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Ada President 1961-1962: John Reinhart Abel, American Dental Association
Ada President 1961-1962: John Reinhart Abel, American Dental Association
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Doctor Abel, of Los Angeles, became the ninety-eighth president of the Association at the 1961 meeting in Philadelphia. He presided over the 1962 meeting, the theme of which was "Better Dental Health in the Americas." Much of the program was simultaneously translated into Spanish and Portuguese for the benefit of the hundreds of Latin American dentists in attendance. Doctor Abel, an orthodontist, was a member of the Board of Trustees for six years. He served many years as a member of the House of Delegates. He was president and treasurer of the Southern California State Dental Association, president of the …
Ada President 1949-1950: Philip Edwin Adams, American Dental Association
Ada President 1949-1950: Philip Edwin Adams, American Dental Association
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Doctor Adams, of Boston, became the eighty-sixth president of the Association at the 1949 meeting in San Francisco. The House of Delegates, which consisted of 385 members in 1949, considered proposals to reduce its size, but voted against reduction. Doctor Adams, an orthodontist, was secretary of the Massachusetts Dental Society from 1929 to 1949. After serving in the Navy in World War I, in 1919 he began private practice and joined the staff of Tufts College Dental School, where he later became head of the orthodontics department. Doctor Adams served the American Dental Association for many years as a delegate …
Ada President 1860-1862: William Henry Atkinson, American Dental Association
Ada President 1860-1862: William Henry Atkinson, American Dental Association
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Doctor Atkinson, of New York City, was elected first president of the American Dental Association at the i860 meeting in Washington, at which the Constitution and Bylaws of the Association were adopted. A "preliminary meeting," with Doctor Walter W. Allport as chairman, had been held at Niagara Falls in 1859. No meeting was held in 1861. Doctor Atkinson presented an essay on "Has Dentistry Attained to the Dignity of a Profession?" at the 1862 meeting. He was an ardent student of microscopy and the natural sciences. Doctor Atkinson was a frequent contributor to the dental literature of essays on subjects …
Ada President 1957-1958: William Robert Alstadt, American Dental Association
Ada President 1957-1958: William Robert Alstadt, American Dental Association
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Doctor Alstadt, of Little Rock, became the ninety-fourth president of the Association at the 1957 meeting in Miami Beach. He was one of the most active presidents, speaking to dental societies in more than 40 states. Doctor Alstadt, an orthodontist, was the Twelfth District trustee from 1951 to 1956. He had been a member of the House of Delegates for several years. He was active in the American Association of Orthodontists and was a member of its Board of Directors. Doctor Alstadt served as president of the Arkansas board of dental examiners in 1949-1950. He served as a consultant to …
Ada President 1886-1887: Walter Webb Allport, American Dental Association
Ada President 1886-1887: Walter Webb Allport, American Dental Association
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Doctor Allport, of Chicago, was elected twenty-sixth president of the Association at the 1886 meeting at Niagara Falls. He had served as president of the "preliminary convention" of the Association in 1859, also held at Niagara Falls. Doctor Allport opened his dental practice in Chicago in 1854. Over the years he excelled as a practitioner, essayist, teacher and speaker. He firmly believed that dentistry was a specialty of medicine and was the author of a resolution, adopted by the American Medical Association, calling for preliminary and professional education in dentistry equal to that of the best medical colleges. Doctor Allport …
Ada President 1863-1864: William H. Allen, American Dental Association
Ada President 1863-1864: William H. Allen, American Dental Association
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Doctor Allen, of New York City, was elected third president of the Association at the 1863 meeting in Philadelphia. Doctor Allen read a paper on "Irregularity of the Teeth and its Treatment." Doctor Allen was widely known as a most progressive dentist who pioneered in the use of gold for extensive restoration of defective teeth. Active in several dental societies, he was one of the incorporators, and later president of the board, of the New York College of Dentistry. He was born in 1821 and died in 1882.
Ada President 1926-1927: Henry Leo Banzhaf, American Dental Association
Ada President 1926-1927: Henry Leo Banzhaf, American Dental Association
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Doctor Banzhaf, of Milwaukee, became the sixty-fourth president of the Association at the 1926 meeting in Philadelphia. The Seventh International Dental Congress was held in Pliiladelphia at the same time. Doctor Banzhaf started his dental career as a private practitioner in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He was appointed dean of the dental department of the Milwaukee Medical College in 1902 and continued in that position after the College became part of Marquette University in 1907. He retired as dean in 1944. He was born in Wisconsin in 1865 and died in 1951.
Ada President 1916-1917: Lafayette Layman Barber, American Dental Association
Ada President 1916-1917: Lafayette Layman Barber, American Dental Association
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Doctor Barber, of Toledo, was elected fifty-fourth president of the Association at the 1916 meeting in Louisville. During Doctor Barber's term, The Journal of the National Dental Association was established as a monthly publication. Dr. Barber was president of the Toledo Dental Society in 1900, the Northern Ohio Dental Association, also in 1900, and the Ohio State Dental Association in 1906. He served six years as a member of the Ohio State Board of Dental Examiners. He was born in Ohio in i860 and died in 1929.
Ada President 1885-1886: William Clay Barrett, American Dental Association
Ada President 1885-1886: William Clay Barrett, American Dental Association
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Doctor Barrett, of Buffalo, was elected twenty-fifth president of the Association at the I 88 5 meeting in Minneapolis. Transactions of the American Dental Association for that year listed 23 8 members, of whom 168 attended the meeting. Both the M.D. and D.D.S. degrees were conferred upon Doctor Barrett in 1880. After practicing dentistry in Buffalo, he was a professor at the University of Buffalo, at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery and at Lake Forest University. Doctor Barrett was the author of numerous articles on dentistry and dental education. He served as editor of two journals, the Independent Practitioner …
Ada President 1900-1901: Greene Vardiman Black, American Dental Association
Ada President 1900-1901: Greene Vardiman Black, American Dental Association
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Doctor Black, of Chicago, was elected thirty-eighth president of the Association at the 1900 meeting at Old Point Comfort, Virginia. In his presidential address the following year, Doctor Black analyzed the structure and function of the Association and recommended changes taking into account the growth of the profession. Although Doctor Black lacked formal education, he reached the highest level of professional attainment and influence. He was an assiduous student of chemistry, bacteriology, microscopy and pathology. He invented numerous dental devices, wrote prolifically on dental science, and was in great demand as a lecturer. After practicing dentistry I 3 years in …
Ada President 1904-1905: Waldo Elias Boardman, American Dental Association
Ada President 1904-1905: Waldo Elias Boardman, American Dental Association
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Doctor Boardman, of Boston, was elected forty-second president of the Association at the 1904 meeting in St. Louis. This was a business meeting only, because the Fourth International Dental Congress was also being held in St. Louis. Following Doctor Boardman's graduation from the Harvard University dental department in 1886, he held several positions with that school: instructor in operative dentistry, curator of the dental museum, librarian and member of the administrative board. Doctor Boardman was president of the Massachusetts Dental Society in 1896. He was born in Maine in 1851 and died m 1922.
Ada President 1929-1930: Robert Boyd Bogle, American Dental Association
Ada President 1929-1930: Robert Boyd Bogle, American Dental Association
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Doctor Bogle, of Nashville, became the sixty-seventh president of the Association at the 1929 meeting in Washington. In his presidential address the following year, Doctor Bogle said "All state society organizations should be awakened to the danger that has already developed in some sections which would recognize and legalize the taking of impressions and the making of full dentures by laboratory men.'' Doctor Bogle held both the D.D.S. and M.D. degrees. After practicing general dentistry for 23 years, he limited his practice to exodontia and radiography. He was professor of exodontia, radiography and mouth surgery at Vanderbilt School of Dentistry …
Ada President 1977-1978: Frank P. Bowyer, American Dental Association
Ada President 1977-1978: Frank P. Bowyer, American Dental Association
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Doctor Bowyer, of Knoxville, Tennessee, became the onehundred-and-fourteenth president of the Association at the 1977 meeting in Miami Beach. The House of Delegates modified its policy against advertising by dentists, in accord with Supreme Court decisions. Doctor Bowyer, an orthodontist, was speaker of the House of Delegates for four years before he was chosen presidentelect. He was a member of the House of Delegates for 17 years. He served as chairman of House of Delegates reference committees and of the Council on International Relations. Doctor Bowyer served as president of the Second District (Tennessee) Dental Society, Tennessee Dental Association, Southern …
Ada President 1873-1874: Thomas Lea Buckingham, American Dental Association
Ada President 1873-1874: Thomas Lea Buckingham, American Dental Association
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Doctor Buckingham, of Philadelphia, was elected thirteenth president of the Association at the 1873 meeting at Put-In-Bay, Ohio. A gold medal was presented at that meeting to Doctor Sanford C. Barnum, who originated the rubber dam for use in dental operations. Doctor Buckingham, a dental educator, was a delegate from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, of which he was one of the founders. He was born in Delaware in 1816 and died in 1883.
Ada President 1922-1923: John Peter Buckley, American Dental Association
Ada President 1922-1923: John Peter Buckley, American Dental Association
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Doctor Buckley, of Los Angeles, became the sixtieth president of the Association at the 1922 meeting in Los Angeles. Under a new charter granted by the State of Illinois in June 1922, the name was changed from National Dental Association to American Dental Association. Doctor Buckley was president of the Illinois State Dental Society in 1915. He was professor of materia medica and therapeutics at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery from 1904 to 1927, although his residence was in California after 1918. He was the author of a textbook used by many universities, entitled Modern Dental Materia Medica, Pharmacology …
Ada President 1898-1899: Harvey Jacob Burkhart, American Dental Association
Ada President 1898-1899: Harvey Jacob Burkhart, American Dental Association
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Doctor Burkhart, of Batavia, New York, was elected thirtysixth president of the Association at the r 898 meeting in Omaha. This was the first annual session of the National Dental Association, formed by merger of the American Dental Association and the Southern Dental Association. Doctor Burkhart was the director of the Eastman Dental Foundation from its beginning in 1916 until his death in 1946. He supervised establishment of the Eastman dental clinics in London, Paris, Brussels, Rome and Stockholm. Doctor Burkhart had also been a private practitioner and dean of the dental department of the University of Rochester. He was …
Ada President 1888-1889: Charles Richard Butler, American Dental Association
Ada President 1888-1889: Charles Richard Butler, American Dental Association
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Doctor Butler, of Cleveland, was elected twenty-eighth president of the Association at the 1888 meeting in Louisville. This was a joint meeting with the Southern Dental Association. Doctor Butler had been first vice president of the Association in 1887-1888. He was a doctor of medicine as well as a dentist. He served as president of the Ohio State Dental Society and the Cleveland Dental Society. He was born in Ohio in 1832 and died in 1914.
Ada President 1937-1938: C. Willard Camalier, American Dental Association
Ada President 1937-1938: C. Willard Camalier, American Dental Association
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Doctor Camalier, of Washington, D.C., became the seventyfifth president of the Association at the 1937 meeting in Atlantic City. Doctor Camalier, a general practitioner, established the Washington office of the Association in 1946, and represented the Association to the U.S. Congress and official agencies until his retirement in 1963. During World War II he was chairman of the War Services Committee and a member of the Advisory Committee for Selective Service. Doctor Camalier served as assistant secretary of the Association and as president of the American Association of Dental Examiners and the American Academy of the History of Dentistry. He …
Ada President 1978-1979: Joseph P. Cappuccio, American Dental Association
Ada President 1978-1979: Joseph P. Cappuccio, American Dental Association
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Doctor Cappuccio of Baltimore became the one-hundred-and-fifteenth president of the Association at the 1978 meeting in Las Vegas. Major issues during Doctor Cappuccio's term included institutional advertising, revision of the Association's Principles of Ethics, "denturism," and improving access to dental care for underserved groups. Doctor Cappuccio was born in New Jersey in 1921. An oral surgeon, he was a member of the House of Delegates for 18 years and a member of the Board of Trustees from 1971 until 1977. He also was a member of the Council on Relief and a director of the American Fund for Dental Health. …
Ada President 1903-1904: Charles C. Chittenden, American Dental Association
Ada President 1903-1904: Charles C. Chittenden, American Dental Association
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Doctor Chittenden, of Wisconsin, was elected forty-first president of the Association at the 1903 meeting at Asheville, North Carolina. The program included a paper on "A Plea for the Abandonment of Vulcanite for Base Plates." Doctor Chittenden was active in the National Association of Dental Examiners, advocating higher dental educational standards. He was mainly responsible for enactment of the first Wisconsin dental practice act and was president of the Wisconsin dental board for many years. Doctor Chittenden was one of the founders and several times president of the Wisconsin State Dental Society. He was born in New York in 1842 …
Ada President 1919-1920: John Vander Bie Conzett, American Dental Association
Ada President 1919-1920: John Vander Bie Conzett, American Dental Association
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Doctor Conzett, of Dubuque, Iowa, became the fifty-seventh president of the Association at the 1919 meeting in New Orleans. In his presidential address, Doctor Conzett spoke of the "tremendous burden of responsibility" placed on the dental profession by the development of the concept of focal infection in medicine. Doctor Conzett was president of the Iowa State Dental Society in 1905. He served as chairman of the National Board of Dental Examiners for many years. He was active as a lecturer and clinician in dental study clubs and was the author of many articles in the dental literature. Doctor Conzett was …
Ada President 1884-1885: John Nathan Crouse, American Dental Association
Ada President 1884-1885: John Nathan Crouse, American Dental Association
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Doctor Crouse, of Chicago, was elected twenty-fourth president of the Association at the 1884 meeting at Saratoga Springs, New York. Doctor Crouse received the D.D.S. degree from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1867. He served as president of the Illinois and Chicago dental societies and of the National (Southern) Dental Association. Doctor Crouse was the founder and president of the Dental Protective Association and publisher of the Dental Digest. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1842 and died in 1914.
Ada President 1883-1884: Edwin Tyler Darby, American Dental Association
Ada President 1883-1884: Edwin Tyler Darby, American Dental Association
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Doctor Darby, of Philadelphia, was elected twenty-third president of the Association at the 1883 meeting in Niagara Falls. In his presidential address the following year, Doctor Darby reviewed developments in the profession since the Association was organized in 1859: the number of dentists increased from less than 4,000 to more than 12,000; the number of dental colleges, including dental departments of universities, increased from three to twenty; the number of states with laws regulating the practice of dentistry was twenty in 1884 compared to none in 1859. Doctor Darby was elected president of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society in 1875. …
Ada President 1874-1875: Mason Stillman Dean, American Dental Association
Ada President 1874-1875: Mason Stillman Dean, American Dental Association
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Doctor Dean, of Chicago, was elected fourteenth president of the Association at the 1874 meeting in Detroit. He had served as recording secretary of the Association since 1869. Doctor Dean practiced dentistry in Canada, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. He was president of the Illinois State Dental Society, of which he was one of the founders, in 1869, and was twice elected president of the Chicago Dental Society. He was born in Vermont in 1825 and died in 1882.
Ada President 1932-1933: George Walter Dittmar, American Dental Association
Ada President 1932-1933: George Walter Dittmar, American Dental Association
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Doctor Dittmar, of Chicago, became the seventieth president of the Association at the 1932 meeting in Buffalo. Doctor Dittmar was a member of the faculty of the dental department of the University of Illinois, first as an associate professor of operative techniques and later as professor and head of the department of prosthetic dentistry. He was elected president of the Chicago Dental Society in 1911 and the Illinois State Dental Society in 1920. Doctor Dittmar was chairman of the Judicial Council of the American Dental Association for five years. He was born in Illinois in 1872 and died in 1949.
Ada President 1951-1952: Leroy Massey Ennis, American Dental Association
Ada President 1951-1952: Leroy Massey Ennis, American Dental Association
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Doctor Ennis, of Philadelphia, became the eighty-eighth president of the Association at the 1951 meeting in Washington. In his presidential address at the 1952 meeting, Doctor Ennis spoke of the rapid institution of fluoridation of public water supplies since it was approved by the House of Delegates in 1950. Doctor Ennis was a professor and chairman of the department of radiology for over 40 years at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. He was the author of a textbook, Dental Roentgenology, and was a founder and president of the American Academy of Dental Radiology. Doctor Ennis served as …
Ada President 1931-1932: Martin Dewey, American Dental Association
Ada President 1931-1932: Martin Dewey, American Dental Association
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Doctor Dewey, of New York City, became the sixty-ninth president of the Association at the 1931 meeting in Memphis. In that year the Association established its headquarters at 212 East Superior Street in Chicago. Doctor Dewey was an orthodontist and a physician. He served as professor of orthodontics at the Kansas City Dental School, University of Iowa Dental Department, Chicago Dental College and the New York College of Dental and Oral Surgery. He gained wide recognition as an outstanding teacher, debater, public speaker, and writer on dental subjects. He was the editor of the International Journal of Orthodontia for 17 …
Ada President 1897-1898: Thomas Fillebrown, American Dental Association
Ada President 1897-1898: Thomas Fillebrown, American Dental Association
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Doctor Fillebrown, of Boston, was elected thirty-fifth president of the Association at the 1897 meeting at Old Point Comfort, Virginia. This was a joint meeting of the American Dental Association and the Southern Dental Association, the purpose of which was to plan a merger of the two associations. Doctor Fillebrown, dentist and physician, was a professor of operative dentistry and oral surgery at the Harvard University dental school for 21 years. Author of Textbook on Operative Dentistry, he wrote extensively for dental journals on such subjects as oral surgery, cleft lip, cleft palate, hypnosis, anesthesia, the physiology of speech, and …
Ada President 1953-1954: Leslie Maurice Fitzgerald, American Dental Association
Ada President 1953-1954: Leslie Maurice Fitzgerald, American Dental Association
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Doctor FitzGerald, of Dubuque, Iowa, became the ninetieth president of the Association at the 1953 meeting in Cleveland. Doctor FitzGerald, an oral surgeon, served as president of the American Society of Oral Surgeons (two terms), the Iowa Dental Association and the Dubuque Dental Society. He was a founding member of the American Board of Oral Surgery and was its executive secretary-treasurer for 22 years. In the American Dental Association, Doctor FitzGerald served as a member of the House of Delegates and as chairman of the Committee on Economics, the Section on Oral Surgery and the Advisory Committee of the Bureau …
Ada President 1889-1890: Matthew Whildin Foster, American Dental Association
Ada President 1889-1890: Matthew Whildin Foster, American Dental Association
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Doctor Foster, of Baltimore, was elected twenty-ninth president of the Association at the 1889 meeting at Saratoga Springs, New York. He had been first vice president in 1884-1885. Doctor Foster was dean of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery for 20 years. He served as president of the Maryland State Dental Association and was twice elected president of the National (Southern) Dental Association. He was born in Philadelphia in 1837 and died in 1914.