Richard Henry Jesse, 1891 - 1908
Richard Jesse was one of the two youngest men to take this office so far. At the age of 38, he oversaw the rebuilding of Academic Hall after the fire in 1892, and during that same year six new buildings were added to the campus: The Law Building (Sociology) a chemistry building (Pickard Hall), a biology, geology and museum building (Swallow Hall), a physics and engineering building (Engineering East/Lafferre Hall), and a power plant.
MU's main administrative building, Jesse Hall, is named in his honor.
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