Chancellors of Syracuse University
Alexander Winchell (1824-1891)
Term of Office: February 1873-1874
Inauguration Date: February 13, 1873
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Geologist - University of Michigan
Erastus O. Haven (1820-1881)
Term of Office: 1874 -1880
Inauguration Date: September 15, 1874
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Senator - Massachusetts
President - North Western University
President of University of Michigan
Charles N Sims (1835-1908)
Term of Office: June 1881 - Oct 1893
Inauguration Date: June 28, 1881
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President, Vulpaiso College Pastoralworth 1862-1881
James Roscoe Day (1845-1923)
Term of Office: April 1894 - June 1922
Inauguration Date: June 27, 1894
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Pastor of St. Paul's
NYC Longest serving SU Chancellor
Charles Wesley Flint (1878-1964)
Term of Office: 1922-1936
Inauguration Date: November 17, 1922
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Resigned to become Bishop of Methodist Church
William Pratt Graham (1871-1962)
Term of Office: May 1937 - September 1942
Inauguration Date: no formal Inauguration
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First SU Graduate to become Chancellor
Temporary Appointment -
honored at an Installation December 14, 1937
William Pearson Tolley (1900-1996)
Term of Office: September 1942 - September 1969
Inauguration Date: November 14, 1942
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Class of 1922
President of Allegheny, 1932-1942
John Edward Corbally, Jr. (1924-2004)
Term of Office: September 1, 1969 -
March 10, 1971
Inauguration Date: April 30, 1970
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Ohio State University - Provost and Vice President
Resigned to become President, University of Illinois
Melvin Arnold Eggers (1916-1994)
Term of Office: (Interim) March 15, 1971
Chancellor June 4, 1971 - August 20, 1991
Inauguration Date: --
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Associate Prof. of Economics, Chairman of Economics Dept.
Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Provost
Kenneth A. Shaw
Term of Office: August 20, 1991 - July 31, 2004
Inauguration Date: November 8, 1991
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President of the University of Wisconsin
Nancy Cantor
Term of Office: August 1, 2004
Inauguration Date: November 5, 2004
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Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign