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Ada President 1878-1879: Henry James Byron Mckellops, American Dental Association
Ada President 1878-1879: Henry James Byron Mckellops, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1911-1912: Arthur Rice Melendy, American Dental Association
Ada President 1911-1912: Arthur Rice Melendy, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Melendy, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was elected fortyninth president of the Association at the 1911 meeting in Cleveland. He was treasurer of the Association from 1905 to 1911 and from 1915 to 1928. Doctor Melendy was president of the Tennessee State Dental Association in 1901 and president of the Southern Branch of the National Dental Association in 1908. He served on many committees and commissions and was active in international dental affairs. He was born in Vermont in 1859 and died in 1928.
Ada President 1864-1865: John Hugh Mcquillen, American Dental Association
Ada President 1864-1865: John Hugh Mcquillen, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1948-1949: Clyde Estes Minges, American Dental Association
Ada President 1948-1949: Clyde Estes Minges, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1902-1903: Llewellyn Garnet Noel, American Dental Association
Ada President 1902-1903: Llewellyn Garnet Noel, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1936-1937: Leroy Matthew Simpson Miner, American Dental Association
Ada President 1936-1937: Leroy Matthew Simpson Miner, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1870-1871: William Henry Morgan, American Dental Association
Ada President 1870-1871: William Henry Morgan, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1941-1942: Oren Austin Oliver, American Dental Association
Ada President 1941-1942: Oren Austin Oliver, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1950-1951: Harold Whinery Oppice, American Dental Association
Ada President 1950-1951: Harold Whinery Oppice, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Oppice, of Chicago, became the eighty-seventh president of the Association at the 1950 meeting in Atlantic City. In 1951, a delegation of five members, including Doctor Oppice, participated in the American Dental Association "Mission to Japan" and made suggestions for the improvement of Japanese dentistry after World War II. Doctor Oppice, a general practitioner, taught at Loyola University School of Dentistry for 27 years. He served the Association for many years as a delegate and a trustee. He was president of the Chicago Dental Society in 1944 and served as editor of the Illinois State Dental Journal. Doctor Oppice …
Ada President 1960-1961: Charles Heston Patton, American Dental Association
Ada President 1960-1961: Charles Heston Patton, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1964-1965: Fritz Arthur Pierson, American Dental Association
Ada President 1964-1965: Fritz Arthur Pierson, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1958-1959: Percy Toumine Phillips, American Dental Association
Ada President 1958-1959: Percy Toumine Phillips, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Phillips, of New York City, became the ninety-fifth president of the Association at the 1958 meeting in Dallas. Doctor Phillips had been the first speaker of the House of Delegates, serving in that position in 1949-1951. Doctor Phillips, a general practitioner, was a member of the Board of Trustees from 1951 to 1957. He was a member of the House of Delegates for thirty-nine consecutive years. He served as president of the first District Dental Society and the Bronx County Dental Society and as secretary of The Dental Society of the State of New York. Doctor Phillips served on …
Ada President 1940-1941: Wilfred H. Robinson, American Dental Association
Ada President 1940-1941: Wilfred H. Robinson, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 …
Ada President 1942-1943: J. Ben Robinson, American Dental Association
Ada President 1942-1943: J. Ben Robinson, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1975-1976: Robert B. Shira, American Dental Association
Ada President 1975-1976: Robert B. Shira, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1976-1977: Frank F. Shuler, American Dental Association
Ada President 1976-1977: Frank F. Shuler, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1881-1882: Henry A. Smith, American Dental Association
Ada President 1881-1882: Henry A. Smith, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Smith, of Cincinnati, was elected twenty-first president of the Association at the 1881 meeting in New York City. The meeting was held a month earlier than usual so that members could accept an invitation to the International Medical Congress meeting in London. The invitation was considered a breakthrough for the profession of dentistry. Doctor Smith was dean of the Ohio College of Dental Surgery for more than 30 years. During most of this time he also practiced dentistry in Cincinnati. He was born at Oxford, Ohio, in 1832 and died in 1913.
Ada President 1865-1866: Christopher Waterman Spalding, American Dental Association
Ada President 1865-1866: Christopher Waterman Spalding, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1899-1900: B. Holly Smith, American Dental Association
Ada President 1899-1900: B. Holly Smith, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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: 1868-1869 Jonathan Taft, American Dental Association
Ada President: 1868-1869 Jonathan Taft, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1909-1910: Burton Lee Thorpe, American Dental Association
Ada President 1909-1910: Burton Lee Thorpe, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1908-1909: Vines Edmunds Turner, American Dental Association
Ada President 1908-1909: Vines Edmunds Turner, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1962-1963: Gerald Desmond Timmons, American Dental Association
Ada President 1962-1963: Gerald Desmond Timmons, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1927-1928: Roscoe Henry Volland, American Dental Association
Ada President 1927-1928: Roscoe Henry Volland, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1896-1897: James Truman, American Dental Association
Ada President 1896-1897: James Truman, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1918-1919: Clement Victor Vignes, American Dental Association
Ada President 1918-1919: Clement Victor Vignes, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1938-1939: Marcus Llewellyn Ward, American Dental Association
Ada President 1938-1939: Marcus Llewellyn Ward, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1862-1863: George Watt, American Dental Association
Ada President 1862-1863: George Watt, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 …