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The Brown University News Bureau

1996-1997 index

Distributed June 27, 1997
Contact: Mark Nickel

The 17 presidents of Brown University

• 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 G. Robinson, 1872-1889
• Elisha Benjamin Andrews, 1889-1898
• William H.P. Faunce, 1899-1929
• Clarence Augustus Barbour, 1929-1937
• Henry Merritt Wriston, 1937-1955
• Barnaby Conrad Keeney, 1955-1966
• Ray L. Heffner, 1966-1969
• Donald F. Hornig, 1970-1976
• Howard R. Swearer, 1977-1988
• Vartan Gregorian, 1989-1997
• E. Gordon Gee, 1998-