List of presidents of Cornell University
List of presidents

List of presidents of Cornell University

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№	President	Term of office	Education	Notes

1	-	Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918)	1866 – 1885 (19 years)	A.B., Yale College (1853) M.A., Yale College	White was the co-founder of Cornell University, along with Ezra Cornell, and introduced the bill in the New York State Senate establishing Cornell University.

2	-	Charles Kendall Adams (1835–1902)	1885 – 1892 (7 years)	University of Michigan (1861)

3	-	Jacob Gould Schurman (1854–1942)	1892 – 1920 (28 years)	B.A., University of London (1877) M.A., University of London (1878) D.Sc., University of London (1878)

4	-	Livingston Farrand (1867–1939)	1921 – 1937 (16 years)	Undergraduate degree, Princeton University (1888) M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons (1891)

5	-	Edmund Ezra Day (1883–1951)	1937 – 1949 (12 years)	B.S., Dartmouth College M.A., Dartmouth College Ph.D., Harvard University

–	-	Cornelis de Kiewiet (interregnum) (1902–1986)	1949 – 1951 (2 years)	B.A., University of Witwatersrand (1923) M.A. with honors, University of Witwatersrand (1924) Ph.D., University of London (1927)

6	Deane Waldo Malott (1898–1996)	1951 – 1963 (12 years)	Undergraduate degree, University of Kansas (1921) Master's degree, Harvard Business School (1923)

7	James Alfred Perkins (1911–1998)	1963 – 1969 (6 years)	Undergraduate degree with high honors, Swarthmore College (1934) Ph.D., Princeton University (1937)

8	Dale R. Corson (1914–2012)	1969 – 1977 (8 years)	B.A., College of Emporia (1924) M.A., University of Kansas (1935) Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1938)

9	-	Frank H. T. Rhodes (born 1926)	1977 – 1995 (18 years)	B.S., University of Birmingham (1948) Ph.D., University of Birmingham (1950)

10	Hunter R. Rawlings III (born 1944)	1995 – 2003 (8 years)	B.A. with honors, Haverford College (1966) Ph.D, Princeton University (1970)

11	Jeffrey S. Lehman (born 1956)	2003 – 2005 (2 years)	B.S., Cornell University (1977) J.D., University of Michigan Law School M.P.P., University of Michigan

–	Hunter R. Rawlings III (interregnum) (born 1944)	2005 – 2006 (1 year)	B.A. with honors, Haverford College (1966) Ph.D, Princeton University (1970)

12	-	David J. Skorton (born 1949)	2006 – 2015 (9 years)	Undergraduate degree, Northwestern University (1970) M.D., Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (1974)

13	Elizabeth Garrett (1963–2016)	2015 – 2016 (<1 year)	B.A., University of Oklahoma (1985) J.D., University of Virginia School of Law (1988)	Garrett died in office in March 2016.

–	Hunter R. Rawlings III (interregnum) (born 1944)	2016 – 2017 (1 year)	B.A. with honors, Haverford College (1966) Ph.D, Princeton University (1970)	The Cornell University Board of Trustees appointed Rawlings as interim university president following the death of Elizabeth Garrett, effective April 2016.

14	Martha E. Pollack (born 1958)	2017 – present	A.B., Dartmouth College (1979) Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania (1986)

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Elizabeth Garrett was the first Cornell president to die while in office.

final_sentence: Elizabeth Garrett was the first Cornell president to die while in office.