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UNH Presidents

Visit the archived Web site of J. Bonnie Newman, interim president of UNH 2006-2007.

 

Visit the archived Web site of Ann Weaver Hart, president of UNH 2002-2006.

 

Visit archived Web site of Joan Leitzel president of UNH 1994-2002.

 

Past President's of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts and the University of New Hampshire. Read about the Presidents.

Smith Murkland Gibbs Fairchild Hetzel
1866-1877
Asa D. Smith
1893-1903
Charles S. Murkland
1903-1912
William D. Gibbs
1912-1916
Edward T. Fairchild
1917-1927
Ralph D. Hetzel

Lewis


Engelhardt


Stoke

Adams

Chandler
1927-1936
Edward M. Lewis
1937-1944
Fred Engelhardt
1944-1947
Harold W. Stoke
1948-1950
Arthur S. Adams
1950-1954
Robert F. Chandler

Johnson

McConnell

Bonner

Mills

Handler
1955-1961
Eldon L. Johnson
1963-1971
John W. McConnell
1971-1974
Thomas N. Bonner
1974-1979
Eugene S. Mills
1980-1983
Evelyn E. Handler
Haaland Nitzschke
Leitzel
Hart
 
1984-1990
Gordon A. Haaland
1990-1994
Dale F. Nitzschke
1994-2002
Joan R. Leitzel
2002-2006
Ann W. Hart
 

 

Two 18th Presidents?

When Joan Leitzel was inaugurated, the program read that she was to become the 18th president of the University. As Ann Weaver Hart was inaugurated, the program again described her as the 18th president. The mystery traces its roots to 1866, when the college was founded in Hanover, N.H. To save money, the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was situated next to Dartmouth College so the two schools could share facilities and faculty. Between 1866 and 1892, three men served as president of the college’s board of trustees. By the time Everett Sackett’s history of the University was published in the mid-’70s, two of the early presidents had been dropped, leaving only Asa Smith, who had also been President of Dartmouth. This new count continued until President Leitzel, overseeing a redesign of the University seal, discovered the error. Because Smith had been president of the Board, not the institution, Leitzel ordered the mistake rectified. Thus, the University’s 18th president, Joan Leitzel, was quite correctly succeeded by its 18th president, Ann Weaver Hart.

 

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