willard M. Aldrich | 35 years (1943–1978) | Multnomah University | Portland, OR | |
| Nathan Lord | 35 years (1828–1863) | Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | |
| E. George Evans | 35 years (1884–1919) | Champlain College | Burlington, VT | |
| A. Gordon Tittemore | 35 years (1920–1955) | Champlain College | Burlington, VT | |
| Sister Joel Read | 35 years (1968–2003) | Alverno College | Milwaukee, WI | |
| William Lowe Bryan | 35 years (1902–1937) | Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | |
| Martin Brewer Anderson | 35 years (1853–1888) | University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | |
| Benjamin Rush Rhees | 35 years (1900–1935) | University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | |
| Jairy C. Hunter Jr. | 35 years (1983–2018) | Charleston Southern University | Charleston, SC | Longest serving president for the university |
| Charles Schlimpert | 35 years (1983–2018) | Concordia University Portland | Portland, OR | Longest serving President in the State of Oregon |
| Kenneth C.M. Sills | 34 years (1918-1952) | Bowdoin College | Brunswick, ME | |
| Joseph W. Polisi | 34 years (1984–2018) | The Juilliard School | New York City, NY | |
| Mordecai Wyatt Johnson | 34 years (1926-1960) | Howard University | Washington, D.C. | |
| Ray Paul Authement, Sr. | 34 years (1974–2008) | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Lafayette, La | |
| Eugene C. Sanderson | 34 years (1895–1929) | Northwest Christian University | Eugene, OR | |
| James M Rosser | 34 years (1979–2013)[13] | California State University, Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | |
| Edgar Odell Lovett | 34 years (1912–1946)[14] | Rice Institute | Houston, TX | |
| John F. MacArthur | 33 years (1985–present) | The Master's College | Santa Clarita, CA | |
| Faith A. Takes | 33 years (1985–present) | Mildred Elley | Albany, NY | Longest serving 2-year college president still sitting |
| Thomas Hanna McMichael | 33 years (1903–1936)[15] | Monmouth College | Monmouth, IL | |
| C. Hoyt Watson | 33 years (1926–1959) | Seattle Pacific University | Seattle, WA | |
| William Parker McKee | 33 years (1897–1930) | Shimer College | Chicago, IL | |
| Mark W. Ellingson | 33 years (1936–1969) | Rochester Institute of Technology | Henrietta, NY | |
| Palmer C. Ricketts | 33 years (1901–1934) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY | |
| H. Mebane Turner | 33 years (1969–2002)[16] | University of Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | |
| Alvin O. Austin | 32 years (1986–present) | LeTourneau University | Longview, TX | Served as President until 2007, then Chancellor |
| Charles Paul Conn | 32 years (1986–present) | Lee University | Cleveland, TN | |
| Andrew Jackson Rider | 32 years (1866-1898) | Rider University | Lawrenceville, NJ | First president of the college |
| Cloyd H. Marvin | 32 years (1927–1959) | George Washington University | Washington, DC | |
| Steven Van Ausdle | 32 years (1984–2016) | Walla Walla Community College | Walla Walla, WA | |
| Samuel Belkin | 32 years (1943–1975) | Yeshiva University | New York, NY | |
| Richard E. Wylie | 31 years (1987-2018) | Endicott College | Beverley, MA | |
| Henry Hardin Cherry | 31 years (1906–1937) | Western Kentucky University | Bowling Green, KY | |
| Duke Kimbrough McCall | 31 years (1951-1982) | Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | Louisville, KY | |
| Athens Clay Pullias | 31 years (1946–1977) | Lipscomb University | Nashville, TN | |
| R. M. Good | 31 years (1921–1952) | College of the Ozarks | Point Lookout, MO | |
| Felton G. Clark | 31 years (1938–1969) | Southern University | Baton Rouge, LA | |
| Claybrook Cottingham | 31 years (1910–1941) | Louisiana College | Pineville, LA | |
| John Silber | 31 years (1971–2002) | Boston University | Boston, MA | Served as President until 1996, then Chancellor. Sabbatical leave 1987–1988 and 1990 |
| James Carnahan | 31 years (1823–1854) | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | |
| John L. Lahey | 31 years (1987–2018) | Quinnipiac University | Hamden, CT | |
| Sr. Thomas Welder | 31 years (1978–2009) | University of Mary | Bismarck, ND | For her tenure and service, Sr. Thomas Welder was given the Roughrider Award by the state of North Dakota, inducting her into its hall of fame. |
| Edwin Massey | 30 years (1988–present) | Indian River State College | Fort Pierce, FL | |
| Jerry C. Davis | 30 years (1988–present) | College of the Ozarks | Point Lookout, MO | |
| Gary Cook | 30 years (1988–present) | Dallas Baptist University | Dallas, TX | Served as President until 2015, then Chancellor |
| Thomas Duckett Boyd | 30 years (1896–1926) | Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA | Previously served as interim President of LSU in 1886 |
| Lincoln Hulley | 30 years (1904–1934) | Stetson University | DeLand, FL | |
| Daniel R. Chamberlain | 30 years (1976–2006) | Houghton College | Houghton, NY | |
| Richard V. Clearwaters | 30 years (1956–1986) | Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis | Plymouth, MN | |
| Ernest O. Holland | 30 years (1915–1945) | Washington State University | Pullman, WA | |
| Jeffrey Bullock | 30 years (1988–present) | University of Dubuque | Dubuque, IA | |
| Diana Natalicio | 30 years (1988–present) | University of Texas at El Paso | El Paso, TX | Longest serving president still sitting of a major public research university. Appointed interim president in 1987.[17] |
| Edwin H. Welch | 29 years (1989–present) | University of Charleston | Charleston, WV | |
| James Petigru Boyce | 29 years (1859–1888) | Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | Louisville, KY | First President. Was titled Chairman of Faculty from 1859 to 1887. |
| Silvas Evans | 29 years (1910-1917, 1921-1943) | Ripon College | Ripon, WI | |
| Nathan Green, Jr. | 29 years (1873-1902) | Cumberland University | Lebanon, TN | |
| Edgar Young Mullins | 29 years (1899–1928) | Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | Louisville, KY | |
| James S Luckey | 29 years (1908–1937) | Houghton College | Houghton, NY | First President of Houghton as an incorporated college |
| Jeremiah Day | 29 years (1817–1846) | Yale University | New Haven, CT | |
| Rees Edgar Tulloss | 29 years (1920–1949) | Wittenberg University | Springfield, OH | |
| Albert Parker | 29 years (1929–1958) | Hanover College | Hanover, IN | |
| John Horner | 29 years (1958–1987) | Hanover College | Hanover, IN | |
| Ruth A. Haas | 29 years (1946-1975) | Western Connecticut State University | Danbury, CT | |
| Paul Ambrose Fontaine | 29 years (1929–1958) | Marist College | Poughkeepsie, NY | |
| Jack L. Stark | 29 years (1970–1999) | Claremont McKenna College | Claremont, CA | |
| David Lieber | 29 years (1964–1993) | University of Judaism | Bel-air, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Charles E. Young | 29 years (1968–1997)[18] | UCLA | Los Angeles, CA | Was also the president of the University of Florida from 1999 to 2003. |
| Edith Lesley | 29 years (1909–1938) | Lesley University | Cambridge, MA | |
| Jack Hawkins, Jr. | 29 years (1989–present) | Troy University[19] | Troy, AL | |
| Charles J. Smith | 29 years (1920–1949) | Roanoke College | Salem, VA | |
| Jahnae H. Barnett | 28 years (1990–present) | William Woods University | Fulton, MO | |
| Katharine Elizabeth McBride | 28 years (1942–1970) | Bryn Mawr College | Bryan Mawr, PA | |
| Jacob Gould Schurman | 28 years (1892-1920) | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | |
| M. Carey Thomas | 28 years (1894–1922) | Bryn Mawr College | Bryan Mawr, PA | |
| E. Wilson Lyon | 28 years (1941–1969) | Pomona College | Claremont, CA | |
| Daniel Fisher | 28 years (1879–1907) | Hanover College | Hanover, IN | |
| John A. Hannah | 28 years (1941–1969) | Michigan State College | East Lansing, MI | |
| Joab Mauldin Lesesne Jr. | 28 years (1972–2000) | Wofford College | Spartanburg, SC | |
| James R. Day | 28 years (1894–1922) | Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | |
| Richard Vernon Moore | 28 years (1947–1975) | Bethune-Cookman University | Daytona Beach, FL | |
| Oswald Perry Bronson | 28 years (1975–2003) | Bethune-Cookman University | Daytona Beach, FL | |
| Royce Money | 27 years (1991–present) | Abilene Christian University | Abilene, TX | Served as President until 2010, then Chancellor |
| William P. Tolley | 27 years (1942–1969) | Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | |
| Ray Lyman Wilbur | 27 years (1916–1943) | Stanford University | Stanford, CA | |
| M. Elton Hendricks | 27 years (1983-2010) | Methodist University | Fayetteville, NC | |
| James Henry Carlisle | 27 years (1875–1902) | Wofford College | Spartanburg, SC | |
| Alexander Schure | 27 years (1955–1982) | New York Institute of Technology | New York, NY | |
| Norman Lamm | 27 years (1976–2003) | Yeshiva University | New York, NY | |
| Edward H. Hammond | 27 years (1987–2014) | Fort Hays State University | Hays, KS | |
| John E. Murray Jr. | 27 years (1988–2015) | Duquesne University | Pittsburgh, PA | Served as President until 2001, then Chancellor |
| Bowman Foster Ashe | 26 years (1926–1952) | University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | |
| John H.T. Main | 26 years (1905–1931) | Grinnell College | Grinnell, IA | |
| Benjamin Labaree | 26 years (1840–1866) | Middlebury College | Middlebury, VT | |
| Dan Reneau | 26 years (1987–2013) | Louisiana Tech University | Ruston, LA | |
| John Witherspoon | 26 years (1768–1794) | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | |
| Don Moon | 26 years (1978–2004) | Shimer College | Chicago, IL | |
| Lawrence Biondi | 26 years (1987–2013) | Saint Louis University | St. Louis, MO | |
| Harry Augustus Garfield | 26 years (1908–1934) | Williams College | Williamstown, MA | |
| Alfred Bryan Bonds | 26 years (1955–1981) | Baldwin Wallace University | Berea, OH | |
| Daniel Coit Gilman | 26 years (1875–1901) | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | |
| Elizabeth Coleman | 26 years (1987–2013) | Bennington College | Bennington, VT | |
| Albert Maltby | 26 years (1890-1916) | Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania | Slippery Rock, PA | Maltby was the second principal. The university was called Slippery Rock State Normal School. |
| George Sverdrup | 26 years (1911-1937) | Augsburg University | Minneapolis, MN | |
| James H. Daughdrill, Jr. | 26 years (1973–1999) | Rhodes College | Memphis, TN | |
| John Hitt | 26 years (1992–2018) | University of Central Florida | Orlando, FL | |
| Robert D. Wexler | 26 years (1992–2018) | American Jewish University | Bel-Air, CA | |
| Freeman A. Hrabowski III | 26 years (1992–present) | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Baltimore, MD | |
| Eric R. Gilbertson | 25 years (1989-2014) | Saginaw Valley State University | University Center, MI | |
| Clyde Cook | 25 years (1982–2007)[20] | Biola University | La Mirada, CA | |
| James McCain | 25 years (1950–1975) | Kansas State University | Manhattan, KS | |
| Frederick L. Hovde | 25 years (1946–1971) | Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | |
| Betty Siegel | 25 years (1981–2006) | Kennesaw State University | Kennesaw, GA | |
| Homer B. Williams | 25 years (1912–1937) | Bowling Green State University | Bowling Green, OH | |
| F. Jay Taylor | 25 years (1962–1987) | Louisiana Tech University | Ruston, LA | |
| Walter Washington | 25 years (1969–1994)[21] | Alcorn State University | Lorman, MI | |
| Theodore Dwight Woolsey | 25 years (1846–1871) | Yale University | New Haven, CT | |
| Ellen Fitz Pendleton | 25 years (1911–1936) | Wellesley College | Wellesley, MA | |
| Julius D. Dreher | 25 years (1878–1903) | Roanoke College | Salem, VA | |
| Bernard Revel | 25 years (1915–1940) | Yeshiva University | New York, NY | |
| Ernest Looney Stockton Jr. | 25 years (1958-1983) | Cumberland University | Lebanon, TN | |
| Rex Allwin Turner, Jr. | 25 years (1983-2008) | Amridge University | Montgomery, AL | |
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Notes
- ↑ For the purposes of the list, "Chancellor" and "President" are interchangeable titles.
References
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- ↑ "About Marist – Dennis J. Murray: Marist College".
- ↑ "Thomas Edison State University names new president". 20 December 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ↑ Hallman, Andy (June 20, 2016). "Lynch addresses M.U.M. graduates". The Fairfield Ledger. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
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- ↑ http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/flo34 | The Handbook of Texas | Accessed 13 April 2014
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- ↑ Chambers, Veronica. "College Presidents in the Spotlight". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
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