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PRESIDENTS OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE, 1789 – PRESENT
Vice President; Edward Miller, MD, Secretary; and James Sykes, MD, Treasurer. Dr. Tilton remained President of the Society until his
YEAR
1789-1822 1822-1823 1823-1824 1824-1828 1828-1829 1829-1830 1830-1832 1832-1834 1834-1835 1835-1841 1841-1842 1843-1845
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
NAME
First President – James Tilton, MD (served until his death) James Sykes, MD (died October 18, 1822)
Arnold Naudian, MD (MSD met on May 13, 1823 and had elections) Allen McLane, MD
Arnold Naudian, MD (2nd term)
Allen McLane, MD (2nd term)
James Pemberton Lofland, MD
William Winder Morris, MD
Joshua Franklin Vaughan, MD (deceased 1834)
James Couper, Jr., MD (served as VP of the AMA in 1840) James W. Thompson, MD
James Couper, Jr., MD (2nd term)
James Tilton, MD
First President
William Winder Morris, MD (2nd term)
Dr./Reverend John Day Perkins, MD
Henry Ford Askew, MD (President of AMA, founder of Historical Soc. of DE)
James Rogers Mitchell, MD
John Merritt, MD
Isaac N. Jump, MD (President of First National Bank of Dover, State Senator)
Robert Robinson Porter, MD
Edward D. Dailey, MD
Lewis Potter Bush, MD
Honorable Gove Saulsbury, MD (April 1861 US engaged in Civil War. He also served as State Senator and Governor)
1862-1863 23 1863-1864 24 1864-1865 25
James Franklin Wilson, MD
William N. Hamilton, MD
James Couper, Jr., MD (3rd term, deceased Aug. 12, 1865)
Nancy Fan, MD
First Female Asian-American President
Albert Whiteley, MD
James A. Draper, MD (one of the founders of Delaware Hospital)
Charles Henry Richards, MD
John W. Sharp, MD
William Marshall, MD (1882, appointed Secretary of State Board of Health)
Irving Spence Vallandigham, MD
James Emery Clawson, MD
Robert Griffith Ellegood, MD (President of Sussex County Medical Society)
Swithin Chandler, MD
Nathan Pratt, MD (DE Insurance Commissioner)
Henry Ford Askew, MD (2nd term, deceased March 5, 1876) John Janvier Black, MD
William T. Collins, MD
Hiram Rodney Burton, MD
John Kintzing Kane, MD
Ezekiel Dawson, MD
David Hall, MD
Howard Ogle, MD
Robert Whittaker Hargadine, MD
Charles Henry Richards, MD (2nd term)
1845-1849 1849-1851
13 14
1865-1866 26 1866-1867 27
1867-1868 28 1868-1869 29
1869-1870 30
1870-1871 31 1871-1872 32
1872-1873 33
1873-1874 34 1874-1875 35 1875-1876 36 1876-1877 37 1877-1878 38 1878-1879 39 1879-1880 40 1880-1881 41 1881-1882 42 1882-1883 43 1883-1884 44 1884-1885 45
1851-1855 15
1855-1856 1856-1857
16 17
1857-1858 18
1858-1859 1859-1860 1860-1861
19 20 21
1861-1862 22
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