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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“You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in the people. One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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—J.R. Pole (b. 1922)
“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 (18961970)