| Dates of office |
President |
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| – 1910 |
George P. Garrison |
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| 1910 – 1925 |
Eugene C. Barker[1] |
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| 1896 – 1899 |
Walter Prescott Webb |
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| 1959 – 1965 |
Joe Frantz[2] |
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| 1905 – 1908 |
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| 1908 – 1914 |
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| 1914 – 1916 |
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| 1916 – 1923 |
Robert Ernest Vinson |
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| 1923 – 1924 |
William Seneca Sutton |
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President ad interim
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| 1924 – 1927 |
Walter Marshall William Splawn |
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| 1927 – 1937 |
Harry Yandell Benedict |
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| 1937 – 1939 |
John William Calhoun |
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President ad interim
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| 1939 – 1944 |
Homer Price Rainey |
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Fired by the Board of Regents over a dispute regarding academic freedom
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| 1944 – 1946 |
Theophilus Shickel Painter |
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Acting president
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| 1946 – 1952 |
Theophilus Shickel Painter |
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| 1952 |
James Clay Dolley |
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Acting president
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| 1953 – 1960 |
Logan Wilson |
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Served concurrently as acting chancellor in 1954 until the office was abolished on September 30
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| 1960 – 1961 |
Harry Huntt Ransom |
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| 1961 |
Harry Huntt Ransom |
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Acting president
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| 1961 – 1963 |
Joseph Royall Smiley |
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| 1963 – 1967 |
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Chancellor Harry Ransom assumed the duties of the office of the president
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| 1967 – 1970 |
Norman Hackerman |
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| 1970 – 1971 |
Bryce Jordan |
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| 1971 – 1974 |
Stephen Hopkins Spurr |
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Fired by the Board of Regents and Chancellor Charles LeMaistre
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| 1974 – 1975 |
Lorene Lane Rogers |
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President ad interim
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| 1975 – 1979 |
Lorene Lane Rogers |
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| 1979 – 1985 |
Peter Tyrrell Flawn |
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| 1985 – 1992 |
William H. Cunningham |
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Acting President
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| 1992 – 1993 |
William S. Livingston |
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| 1993 – 1997 |
Robert M. Berdahl |
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| 1997 – 1998 |
Peter Tyrrell Flawn |
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President ad interim
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| 1998 – 2006 |
Larry R. Faulkner |
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| 2006 – 2015 |
William Powers, Jr. |
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| 2015 – present |
Gregory L. Fenves |
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