The Presidents of Princeton University
1746 to the present
Colonial Times
Jonathan Dickinson, 1747
Aaron Burr, Sr., 1748–57
Jonathan Edwards, 1758
Samuel Davies, 1759–61
Samuel Finley, 1761–66
Revolutionary War
John Witherspoon, 1768–94
Nineteenth Century
Samuel S. Smith, 1795–1812
Ashbel Green, 1812–22
James Carnahan, 1823–54
John Maclean, Jr., 1854–68
James McCosh, 1868–88
Francis L. Patton, 1888–1902
Twentieth Century
Woodrow Wilson, 1902–10
John G. Hibben, 1912–32
Harold W. Dodds, 1933–57
Robert F. Goheen, 1957–72
William G. Bowen, 1972–88
Harold T. Shapiro, 1988–2001
Twenty-first Century
Shirley M. Tilghman, 2001–13
Christopher L. Eisgruber, 2013–present