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Ada President 1952-1953: Otto W. Brandhorst, American Dental Association
Ada President 1952-1953: Otto W. Brandhorst, American Dental Association
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Doctor Brandhorst, of St. Louis, became the eighty-ninth president of the Association at the 1952 meeting in St. Louis. He had been a member of the House of Delegates and the Council on Dental Education. Doctor Brandhorst was secretary of the American College of Dentists for 3 5 years, and was its president in 1970-1971. An orthodontist, he was dean of the Washington University School of Dentistry, St. Louis, from 1945 to 1953. Doctor Brandhorst served as president of the St. Louis Dental Society and the Missouri Dental Association. He was born in Illinois in 1889 and died in 1975.
Ada President 1913-1914: Homer C. Brown, American Dental Association
Ada President 1913-1914: Homer C. Brown, American Dental Association
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Doctor Brown, of Columbus, Ohio, was elected fifty-first president of the Association at the 191 3 meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. The Association was reorganized in 1913 under a new Constitution and Bylaws which established the House of Delegates and the Board of Trustees. Doctor Brown was chairman of the Committee on Dental Legislation for 21 years following his presidency. Through his efforts the status of dentists in the armed forces was equalized by law with that of physicians, and proposals for a sharp increase in tariffs on dental imports were defeated. Doctor Brown was instrumental in the establishment of …
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 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 1934-1935: Frank Monroe Casto, American Dental Association
Ada President 1934-1935: Frank Monroe Casto, American Dental Association
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Doctor Casto, of Cleveland, became the seventy-second president of the Association at the 1934 meeting in St. Paul. One of the matters discussed at the meeting was the widespread practice of radio advertising by dentists. Doctor Casto, a graduate of the Angle School of Orthodontia, established an orthodontic clinic at the Ohio State University Dental School. He practiced orthodontics in Cleveland and Columbus. At Western Reserve University Dental School, he was professor of orthodontics from 1904 to 1937 and dean from 1917 to 1937. He served as president of the American Society of Orthodontists in 1909. He was born in …
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 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 1970-1971: John Michael Deines, American Dental Association
Ada President 1970-1971: John Michael Deines, American Dental Association
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Doctor Deines, of Seattle, became the one-hundred-andseventh-president of the Association at the 1970 meeting in Las Vegas. The House of Delegates adopted a statement on the "25th Anniversary of Fluoridation," saying "The American Dental Association urges state legislatures and public officials and agencies involved in health planning or care programs to give the highest priority to implementing fluoridation without further delay." Doctor Deines, a general practitioner, was a member of the House of Delegates from 1956 to 1963; he then served six years as a member of the Board of Trustees. He also served the Association as a member of …
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 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 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 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.
Ada President 1866-1867: Chauncy P. Fitch, American Dental Association
Ada President 1866-1867: Chauncy P. Fitch, American Dental Association
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Doctor Fitch, of New York City, was elected sixth president of the Association at the 1866 meeting in Boston. This was a seven-day meeting instead of the usual four. Part of the meeting was concerned with negotiations with the Goodyear company regarding the use of patented vulcanite material in dentures. Doctor Fitch held a Doctor of Medicine degree and maintained that dentistry was a specialty of medicine. In a paper delivered at the 1866 meeting, he said that dental education should consist of a "full curriculum of medical study" in addition to the dental courses. Doctor Fitch was one of …
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.
Ada President 1920-1921: H. Edmund Friesell, American Dental Association
Ada President 1920-1921: H. Edmund Friesell, American Dental Association
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Doctor Friesell, of Pittsburgh, became the fifty-eighth president of the Association at the 1920 meeting in Boston. For 43 years Doctor Friesell was professor of operative dentistry and dean of the School of Dentistry, University of Pittsburgh. He was known for his research in dental caries, anatomy, histology, and operative dentistry. He served as president of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society, the American Association of Dental Schools, the National Association of Dental Faculties, the American College of Dentists and the American Academy of Dental Surgeons. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1873 and died in 1946.
Ada President 1914-1915: Donald Mackay Gallie, American Dental Association
Ada President 1914-1915: Donald Mackay Gallie, American Dental Association
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Doctor Callie, of Chicago, was elected fifty-second president of the Association at the 1914 meeting in Rochester, New York. The reorganization of 1913 resulted in an increase in membership from 793 in 1913 to 12,494 in 1914. Doctor Gallie was professor and head of the department of operative dentistry at the University of Illinois College of Dentistry from 1903 to 1932. He served as president of the Illinois State Dental Society, the Chicago Dental Society and the American Dental Teachers Association. Doctor Callie was prominent as a clinician, author and lecturer. He was born in Canada in 1866 and died …
Ada President 1966-1967: William Andrew Garrett, American Dental Association
Ada President 1966-1967: William Andrew Garrett, American Dental Association
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Doctor Garrett, of Atlanta, became the one-hundred-and-third president of the Association at the 1966 meeting in Dallas. The House of Delegates adopted the American Dental Association Dental Health Program for Children and established the Council on Dental Care Programs. Doctor Garrett, a general practitioner, served the Association as a member of the Board of Trustees for two terms and as a member of the House of Delegates for many years. He was also chairman of the Council on Scientific Session and the Section on Operative Dentistry. Doctor Garrett was president of the Georgia Dental Association, the Atlanta Dental Society, and …
Ada President 1910-1911: Edward Sanford Gaylord, American Dental Association
Ada President 1910-1911: Edward Sanford Gaylord, American Dental Association
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Doctor Gaylord, of New Haven, Connecticut, was elected forty-eighth president of the Association at the 1910 meeting in Denver. This meeting was considered to be the golden anniversary of the Association, the first regular meeting having been held in 1860. Doctor Gaylord practiced dentistry in New Haven for 60 consecutive years. He was the last president of the Association having only preceptorial training. Doctor Gaylord was president of the Connecticut State Dental Association in 1893. He was born in Connecticut in 1840 and died in 1926.
Ada President 1890-1891: Alison Wright Harlan, American Dental Association
Ada President 1890-1891: Alison Wright Harlan, American Dental Association
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Doctor Harlan, of Chicago, was elected thirtieth president of the Association at the 1890 meeting at Excelsior Springs, Missouri. He had served as first vice president the two preceding years and as corresponding secretary from 1882 until 1887. Doctor Harlan was professor of materia medica and therapeutics at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery for more than 20 years. He established the Dental Review and was its editor for many years. Doctor Harlan served as president of the Illinois and Chicago dental societies and as secretary of the World's Columbian Dental Congress. He was born in Indiana in 1851 and …
Ada President 1921-1922: Thomas B. Hartzell, American Dental Association
Ada President 1921-1922: Thomas B. Hartzell, American Dental Association
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Doctor Hartzell, of Minneapolis, became the fifty-ninth president of the Association at the 1921 meeting in Milwaukee. In that year, a number of dental schools began stipulating one year of predental college work as a requirement for admission. Doctor Hartzell, who was a dentist and a physician, in 1904 organized the periodontia department at the University of Minnesota, where he was a professor of oral and general surgery. He was the author of several books on mouth diseases and surgery. Doctor Hartzell was for many years a member of the Research Commission of the American Dental Association. He was born …
Ada President 1912-1913: Frank O. Hetrick, American Dental Association
Ada President 1912-1913: Frank O. Hetrick, American Dental Association
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Doctor Hetrick, of Ottawa, Kansas, was elected fiftieth president of the Association at the 1912 meeting in Washington. Doctor Hetrick served as president of the Kansas State Dental Association and the National Board of Dental Examiners. For many years he was chairman of the Research Commission of the National Dental Association. He was born in Ohio in 1859 and died in 1934.
Ada President 1965-1966: Maynard Kiplinger Hine, American Dental Association
Ada President 1965-1966: Maynard Kiplinger Hine, American Dental Association
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Doctor Hine, of Indianapolis, became the one-hundred-andsecond president of the Association at the 1965 meeting in Las Vegas. Late in 1965, the Association headquarters moved to its new, 22-story building at 211 East Chicago A venue in Chicago. Doctor Hine's professional career culminated in several years of service as chancellor of the Indiana-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He served as president of the Federation Dentaire Internationale in 1975-1977. For 23 years he was dean of the Indiana University School of Dentistry. Doctor Hine, a periodontist, served the Association as a member of the Board of Trustees, the House of Delegates, the …
Ada President 1928-1929: Percy R. Howe, American Dental Association
Ada President 1928-1929: Percy R. Howe, American Dental Association
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Rogers Doctor Howe, of Boston, became the sixty-sixth president of the Association at the 1928 meeting in Minneapolis. Doctor Howe began his dental career as a private practitioner in Maine and Massachusetts. He was director of the Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children, in Boston, from 1917 until 1950. Doctor Howe was professor of dental science at Harvard Dental School from 1925 to 1940. At the Forsyth Infirmary and Harvard, he conducted extensive dental research. He was born in Rhode Island in 1864 and died in 1950.
Ada President 1872-1873: Phineas George Canning Hunt, American Dental Association
Ada President 1872-1873: Phineas George Canning Hunt, American Dental Association
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Doctor Hunt, of Indianapolis, was elected twelfth president of the Association at the 1872 meeting at Niagara Falls. A resolution was adopted at that meeting recognizing and honoring Doctor Horace Wells as the introducer of anesthesia in the United States. Doctor Hunt was president of the Indiana State Dental Association from 1861 to 1864 and was again elected to that office in 1871. He invented several devices and methods useful to practicing dentists. He was born in Ohio in 1827 and died in 1896.