List of presidents of the University of Pennsylvania information

The following is a list of the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, which began operating in 1751 as a secondary school, the Academy of Philadelphia, and added an institution of higher learning in 1755, the College of Philadelphia.

	Provost^{[note 1]}	Birth–death	Years as provost	Name of institution	Notes
1	The Reverend George Whitefield^{[note 2]}	1714–1770	1740–1749	Unnamed Charity School^{[note 3]}
2	Benjamin Franklin^{[note 4]}	1706–1790	1749–1754	Academy of Philadelphia
3	The Reverend William Smith	1727–1803	1754–1779	College of Philadelphia	American Revolution
4	The Reverend John Ewing	1732–1802	1779–1802	University of Pennsylvania	American Revolution
5	The Reverend William Smith	1751–1820	1802–1806	University of Pennsylvania
6	The Reverend John McDowell	1732–1802	1807–1810	University of Pennsylvania
7	The Reverend John Andrews	1746–1813	1810–1813	University of Pennsylvania
8	The Reverend Frederick Beasley	1777–1845	1813–1828	University of Pennsylvania
9	The Right Reverend William Heathcote DeLancey	1797–1865	1828–1834	University of Pennsylvania
10	The Reverend John Ludlow	1793–1857	1834–1852	University of Pennsylvania
11	The Reverend Henry Vethake	1790–1866	1853–1859	University of Pennsylvania
13	The Reverend Daniel Raynes Goodwin	1811–1890	1860–1868	University of Pennsylvania
14	Charles Janeway Stillé	1819–1899	1868–1880	University of Pennsylvania
15	William Pepper	1843–1898	1881–1894	University of Pennsylvania
16	Charles Custis Harrison	1844–1929	1894–1910	University of Pennsylvania
17	Edgar Fahs Smith	1854–1928	1910–1920	University of Pennsylvania
18	Josiah Harmar Penniman	1868–1940	1923–1930	University of Pennsylvania

	Presidents of the University of Pennsylvania	Years as president	Notes
1	Thomas Sovereign Gates	1930–1944
2	George William McClelland	1944–1948
3	Harold Stassen	1948–1953
-	William Hagan DuBarry	1953–1953, Acting President
4	Gaylord Probasco Harnwell	1953–1970
5	Martin Meyerson	1970–1981
6	Sheldon Hackney	1981–1993
-	Claire Fagin	1993–1994, Interim President
7	Judith Rodin	1994–2004
8	Amy Gutmann	2004–2022
-	Wendell Pritchett	2022–2022, Interim President
9	M. Elizabeth Magill	2022–2023	Shortest tenure
-	J. Larry Jameson	2023-Present, Interim President

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