page_title: Monmouth College
section_title: Presidents
hierarchical_section_title: Monmouth College / History / Presidents
caption_attribution_description: English: A portrait for the very first president of Monmouth College, Wallace David
context_page_description: Monmouth College is a private Presbyterian liberal arts college in Monmouth, Illinois. Monmouth is a selective, exclusively undergraduate four-year institution that enrolls approximately 1,100 students from 32 countries. Students choose courses from 34 major programs, 39 minors, and 18 pre-professional programs in a core curriculum.
context_section_description: The Rev. David Alexander Wallace – first president, 1856–1878
  The Rev. Jackson Burgess McMichael – second president, 1878–1897
  The Rev. Samuel Ross Lyons – third president, 1898–1901
  The Rev. Thomas Hanna McMichael – fourth president, 1903–1936
  The Rev. James Harper Grier – fifth president, 1936–1952
  The Rev. Robert W. Gibson – sixth president, 1952–1964
  G. Duncan Wimpress, Jr. – seventh president, 1964–1970
  Richard Dengler Stine – eighth president, 1970–1974
  DeBow Freed – ninth president, 1974–1979
  Bruce Haywood – tenth president, 1980–1994
  Sue Ann Huseman – eleventh president, 1994–1997
  Richard F. Giese – twelfth president, 1997–2005
  Mauri A. Ditzler – thirteenth president, 2005–2014
  Clarence Wyatt – fourteenth president, 2014–present
caption: Portrait of the Rev. David Wallace, first president of Monmouth College
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