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.