James Manning

1765 - 1791

Jonathan Maxcy

1792 - 1802

Asa Messer

1802 - 1826

Francis Wayland

1827 - 1855

Barnas Sears

1855 - 1867

Alexis Caswell

1868 - 1872

Ezekiel Gilman Robinson

1872 - 1889

Elisha Benjamin Andrews

1889 - 1898

William Herbert Perry Faunce

1899 - 1929

Clarence Augustus Barbour

1929 - 1937

Henry Merritt Wriston

1937 - 1955

Barnaby Conrad Keeney

1955 - 1966

Ray Lorenzo Heffner

1966 - 1969

Donald Frederick Hornig

1970 - 1976

Howard Robert Swearer

1977 - 1988

Vartan Gregorian

1989 - 1997

E. Gordon Gee

1998 - 2000

Ruth J. Simmons

2001 - 2012