President of Princeton University

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Princeton University is led by a President selected by the Board of Trustees. Until the accession of Woodrow Wilson, a political scientist, in 1902, they were all clergymen, as well as professors. President Tilghman is a biologist; her two predecessors were economists.


Acting Presidents are in italics
  1. Jonathan Dickinson 1747
    Aaron Burr, Sr.
  2. Aaron Burr, Sr. 1748-1757
  3. Jonathan Edwards 1758
    Jacob Green
  4. Samuel Davies 1759-1761
  5. Samuel Finley 1761-1766
  6. John Witherspoon 1768-1794
  7. Samuel Stanhope Smith 1795-1812
  8. Ashbel Green 1812-1822
    Philip Lindsly
  9. James Carnahan 1823-1854
  10. John Maclean, Jr. 1854-1868
  11. James McCosh 1868-1888
  12. Francis L. Patton 1888-1902
  13. Woodrow Wilson 1902-1910
    John Aikman Stewart
  14. John G. Hibben 1912-1932
    Edward Dickinson Duffield
  15. Harold W. Dodds 1933-1957
  16. Robert F. Goheen 1957-1972
  17. William G. Bowen 1972-1988
  18. Harold T. Shapiro 1988-2001
  19. Shirley M. Tilghman 2001-present

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