McKendree Presidents

The following is a list of McKendree’s presidents and the years they served:

James Dennis
1994-Present

 

 

 

Gerrit J. Tenbrink
1979-1994

 

 

 

Adolph Unruh (AP)
1978-1979

 

 

 

Julian H. Murphy
1975-1978

 

 

 

Eric N. Rackham
1968-1975

 

 

 

Edwin E. Voigt
1964-1968

 

 

 

Max P. Allen
1960-1964

 

 

William N. Grandy (AP)
1960

 

 

 

Webb Garrison
1957-1960

 

 

 

Russell Grow
1950-1957

 

 

 

Carl C. Bracy
1945-1949

 

 

 

Clark R. Yost
1935-1945

 

 

 

Cameron Harmon
1923-1935

 

 

 

Edwin P. Baker (AP)
1923

 

 

 

George McCammon
1919-1923

 

 

 

Edwin P. Baker (AP)
1917-1919

 

 

 

Huber William Hurt
1915-1917

 

 

 

James Dolley (AP)
1915

 

 

 

John H. Harmon
1908-1915

 

 

 

McKendree Hypes Chamberlain
1894-1908

 

 

 

Morris Lincoln Barr
1893-1894

 

 

 

Thomas H. Herdman (AP)
1890-1893

 

 

 

A.G. Jepson (AP)
1889-1890

 

 

 

Isaiah Villars
1887-1889

 

 

 

 

 

(Photo not available) Edwards A. Whitwam
1886-1887

 

William Fletcher Swahlen
1883-1886

 

 

 

Daniel W. Phillips
1879-1883

 

 

 

Ross Clark Houghton
1878-1879

 

 

 

John W. Locke
1874-1878

 

 

 

Robert Allyn
1863-1874

 

 

 

Nelson Cobleigh
1858-1863

 

 

 

(Photo not available) Werter Davis (AP)
1857-1858

 

Peter Akers
1852-1857

 

 

 

(Photo not available) Anson W. Cummings
1850-1852

 

Erastus Wentworth
1846-1850

 

 

 

Peter Akers
1845-1846

 

 

 

(Photo not available) James Finley
1841-1845

 

John Wesley Merrill
1838-1841

 

 

 

(Photo not available) John Dew
1836-1838

 

Peter Akers
1833-1836

 

 

 

Edward Raymond Ames
1828-1833

 

 

 

 

(AP) Acting President