A 1.43 Chairmen of the Columbia University
Board of Trustees, 1787-2003
Order	Name	Year Began	Year Ended	Tenure
1	James Duane	1787	1795	8
2	Samuel Provoost	1795	1801	6
3	John H. Livingston	1801	1810	9
4	Richard Varick	1810	1816	6
5	Brockholst Livingston	1816	1823	7
6	Richard Harison	1823	1823	<1
7	William Moore	1823	1823	<1
8	Nicholas Fish	1824	1832	8
9	Peter Augustus Jay	1832	1843	12
10	David B. Ogden	1843	1844	1
11	Edward W. Laight	1849	1850	1
12	Beverly Robinson	1850	1854	4
13	John Knox	1854	1858	4
14	Gardiner Spring	1858	1859	1
15	Hamilton Fish	1859	1893	34
16	William C. Schermerhorn	1898	1903	5
17	George L. Rives	1903	1917	14
18	William Barclay Parsons	1917	1932	15
19	Frederick Coykendall	1933	1955	22
20	Maurice Moore	1955	1968	13
21	William Petersen	1968	1977	9
22	Arthur Krim	1977	1982	5
23	Samuel L. Higginbottom	1982	1989	7
24	Gertrude G. Michelson	1989	1992	3
25	Henry  L. King	1992	1995	3
26	Jerry Speyer	1995	1996	1
27	Lionel Pincus	1996	1997	1
28	Stephen Friedman	1997	2001	4
29	David Stern	2001