Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

has had 22 different presidents throughout 25 presidential terms (including 8 interim/acting presidential terms) since it was founded in 1851.https://www.library.northwestern.edu/documents/libraries-collections/university-archives/NU_pres.pdf

List of presidents

# Clark T. Hinman, DD (1853–1854) # Henry S. Noyes, MA (1854–1856) (interim/acting president) # Randolph S. Foster, DD, LLD (1856–1860) # Henry S. Noyes, MA (1860–1867) (interim/acting president) # David H. Wheeler, DD (1867–1869) (interim/acting president) # Erastus O. Haven, DD, LLD (1869–1872) # Charles H. Fowler, DD, LLD (1872–1876) # Oliver Marcy, LLD (1876–1881) (interim/acting president) # Joseph Cummings, DD, LLD (1881–1890) # Oliver Marcy, LLD (1890–1890) (interim/acting president) #

Henry Wade Rogers Henry Wade Rogers (October 15, 1853 – August 16, 1926) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Education and career Born on October 10, 1853, in Holland Patent, New York, Rogers receive ...

, LLD (1890–1900) # Daniel Bonbright, MA, LLD (1900–1902) (interim/acting president) #

Edmund J. James Edmund Janes James (May 21, 1855 – June 17, 1925) was an American academic, president of the University of Illinois from 1904 to 1920, and the primary founder, first president and first editor for the American Academy of Political and Social Sc ...

, PhD, LLD (1902–1904) # Thomas F. Holgate, PhD, LLD (1904–1906) (interim/acting president) # Abram W. Harris, ScD, LLD (1906–1916) # Thomas F. Holgate, PhD, LLD (1916–1919) (interim/acting president) # Lynn H. Hough, DD (1919–1920) #

Walter Dill Scott Walter Dill Scott (May 1, 1869 – September 24, 1955) was one of the first applied psychologists. He applied psychology to various business practices such as personnel selection and advertising. Early life Scott was born in Cooksville, Illin ...

, PhD, LLD (1920–1939) #

Franklyn Bliss Snyder Franklyn Bliss Snyder (July 26, 1884 – May 11, 1958) was the 18th President of Northwestern University (1939–1949) and an American scholar of Scottish literature. Personal life Snyder was the son of a Congregational minister, Peter Miles Snyd ...

, PhD, LLD (1939–1949) # J. Roscoe Miller, MD, LLD, ScD (1949–1970) #

Robert H. Strotz Robert Henry Strotz (September 26, 1922 – November 9, 1994) was an American economist who served as the 13th President of Northwestern University from 1970 to 1984. During his tenure, Northwestern grew in terms of faculty and student, "made cap ...

, PhD, LLD (1970–1984) #

Arnold R. Weber Arnold Robert Weber (September 20, 1929 – August 20, 2020) was the president of Northwestern University from 1984–1994. His tenure at Northwestern was marked by stabilizing the university's finances and enhancing the Evanston, Illinois, Ev ...

, PhD (1984–1994) #

Henry S. Bienen Henry Samuel Bienen (born 1939) is an American academic and administrator. He was named President of the Poetry Foundation in 2015, and is President Emeritus of Northwestern University, where he served from 1995 to 2009. Life and career Bienen re ...

, PhD (1995–2009) #

Morton O. Schapiro Morton Owen Schapiro (born July 13, 1953) is an American economist and the former president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Before assuming the Northwestern presidency in 2009, he served as president of Williams College for nine ...

, PhD (2009–2022) # Michael H. Schill, J.D. (2022–present)

References

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