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Ada President 1866-1867: Chauncy P. Fitch, American Dental Association
Ada President 1866-1867: Chauncy P. Fitch, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1889-1890: Matthew Whildin Foster, American Dental Association
Ada President 1889-1890: Matthew Whildin Foster, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1925-1926: Sheppard W. Foster, American Dental Association
Ada President 1925-1926: Sheppard W. Foster, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1953-1954: Leslie Maurice Fitzgerald, American Dental Association
Ada President 1953-1954: Leslie Maurice Fitzgerald, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1920-1921: H. Edmund Friesell, American Dental Association
Ada President 1920-1921: H. Edmund Friesell, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1931-1932: Martin Dewey, American Dental Association
Ada President 1931-1932: Martin Dewey, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1966-1967: William Andrew Garrett, American Dental Association
Ada President 1966-1967: William Andrew Garrett, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1923-1924: William A. Giffen, American Dental Association
Ada President 1923-1924: William A. Giffen, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Giffen, of Detroit, became the sixty-first president of the Association at the 1923 meeting in Cleveland. There were 196 members of the House of Delegates and nine trustees. Doctor Giffen was in general practice in Detroit. He was recognized as an expert in denture construction. Doctor Giffen served as president of the Detroit Dental Society, the Michigan State Dental Society, and the Michigan State Board of Dental Examiners. He was born in Canada in 1866 and died in 1929
Ada President 1882-1883: William Henry Goddard, American Dental Association
Ada President 1882-1883: William Henry Goddard, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Goddard, of Louisville, was elected twenty-second president of the Association at the 1882 meeting in Cincinnati. He had served as treasurer since 1867. Doctor Goddard was born in Massachusetts in 1808 and died during his term as president, on March 4, 1883. An obituary in the 1883 edition of Transactions of the American Dental Association included the following: "In his profession he strove to be abreast of the times. Honors came to him unsought; and whatever station in life he occupied or whatever trusts he administered, he was honest and faithful.''
Ada President 1921-1922: Thomas B. Hartzell, American Dental Association
Ada President 1921-1922: Thomas B. Hartzell, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1915-1916: Thomas Philip Hinman, American Dental Association
Ada President 1915-1916: Thomas Philip Hinman, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1963-1964: James Porter Hollers, American Dental Association
Ada President 1963-1964: James Porter Hollers, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Hollers, of San Antonio, became the one hundredth president of the Association at the 1963 meeting in Atlantic City. Doctor Hollers was a member of the House of Delegates in 1949-1953 and again in 1956-1962. He was president of the Texas Dental Association in 1959-1960 and the San Antonio District Dental Society in 1955. He served in both World War I and World War II, and later was a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. Doctor Hollers served as president of the San Antonio Board of Education and the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. He was chairman and …
Ada President 1965-1966: Maynard Kiplinger Hine, American Dental Association
Ada President 1965-1966: Maynard Kiplinger Hine, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1959-1960: Paul Harold Jeserich, American Dental Association
Ada President 1959-1960: Paul Harold Jeserich, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1872-1873: Phineas George Canning Hunt, American Dental Association
Ada President 1872-1873: Phineas George Canning Hunt, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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.
Ada President 1876-1877: George Watt Keely, American Dental Association
Ada President 1876-1877: George Watt Keely, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Keely, of Oxford, Ohio, was elected sixteenth president of the Association at the 1876 meeting in Philadelphia. The Transactions of the American Dental Association for that year listed 145 dues-paying members. Only eight were from states west of the Mississippi River: three each from Missouri and California and one each from Iowa and Minnesota. Attendance was 130. Doctor Keely was a trustee of the Ohio College of Dental Surgery for 20 years, served as president of the Ohio State Dental Society, and was treasurer of the American Dental Association from 1882 until his death in 1887. He was born …
Ada President 1924-1925: Charles Nelson Johnson, American Dental Association
Ada President 1924-1925: Charles Nelson Johnson, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1869-1870: Homer Judd, American Dental Association
Ada President 1869-1870: Homer Judd, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1974-1975: Lynden M. Kennedy, American Dental Association
Ada President 1974-1975: Lynden M. Kennedy, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1969-1970: Harry M. Klenda, American Dental Association
Ada President 1969-1970: Harry M. Klenda, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Klenda, of Wichita, Kansas, became the one-hundredand-sixth president of the Association at the 1969 meeting in New York City. This was a joint meeting with the Federation Dentaire Internationale. Doctor Klenda, a general practitioner, served as president of the Kansas Dental Association, the Seventh District Dental Society, the Wichita Dental Society, and the American Academy of Dental Practice Administration. He was a member of the ADA Council on Dental Trade and Laboratory Relations for several years. Doctor Klenda was widely known as a lecturer on dental practice management. He was born in Kansas in 1907 and died in 1971.
Ada President 1971-1972: Carl A. Laughlin, American Dental Association
Ada President 1971-1972: Carl A. Laughlin, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1867-1868: Ambrose Lawrence, American Dental Association
Ada President 1867-1868: Ambrose Lawrence, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1901-1902: James Addison Libbey, American Dental Association
Ada President 1901-1902: James Addison Libbey, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1917-1918: William Hoffman Gardiner Logan, American Dental Association
Ada President 1917-1918: William Hoffman Gardiner Logan, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Logan, of Chicago, was elected to the new office of president-elect in 1916 and became the fifty-fifth president of the Association at the 1917 meeting in New York City. This was the first annual meeting of the Association to be held as late as October. Doctor Logan served as president of the Chicago Dental Society, the Illinois State Dental Society, the Federation Dentaire Internationale, and the Seventh International Dental Congress which was held in Philadelphia in 1926. He was a professor of oral surgery and later dean of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. Doctor Logan held a medical …
Ada President 1954-1955: Daniel Francis Lynch, American Dental Association
Ada President 1954-1955: Daniel Francis Lynch, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 …