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Distributed July 1, 2001
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The President of Brown University is in charge of the immediate government of the University and reports to the Corporation. He or she is a member of the Board of Fellows, as prescribed by the Charter of 1764. The Charter also ordered that the president “shall forever be of the Denomination called Baptist or Antepedo Baptist.” That requirement was removed in 1926. Henry Wriston, elected in 1937, was the first Brown president who was not a Baptist clergyman. (See Presidents entry in Encyclopedia Brunoniana.)

1. James Manning, 1765–1791
2. Jonathan Maxcy, 1792–1802
3. Asa Messer, 1802–1826
4. Francis Wayland, 1827–1855
5. Barnas Sears, 1855–1867
6. Alexis Caswell, 1868–1872
7. Ezekiel G. Robinson, 1872–1889
8. Elisha Benjamin Andrews, 1889–1898
9. William H.P. Faunce, 1899–1929
10. Clarence Augustus Barbour, 1929–1937
11. Henry Merritt Wriston, 1937–1955
12. Barnaby Conrad Keeney, 1955–1966
13. Ray L. Heffner, 1966–1969
14. Donald F. Hornig, 1970–1976
15. Howard R. Swearer, 1977–1988
16. Vartan Gregorian, 1989–1997
17. E. Gordon Gee, 1998–2000
18. Ruth J. Simmons, 2001–

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