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Ada President 1907-1908: William Carr, American Dental Association
Ada President 1907-1908: William Carr, American Dental Association
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Doctor Carr, of New York City, was elected forty-fifth president of the Association at the 1907 meeting in Minneapolis. In his presidential address the following year, Doctor Carr deplored the lack of interstate recognition of dental licenses and said the main barrier to such recognition was the variation in pre-dental educational requirements. Doctor Carr, dentist and physician, practiced dentistry in New York City. Later, he was dean of the College of Dental and Oral Surgery of New York, which, largely through his efforts, became the Dental School of Columbia University in 1923. He was active and influential in the elevation …
Ada President 1905-1906: Mark Florus Finley, American Dental Association
Ada President 1905-1906: Mark Florus Finley, American Dental Association
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Doctor Finley, of Washington, D.C., was elected forty-third president of the Association at the 1905 meeting in Buffalo. A committee of five was appointed to devise ways and means for the Association to "acquire ownership and control of a journal." Doctor Finley served as secretary of the Michigan State Dental Association and as president of both the District of Columbia Dental Society and the District of Columbia Board of Dental Examiners. He was active for many years on committees of the Association. He was born in Michigan in 1856 and died in 1932.