List of presidents of Clemson University

The president acts as the school's chief executive officer, reporting to the board, and is tasked with providing leadership to the faculty and students, and represents the institution in public.

[1] The institution's first president was Henry Aubrey Strode, appointed in 1890,[2] and its 15th and current is James P. Clements, who assumed office in 2013.

Robert Cook Edwards had the longest tenure at 21 years,[4] and Walter T. Cox Jr. had the shortest at eight months.

Walter Riggs, already a professor at the university, chose to remain in his house upon becoming president.

Following his death, presidents Sikes and Poole also lived in the Riggs house.