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)
“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)
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)