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Ada President 1862-1863: George Watt, American Dental Association
Ada President 1862-1863: George Watt, American Dental Association
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Doctor Watt, of Xenia, Ohio, was elected second president of the Association at the 1862 meeting in Cleveland. This meeting and others in the early years of the Association were devoted largely to papers and discussions on clinical and scientific subjects, rather than organizational and policy matters. Doctor Watt was also a member of the Committee on Dental Chemistry. Other standing committees were: Dental Physiology, Dental Pathology and Surgery, Mechanical Dentistry, Dental Education, Publication, Dental Literature, Prize Essays, and Arrangements. Doctor Watt was a physician as well as a dentist and was a professor of chemistry and metallurgy at the …
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 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 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 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 1925-1926: Sheppard W. Foster, American Dental Association
Ada President 1925-1926: Sheppard W. Foster, American Dental Association
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Walter Doctor Foster, of Atlanta, became the sixty-third president of the Association at the 1925 meeting in Louisville. Doctor Foster was appointed dean of the Southern Dental College in 1893. It merged with the Atlanta Dental College to form the Atlanta-Southern Dental College, of which Doctor Foster was president until 1944. He served as president of the National Association of Dental Faculties and the Southern Branch of the National Dental Association. Doctor Foster was president of the Georgia Dental Association in 1925. He was born in Alabama in 1861 and died in 1947.
Ada President 1915-1916: Thomas Philip Hinman, American Dental Association
Ada President 1915-1916: Thomas Philip Hinman, American Dental Association
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Doctor Hinman, of Atlanta, was elected fifty-third president of the Association at the 1915 meeting in San Francisco. In his presidential address the following year he said: "One of the greatest needs of our profession in a legislative way is reciprocity in dental licenses." Doctor Hinman was dean and professor of oral surgery at Atlanta-Southern Dental College. He was a trustee of the Association for 12 years. He served as president of the Southern Branch of the National Dental Association in 1901, and as president of the Georgia State Dental Society in 1917-1918. He was one of the founders of …
Ada President 1869-1870: Homer Judd, American Dental Association
Ada President 1869-1870: Homer Judd, American Dental Association
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Doctor Judd, of St. Louis, was elected ninth president of the Association at the 1869 meeting at Saratoga Springs, New York. Doctor Judd, a Doctor of Medicine, was a delegate, representing the Missouri Dental College. With Doctor Judd as chairman, in 1870 the Association adopted a resolution acknowledging the "great ignorance" among American mothers regarding eruption and development of children's teeth and providing for a committee to work with publishers in the development of textbooks that would convey this information. Doctor Judd was born in Massachusetts in 1820 and died in 1890.
Ada President 1867-1868: Ambrose Lawrence, American Dental Association
Ada President 1867-1868: Ambrose Lawrence, American Dental Association
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Doctor Lawrence, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was elected seventh president of the Association at the 1867 meeting in Cincinnati. The westernmost state dental society represented at that meeting was the Missouri State Dental Association. Doctor Lawrence was a member of a committee that recommended that dental students be accepted as members of the American Dental Association and suggested qualifications for their membership. He presented a paper at the 1867 meeting on the subject of chemistry in which he asserted that too little attention was given by the profession to the importance of chemistry. He was a professor of prosthetic dentistry. Doctor …
Ada President 1878-1879: Henry James Byron Mckellops, American Dental Association
Ada President 1878-1879: Henry James Byron Mckellops, American Dental Association
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Doctor McKellops, of St. Louis, was elected eighteenth president of the Association at the 1878 meeting at Niagara Falls. He had served as first vice president in 1875-1876. Doctor McKellops was an expert in the use of gold and platinum foil and lectured and demonstrated his skill throughout the United States and in Europe. He was the first president of the Missouri State Dental Association. Doctor McKellops was born in New York in 1823 and died in 1901.
Ada President 1948-1949: Clyde Estes Minges, American Dental Association
Ada President 1948-1949: Clyde Estes Minges, American Dental Association
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Doctor Minges, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, became the eighty-fifth president of the Association at the 1948 meeting in Chicago. The House of Delegates adopted a new Constitution and Bylaws, extensively revised from the previous version. Doctor Minges, a general practitioner, served as president of the North Carolina State Dental Association and the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners. He was a member of the American Dental Association Board of Trustees for many years. He was born in North Carolina in 1891 and died in 1968.
Ada President 1870-1871: William Henry Morgan, American Dental Association
Ada President 1870-1871: William Henry Morgan, American Dental Association
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Doctor Morgan, of Nashville, was elected tenth president of the Association at the 1870 meeting in Nashville. As chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, Doctor Morgan delivered an address of welcome. His description of the recent Civil War was vivid: "…this quiet valley of the Cumberland reverberated with the sound of hostile cannon, and men stood aghast as they heard it die away among the rocks and crannies of the distant hills, like the wail of some expiring demon.'' Doctor Morgan served as a trustee of the Ohio College of Dental Surgery and was one of the chief organizers of …
Ada President 1944-1946: Walter H. Scherer, American Dental Association
Ada President 1944-1946: Walter H. Scherer, American Dental Association
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Doctor Scherer, of Houston, became the eighty-second president of the Association at the 1944 meeting in Chicago. The meeting was originally scheduled to be held in Omaha; the change to Chicago was caused by wartime travel restrictions. Doctor Scherer, a professor of oral medicine and a private practitioner, served as president of the American Academy of Periodontology, the Houston Dental Society, and the Texas State Dental Society. At the University of Texas School of Dentistry, he served on the board of trustees and as president of the faculty. In 1945 Doctor Scherer was appointed to the board of regents of …
Ada President 1865-1866: Christopher Waterman Spalding, American Dental Association
Ada President 1865-1866: Christopher Waterman Spalding, American Dental Association
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Doctor Spalding, of St. Louis, was elected fifth president of the Association at the 1865 meeting in Chicago. One hundred and twenty-four members attended the meeting, representing 35 dental societies. In his presidential address, Doctor Spalding made recommendations for the improvement of dental education. He strongly favored the development of schools devoted exclusively to the education of dentists. He served on the Committee on Dental Pathology and Surgery. Doctor Spalding was one of the organizers of the Western Dental Society in 1851. He was born in Rhode Island in 1814 and died in 1896.
Ada President: 1868-1869 Jonathan Taft, American Dental Association
Ada President: 1868-1869 Jonathan Taft, American Dental Association
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Doctor Taft, of Cincinnati, was elected eighth president of the Association at the 1868 meeting at Niagara Falls. He had served as recording secretary since the preliminary meeting in 1859. Doctor Taft was professor of operative dentistry and dental hygiene at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery and later held a similar position at the University of Michigan. He was author of a textbook, A Practical Treatise on Operative Dentistry. Doctor Taft compiled an index of dental periodical literature, and for several years he was editor of the journal, The Dental Register. He was extremely active in dental organizations. He …
Ada President 1908-1909: Vines Edmunds Turner, American Dental Association
Ada President 1908-1909: Vines Edmunds Turner, American Dental Association
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Doctor Turner, of Raleigh, North Carolina, was elected forty-sixth president of the Association at the 1908 meeting in Boston. He had been treasurer of the Association from 1904 to 1906. Doctor Turner left his dental practice at Henderson, North Carolina, to serve in the Confederate Army from 1861 to 1865. He then resumed his practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. Doctor Turner was twice elected president of the North Carolina Dental Society and for many years was president of the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners. He was born in North Carolina in 1837 and died in 1914.
Ada President 1935-1936: George Ben Wade Winter, American Dental Association
Ada President 1935-1936: George Ben Wade Winter, American Dental Association
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Doctor Winter, of St. Louis, became the seventy-third president of the Association at the 1935 meeting in New Orleans. In that year the United States Supreme Court upheld the decision by the Oregon Supreme Court vindicating the state law restricting advertising by dentists. Doctor Winter developed and taught advanced methods of tooth removal. His textbook explaining his methods became the leading work on exodontia. After teaching at St. Louis University for several years, he became professor of exodontia at the Washington University School of Dentistry in St. Louis. He served as president of the St. Louis Dental Society and the …
Ada President 1972-1973: Louis A. Saporito, American Dental Association
Ada President 1972-1973: Louis A. Saporito, American Dental Association
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Doctor Saporito, of Newark, New Jersey, became the onehundred-and-ninth president of the Association at the 1972 meeting in San Francisco. The House of Delegates adopted policies regarding Health Maintenance Organizations and the use of radiographs in dental care programs. Doctor Saporito served the Association for six years as a member of the Board of Trustees and for eight years as a member of the House of Delegates. He was first vice president during 1963-1964. Doctor Saporito was a general practitioner and an educator. He was an instructor in dentistry and oral surgery at Columbia University School of Dental and Oral …
Ada President 1896-1897: James Truman, American Dental Association
Ada President 1896-1897: James Truman, American Dental Association
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Doctor Truman, of Philadelphia, was elected thirty-fourth president of the Association at the 1896 meeting at Saratoga Springs, New York. In his acceptance address, he said he would work to "overcome the apathy" which he said had characterized the Association in recent years. Doctor Truman was a professor of dental physiology and operative dentistry at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery from 1865 to 1876. He incurred the antagonism of many dentists by strongly advocating the admission of women to the dental profession. From 1882 to 1896, after practicing in Germany several years, he was with the University of Pennsylvania …
Ada President 1909-1910: Burton Lee Thorpe, American Dental Association
Ada President 1909-1910: Burton Lee Thorpe, American Dental Association
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Doctor Thorpe, of St. Louis, was elected forty-seventh president of the Association at the 1909 meeting at Birmingham, Alabama. He had served as corresponding secretary of the Association from 1906 to 1908. Doctor Thorpe was the first dean of Barnes Dental College of St. Louis, which he and two other dentists organized in 1903. He was assistant secretary of the Federation Dentaire Internationale for five years, and originated the Fourth International Dental Congress, held in St. Louis in 1904. Doctor Thorpe was active in dental society history committees and was the author of Biographies of Pioneer American Dentists and Their …
Ada President 1962-1963: Gerald Desmond Timmons, American Dental Association
Ada President 1962-1963: Gerald Desmond Timmons, American Dental Association
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Doctor Timmons, of Philadelphia, became the ninety-ninth president of the Association at the 1962 meeting in Miami Beach. He had been speaker of the House of Delegates in 1955-1961. Doctor Timmons was dean of Temple University School of Dentistry from 1942 until his retirement in 1964. He served as president of the Indianapolis Dental Society, the American College of Dentists, and the American Association of Dental Schools. He served the American Dental Association as executive secretary in 1940-1942, trustee from the Seventh District in 1938-1940, and as a member of the Council on Dental Education in 1950-1956. Doctor Timmons was …
Ada President 1975-1976: Robert B. Shira, American Dental Association
Ada President 1975-1976: Robert B. Shira, American Dental Association
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Doctor Shira, of Boston, became the one-hundred-and-twelfth president of the Association at the 1975 meeting in Chicago. The meeting was held concurrently with the sixty-third World Dental Congress of the Federation Dentaire Internationale. Doctor Shira was dean and professor of oral surgery at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. Previously he was assistant surgeon general and chief of the Army Dental Corps, with the rank of major general. He served as president of the American Society of Oral Surgeons, the American Board of Oral Surgery, and the Canal Zone Dental Association. He served as editor of the Journal Oral Surgery, …
Ada President 1899-1900: B. Holly Smith, American Dental Association
Ada President 1899-1900: B. Holly Smith, American Dental Association
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Doctor Smith, of Baltimore, was elected thirty-seventh president of the Association at the 1899 meeting at Niagara Falls. The Southern Branch of the Association met early that year in New Orleans. Doctor Smith received the D.D.S. degree in 1881 and the M.D. degree in 1883. He practiced dentistry in Baltimore for thirty-seven years. Offices he held included the presidency of the Southern Dental Association, the Maryland State Dental Association, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and the National Association of Dental Faculties. Doctor Smith's special interests included the development of a system of oral hygiene in the Baltimore public schools. …
Ada President 1879-1880: Luther Dimmick Shepard, American Dental Association
Ada President 1879-1880: Luther Dimmick Shepard, American Dental Association
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Luther Shepard Doctor Shepard, of Boston, was elected nineteenth president of the Association at the 1879 meeting at Niagara Falls. It was estimated that there were 12,000 practicing dentists in the United States at that time, and the Association voted to compile a complete directory of dentists, with the assistance of state societies. Doctor Shepard, a general practitioner, was on the dental department staff of the Harvard Medical School from 1868 until 1879. He was the first president of the Massachusetts board of dentist registration, established in 1887. Doctor Shepard was president of the World's Columbian Dental Congress held in …
Ada President 1976-1977: Frank F. Shuler, American Dental Association
Ada President 1976-1977: Frank F. Shuler, American Dental Association
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Doctor Shuler, of Clinton, Wisconsin, became the onehundred-and-thirteenth president of the Association at the 1976 meeting in Las Vegas. Major concerns of the House of Delegates included the expansion of duties of dental auxiliary personnel, dental prepayment programs and illegal dentistry. Doctor Shuler, a general practitioner, was a member of the Board of Trustees for four years and a member of the House of Delegates for five years. He served as president of the Rock County (Wisconsin) Dental Society, the Wisconsin Dental Association, and the Wisconsin Dental Service Corporation. He served on numerous committees of the Wisconsin Dental Association and …
Ada President 1918-1919: Clement Victor Vignes, American Dental Association
Ada President 1918-1919: Clement Victor Vignes, American Dental Association
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Doctor Vignes, of New Orleans, became the fifty-sixth president of the Association at the 1918 meeting in Chicago. The Transactions for that year listed more than 4,000 dental officers on active duty in the armed forces. Doctor Vignes organized the Loyola University School of Dentistry in New Orleans in 1914 and served as dean and professor of clinical dentistry for twenty-three years. Earlier, he had helped to organize the New Orleans College of Dentistry, which became the Dental School of Tulane University. He served in various offices of the New Orleans and Louisiana dental societies. He was born in Louisiana …
Ada President 1891-1892: William Wallace Walker, American Dental Association
Ada President 1891-1892: William Wallace Walker, American Dental Association
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Doctor Walker, of New York City, was elected thirty-18first president of the Association at the 1891 meeting at Saratoga Springs, New York. The scientific session that year included papers on "Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent in the Treatment of Hyperemia and Congestion of the Pulp and Peridental Membrane," "Senile Atrophy of the Upper Jaw," and ''Phagocytosis. '' Doctor Walker received the D.D.S. degree from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1884. He served as president of The Dental Society of the State of New York, the Odontological Society of New York, the First District Dental Society of New York, …
Ada President 1927-1928: Roscoe Henry Volland, American Dental Association
Ada President 1927-1928: Roscoe Henry Volland, American Dental Association
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Doctor Volland, of Iowa City, Iowa, became the sixty-fifth president of the Association at the 1927 meeting in Detroit. He was the treasurer of the Association from 1928 to 1948. Doctor Volland, dentist and physician, was a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa College of Dentistry from 1902 to 1923. From 1925 to 1944 he was a clinical professor of operative dentistry at Northwestern University Dental School. Doctor Volland served as president of the Iowa State Dental Association and the American College of Dentists. He was born in Iowa in 1877 and died in 1962.
Ada President 1938-1939: Marcus Llewellyn Ward, American Dental Association
Ada President 1938-1939: Marcus Llewellyn Ward, American Dental Association
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Doctor Ward, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, became the seventysixth president of the Association at the 193 8 meeting in St. Louis. The House of Delegates adopted a set of principles and recommendations for a national health program. Doctor Ward was dean of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry from 1916 to 1934, when he was named Jonathan Taft Professor of Dentistry and chairman of the Department of Dental Materials. He was president of the Michigan State Dental Association in 1912 and the American Association of Dental Schools in 192 5. Doctor Ward, a prolific writer, was the editor of …
Ada President 1943-1944: Charles Raymond Wells, American Dental Association
Ada President 1943-1944: Charles Raymond Wells, American Dental Association
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Doctor Wells, of Washington, D.C., became the eighty-first president of the Association at the 1943 meeting in Cincinnati. It was a business meeting only; the scientific session having been suspended for the duration of the war. After serving in the Navy Dental Corps from 1918 to 1925, Doctor Wells entered private practice in Brooklyn, New York. He served as vice president of the Dental Society of the State of New York and president of the International College of Dentists. During World War II, Doctor Wells, again on active duty as a naval officer, was the chief dental officer of the …