Franklin and Marshall College

Franklin and Marshall College is a four-year private co-educational liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It is the 25th oldest college or university in the United States.

F&M Presidents

Franklin College:

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• Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (1787-1815)
• Operated as an academy by Board of Trustees (1816-1853)

Marshall College:

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• Dr. Frederick Augustus Rauch (1836-1841)
• Rev. John Williamson Nevin (1841-1853)

Franklin and Marshall College:

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• Rev. Emanuel Vogel Gerhart '38 (1854-1866)
• Dr. John Williamson Nevin (1866-1876)
• Rev. Thomas Gilmore Apple '50 (1877-1889)
• Rev. John Summers Stahr '67 (1889-1909)
• Dr. Henry Harbaugh Apple '89 (1910-1935)
• Dr. John Ahlum Schaeffer '04 (1935-1941)
• Dr. H. M.J. Klein '93 (1941) (acting president)
• Theodore August Distler (1941-1954)
• William Webster Hall (1955-1957)
• Dr. Frederick deWolf Bolman, Jr. (1957-1962)
• Anthony R. Appel '35 (1962) (resigned after one week)
• G. Wayne Glick (1962) (acting president)
• Keith Spalding (1963-1983)
• James Lawrence Powell (1983-1988)
• A. Richard Kneedler '65 (1988-2002)
• John Anderson Fry (2002-present)