predecessor successor death_date birth_place title birth_date term_start order image article_title term_end name alma_mater
leonard woods joshua chamberlain 1899 east machias , maine president of bowdoin college 1814 1867 5th samuel harris fifth president of bowdoin college.jpg samuel harris -lrb- theologian -rrb-
 1871 samuel harris bowdoin college
samuel harris -lrb- theologian -rrb-

samuel harris -lrb- 1814 -- 1899 -rrb- was the fifth president of bowdoin college and the first to be an alumnus .
after having left bowdoin in 1871 , he went on to teach at yale divinity school for 25 years .
