Presidents of the UW

Table E - 2
PRESIDENTS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
		Term

1.	Asa Shinn Mercer (Temporary President)	1861-63
2.	William Edward Barnard	1863-66
3.	George Fred Whitworth	1866-67
	UNIVERSITY CLOSED	1867-69
4.	John Henry Hall	1869-72
5.	Eugene Kincaid Hill	1872-74
	UNIVERSITY CLOSED	1874
6.	George Fred Whitworth	1874-76
	UNIVERSITY CLOSED	1876
7.	Alexander Jay Anderson	1877-82
8.	Leonard Jackson Powell	1882-87
9.	Thomas Milton Gatch	1887-95
10.	Mark Walrod Harrington	1895-97
11.	William Franklin Edwards (eight months)	1897
12.	Charles Francis Reeves (Acting President, one year)	1897-98
13.	Frank Pierrepont Graves	1889-1902
14.	Thomas Franklin Kane	1902-14
15.	Henry Landes (Acting President, one year)	1914-15
16.	Henry Suzzallo	1915-26
17.	David Thomson (Acting President, one year)	1926-27
18.	Matthew Lyle Spencer	1927-33
19.	Hugo Winkenwerder (Acting President, one year)	1933-34
20.	Lee Paul Sieg	1934-46
21.	Raymond B. Allen	1946-51
22.	H.P. (Dick) Everest (Acting President, six months)	1952
23.	Henry Schmitz	1952-58
24.	Charles E. Odegaard	1958-73
25.	Philip W. Cartwright (Acting President, six months)	1973-74
26.	John R. Hogness	1974-79
27.	William P. Gerberding	1979-95
28.	Richard L. McCormick	1996----

Source: Office of the President.