The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (NHCAMA) was founded in 1866 and located in Hanover, NH for the purpose of sharing faculty and facilities with Dartmouth College. Each college, however, retained its own separate identity.

The NHCAMA was governed by a Board of Trustees that had a president, but there was no elected president of the College until it was removed to Durham in 1893. The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts became the University of New Hampshire in 1923.

Date	Name	Title
1866-1877	Asa Dodge Smith	Pres. of the Board of Trustees
1877-1890	George W. Nesmith	Pres. of the Board of Trustees
1890-1893	Lyman Stevens	Pres. of the Board of Trustees
1893-1903	Charles S. Murkland	1st President
1903	Charles H. Pettee	Interim
1903-1912	William D. Gibbs	2nd President
1912	Charles H. Pettee	Interim
1912- d 1/23/17	Edward Thomas Fairchild	3rd President
1917	Charles H. Pettee	Interim
1917-1927	Ralph Dorn Hetzel	4th President
1927	Adrian A. Morse	Interim
1927- d 5/24/36	Edward M. Lewis	5th President
1936-1937	Roy D. Hunter	Interim
1937- d 2/3/44	Fred Engelhardt	6th President
1944-1947	Harold Stoke	7th President
1947	Frank W. Randall	Interim
1947-1948	Lauren E. Seeley	Interim
1948-1950	Arthur S. Adams	8th President
1950-1954	Robert F. Chandler	9th President
1954-1955	Edward D. Eddy, Jr.	Interim
1955-1961	Eldon L. Johnson	10th President
1961-1962	John F. Reed	Interim
1962-1963	Jere Chase	Interim
1963-1971	John W. McConnell	11th President
1971-1974	Thomas N. Bonner	12th President
1974-1979	Eugene S. Mills	13th President
1979-1980	Jere Chase	Interim
1980-1983	Evelyn Handler	14th President
1983	Gordon A. Haaland	Interim
1983-1990	Gordon A. Haaland	15th President
1990	Gus Kinnear	Interim
1990-1994	Dale Nitzschke	16th President
1994-1995	Thomas Fairchild	Interim
1995-1996	Walter Peterson	Interim
1996-2002	Joan Lietzel	17th President
2002-2006	Ann Weaver Hart	18th President
2006-2007	J. Bonnie Newman	Interim
2007-	Mark Huddleston	19th President