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University Presidents

Looking up at the Miller Administration building on UMD's campus with green trees surrounding tall white columns and concrete steps leading to the entrance.

2001-Present

University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines formal Portrait

Office of the President

2020-Present

Current President

Wallace D. Loh

2010-2020

President

Nariman Farvardin

2010

Acting President

C.D. “Dan” Mote, Jr.

1998-2010

President

1951-2000

Gregory L. Geoffroy

1998

Acting President

William English Kirwan

1982, 1989-1998

Acting Chancellor, President

John B. Slaughter

1982-1988

Chancellor

Robert L. Gluckstern

1975-1982

Chancellor

John W. Dorsey

1974-1975

Acting Chancellor

Charles Bishop

1970-1974

Chancellor

Wilson elkins

1954-1978

President

Thomas B. Symons

1954

Acting President

1901-1950

Harry Byrd

1935-1954

President

Raymond A. Pearson

1926-1935

President

Albert F. Woods

1917-1926

President

Harry Patterson

1913-1917

President

Thomas H. Spence

1912-1913

Acting President

1851-1900

Richard W. Silvester

1892-1912

President

Henry E. Alvord

1888-1892

President

Allen Dodge

1887-1888

Acting President

Dr. James L. Bryan

1887

President

Augustine J. Smith

1883-1887

President

William H. Parker

1875-1882

President

Samuel Jones

1873-1875

President

Samuel Regester

1869-1873

President

Franklin Buchanan

1868-69

President

Charles L.C. Minor

1867-68

President

George Washington Custis Lee

1866

President

Nicholas B. Worthington

1864-67

Acting President

Henry Onderdonk

1861-64

President

John M. Colby

1860-61

President

John Work Scott

1860

President

Charles Benedict Calvert

1859-60

Acting President

Benjamin Hallowell

1859

President

Presidential bios courtesy of University Archives