LibGuides: Furman History and Traditions: Presidents of Furman University and GWC

Presidents of Furman University

James Clement Furman (President 1859-1879)
Charles Manly (President 1881-1897)
Andrew Philip Montague (President 1897-1902)
Charles H. Judson (Acting President 1902-1903)
Edwin McNeill Poteat (President 1903-1918)
Sidney E. Bradshaw (Acting President 1918-1919)
William Joseph McGlothlin (President 1919-1933)
Bennette Eugene Geer (President 1933-1938)
Robert N. Daniel (Acting President 1918)
John Laney Plyler (President 1939-1964)
Gordon Williams Blackwell (President 1965-1976)
John Edwin Johns (President 1976-1994)
David Emory Shi (President 1994-2010)
Rodney Alan Smolla (President 2010-2013)
Carl F. Kohrt (Interim President (2013-2014)
Elizabeth Davis (President 2014 - )

H. A. Duncan (1855-1861)
C. J. Redford (1861-1862)
C. R. Twitty (1862-1863)
James Clement Furman (1863-1864)
Charles Hallette Judson (1864-1878)
Alexander Sloan Townes (1878-1894)
M.M. Riley (1894-1900)
Edgar Hunter Murfee (1900-1901)
Edward Carroll James (1901-1910)
David Marshal Ramsay (1911-1930)
Rosa Catherine Paschal (1930-1931)
Herbert Winston Provence (1931-1933)