This is a list of chancellors of Washington University in St. Louis, which was founded in 1853.
List +Chancellors of Washington University in St. LouisImageChancellorTerm startTerm end1 Joseph Gibson Hoyt 1858 November 26, 1862 2William Chauvenet 1862 1869actingAbram Litton 1869 18703William Greenleaf Eliot 1870 1887actingMarshall Snow 1887 18914Winfield Scott Chaplin 1891 1907actingMarshall Snow 1907 19085David Franklin Houston 1908 19176Frederic Aldin Hall 1917 19237Herbert S. Hadley 1923 December 1, 1927 interimGeorge R. Throop 1927 192881928 1944actingHenry Brookings Wallace July 1944 September 19459Arthur Holly Compton 1945 December 1953interimEthan A.H. Shepley December 1953 March 11, 195410 March 11, 1954 August 14, 196111actingCarl Tolman August 14, 1961 June 30, 196212Thomas H. Eliot July 1, 1962 June 30, 197113William H. Danforth July 1, 1971 June 30, 199514Mark S. Wrighton July 1, 1995 May 30, 201915Andrew D. Martin June 1, 2019 present
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