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Ada President 1959-1960: Paul Harold Jeserich, American Dental Association
Ada President 1959-1960: Paul Harold Jeserich, American Dental Association
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Doctor Jeserich, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, became the ninetysixth president of the Association at the centennial meeting held in New York City in 1959. This was a joint meeting with the Federation Dentaire Internationale. Attendance was a record 35,200. Doctor Jeserich was dean of the University of Michigan Dental School from 1950 to 1962, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1933. He was also the director of the University's W. K. Kellogg Foundation Institute of Graduate and Postgraduate Dentistry. He was serving his second term as a member of the Association's Board of Trustees when he …
Ada President 1924-1925: Charles Nelson Johnson, American Dental Association
Ada President 1924-1925: Charles Nelson Johnson, American Dental Association
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Doctor Johnson, of Chicago, became the sixty-second president of the Association at the 1924 meeting in Dallas. Membership had reached 28,902 and was growing rapidly. Doctor Johnson was one of the most renowned and influential dentists of his time. He taught operative dentistry at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery for 53 years and was the dean of men during the greater part of this period. Doctor Johnson was the editor of The Journal of the American Dental Association from 1925 until his death in 1938. Previously he had been editor of The Dental Review. He was the author of …
Ada President 1974-1975: Lynden M. Kennedy, American Dental Association
Ada President 1974-1975: Lynden M. Kennedy, American Dental Association
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Doctor Kennedy, of Dallas, became the one-hundred-andeleventh president of the Association at the 1974 meeting in Washington. The House of Delegates adopted a set of fourteen standards for dental prepayment programs. Doctor Kennedy, a general practitioner, was a member of the House of Delegates from 1965 to 1973. He also served the Association as a member of the Task Force on National Health Programs in 1970-1971. Doctor Kennedy was editor of the Texas Dental Journal and served as president of the Dallas County Dental Society, the Texas Dental Association, the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners and the Texas Academy …
Ada President 1955-1956: Bernard C. Kingsbury, American Dental Association
Ada President 1955-1956: Bernard C. Kingsbury, American Dental Association
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Doctor Kingsbury, of San Francisco, became the ninety-second president of the Association at the 1955 meeting in San Francisco. The House of Delegates rescinded its policy of opposing the inclusion of dentists in Old Age and Survivors' Insurance under federal social security. Doctor Kingsbury, a general practitioner, was first vice president of the Association in 1949 and a member of the Board of Trustees from 1951 to 1954. He served as president of the San Francisco Dental Society and the California Dental Association. Doctor Kingsbury was a professor of prosthetic dentistry at the School of Dentistry, College of Physicians and …
Ada President 1971-1972: Carl A. Laughlin, American Dental Association
Ada President 1971-1972: Carl A. Laughlin, American Dental Association
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Doctor Laughlin, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, became the one-hundred-and-eighth president of the Association at the 1971 meeting in Atlantic City. The House of Delegates adopted an extensive set of guidelines for dentistry's position in a national health program. Doctor Laughlin, an orthodontist, served six years as a member of the Board of Trustees and eight years as a member of the House of Delegates. He also served the Association as a member and chairman of the Council on Dental Education. Doctor Laughlin was president of the West Virginia Dental Association, the West Virginia Orthodontic Society, the West Virginia Board of …
Ada President 1901-1902: James Addison Libbey, American Dental Association
Ada President 1901-1902: James Addison Libbey, American Dental Association
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Doctor Libbey, of Pittsburgh, was elected thirty-ninth president of the Association at the 1901 meeting in Milwaukee. The meeting was attended by 220 members from 29 of the 45 states. After several years of preceptorial training, Doctor Libbey entered Pennsylvania College of Dentistry, graduating in 1882. He was president of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society in 1895. He was active in national and international dental association affairs. Doctor Libbey was born in Pennsylvania in 1846 and died in 1920.
Ada President 1954-1955: Daniel Francis Lynch, American Dental Association
Ada President 1954-1955: Daniel Francis Lynch, American Dental Association
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Doctor Lynch, of Washington, D.C., became the ninety-first president of the Association at the 1954 Francis meeting in Miami. Doctor Lynch, an oral surgeon, was a member of the Board of Trustees for six years. He also served the Association as chairman of the International Relations Committee and secretary of the Research Commission. He served as president of the District of Columbia Dental Society, president of the Pan American Odontological Society, president of the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology and vice president of the Federation Dentaire Internationale. Doctor Lynch was a professor of oral surgery and anesthesia from 1928 to …
Ada President 1956-1957: Harry Lyons, American Dental Association
Ada President 1956-1957: Harry Lyons, American Dental Association
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Doctor Lyons, of Richmond, Virginia, became the ninety-third president of the Association at the 1956 meeting in Atlantic City. In his presidential address, Doctor Lyons said: "...the monopoly for dental care was granted to our profession by the people...The basic responsibility which we assume under our franchise is that of providing ways and means ultimately for our entire population to receive the benefits of dental care." Doctor Lyons, a periodontist, served as speaker of the House of Delegates from 1952 to 1955. He was a member of the Council on Dental Therapeutics from 1935 to 1952 and later was a …
Ada President 1968-1969: Hubert A. Mcguirl, American Dental Association
Ada President 1968-1969: Hubert A. Mcguirl, American Dental Association
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Doctor McGuirl, of Providence, Rhode Island, became the one-hundred-and-fifth president of the Association at the 1968 meeting in Miami Beach. In his presidential address he said: "Unless all of the health arts and sciences move more toward the area of prevention, rather than treatment, we will ultimately fail in our race to control disease and produce a happier and healthier people." Doctor McGuirl served two terms as a member of the Board of Trustees after being a member of the House of Delegates for a number of years. He served as president, and for many years executive secretary, of the …
Ada President 1864-1865: John Hugh Mcquillen, American Dental Association
Ada President 1864-1865: John Hugh Mcquillen, American Dental Association
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Doctor McQuillen, of Philadelphia, was elected fourth president of the Association at the 1864 meeting at Niagara Falls. The original suggestion for the creation of the American Dental Association came from the pen of Doctor McQuillen, who wrote under the pseudonym "Junius." Doctor McQuillen had been chairman of the committee that drafted the Association's Constitution and Bylaws. Doctor McQuillen conducted original research in dental histology and was particularly interested in microscopic work. He contributed articles to the dental literature on a wide variety of topics. Doctor McQuillen was very active in a number of dental organizations. From 1863 until his …
Ada President 1946-1947: Sterling Vernon Mead, American Dental Association
Ada President 1946-1947: Sterling Vernon Mead, American Dental Association
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Doctor Mead, of Washington, D.C., became the eighty-third president of the Association at the 1946 meeting in Miami. A 1945 meeting of the House of Delegates in Omaha had been scheduled but was cancelled because of the war. Doctor Mead, an oral surgeon, served as president of the District of Columbia Dental Society in 1929. He was a professor of oral surgery at Georgetown University School of Dentistry. He founded the Mead Dental Hospital which operated in Washington from 1959 to 1966. Doctor Mead was the author of three textbooks: Oral Surgery, Diseases of the Mouth, and Anesthesia in Dental …
Ada President 1939-1940: Arthur Hastings Merritt, American Dental Association
Ada President 1939-1940: Arthur Hastings Merritt, American Dental Association
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Doctor Merritt, of New York City, became the seventyseventh president of the Association at the 1939 meeting in Milwaukee. In his presidential address, Doctor Merritt recommended expansion of the Association's activities, especially in dental health education and in research. Doctor Merritt, a periodontist, served as president of the New York Academy of Dentistry, the American Academy of Periodontology, and the American College of Dentists. He helped to found six dental journals, the Columbia University School of Dentistry, the International Association for Dental Research, the Children's Aid Society Dental Clinic, and the Guggenheim Dental Clinic. Dental awards and honors received by …
Ada President 1936-1937: Leroy Matthew Simpson Miner, American Dental Association
Ada President 1936-1937: Leroy Matthew Simpson Miner, American Dental Association
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Doctor Miner, of Boston, became the seventy-fourth president of the Association at the 1936 meeting in San Francisco. The economic depression of the 1930s was reflected in certain activities of the Association, including a system for reporting economic conditions in each state to the Committee on Economics. Doctor Miner, who was both a physician and a dentist, limited his practice to oral surgery. He was a teacher of oral surgery at Harvard University Dental School from 1905 to 1924 and was the dean from 1924 to 1944. He served as president of the Massachusetts Dental Society, the New England Dental …
Ada President 1902-1903: Llewellyn Garnet Noel, American Dental Association
Ada President 1902-1903: Llewellyn Garnet Noel, American Dental Association
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Doctor Noel, of Nashville, was elected fortieth president of the Association at the 1902 meeting at Niagara Falls. In his presidential address the following year he pointed out that membership in the Association was only 420 out of 28,481 dentists in the United States, or about 1.5 percent. He discussed ways of increasing the membership. In 1903 Doctor Noel was also president of the Southern Branch of the National Dental Association. He was one of the founders of the dental department of the University of Tennessee, which merged with the Vanderbilt University Dental School in 1905. In that year Doctor …
Ada President 1875-1876: Aaron Lockwood Northrop, American Dental Association
Ada President 1875-1876: Aaron Lockwood Northrop, American Dental Association
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Doctor Northrop, of New York City, was elected fifteenth president of the Association at the 1875 meeting at Niagara Falls. A considerable part of this meeting and the next was devoted to papers and discussions on the health of the dentist. Many dentists believed that dentistry was a particularly exhausting profession. Doctor Northrop was the first president of the First District Dental Society of New York and first president of the New York Odontological Society. His training was preceptorial and in 1867 he received an honorary dental degree from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. Doctor Northrop was born in …
Ada President 1941-1942: Oren Austin Oliver, American Dental Association
Ada President 1941-1942: Oren Austin Oliver, American Dental Association
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Doctor Oliver, of Nashville, became the seventy-ninth president of the Association at the 1941 meeting in Houston. Dental preparedness for possible war involvement was one of the concerns of the meeting. The Association headquarters building at 222 East Superior Street, Chicago, was purchased during Doctor Oliver's term. Doctor Oliver, an orthodontist, was for many years a professor of dental surgery at Vanderbilt University. He was president of the Federation Dentaire Internationale in 1952-1955. He served as president of the Tennessee State Dental Association, the American Society of Orthodontists, and the American Board of Orthodontics. He lectured on orthodontics extensively both …
Ada President 1930-1931: Robert Todd Oliver, American Dental Association
Ada President 1930-1931: Robert Todd Oliver, American Dental Association
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Doctor Oliver, of Philadelphia, became the sixty-eighth president of the Association at the 1930 meeting in Denver. His presidential address was a scholarly review of the history of the young profession of dentistry in the United States. Doctor Oliver served for many years as chief of the dental corps of the United States Army. Shortly after graduating in 1888 from the Indiana Dental College, he became professor of oral surgery at that institution. He was in the Indiana National Guard and saw active duty in the Spanish-American War. Doctor Oliver served as a dentist in the Philippine Insurrection and the …
Ada President 1967-1968: Floyd Darl Ostrander, American Dental Association
Ada President 1967-1968: Floyd Darl Ostrander, American Dental Association
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Doctor Ostrander, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, became the onehundred-and-fourth president of the Association at the 1967 meeting in Washington. The Virgin Islands Dental Association was admitted as a constituent society of the American Dental Association. Doctor Ostrander, an endodontist and educator, was speaker of the House of Delegates from 1961 to 1966. He was a member of the Council on Dental Therapeutics for 18 years and was its chairman in 1960-1961. A professor of dentistry at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Doctor Ostrander served as president of the Michigan State Dental Association, American Association of Endodontists, and the …
Ada President 1892-1894: John Deans Patterson, American Dental Association
Ada President 1892-1894: John Deans Patterson, American Dental Association
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Doctor Patterson, of Kansas City, was elected thirty-second president of the Association at the 1892 meeting at Niagara Falls. No regular meeting of the Association was held in 1893 because the World's Columbian Dental Congress was held that year, so Doctor Patterson served as ADA president until 1894. Doctor Patterson was president of the Kansas State Dental Association in 1876-1877 and president of the Missouri State Dental Association in 1892. He was one of the organizers and first professor of operative dentistry of the Kansas City Dental College. Doctor Patterson was noted as an essayist, orator, and parliamentarian. He was …
Ada President 1960-1961: Charles Heston Patton, American Dental Association
Ada President 1960-1961: Charles Heston Patton, American Dental Association
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Doctor Patton, of Philadelphia, became the ninety-seventh president of the Association at the 1960 meeting in Los Angeles. As president, Doctor Patton was a member of the United States Dental Mission to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union also sent a dental mission to the United States in 1961. Doctor Patton, an orthodontist, served the Association as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1953 to 1959 and as a member of the Council on Scientific Session from 1948 to 1953. He was president of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society and the Philadelphia County Dental Society. Doctor Patton was …
Ada President 1906-1907: Adelbert Henry Peck, American Dental Association
Ada President 1906-1907: Adelbert Henry Peck, American Dental Association
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Doctor Peck, of Chicago, was elected forty-fourth president of the Association at the 1906 meeting in Atlanta. Doctor Peck had been the Association's recording secretary in 1883-1885 and 1902-1906. Doctor Peck, who was also a physician, was secretary and later president of the Illinois State Dental Society. After being professor of materia medica and therapeutics first at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery and then at Northwestern University Dental School, he became dean of the University of Illinois dental school. After three years as dean, he resigned in 1904 to devote full time to private practice. He was a frequent …
Ada President 1880-1881: Cyrus Newlin Peirce, American Dental Association
Ada President 1880-1881: Cyrus Newlin Peirce, American Dental Association
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Doctor Peirce, of Philadelphia, was elected twentieth president of the Association at the 1880 meeting in Boston. Delegates discussed the need for a united profession and the possibility of unification of the American Dental Association, the American Dental Convention, and the Southern National Dental Association. Doctor Peirce, professor of physiology and operative dentistry, was dean of the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery from 1860 until 1866 and from 1877 until 1901. He was the first president of the National Association of Dental Faculties. Among the many published papers of Doctor Peirce were essays on the relation between uric acid and …
Ada President 1964-1965: Fritz Arthur Pierson, American Dental Association
Ada President 1964-1965: Fritz Arthur Pierson, American Dental Association
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Doctor Pierson, of Lincoln, Nebraska, became the onehundred-and-first president of the Association at the 1964 meeting in San Francisco. This was a joint meeting with the Federation Dentaire Internationale, and its theme was "International Cooperation for Better Dental Health." Doctor Pierson was a private practitioner and a professor of dental medicine at the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry. He was a member of the House of Delegates from 1930 to 1957 and a member of the Board of Trustees from 1957 to 1963. For many years Doctor Pierson was secretary of the Nebraska Dental Association, which he also served …
Ada President 1877-1878: Frederick Henry Rehwinkel, American Dental Association
Ada President 1877-1878: Frederick Henry Rehwinkel, American Dental Association
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Doctor Rehwinkel, of Chillicothe, Ohio, was elected seventeenth president of the Association at the 1877 meeting in Chicago. Doctor Rehwinkel was born in Germany in 1825. He completed his medical education in Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1849, graduating from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1854. He was active in several dental organizations and served as president of the Ohio State Dental Society. He died in 1889.
Ada President 1942-1943: J. Ben Robinson, American Dental Association
Ada President 1942-1943: J. Ben Robinson, American Dental Association
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Doctor Robinson, of Baltimore, became the eightieth president of the Association at the 1942 meeting in St. Louis. Because of the war, attendance was limited to delegates and members of standing committees. Doctor Robinson served as dean of two dental schools: the University of Maryland from 1924 to 1953 and West Virginia University from 1953 to 1958. He served as president of the Maryland State Dental Association, the American Association of Dental Schools, the American College of Dentists, and the American Academy of the History of Dentistry. Doctor Robinson was the author of numerous articles on dental education and history …
Ada President 1940-1941: Wilfred H. Robinson, American Dental Association
Ada President 1940-1941: Wilfred H. Robinson, American Dental Association
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Doctor Robinson, of Oakland, became the seventy-eighth president of the Association at the 1940 meeting in Cleveland. The Association had the following standing committees and councils: Judicial, Dental Education, Dental Legislation, Dental Health Education, Relief, Dental Relief Fund, Research, Process Patent, Dental Index, Membership, representatives on National Board of Dental Examiners, Insurance, Economics, Dental Therapeutics, Public Health, American Red Cross, History and Dental Museum. Doctor Robinson was president of the California State Dental Association in 1930 and the National Association of Dental Examiners in 1935. He was active in civic affairs in Oakland and Alameda County. He was born in …