Board of Trustees, Chairs

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Chairs of the GW Board of Trustees

Presidents, Board of Trustees

Obadiah B. Brown, 1821 - 1827

Robert B. Semple, 1827 - 1832

Samuel Cornelius, 1832 - 1838

James L. Edwards, 1838 - 1867

Amos Kendall, 1867 - 1869

William W. Corcoran, 1869 - 1872

Presidents of the Corporation

William W. Corcoran, 1872 - 1888

James C. Welling, 1888 - 1894

Benaiah L. Whitman, 1895 - 1900

Chairmen, Board of Trustees

Samuel Harrison Greene, 1900 - 1902

Wayne MacVeagh, 1902 - 1907

Henry Brown F. Macfarland, 1907 - 1910

John Bell Larner, 1910 - 1931

Robert Vedder Fleming, 1937 - 1959

Newell Windom Ellison, 1959 - 1965

Edward Karrick Morris, 1965 - 1972

Charles E. Phillips, 1972 - 1978

Glen A. Wilkinson, 1978 - 1985

Everett H. Bellows, 1985 - 1988

Oliver T. Carr, Jr., 1988 - 1995

John D. Zeglis, 1995 – 2000

Sheldon S. Cohen, 2000-2001

Charles T. Manatt, 2001-Present

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Date Added to Encyclopedia: January 05, 2007
Prepared by: G. David Anderson, University Archivist and Historian

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