President of Rutgers University

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The President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (also known as Rutgers University) is the chief administrator of Rutgers University and—in an ex officio capacity—a presiding officer within the University's 59-member Board of Trustees and its eleven-member Board of Governors. Appointed by these bodies to the post and delegated authority to run the day-to-day operation of the University, the President is responsible to those bodies alone.

The first president, Reverend Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, was appointed to the office in 1785—in the days when Rutgers was called Queen's College (1766-1824). Since then, nineteen men have served as president of the institution. The current president is Richard Levis McCormick (b. 1947), who has served in this position since 2002.

[edit] History

When Rutgers opened in 1771 as Queen's College, it opened with an incoming sophmore class of one, a handful of freshman, and one tutor.

[edit] Presidents of Rutgers University

The following nineteen individuals have served as President of Rutgers University from the creation of the office in 1785 to the present. Those enumerated below with their names emboldened were graduated from Rutgers.

President Birth Year–Death Year Years as President Previous occupation(s)
1 Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1735 – 1790) (1785 – 1790) Dutch Reformed minister
2 William Linn (1752 – 1808) (1791 – 1795) Presbyterian minister.
3 Ira Condict (1764 – 1811) (1795 – 1810) Presbyterian/Dutch Reformed minister, Professor of Moral Philosophy
4 John Henry Livingston (1746 – 1825) (1810 – 1825) Dutch Reformed minister, Professor of Theology
5 Philip Milledoler (1775 – 1852) (1825 – 1840) German Reformed minister
6 Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (1791 – 1879) (1840 – 1850) Lawyer, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
7 Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787 – 1862) (1850 – 1862) United States Senator, New Jersey Attorney General, 1844 Whig Vice-Presidential candidate
8 William Henry Campbell (1808 – 1890) (1862 – 1882) Itinerant preacher, School Principal, Professor of Oriental Languages and "Belles Lettres"
9 Merrill Edward Gates (1848 – 1922) (1882 – 1890) School Principal
10 Austin Scott (1848 – 1922) (1891 – 1906) Historian, Professor of History, Political Economy, and Constitutional Law, and
11 William Henry Steele Demarest (1863 – 1956) (1906 – 1924) Dutch Reformed minister, Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government
12 John Martin Thomas (1869 – 1952) (1925 – 1930) Presbyterian minister, College President
13 Philip Milledoler Brett (1871 – 1960) (1930 – 1931) Corporate attorney
14 Robert Clarkson Clothier (1885 – 1970) (1932 – 1951) Reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Publishing company manager, government bureaucrat, school headmaster.
15 Lewis Webster Jones (1899 – 1975) (1951 – 1958) Professor of Economics
16 Mason Welch Gross (1911 – 1977) (1959 – 1971) Professor of Philosophy, university administrator, television quiz show personality
17 Edward J. Bloustein (1925 – 1989) (1971 – 1989) Law professor, university president.
18 Francis L. Lawrence (b. 1937) (1990 – 2002) Professor of French and Italian Literature
19 Richard Levis McCormick (b. 1947) (2002 – present) History professor, university administrator

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