The president of Columbia University is the chief executive of Columbia University in New York City.
The President's House (1862–1897) at Columbia's Midtown campus
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George Clinton by Ezra Ames
William Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson was a clergyman, educator, linguist, encyclopedist, historian, and philosopher in colonial America. He was a major proponent of both Anglicanism and the philosophies of William Wollasto
"An attempt to land a bishop in America", an illustrated cartoon in the Political Register in 1768
Samuel Johnson by John Smybert, a member of the George Berkeley Group in Rhode Island that Johnson met with between 1729 and 1731
Portrait of Johnson as Columbia University president from 1754 to 1763, now housed in the Columbia Trustees Room