Presidents
For presiding professors of the University of North Carolina prior to 1804, see Leaders of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.| Name | Term |
|---|---|
| Rev. Joseph Caldwell | 1804–1812 |
| Robert Hett Chapman | 1812–1816 |
| Rev. Joseph Caldwell | 1816–1835 |
| Elisha Mitchell * | 1835 |
| David Lowry Swain | 1835–1868 |
| Rev. Solomon Pool | 1869–1872 |
| Rev. Charles Phillips | 1875–1876 |
| Kemp Plummer Battle | 1876–1891 |
| George Tayloe Winston | 1891–1896 |
| Edwin Anderson Alderman | 1896–1900 |
| Francis Preston Venable | 1900–1914 |
| Edward Kidder Graham | 1914–1918 |
| Marvin Hendrix Stacy | 1918–1919 |
| Harry Woodburn Chase | 1919–1930 |
| Frank Porter Graham | 1930-1949 |
| William Donald Carmichael, Jr. * | 1949–1950 |
| Gordon Gray | 1950–1955 |
| J. Harris Purks * | 1955–1956 |
| William Clyde Friday | 1956–1986 |
| Clemmie Spangler | 1986–1997 |
| Molly Corbett Broad | 1997–2006 |
| Erskine Bowles | 2006–2011 |
| Thomas W. Ross | 2011–present |
An asterisk (*) denotes acting president.
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.”
—J.R. Pole (b. 1922)