Presidents
Bethel
College
First Principal of Bethel Seminary unknown, 1842-1846
Rev.
Francis C. Usher, Principal of Bethel Seminary, 1846-1848
Rev.
John Neal Roach, 1848-1852
In the 1852-53 Bethel College Catalogue, page 4: "The
vacancy occasioned by the death of President Roach has been recently
filled by the appointment of the Rev. C. J. Bradley." Rev.
Roach died November 19, 1852.
Rev.
Collins Johnson Bradley, 1852-?
Professor Philip K. Riley, 1853-1854 ( No proof
of dates, maybe interim)
Rev.
Azel Freeman, 1854-1855
Rev.
Felix Johnson, 1856-1858
Rev.
Michael Liles, 1858-1861
Closed During the Civil War
Rev.
Benjamin Wilburn McDonnold, 1866-1867
Rev. J. S. Howard, 1867-1868
Rev.
Michael Liles, 1868-1870
Rev.
W. W. Hendrix, 1870-1881
Rev. William Bird Sherrill, 1881-1886
Rev. John Lunsford Dickens, 1886-1889
Rev. William Bird Sherrill, 1889-1892
Rev.
Thomas Washinton Cannon, 1894-1895
Rev. John Lunsford Dickens, 1895-1900
Rev. Bruce G. Mitchell, 1900-1903
Professor James Byron Reed, 1903-1905
Professor Walter Ewing Johnston, 1905-1907
Professor J. W. Burney, 1906-1907
Professor Charles McCord, 1907-1908
Rev.
Phillip Franklin Johnson, 1908-1909
Professor Newton Jefferson Finney, 1909-1921
Rev.
Robert Lee Keathley, 1921-1923
Professor Joseph Rutledge Whitmer, 1923-1927
Professor Edgar Baker McEuen, 1927-1931
Rev. Edgar Hart Guynn, 1931-1932
Rev. Leonard Littleton Thomas, 1932-1939
Rev.
Ewell Kerr Reagin, 1939-November 16, 1944
Rev.
Thomas Hardesty Campbell [Acting Administrator]
November 16, 1944-June 30, 1945
Roy Newsom Baker July 1, 1945-October 29, 1968
James Alton Barksdale [Interim President] January
11 - December 1, 1969
James E. McKee 1970-1973
William Cottrell 1973-1975
William L. Odom 1975-1991
Bill J. Elkins 1991-1996
Robert J. Imhoff 1996-1998
Rev. Robert Dale Prosser 1998-
Walter Butler
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