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Ada President 1952-1953: Otto W. Brandhorst, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1952-1953: Otto W. Brandhorst, American Dental Association

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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.

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Ada President 1898-1899: Harvey Jacob Burkhart, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1898-1899: Harvey Jacob Burkhart, American Dental Association

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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 …

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Ada President 1937-1938: C. Willard Camalier, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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 …

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Ada President 1888-1889: Charles Richard Butler, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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.

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Ada President 1978-1979: Joseph P. Cappuccio, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1978-1979: Joseph P. Cappuccio, American Dental Association

ADA Presidents 1860-1979

Doctor Cappuccio of Baltimore became the one-hundred-and-fifteenth president of the Association at the 1978 meeting in Las Vegas. Major issues during Doctor Cappuccio's term included institutional advertising, revision of the Association's Principles of Ethics, "denturism," and improving access to dental care for underserved groups. Doctor Cappuccio was born in New Jersey in 1921. An oral surgeon, he was a member of the House of Delegates for 18 years and a member of the Board of Trustees from 1971 until 1977. He also was a member of the Council on Relief and a director of the American Fund for Dental Health. …

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Ada President 1903-1904: Charles C. Chittenden, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1903-1904: Charles C. Chittenden, American Dental Association

ADA Presidents 1860-1979

Doctor Chittenden, of Wisconsin, was elected forty-first president of the Association at the 1903 meeting at Asheville, North Carolina. The program included a paper on "A Plea for the Abandonment of Vulcanite for Base Plates." Doctor Chittenden was active in the National Association of Dental Examiners, advocating higher dental educational standards. He was mainly responsible for enactment of the first Wisconsin dental practice act and was president of the Wisconsin dental board for many years. Doctor Chittenden was one of the founders and several times president of the Wisconsin State Dental Society. He was born in New York in 1842 …

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Ada President 1907-1908: William Carr, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1907-1908: William Carr, American Dental Association

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Doctor Carr, of New York City, was elected forty-fifth president of the Association at the 1907 meeting in Minneapolis. In his presidential address the following year, Doctor Carr deplored the lack of interstate recognition of dental licenses and said the main barrier to such recognition was the variation in pre-dental educational requirements. Doctor Carr, dentist and physician, practiced dentistry in New York City. Later, he was dean of the College of Dental and Oral Surgery of New York, which, largely through his efforts, became the Dental School of Columbia University in 1923. He was active and influential in the elevation …

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Ada President 1934-1935: Frank Monroe Casto, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1934-1935: Frank Monroe Casto, American Dental Association

ADA Presidents 1860-1979

Doctor Casto, of Cleveland, became the seventy-second president of the Association at the 1934 meeting in St. Paul. One of the matters discussed at the meeting was the widespread practice of radio advertising by dentists. Doctor Casto, a graduate of the Angle School of Orthodontia, established an orthodontic clinic at the Ohio State University Dental School. He practiced orthodontics in Cleveland and Columbus. At Western Reserve University Dental School, he was professor of orthodontics from 1904 to 1937 and dean from 1917 to 1937. He served as president of the American Society of Orthodontists in 1909. He was born in …

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Ada President 1884-1885: John Nathan Crouse, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1884-1885: John Nathan Crouse, American Dental Association

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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.

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Ada President 1871-1872: George Hoppin Cushing, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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, …

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Ada President 1874-1875: Mason Stillman Dean, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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.

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Ada President 1970-1971: John Michael Deines, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1970-1971: John Michael Deines, American Dental Association

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Doctor Deines, of Seattle, became the one-hundred-and­seventh-president of the Association at the 1970 meeting in Las Vegas. The House of Delegates adopted a statement on the "25th Anniversary of Fluoridation," saying "The American Dental Association urges state legislatures and public officials and agencies involved in health planning or care programs to give the highest priority to implementing fluoridation without further delay." Doctor Deines, a general practitioner, was a member of the House of Delegates from 1956 to 1963; he then served six years as a member of the Board of Trustees. He also served the Association as a member of …

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Ada President 1883-1884: Edwin Tyler Darby, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1883-1884: Edwin Tyler Darby, American Dental Association

ADA Presidents 1860-1979

Doctor Darby, of Philadelphia, was elected twenty-third president of the Association at the 1883 meeting in Niagara Falls. In his presidential address the following year, Doctor Darby reviewed developments in the profession since the Association was organized in 1859: the number of dentists increased from less than 4,000 to more than 12,000; the number of dental colleges, including dental departments of universities, increased from three to twenty; the number of states with laws regulating the practice of dentistry was twenty in 1884 compared to none in 1859. Doctor Darby was elected president of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society in 1875. …

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Ada President 1919-1920: John Vander Bie Conzett, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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 …

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Ada President 1897-1898: Thomas Fillebrown, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1897-1898: Thomas Fillebrown, American Dental Association

ADA Presidents 1860-1979

Doctor Fillebrown, of Boston, was elected thirty-fifth president of the Association at the 1897 meeting at Old Point Comfort, Virginia. This was a joint meeting of the American Dental Association and the Southern Dental Association, the purpose of which was to plan a merger of the two associations. Doctor Fillebrown, dentist and physician, was a professor of operative dentistry and oral surgery at the Harvard University dental school for 21 years. Author of Textbook on Operative Dentistry, he wrote extensively for dental journals on such subjects as oral surgery, cleft lip, cleft palate, hypnosis, anesthesia, the physiology of speech, and …

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Ada President 1932-1933: George Walter Dittmar, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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.

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Ada President 1951-1952: Leroy Massey Ennis, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1951-1952: Leroy Massey Ennis, American Dental Association

ADA Presidents 1860-1979

Doctor Ennis, of Philadelphia, became the eighty-eighth president of the Association at the 1951 meeting in Washington. In his presidential address at the 1952 meeting, Doctor Ennis spoke of the rapid institution of fluoridation of public water supplies since it was approved by the House of Delegates in 1950. Doctor Ennis was a professor and chairman of the department of radiology for over 40 years at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. He was the author of a textbook, Dental Roentgenology, and was a founder and president of the American Academy of Dental Radiology. Doctor Ennis served as …

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Ada President 1866-1867: Chauncy P. Fitch, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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 …

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Ada President 1889-1890: Matthew Whildin Foster, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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.

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Ada President 1925-1926: Sheppard W. Foster, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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.

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Ada President 1953-1954: Leslie Maurice Fitzgerald, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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 …

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Ada President 1920-1921: H. Edmund Friesell, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1920-1921: H. Edmund Friesell, American Dental Association

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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.

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Ada President 1931-1932: Martin Dewey, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1931-1932: Martin Dewey, American Dental Association

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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 …

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Ada President 1966-1967: William Andrew Garrett, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1966-1967: William Andrew Garrett, American Dental Association

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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 …

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Ada President 1910-1911: Edward Sanford Gaylord, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1910-1911: Edward Sanford Gaylord, American Dental Association

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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.

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Ada President 1923-1924: William A. Giffen, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1923-1924: William A. Giffen, American Dental Association

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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

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Ada President 1882-1883: William Henry Goddard, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1882-1883: William Henry Goddard, American Dental Association

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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.''

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Ada President 1921-1922: Thomas B. Hartzell, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1921-1922: Thomas B. Hartzell, American Dental Association

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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 …

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Ada President 1912-1913: Frank O. Hetrick, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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.

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Ada President 1915-1916: Thomas Philip Hinman, American Dental Association Jan 1977

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 …

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