Surrounded By Reality

Pesidents & Chancellors
John H. Lathrop 1849–1858
Henry Barnard 1859–1860
John W. Sterling 1860–1867
Paul A. Chadbourne 1867–1870
John W. Twombly 1871–1874
John A. Bascom 1874–1887
Thomas C. Chamberlin 1887–1892
Charles K. Adams 1892–1901
Edward A. Birge * 1901–1903
Charles R. Van Hise 1903–1918
Edward A. Birge 1918–1925
Glenn Frank 1925–1937
George C. Sellery * 1937
Clarence A. Dykstra 1937–1945
Edwin B. Fred 1945–1958
Conrad A. Elvehjem 1958–1962
Fred H. Harrington 1962–1970
Robben Fleming 1964–1967
William Sewell 1967–1968
Bryant Kearl * 1968
Edwin Young 1968–1977
Robert Clodius * 1970
John Weaver 1970–1971
Glenn S. Pound * 1977
Irving Shain 1977–1986
Bernard Cohen * 1987
Donna E. Shalala 1988–1993
David Ward 1993–2000
John D. Wiley 2001–present

* Acting

From 1965 to 1971, UW–Madison was led by both a president and chancellor. Harrington was succeeded as president by Robert Clodius (acting) and John Weaver, who became president of the new University of Wisconsin System in 1971.