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Past Presidents of The University of Arizona

1890-1894 Frank Arthur Gulley
Dean of the School of Agriculture and
Director of the Agriculture Experiment Station
 
1894-1895 Theodore B. Comstock 1st president
1895-1897 Howard Billman 2nd president
1897-1901 Millard Mayhew Parker 3rd president
1901-1903 Frank Yale Adams 4th president
1903-1910 Kendrick Charles Babcock 5th president
1910-1911 Andrew Ellicott Douglass Acting president
1911-1914 Arthur Herbert Wilde 6th president
1914-1921 Rufus Bernard von Kleinsmid 7th president
1922 Francis Cummins Lockwood Acting president*
1922-1927 Cloyd Heck Marvin 8th president
1927-1928 Byron Cummings 9th president
1928-1936 Homer LeRoy Shantz 10th president
1936-1937 Paul Steere Burgess 11th president
1937-1947 Alfred Atkinson 12th president
1947-1951 James Byron McCormick 13th president
1951-1971 Richard Anderson Harvill 14th president
1971-1982 John Paul Schaefer 15th president
1982-1991 Henry Koffler 16th president
1991-1997 Manuel Trinidad Pacheco 17th president
1996 Paul S. Sypherd Interim President
1997- 2006 Peter Likins 18th president
2006- Robert Shelton 19th president


* Lockwood and two other deans administered the University after von Kleinsmid left for USC; Lockwood was named acting president in April 1922.