Past Presidents

Yale Presidents 1701 – present

Term Served as President Past Yale Presidents
2013–2024 Peter Salovey
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1993–2013 Richard C. Levin
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1992–1993 Howard R. Lamar
1986–1992 Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
1978–1986 A. Bartlett Giamatti
1977–1978 Hanna Holborn Gray
1963–1977 Kingman Brewster, Jr.
1950–1963 Alfred Whitney Griswold*
1937–1950 Charles Seymour
1921–1937 James Rowland Angell
1899–1921 Arthur Twining Hadley
1886–1899 Rev. Timothy Dwight**
1871–1886 Rev. Noah Porter
1846–1871 Rev. Theodore Dwight Woolsey
1817–1846 Rev. Jeremiah Day
1795–1817 Rev. Timothy Dwight
1778–1795 Rev. Ezra Stiles*
1766–1777 Rev. Naphtali Daggett (pro tempore)
1740–1766 Rev. Thomas Clap
1726–1739 Rev. Elisha Williams
1719–1722 Rev. Timothy Cutler
1707–1719 Rev. Samuel Andrew
1701–1707 Rev. Abraham Pierson*

* Died in office
** Grandson of the eighth Yale president