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Phi Gamma Delta's Presidents

The following have served as President of Phi Gamma Delta from the founding in 1848 to the change in the form of government in 1898.

1848-1848 - Samuel B. Wilson (Jefferson 1848)
1848-1849 - Naaman Fletcher (Jefferson 1849)
1849-1849 - Israel C. Pershing (Jefferson 1850)
1849-1850 - David Hall (Jefferson 1850) - obit; photo
1850-1850 - David H. Goodwillie (Jefferson 1850) - obit; photo
1850-1851 - William S. Wilson (Jefferson 1851)
1851-1851 - Cyrus G. Braddock (Jefferson 1851)
1851-1852 - Robert W. Playford (Jefferson 1852)
1852-1852 - Jacob W. Lanius (Jefferson 1852)
1852-1853 - William W. Miller (Jefferson 1852)
1853-1854 - George S. Roudebush (Jefferson 1854)
1854-1855 - Samuel Wead (Jefferson 1855)
1855-1855 - David D. Green (Jefferson 1856)
1855-1856 - Alexander B. Lewis (Jefferson 1856)
1856-1857 - Robert L. McElree (Washington 1856)
1857-1858 - Luther B. Flack (Washington 1858)
1858-1858 - Dwight B. Hervey (Jefferson 1858) - obit; photo
1858-1859 - James W. McKean (Jefferson 1859)
1859-1860 - Samuel W. Miller (Jefferson 1860)
1860-1861 - William P. Turner (Jefferson 1861)
1861-1862 - William A. Ferguson (Jefferson 1861)
1862-1863 - Alexander B. Riggs (Jefferson 1863)
1863-1863 - Samuel D. Jennings (Jefferson 1864)
1863-1865 - Thomas S. Bracken (Jefferson 1865)
1865-1866 - Nathaniel E. Slaymaker (Jefferson 1866)
1866-1867 - Samuel W. Elliott (Washington and Jefferson 1867)
1867-1868 - Eugene J. Ball (Washington and Jefferson 1868)
1868-1869 - James D. Moffat (Washington and Jefferson 1869) - drawing
1869-1871 - Eugene L. Bushe (CCNY 1867) - obit
1871-1872 - Edward L. Matthews (CCNY 1869)
1872-1873 - William H. Clark (CCNY 1869, Columbia 1871)
1873-1874 - William Royce Allen (CCNY 1866)
1874-1875 - Frank W. Angel (CCNY 1868)
1875-1876 - Frederick Lacy Underhill (CCNY 1879)
1876-1878 - Frederick H. Comstock (CCNY 1872, Columbia 1874)
1878-1881 - John S. Battell (CCNY 1873)
1881-1883 - Charles E. Lydecker (CCNY 1871) - obit; photo
1883-1883 - Leigh H. Hunt (CCNY 1877) - obit; photo
1883-1886 - Benjamin F. Romaine (Columbia 1871) - obit; photo
1886-1889 - Hugo J. Walther (Columbia 1883)
1889-1890 - William L. Hazen (Columbia 1883) - photo
1890-1891 - Purdy Van Vliet (CCNY 1883, Columbia 1885) - photo
1891-1898 - Edward F. Cole (Columbia 1886) - Ed. - photo
1898-1898 - Frank Keck (CCNY 1872, Columbia 1875) - photo

The following served as President of the Fraternity since the change in the form of government in 1898. Letters following the names indicate other offices held: Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, General Appointed Officer, NIC Officer, Editor, Headquarters Staff, Field Secretary.

Durrance Award, Coulter Cup, Haynes Award and Wilkinson Award recipients are also noted.

1898-1900 - Lew Wallace (DePauw initiate) - photo
1900-1901 - James Oliver Wilson (Illinois Wesleyan 1876) - photo
1901-1903 - William E. McLaren (Jefferson 1851) - photo
1903-1905 - Charles Warren Fairbanks (Ohio Wesleyan 1872) - obit; photo
1905-1910 - Newton D. Baker (Johns Hopkins 1892, Washington and Lee 1894) - T - photo
1910-1911 - William F. Chamberlin (Denison 1893) - photo
1911-1912 - Stuart Eagleson (Wooster 1891) - photo
1912-1917 - Orion H. Cheney (New York 1897) - NIC - photo
1917-1923 - Glen Miller (Kansas 1884) - T - photo
1923-1934 - Horace I. Brightman (Columbia 1892) - S, G - obit; photo
1934-1943 - George F. Snyder (Pennsylvania 1900) - S - photo
1943-1946 - Louis E. Leverone (Dartmouth 1904) - T - photo
1946-1948 - Marshall B. Dalton (M.I.T. 1915) -  obit; photo
1948-1950 - Penfield Mower (Dartmouth 1904) - obit; photo
1950-1952 - Herbert Wilson Smith (Michigan 1910) - T - obit; photo
1952-1954 - Cecil F. Dawson (William Jewell 1915) - S - photo
1954-1956 - Ralph H. Cake (Oregon 1913) - G - obit; photo
1956-1958 - Philip C. Ebeling (Ohio Wesleyan 1928) - S, G - photo
1958-1960 - Stanley T. Wallbank (Colorado 1917) - S - photo
1960-1962 - George D. Bailey (Wisconsin 1912) - T - photo
1962-1964 - George Gunn, Jr. (Washington 1916) - S - obit; photo
1964-1966 - Hugh J. Baker, Jr. (Ohio State 1931) - V, G - photo
1966-1968 - Danner L. Mahood (Davidson 1922, Virginia 1923) - V, S, G, FS - obit; photo
1968-1970 - Henry S. Brainard (Case Western Reserve 1922) - V, G - photo
1970-1972 - William R. Hauser (Denison 1950) - HS - photo
1972-1974 - David C. Bland (Texas 1938) - T, NIC - obit; photo
1974-1976 - Thomas H. Williams, Jr. (Auburn initiate) - Durrance - photo
1976-1978 - John D. Sheppard (Pittsburgh 1944) - T - Coulter - photo
1978-1980 - Louis A. Mangels (Indiana 1956) - V, G, FS - photo
1980-1982 - Joseph B. Carney (DePauw 1950) - S
1982-1984 - Lewis M. Costello (Virginia 1955) - T - obit; photo
1984-1986 - Robert L. Albin (Missouri 1962)
1986-1988 - C. James Jessee, Jr. (Virginia 1949) - V
1988-1990 - David G. Elmore (Indiana 1955) - V - photo
1990-1992 - Richard D. McCormick (Iowa State 1961) - V
1992-1994 - Michael O. Shipley (Syracuse 1958) - T, G, NIC, FS - photo
1994-1996 - John Gottschalk (Nebraska 1965) - T - photo
1996-1998 - Douglas H. Dittrick, Jr. (Ohio Wesleyan 1955) - V - photo
1998-2000 - Lee M. Moss (Tennessee 1973) - T
2000-2002 - James E. Caswell (Southern Methodist 1963) - V
2002-2004 - Jerrold Wanek (Iowa 1980) - V, S
2004-2006 - Marvin J. Carver, III (North Carolina 1975) - T, HS
2006-2008 - Eugene D. Cote, III (Maine 1981) - C, HS, FS, S

 

 

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