University Presidents
Clark T. Hinman
1st President of Northwestern:
1853 – 1854
Henry S. Noyes
President ad interim:
1854 – 1856;
1860 – 1867
Randolph S. Foster
2nd President of Northwestern:
1856 – 1860
Henry S. Noyes
President ad interim:
1854 – 1856;
1860 – 1867
David H. Wheeler
President ad interim:
1867 – 1869
Erastus O. Haven
3rd President of Northwestern:
1869 – 1872
Charles H. Fowler
4th President of Northwestern:
1872 – 1876
Oliver Marcy
President (acting):
1876 – 1881
1890
Joseph Cummings
5th President of Northwestern:
1881 – 1890
Oliver Marcy
President (acting):
1876 – 1881
1890
Henry Rogers
6th President of Northwestern:
1890 – 1900
Daniel Bonbright
President ad interim:
1900 – 1902
Edmund James
7th President of Northwestern:
1902 – 1904
Thomas Holgate
President ad interim:
1904 – 1906
1916 – 1919
Abram Harris
8th President of Northwestern:
1906 – 1916
Thomas Holgate
President ad interim:
1904 – 1906
1916 – 1919
Lynn Hough
9th President of Northwestern:
1919 – 1920
Walter Dill Scott
10th President of Northwestern:
1919 – 1939
Franklin Snyder
11th President of Northwestern:
1939 – 1949
J. Roscoe Miller
12th President of Northwestern:
1949 – 1970
Robert Strotz
13th President of Northwestern:
1970 – 1984
Arnold R. Weber
14th President of Northwestern:
1984 – 1994
Henry S. Bienen
15th President of Northwestern:
1994 – 2009
Morton Schapiro
16th President of Northwestern:
2009 – 2022
Michael H. Schill
17th President of Northwestern:
2022 – current
Special Thanks
Thank you to the following colleagues for their support for this project: Kevin Leonard, Dana Lamparello and Charla Wilson, University Archivists; Janet Olson and Patrick Quinn, Emeritus Archivists; Cory Slowik, Northwestern Libraries Marketing and Communication. Thank you also to the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives for stewarding the archives of Northwestern University.
Last updated: November 2022