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Georgetown College Alumni
Presidents of Institutions of Higher Education
1.
Isaac Caldwell (Attended, 1839-1840)
University of
Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1869-1885
2.
William Edwards Paxton (Class of 1847, 1850)
Shreveport University,
Shreveport, Louisiana, 1873; Centennial Institute, Warren, Arkansas,
1878-.
3.
George Hunt (Class of 1849)
Bethel College,
Russellville, Kentucky, 1862-1864.
4.
Edwin Iorwerth Owen
(Class of 1849, 1852)
William Jewell College,
Liberty, Missouri, 1863-1867.
5.
Benjamin Turner Blewitt (Class of 1850)
Founder, Bethel
College, Russellville, Kentucky, 1856-1861; St. Louis Female Academy,
St. Louis, Missouri, 1870-1914.
6.
John T. Williams (Class
of 1852)
Columbia Baptist
Female College (now Stephens College), Columbia, Missouri, 1858-1865.
7.
Jesse A. Hollis (Class
of 1855)
Columbia Baptist
Female College (now Stephens College), Columbia, Missouri, 1856-1857,
1865-1870.
8.
Joshua Flood Cook
(Class of 1858)
New Liberty College,
New Liberty, Kentucky, 1859-1861; LaGrange College
(now
Hannibal-LaGrange College), LaGrange, Missouri, 1866-1896; Webb City
College, Webb City, Missouri, 1896-1900.
9.
James McClellan Bent (Class of 1860)
Pierce City College, Pierce City, Missouri,
1890-1891; Liberty College, Glasgow, Kentucky, 1891-1892.
10.
Richard Moberly Dudley (Class of 1860)
Georgetown College,
Georgetown, Kentucky, 1879-1893.
11.
John William Ellis (Class of 1863)
Plattsburg College, Plattsburg, Missouri,
1880-1897;
Central Christian College, Albany, Missouri,
1900-1902.
12.
H. J. Greenwell (Class of 1873)
Liberty College,
Glasgow, Kentucky, 1895-1899.
13.
Augustus Cleveland Davidson
(Class of 1874)
Georgetown College,
Georgetown, Kentucky, 1893-1898.
14.
John Thomas Walker (Class of 1877)
Ghent College, Ghent,
Kentucky, 1882-84.
15.
Madison Monroe Riley
(Class of 1880)
Greenville Women’s
College, Greenville, South Carolina, 1894-1900; Brenau College,
Gainesville, Georgia, 1900-1902.
16.
Arthur Yager (Class of
1882)
Georgetown College,
Georgetown, Kentucky, 1908-1913.
17.
Edward Williams White (Class of 1884)
Liberty College,
Glasgow, Kentucky, 1885-1887; Lynnland Female College, Glasgow,
Kentucky, 1887-1895; Lexington College,
Missouri, 1900-1911.
18.
James Dowden Bruner (Class of 1886)
Chowan Female College,
Murfreesboro, North Carolina, 1909-1914; Daughters College, Harrodsburg,
Kentucky, 1915-1917.
19.
Samuel Chiles Mitchell
(Class of 1888)
University of South
Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 1908-1913;
Medical College of
Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 1913-1914; University of Delaware, Newark,
Delaware, 1914-1920.
20.
John Strother Humphreys
(Class of 1892)
Howard Payne College,
Brownwood, Texas, 1911-1913 (Acting President, 1908-1910);
Burleson College, Greenville, Texas,
1913-1916; College of Marshall, Marshall, Texas, 1918-1921.
21.
James Madison Shelburne
(Class of 1897)
Howard College (now
Samford University), Birmingham, Alabama, 1913-1917.
22.
Robert Hill Tandy (Class of 1898)
Bethel College,
Russellville, Kentucky, 1917-1918.
23.
William Thomas Ford
(Class of 1899)
Northeastern State
Normal College, Talequah, Oklahoma, 1919-1923.
24.
Elmer Atwood (Class
of 1900)
Wayland College (now
Wayland Baptist University) Plainview, Texas, 1919-1923.
25.
Edward Leland Atwood (Class
of 1900, 1901)
Tennessee College for
Women, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1923-1941.
26.
John C. Dawson (Class
of 1901)
Howard College (now
Samford University), Birmingham, Alabama, 1921-1932.
27.
Basil Manly Parks
(Class of 1911)
Frank Hughes College,
Clifton, Tennessee, 1916 - 1917.
28.
Warren Francis Jones
(Class of 1921)
Campbellsville Junior
College (now Campbellsville University), Campbellsville, Kentucky,
1926-1930, 1941-1945; Union College (now
Union University), Jackson,
Tennessee, 1945-1963.
29.
James Malcolm Boswell
(Class of 1928)
Cumberland College
(now the University of the Cumberlands),
Williamsburg, Kentucky, 1947-1980.
30.
Eugene Munger Austin
(Class of 1930)
Colby Junior College,
New London, New Hampshire, 1935-1962.
31.
LaVerne Butler
(Class of 1948)
Mid-Continent College,
Mayfield, Kentucky, 1988-1997.
32.
Raymond E. Lawrence
(Class of 1949)
Mid-Continent College,
Mayfield, Kentucky, 1981-1987.
33.
David L. Jester (Class
of 1951)
Wayland College (now
Wayland Baptist University), Plainview, Texas, 1981-1987;
Mid-Continent
College, Mayfield, Kentucky, 1997-2002.
34.
William Hughes Owens
(Class of 1953)
Pikeville College,
Pikeville, Kentucky, 1985-1997.
35.
Billy Overton Wireman
(Class of 1954)
Florida Presbyterian
College (now Eckerd College), Saint Petersburg, Florida, 1968-1977;
Queens College (now Queens University), Charlotte, North Carolina,
1978-2002.
36.
Chai-Wei Woo (Class of
1956)
San Francisco State
University, San Francisco, California, 1983-1988;
Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, 1991-2001.
37.
Donald Wayne Zacharias
(Class of 1957)
Western Kentucky
University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1979-1985;
Mississippi State
University, Starkville, Mississippi, 1985-1997.
38.
Thomas Edward Corts
(Class of 1963)
Wingate College,
Wingate North Carolina, 1974-1983; Samford University, Birmingham,
Alabama, 1982-2006.
39.
Paul Richard Corts
(Class of 1965)
Wingate College,
Wingate North Carolina, 1983-1991; Palm Beach Atlantic College, Palm
Beach, Florida, 1991-2002.
40.
R. Phil Roberts (Class
of 1973)
Midwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri, 2001-
41.
Katharine Wilder Winograd (Class of 1979)
New Mexico
Community College,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2007-
Note- The names of
colleges in blue indicate institutions in existence today.
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