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Past GAA Presidents and Chairs

Name and class year Dates of office
John Motley Morehead (class of 1817) 1843–49
Charles Manly (class of 1814) 1850–54
John Davis Hawkins (class of 1801) 1855
James Mebane (class of 1799) 1856
Paul Carrington Cameron (class of 1828) 1857, 1881–84, 1886
Charles Lewis Hinton (class of 1814) 1858
Bartholomew Figures Moore (class of 1820) 1859–80
Thomas Stephen Kenan (class of 1857) 1885, 1891–1911
Walter Leak Steele (class of 1844) 1887–90
Julian Shakespeare Carr (class of 1866) 1912–16
Robert Digges Wimberley Connor (class of 1899) 1917–20
Albert Lyman Cox (class of 1904) 1921
Walter Murphy (class of 1892) 1922–23
William Nash Everett (class of 1886) 1924
Walter Parker Stacy (class of 1908) 1925
Alfred Moore Scales (class of 1892) 1926
Alexander Boyd Andrews (class of 1893) 1927–28
William Thomas Shore (class of 1905) 1929–30
Charles Felix Harvey (class of 1892) 1931
Kemp Plummer Lewis (class of 1900) 1931–32
John Johnston Parker (class of 1907) 1933
Hubert Benbury Haywood (class of 1905) 1934
Howard Edward Rondthaler (class of 1893) 1935–36
George Gullett Stephens (class of 1896) 1937
John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus (class of 1901) 1938
Charles Walter Tillett (class of 1909) 1939
Frederick Isler Sutton (class of 1908) 1940
William Archie Dees Sr. ’11 1941
Lennox Polk McLendon ’12 (LLB) 1942
John Motley Morehead III (class of 1891) 1943
William Bradley Umstead ’16 1944
William Thomas Joyner ’11 1945–46
Samuel James Ervin Jr. ’17 1947
Henry Leonidas Stevens Jr. ’17 1948
William Haywood Ruffin Sr. ’21 1949
James Harold Lineberger ’26 1950
Edwin Earle Rives ’22 (LLB) 1951
Rufus Arthur Spaugh Sr. ’20 1952
Walter Frank Taylor ’11 (’14 LLB) 1953
William Haywood Bobbitt ’21 1954
John William Harden ’27 1955
Robert Mayne Albright ’31 (’34 MA, ’36 JD) 1956
James Webb ’26 1957
Thomas Willis Alexander Jr. ’32 1958
Kenneth Claiborne Royall ’14 1959
Haywood Dail Holderness ’31 1960
James Evans Davis ’40 (’42 CMED) 1961
Meade Homer Willis Jr. ’31 1962
Horatio Nelson Woodson ’29 (’32 LLBJD) 1963
Hugh MacRae Morton ’43 1964
Daniel Edward Hudgins Sr. ’28 1965
Vermont Connecticut Royster ’35 1966
Morris Carey Benton Jr. ’38 1967
George Watts Carr Jr. ’40 1968
Harry Howard Montgomery ’36 1969
Wilburn Jackson Smith Jr. ’43 1970
Charles Grandison Rose Jr. ’33 1971
Emanuel Joshua Evans ’28 1972
James Boyce Garland ’41 (’46 LLB) 1973
Lindsay Carter Warren Jr. ’46 (’51 JD) 1974
John Franklin Alspaugh ’47 1975
Grace Rutledge Hamrick ’41 1976
William Burwell Harrison Sr. ’35 1977
Harold Kimsey Bennett ’35 (’37 LLB) 1978
John Dewey Dorsett Jr. ’47 (’49 CMED) 1979
John T. Church ’42 1980
Ray S. Farris Jr. ’62 (’67 JD) 1981
Edward L. Rankin Jr. ’40 1982
David L. Grigg ’61 1983
Ralph N. Strayhorn Jr. ’47 (’50 LLBJD) 1984
S. Philip Harris Jr. ’54 1985
James A. Harrell Sr. ’44 1986
James G. Exum Jr. ’57 1987
William M. Cochrane ’37 (’41 LLBJD) 1988
Thomas W. Lambeth ’57 1989
Wade M. Smith ’60 (’63 LLBJD) 1990
Robert C. Eubanks Jr. ’61 1991
Elizabeth Stetson Dowd ’53 1992
Willis P. “Bill” Whichard ’62 (’65 LLBJD) 1993
*J. Allen Adams ’52 (’54 LLBJD) 1994
Anne Wilmoth Cates ’53 1995
Anthony Eden Rand ’61 (’64 LLBJD) 1996
Edward H. Hardison ’55 1997
Charles M. Winston Sr. ’53 1998
William P. Aycock II ’65 (’70 JD) 1999
Richard Y. Stevens ’70 (’74 JD, ’74 MPA) 2000
Betty Ray McCain ’52 2001
Richard T. “Stick” Williams ’75 2002
Carl Lafayette Matheson Jr. ’57 2003
Anthony S. Harrington ’63 2004
Jean Almand Kitchin ’70 2005
Tom D. Efird ’61 (’64 LLBJD) 2006
Dwight M. “Davy” Davidson III ’77 2007
Randy K. Jones ’79 (’82 JD) 2008
Eleanor Saunders Morris ’55 2009
D. Jordan “Jordy” Whichard III ’79 2010
Donald W. Curtis ’63 2011
Eric S. Montross ’94 2012
Robyn S. Hadley ’85 2013
Vaughn D. Bryson ’60 2014

 

*1994 was the first year the title “GAA chair” was used rather than “GAA president.”