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Clark T. Hinman

1853-54

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Henry S. Noyes*

1854-56

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Randolph S. Foster

1856–60

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Henry S. Noyes*

1860-67

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David H. Wheeler*

1867-69

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Erastus O. Haven

1869-72

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Charles H. Fowler

1872-76

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Oliver H. Marcy*

1876-81

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Joseph H. Cummings

1881-90

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Henry Wade Rogers

1890-1900

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Daniel Bonbright*

1900-02

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Edmund James

1902-04

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Thomas F. Holgate*

1904-06

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Abram W. Harris

1906-16

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Thomas. F. Holgate*

1916-19

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Lynn Hough

1919-20

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Walter Dill Scott

1920-39

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Franklyn Bliss Snyder

1939-49

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J. Roscoe Miller

1949-70

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Robert H. Strotz

1970-85

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Arnold R. Weber

1985-94

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Henry S. Bienen

1995-2009

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Morton Schapiro

2009-22

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