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Ada President 1961-1962: John Reinhart Abel, American Dental Association
Ada President 1961-1962: John Reinhart Abel, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Abel, of Los Angeles, became the ninety-eighth president of the Association at the 1961 meeting in Philadelphia. He presided over the 1962 meeting, the theme of which was "Better Dental Health in the Americas." Much of the program was simultaneously translated into Spanish and Portuguese for the benefit of the hundreds of Latin American dentists in attendance. Doctor Abel, an orthodontist, was a member of the Board of Trustees for six years. He served many years as a member of the House of Delegates. He was president and treasurer of the Southern California State Dental Association, president of the …
Ada President 1957-1958: William Robert Alstadt, American Dental Association
Ada President 1957-1958: William Robert Alstadt, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Alstadt, of Little Rock, became the ninety-fourth president of the Association at the 1957 meeting in Miami Beach. He was one of the most active presidents, speaking to dental societies in more than 40 states. Doctor Alstadt, an orthodontist, was the Twelfth District trustee from 1951 to 1956. He had been a member of the House of Delegates for several years. He was active in the American Association of Orthodontists and was a member of its Board of Directors. Doctor Alstadt served as president of the Arkansas board of dental examiners in 1949-1950. He served as a consultant to …
Ada President 1885-1886: William Clay Barrett, American Dental Association
Ada President 1885-1886: William Clay Barrett, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Barrett, of Buffalo, was elected twenty-fifth president of the Association at the I 88 5 meeting in Minneapolis. Transactions of the American Dental Association for that year listed 23 8 members, of whom 168 attended the meeting. Both the M.D. and D.D.S. degrees were conferred upon Doctor Barrett in 1880. After practicing dentistry in Buffalo, he was a professor at the University of Buffalo, at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery and at Lake Forest University. Doctor Barrett was the author of numerous articles on dentistry and dental education. He served as editor of two journals, the Independent Practitioner …
Ada President 1929-1930: Robert Boyd Bogle, American Dental Association
Ada President 1929-1930: Robert Boyd Bogle, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Bogle, of Nashville, became the sixty-seventh president of the Association at the 1929 meeting in Washington. In his presidential address the following year, Doctor Bogle said "All state society organizations should be awakened to the danger that has already developed in some sections which would recognize and legalize the taking of impressions and the making of full dentures by laboratory men.'' Doctor Bogle held both the D.D.S. and M.D. degrees. After practicing general dentistry for 23 years, he limited his practice to exodontia and radiography. He was professor of exodontia, radiography and mouth surgery at Vanderbilt School of Dentistry …
Ada President 1900-1901: Greene Vardiman Black, American Dental Association
Ada President 1900-1901: Greene Vardiman Black, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
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 1977-1978: Frank P. Bowyer, American Dental Association
Ada President 1977-1978: Frank P. Bowyer, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Bowyer, of Knoxville, Tennessee, became the onehundred-and-fourteenth president of the Association at the 1977 meeting in Miami Beach. The House of Delegates modified its policy against advertising by dentists, in accord with Supreme Court decisions. Doctor Bowyer, an orthodontist, was speaker of the House of Delegates for four years before he was chosen presidentelect. He was a member of the House of Delegates for 17 years. He served as chairman of House of Delegates reference committees and of the Council on International Relations. Doctor Bowyer served as president of the Second District (Tennessee) Dental Society, Tennessee Dental Association, Southern …
Ada President 1952-1953: Otto W. Brandhorst, American Dental Association
Ada President 1952-1953: Otto W. Brandhorst, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Brandhorst, of St. Louis, became the eighty-ninth president of the Association at the 1952 meeting in St. Louis. He had been a member of the House of Delegates and the Council on Dental Education. Doctor Brandhorst was secretary of the American College of Dentists for 3 5 years, and was its president in 1970-1971. An orthodontist, he was dean of the Washington University School of Dentistry, St. Louis, from 1945 to 1953. Doctor Brandhorst served as president of the St. Louis Dental Society and the Missouri Dental Association. He was born in Illinois in 1889 and died in 1975.
Ada President 1898-1899: Harvey Jacob Burkhart, American Dental Association
Ada President 1898-1899: Harvey Jacob Burkhart, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Burkhart, of Batavia, New York, was elected thirtysixth president of the Association at the r 898 meeting in Omaha. This was the first annual session of the National Dental Association, formed by merger of the American Dental Association and the Southern Dental Association. Doctor Burkhart was the director of the Eastman Dental Foundation from its beginning in 1916 until his death in 1946. He supervised establishment of the Eastman dental clinics in London, Paris, Brussels, Rome and Stockholm. Doctor Burkhart had also been a private practitioner and dean of the dental department of the University of Rochester. He was …
Ada President 1937-1938: C. Willard Camalier, American Dental Association
Ada President 1937-1938: C. Willard Camalier, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Camalier, of Washington, D.C., became the seventyfifth president of the Association at the 1937 meeting in Atlantic City. Doctor Camalier, a general practitioner, established the Washington office of the Association in 1946, and represented the Association to the U.S. Congress and official agencies until his retirement in 1963. During World War II he was chairman of the War Services Committee and a member of the Advisory Committee for Selective Service. Doctor Camalier served as assistant secretary of the Association and as president of the American Association of Dental Examiners and the American Academy of the History of Dentistry. He …
Ada President 1888-1889: Charles Richard Butler, American Dental Association
Ada President 1888-1889: Charles Richard Butler, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Butler, of Cleveland, was elected twenty-eighth president of the Association at the 1888 meeting in Louisville. This was a joint meeting with the Southern Dental Association. Doctor Butler had been first vice president of the Association in 1887-1888. He was a doctor of medicine as well as a dentist. He served as president of the Ohio State Dental Society and the Cleveland Dental Society. He was born in Ohio in 1832 and died in 1914.
Ada President 1884-1885: John Nathan Crouse, American Dental Association
Ada President 1884-1885: John Nathan Crouse, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Crouse, of Chicago, was elected twenty-fourth president of the Association at the 1884 meeting at Saratoga Springs, New York. Doctor Crouse received the D.D.S. degree from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1867. He served as president of the Illinois and Chicago dental societies and of the National (Southern) Dental Association. Doctor Crouse was the founder and president of the Dental Protective Association and publisher of the Dental Digest. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1842 and died in 1914.
Ada President 1871-1872: George Hoppin Cushing, American Dental Association
Ada President 1871-1872: George Hoppin Cushing, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Cushing, of Chicago, was elected eleventh president of the Association at the 1871 meeting at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. As chairman of the Committee on Dental Literature, he delivered an extensive report, citing the recent "marked improvement" in dental journals. Doctor Cushing was one of the founders, and twice president, of the Illinois State Dental Society. He also served as president of the Chicago Dental Society and the Chicago Odontological Society. He was recording secretary of the American Dental Association from 1878 to 1883 and from 1885 until his death in 1900. Doctor Cushing was born in Providence, …
Ada President 1874-1875: Mason Stillman Dean, American Dental Association
Ada President 1874-1875: Mason Stillman Dean, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Dean, of Chicago, was elected fourteenth president of the Association at the 1874 meeting in Detroit. He had served as recording secretary of the Association since 1869. Doctor Dean practiced dentistry in Canada, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. He was president of the Illinois State Dental Society, of which he was one of the founders, in 1869, and was twice elected president of the Chicago Dental Society. He was born in Vermont in 1825 and died in 1882.
Ada President 1919-1920: John Vander Bie Conzett, American Dental Association
Ada President 1919-1920: John Vander Bie Conzett, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Conzett, of Dubuque, Iowa, became the fifty-seventh president of the Association at the 1919 meeting in New Orleans. In his presidential address, Doctor Conzett spoke of the "tremendous burden of responsibility" placed on the dental profession by the development of the concept of focal infection in medicine. Doctor Conzett was president of the Iowa State Dental Society in 1905. He served as chairman of the National Board of Dental Examiners for many years. He was active as a lecturer and clinician in dental study clubs and was the author of many articles in the dental literature. Doctor Conzett was …
Ada President 1932-1933: George Walter Dittmar, American Dental Association
Ada President 1932-1933: George Walter Dittmar, American Dental Association
ADA Presidents 1860-1979
Doctor Dittmar, of Chicago, became the seventieth president of the Association at the 1932 meeting in Buffalo. Doctor Dittmar was a member of the faculty of the dental department of the University of Illinois, first as an associate professor of operative techniques and later as professor and head of the department of prosthetic dentistry. He was elected president of the Chicago Dental Society in 1911 and the Illinois State Dental Society in 1920. Doctor Dittmar was chairman of the Judicial Council of the American Dental Association for five years. He was born in Illinois in 1872 and died in 1949.
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 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 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 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 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.