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1.	Alexander B. Brown (1847-1856)	Rev. Brown was elected the seventh president of Jefferson College October 14, 1847. He was the son of the fifth president of Jefferson College, Matthew Brown, and had been a member of the faculty, li

2.	Andrew Wylie (1812-1816)	Rev. Wylie was elected the third president of Jefferson College on April 29, 1812, at the age of 22 with an annual salary of $533.33 out of which he paid for his assistant teachers. He resigned in Ap

3.	Andrew Wylie (1817-1828)	Rev. Wylie was elected the second president of Washington College on April 30, 1817, a year after resigning as president of Jefferson College. He was born April 12, 1789, in Washington County, Pennsy

4.	Boyd Crumrine Patterson (1950-1970)	Dr. Patterson was elected ninth president of Washington & Jefferson College on March 24, 1950, and inaugurated June 10. He was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1902, and was graduated from

5.	Brian C. Mitchell (1998-2004)	Dr. Brian C. Mitchell is the eleventh president of Washington & Jefferson College. President of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania (AICUP) from 1995 unti

6.	David Elliott (1830-1831)	Following the resignation of Andrew Wylie, Washington College was temporarily suspended in 1829 due to the difficulty in finding a candidate willing to accept the presidency. In addition, several Trus

7.	David H. Riddle (1862-Union of the Colleges)	Rev. Riddle was the ninth and last president of Jefferson College. He was born in Martinsburg, Virginia, on April 14, 1805. He graduated from Jefferson College in 1823, at the age of 18. He was gra

8.	David McConaughy (1831-1849)	Rev. McConaughy was elected the fourth president of Washington College on December 21, 1831, with a salary of $800 per year. Dr. McConaughy was born September 29, 1775, in York (now Adams) County, Pe

9.	Frederick W. Hinitt (Pro Tem. 1915-1918)	Dr. Hinitt was elected president of Washington & Jefferson College September 23, 1914. He assumed the duties of the presidency on January 4, 1915, and was inaugurated June 15. He had most recently

10.	G. Andrew Rembert (Pro Tem. 2004 )	Dr. G. Andrew Rembert was named interim president of Washington & Jefferson College on March 5, 2004, following the announcement by Dr. Brian C. Mitchell of his resignation. A senior College ad

11.	George P. Hays (1870-1881)	Rev. George Price Hays was elected second president of Washington & Jefferson College August 3, 1870, and was inaugurated September 21, 1870, in the Town Hall at Washington, Pennsylvania. He was born

12.	Howard Jerome Burnett (1970-1998)	Dr. Burnett took office as the tenth president of Washington & Jefferson College on July 1, 1970. He was inaugurated April 3, 1971. He was born on October 14, 1929, in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He re

13.	James Clark (1850-1852)	Rev. Clark was elected the fifth president of Washington College on May 6, 1850. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 9, 1812. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1830

14.	James D. Moffat (1881-1915)	Rev. James David Moffat was elected third president of Washington & Jefferson College November 16, 1881. Rev. Moffat was born on March 15, 1846, in New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio, and spent his

15.	James Dunlap (1803-1811)	Rev. Dunlap was elected second president of Jefferson College on April 27, 1803, at 140 pounds per annum plus a house and garden. He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1744. He was a gradu

16.	James Herbert Case, Jr. (1946-1949)	Mr. Case, 39, a graduate of Princeton, Class of 1929, was elected eighth president of Washington & Jefferson College on May 4, 1946. He was inaugurated October 25 of the same year. He was born Octob

17.	James I. Brownson (Pro Tem. 1852-1853)	Rev. Brownson was elected president pro tem of Washington College at a salary of $500 per year on July 13, 1852. His appointment ended September 20, 1853. He was later called to serve as president p

18.	James I. Brownson (Pro Tem. 1870)	Rev. Brownson was elected president pro tem of Washington & Jefferson College on February 1, 1870, and presided temporarily during a period of litigation over the union of the two colleges. In a lett

19.	John W. Scott (1852-Union of the Colleges)	Rev. Scott, of Wheeling, was elected president of Washington College on November 10, 1852, at a salary of $1000 per year. Although elected in November of 1852, his actual administration of the Colleg

20.	John Watson (1802-1802)	Rev. Watson was elected the first principal or president of Jefferson College and Professor of Moral Philosophy August 29, 1802, at a salary of 150 pounds. Rev. Watson was a native of Western Pennsyl

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