List of University of Texas at Austin presidents

The complete list of University of Texas at Austin presidents officially includes 28 individuals in the history of the University. The office of the president was originally established in 1895.

The position did not exist when the University was established in 1883. The founders of the University had decided to follow the example of University of Virginia,[1] where Thomas Jefferson, a skeptic of central authority and bureaucracy, had prevented the establishment of such an office years before. The faculty would retain control, under the regents, through an annually selected chairman.

John William Mallet, a professor of physics, served as the first chairman of the faculty for one year, starting in 1883. Mallet was followed by William LeRoy Broun, who served only briefly. Leslie Waggener received the position in 1884, and served until 1894. Waggener subsequently served as president ad interim until his death in 1896.[2] George Tayloe Winston, who took over in 1896, is officially considered the first president of The University of Texas.

President Logan Wilson concurrently served as acting chancellor in 1954, until the chancellorship was abolished in September of that year. The position was re-instated in 1960, upon which Wilson left the presidency to become chancellor. In 1963, the office of the president itself was abolished. The chancellor of The University of Texas System, Harry Ransom, assumed the duties of the presidency until the position's re-establishment in 1967.[3]

Presidents

Dates of officePresidentNotes
1895 1896Leslie WaggenerPresident ad interim
1896 1899George Tayloe WinstonFirst president of The University of Texas
1899 1905William Lambdin Prather
1905 1908David Franklin Houston
1908 1914Sidney Edward Mezes
1914 1916William James BattlePresident ad interim
1916 1923Robert Ernest Vinson
1923 1924William Seneca SuttonPresident ad interim
1924 1927Walter Marshall William Splawn
1927 1937Harry Yandell Benedict
1937 1939John William CalhounPresident ad interim
1939 1944Homer Price RaineyFired by the Board of Regents over a dispute regarding academic freedom
1944 1946Theophilus Shickel PainterActing president
1946 1952Theophilus Shickel Painter
1952James Clay DolleyActing president
1953 1960Logan WilsonServed concurrently as acting chancellor in 1954 until the office was abolished on September 30
1960 1961Harry Huntt Ransom
1961Harry Huntt RansomActing president
1961 1963Joseph Royall Smiley
1963 1967Chancellor Harry Ransom assumed the duties of the office of the president
1967 1970Norman Hackerman
1970 1971Bryce Jordan
1971 1974Stephen Hopkins SpurrFired by the Board of Regents and Chancellor Charles LeMaistre
1974 1975Lorene Lane RogersPresident ad interim
1975 1979Lorene Lane Rogers
1979 1985Peter Tyrrell Flawn
1985 1992William H. Cunningham
1992 1993William S. LivingstonActing President
1993 1997Robert M. Berdahl
1997 1998Peter Tyrrell FlawnPresident ad interim
1998 2006Larry R. Faulkner
2006 2015William Powers, Jr.
2015 2020Gregory L. FenvesHe has announced his resignation from the post effective on June 30, 2020. [4]
2020 presentJay HartzellPresident ad interim

References

  1. Berry, Margaret C. University of Texas at Austin from the Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed 19 March 2006.
  2. Past Presidents. Office of the President. The University of Texas at Austin. Accessed 19 March 2143.
  3. Berry, Margaret C. The University of Texas: A Pictorial Account of its First Century. University of Texas Press, 1980.
  4. https://t.e2ma.net/message/b71mod/fih1zz
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