Distinguished:
Presidents of Dakota State University
1883 - Present Day
- Professor Charles S. Richardson, President (1883-87)
- William F. Gorrie, President (1887-1889)
- General William Henry Harrison Beadle, President (1889-1905)
- Professor William W. Girton, Acting President (1901-02)
- John W. Heston, President (1905-20)
- Bela Malcom Lawrence, Acting President (Feb-July, 1920)
- Edgar Creighton Higbie, President (1920-31)
- E.A. Bixler, Acting President (1931-33).
- Vayne Arnold Lowry, President (1933-62)
- Dr. Laurence Samuel Flaum, President (1962-67)
- Dr. Harry Pitkin Bowes, President (1967-71)
- Dr. Allen R. Millar, Acting President (1971-72)
- Dr. Francis Gordon Foster, President (1972-74)
- 1974-1978 DSC was a branch of USD
- Dr. Richard Bowen, President (1974-1976)
- Dr. Robert H. DeZonia, Acting President (1976-77)
- Dr. Carrol Krause, Provost
- Dr. Charles Lein, President (1977-78)
- Dr. Carleton M. Opgaard, President (1978-83)
- Charles Luke, President (1983-84)
- Dr. Richard J. Gowen, President (1984-87)
- Dr. Jerald A. Tunheim, President (1987-2004)
- Dr. Douglas D. Knowlton, President (2004-Present Day)
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