List of University of Texas at Austin presidents
Presidents
Table:
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

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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