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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 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 …
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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 1943-1944: Charles Raymond Wells, American Dental Association
Ada President 1943-1944: Charles Raymond Wells, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 …
Ada President 1947-1948: Harvey Benson Washburn, American Dental Association
Ada President 1947-1948: Harvey Benson Washburn, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Washburn, of St. Paul, became the eighty-fourth president of the Association at the 1947 meeting in Boston. A scientific session was held for the first time since 1941. The Tenth International Dental Congress was held in conjunction with this meeting. Doctor Washburn was a member of the Board of Trustees from 1940 to 1946 and was Association treasurer from 1949 to 1961. He served as president of the St. Paul District Dental Society and the Minnesota State Dental Association. A general practitioner, Doctor Washburn was a guest teacher at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry. He was born …
Ada President 1933-1934: Arthur Cornelius Wherry, American Dental Association
Ada President 1933-1934: Arthur Cornelius Wherry, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Wherry, of Salt Lake City, became the seventy-first president of the Association at the 1933 meeting in Chicago. The Chicago Centennial Dental Congress was held in conjunction with this meeting. Doctor Wherry served as president of the Salt Lake County Dental Society and the Utah State Dental Association. He was a member of a committee of past presidents that went to Europe to study social insurance systems. Active in civic affairs, he was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Utah in 1929. He was born in 1880 and died in 1944.
Ada President 1973-1974: Carlton H. Williams, American Dental Association
Ada President 1973-1974: Carlton H. Williams, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Williams, of San Diego, became the one-hundred-andtenth president of the Association at the 1973 meeting in Houston. The House of Delegates voted to establish the Commission on Accreditation of Dental and Dental Auxiliary Educational Programs, effective January 1, 1975. Doctor Williams was speaker of the House of Delegates from 1967 to 1972, after serving as a member of the House for 12 years. A general practitioner, Doctor Williams was president of the San Diego Dental Society in 1946, the Southern California Dental Association in 1959, and California Dental Service in 1961. He was a guest lecturer at the University …
Ada President 1906-1907: Adelbert Henry Peck, American Dental Association
Ada President 1906-1907: Adelbert Henry Peck, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1892-1894: John Deans Patterson, American Dental Association
Ada President 1892-1894: John Deans Patterson, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1880-1881: Cyrus Newlin Peirce, American Dental Association
Ada President 1880-1881: Cyrus Newlin Peirce, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1914-1915: Donald Mackay Gallie, American Dental Association
Ada President 1914-1915: Donald Mackay Gallie, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Callie, of Chicago, was elected fifty-second president of the Association at the 1914 meeting in Rochester, New York. The reorganization of 1913 resulted in an increase in membership from 793 in 1913 to 12,494 in 1914. Doctor Gallie was professor and head of the department of operative dentistry at the University of Illinois College of Dentistry from 1903 to 1932. He served as president of the Illinois State Dental Society, the Chicago Dental Society and the American Dental Teachers Association. Doctor Callie was prominent as a clinician, author and lecturer. He was born in Canada in 1866 and died …
Ada President 1879-1880: Luther Dimmick Shepard, American Dental Association
Ada President 1879-1880: Luther Dimmick Shepard, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1939-1940: Arthur Hastings Merritt, American Dental Association
Ada President 1939-1940: Arthur Hastings Merritt, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1930-1931: Robert Todd Oliver, American Dental Association
Ada President 1930-1931: Robert Todd Oliver, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 …