Kenyon College's Presidents

Philander Chase, 1825-31
Charles P. McIlvaine, 1832-40
David Bates Douglass, 1840-44
Samuel Fuller, 1844-45*
Sherlock A. Bronson, 1845-50
Thomas M. Smith, 1850-54
Lorin Andrews 1842, 1854-61
Benjamin L. Lang, 1861-63*
Charles Short, 1863-67
James Kent Stone, 1867-68
Eli T. Tappan, 1868-75
Edward C. Benson, 1875-76*
William B. Bodine, 1876-91
Theodore Sterling, 1891-96
William Foster Peirce, 1896-1937
Gordon Keith Chalmers, 1937-56
Frank E. Bailey, 1956-57*
F. Edward Lund, 1957-68
William G. Caples '30, 1968-75
Philip H. Jordan Jr., 1975-95
Reed S. Browning, 1989*
Robert A. Oden Jr., 1995-2002
Ronald A. Sharp, 2002-2003*
S. Georgia Nugent, 2003-

*Acting president