Princeton University

The Presidents
of Princeton University

1746 to the present

Preface

Colonial Times

Jonathan Dickinson, 1747
Aaron Burr, Sr., 1748–57
Jonathan Edwards, 1758
Samuel Davies, 1759–61
Samuel Finley, 1761–66

Revolutionary War

John Witherspoon, 1768–94

Nineteenth Century

Samuel S. Smith, 1795–1812
Ashbel Green, 1812–22
James Carnahan, 1823–54
John Maclean, Jr., 1854–68
James McCosh, 1868–88
Francis L. Patton, 1888–1902

Twentieth Century

Woodrow Wilson, 1902–10
John G. Hibben, 1912–32
Harold W. Dodds, 1933–57
Robert F. Goheen, 1957–72
William G. Bowen, 1972–88
Harold T. Shapiro, 1988–2001

Twenty-first Century

Shirley M. Tilghman, 2001–

Credits