List of University of Texas at Austin presidents
Presidents

List of University of Texas at Austin presidents

Section Title: Presidents
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Dates of office	President	Notes

1895 – 1896	Leslie Waggener	-	President ad interim

1896 – 1899	George Tayloe Winston	-	First president of The University of Texas

1899 – 1905	William Lambdin Prather	-

1905 – 1908	David Franklin Houston	-

1908 – 1914	Sidney Edward Mezes	-

1914 – 1916	William James Battle	President ad interim

1916 – 1923	Robert Ernest Vinson	-

1923 – 1924	William Seneca Sutton	President ad interim

1924 – 1927	Walter Marshall William Splawn

1927 – 1937	Harry Yandell Benedict

1937 – 1939	John William Calhoun	President ad interim

1939 – 1944	Homer Price Rainey	Fired by the Board of Regents over a dispute regarding academic freedom

1944 – 1946	Theophilus Shickel Painter	Acting president

1946 – 1952	Theophilus Shickel Painter

1952	James Clay Dolley	Acting president

1953 – 1960	Logan Wilson	Served concurrently as acting chancellor in 1954 until the office was abolished on September 30

1960 – 1961	Harry Huntt Ransom

1961	Harry Huntt Ransom	Acting president

1961 – 1963	Joseph Royall Smiley

1963 – 1967	Chancellor Harry Ransom assumed the duties of the office of the president

1967 – 1970	Norman Hackerman	Norman Hackerman.jpeg

1970 – 1971	Bryce Jordan

1971 – 1974	Stephen Hopkins Spurr	Fired by the Board of Regents and Chancellor Charles LeMaistre

1974 – 1975	Lorene Lane Rogers	President ad interim

1975 – 1979	Lorene Lane Rogers

1979 – 1985	Peter Tyrrell Flawn

1985 – 1992	William H. Cunningham

1992 – 1993	William S. Livingston	Acting president

1993 – 1997	Robert M. Berdahl

1997 – 1998	Peter Tyrrell Flawn	President ad interim

1998 – 2006	Larry R. Faulkner	-

2006 – 2015	William Powers, Jr.

2015 – present	Gregory L. Fenves

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