List of presidents of the University of Louisville

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List of presidents of the University of Louisville[edit]

There have been 28 presidents and five interim presidents of what is (or was once a part of) the University of Louisville:[1]

Jefferson Seminary (1813–29)[edit]

  • Mann Butler 1813–16
  • William Tompkins 1816–21
  • Charles M. M'Crohan 1821–25
  • Francis E. Goddard 1826–29

Louisville Collegiate Institute (1837–40)[edit]

Louisville College (1840–46)[edit]

Louisville Medical Institute (1837–1846)[edit]

  • John Rowan 1837–42
  • William Garvin 1842–43
  • James Guthrie 1843–46

University of Louisville (post merger of LMI and LC) (1846–present)[edit]

  • Samuel Smith Nicholas 1846–47
  • James Guthrie 1847–69
  • Isaac Caldwell 1869–86
  • James Speed Pirtle 1886–05
  • Theodore L. Burnett 1905–11
  • David William Fairleigh 1911–14
  • Arthur Younger Ford 1914–26
  • George Colvin 1926–28
  • John Letcher Patterson 1928–29 (acting)
  • Raymond Asa Kent 1929–43
  • Einar William Jacobsen 1943–46
  • Frederick William Stamm 1946–47 (acting)
  • John Wilkinson Taylor 1947–50
  • Eli Huston Brown III 1950–51 (acting)
  • Philip Grant Davidson 1951–68

University of Louisville, as part of the Kentucky state system[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Past Presidents — Office of the President". louisville.edu.