An official portrait for each of the former Presidents of UNB hangs in the Great Hall of Sir Howard Douglas Hall (Old Arts Building).
Images courtesy of Joy Cummings-Dickinson and Rob Blanchard.
James Somerville - Term of Office 1820-1828
- Painted by Albert Gallatin Hoit (1838)
- Biographical Sketch
Edwin Jacob - Term of Office 1829-1859
- Painted by Charles MacGregor
- Biographical Sketch
Joseph R. Hea - Term of Office 1860-1861
- Painted by Lucy Jarvis
- Biographical Sketch
William Brydone Jack - Term of Office 1861-1885
- Painted by J.W.L. Forster [John Wycliffe Lowes Forster]
- Biographical Sketch
Thomas Harrison - Term of Office 1885-1906
- Painted by Charles MacGregor
- Biographical Sketch
Cecil Charles Jones - Term of Office 1906-1940
- Painted by Charles MacGregor
- Biographical Sketch
Norman A.M. MacKenzie - Term of Office 1940-1944
- Painted by Charles MacGregor
- Biographical Sketch
Milton F. Gregg - Term of Office 1944-1947
- Painted by Lilias Torrance Newton
- Biographical Sketch
Albert W. Trueman - Term of Office 1948-1953
- Painted by Lilias Torrance Newton
- Biographical Sketch
Colin B. Mackay - Term of Office 1953-1969
- Painted by Lucy Jarvis
- Biographical Sketch
James O. Dineen - Term of Office 1970-1972
- Painted by Thomas Reid (T.R.) MacDonald
- Biographical Sketch
Desmond Pacey - Acting President 1972
- Painted by Bruno Bobak
- Biographical Sketch
John M. Anderson - Term of Office 1973-1980
- Painted by Marjory Donaldson
- Biographical Sketch
James Downey - Term of Office 1980-1990
- Painted by Christian Nicholson
- Biographical Sketch
Robin L. Armstrong - Term of Office 1990-1996
- Painted by Fred Ross
- Biographical Sketch
Elizabeth Parr-Johnston - Term of Office 1996-2002
- Painted by Stephen Scott
- Biographical Sketch
John McLaughlin - Term of Office 2002-2009
- Painted by Stephen May
- Biographical Sketch
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