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University Leaders

This history was inspired by the chronology found in Martin Meyerson's and Dilys Pegler Winegrad's Gladly Learn and Gladly Teach (1978) but has now been substantially enlarged and interpreted by Mark Frazier Lloyd and Mary D. McConaghy, with the assistance of Michael T. Woods

Open Heads of Trustees exhibit
John Penn, 1899
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 Heads of the Trustees, 1749-present

Open list of Trustees, 1749-present
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, volume 1, 1749-1768
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 Trustees, 1749-present

Open list of provosts, 1755-present
William Smith, c. 1800
 Provosts, 1755-present

Open lists of presidents, 1930-present
Thomas Sovereign Gates, c. 1930
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 Presidents, 1930-present

Open list of Executive Vice Presidents, 1944-present
William Hagan DuBarry, c. 1950
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 Executive Vice Presidents, 1944-present

Open list of deans of the schools
Josiah Harmar Penniman, c. 1939
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 Deans of the Schools

Open list of heads of the health system
Alfred Stengel, c. 1920
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 Heads of the Health System, 1931-present

Open list of other statutory officers
University’s Senior Administration poses with President Judith Rodin and “Ben on the Bench,” 2003 Commencement
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 Other Statutory Officers
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