Presidents of Brown University

James Manning
1765 – 1791

Jonathan Maxcy
1792 – 1802

Asa Messer
1792 – 1802

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 –
Ruth J. Simmons was inaugurated October 14, 2001
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