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 – May 8, 2016
(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 –
2007-2015
Jean Robillard / November 5, 1943 –
(interim) 2015
J. Bruce Harreld / December 12, 1950 –
2015-
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