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RG 2 - Presidents of Oberlin College
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The following is a list of Presidential Papers (RG 2) held by the Oberlin College Archives. Please contact the College Archives for information relating to the collections that do not have an online link to a finding guide.
| Portrait | Tenure | Name & Classification No. |
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| 1834 | Henry Brown, acting president | |
| 1834-1835 | John Keep, acting president | |
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1835-1850 | Asa Mahan (RG 2/1) |
| 1849 | Charles Grandison Finney, acting president (also President 1851-66) | |
| 1850 | John Morgan, acting president, (also 1859) | |
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1851-1866 | Charles Grandison Finney (RG 2/2) (also acting President, 1849) |
| 1859 | John Morgan, acting president, (also in 1850) | |
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1866-1889 | James Harris Fairchild (RG 2/3) (also acting President, 1896-98) |
| 1871 | Frances Drake Parish, acting president | |
| 1871 | John Millott Ellis, acting president | |
| 1889-1891 | Henry Martyn Tenney, acting president (also 1909-10) | |
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1891-1896 | William Gay Ballantine (RG 2/4) |
| 1896-1898 | James Harris Fairchild, acting president (also President 1866-89) | |
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1899-1902 | John Henry Barrows (RG 2/5) (died in office) |
| 1902 | John Guiteau Welch Cowles, acting president | |
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1902-1927 | Henry Churchill King (RG 2/6) |
| 1909-1910 | Henry Martyn Tenney, acting president | |
| 1918-1919 | Edward Increase Bosworth, acting president | |
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1927-1946 | Ernest Hatch Wilkins (RG 2/7) |
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1946-1960 | William Edwards Stevenson (RG 2/8) |
| 12/1952-3/1953 | William Blair Stewart, acting president | |
| 6/1959-9/1959 | Donald Melbourne Love, acting president | |
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1960-1969 | Robert Kenneth Carr (RG 2/9) |
| 1969-1970 | Ellsworth Clayton Carlson, acting president (also 1974-75) | |
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1970-1974 | Robert Works Fuller (RG 2/10) |
| 1974-1975 | Ellsworth Clayton Carlson, acting president (also 1969-70) | |
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4/1975-1/1982 | Emil Charles Danenberg (RG 2/11) (died in office) |
| 9/1981-7/1983 | James Lawrence Powell, acting president | |
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7/1983-6/1994 | Stephen Frederick Starr (RG 2/12) |
| 7/1991-2/1992 | Alfred F. MacKay, acting president | |
| 7/1994-6/2007 | Nancy Schrom Dye (RG 2/13) | |
| 7/2000-12/2000 | Clayton R. Koppes, acting president | |
| 7/2007- | Marvin Krislov |