As the flagship Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, Southern has long supplied the Convention with able leaders. Listed below are SBC Presidents associated with Southern either as students or professors. Prior to 1932, each newly-elected SBC president presided over convention business immediately after the announcement of his election, and the following year’s meeting traditionally opened under the moderation of the previously-elected president until the new president secured a majority of ballots.

James P. Boyce
1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1888
Edwin C. Dargan
1911-1914 (term served); 1911, 1912, 1913 (elected)
E. Y. Mullins
1921-1924 (term served); 1921, 1922, 1923 (elected)
George W. McDaniel
1924-1927 (term served); 1924, 1925, 1926 (elected)
William J. McGlothlin
1930-1932 (term served); 1930, 1931 (elected)
Fred F. Brown
1932 (elected); [withdrew from 1933 convention duties due to illness]
John R. Sampey
1935-1938 (term served); 1935, 1936, 1937 (elected)
William Wistar Hamilton
1940-1942 (served); 1940, 1941 (elected)
Casper Carl Warren
1955-1957 (served); 1955, 1956 (elected)
Herschel H. Hobbs
1961-1963 (term served); 1961, 1962 (elected)
K. Owen White
1963-1964 (term served); 1963 (elected)
Wayne Dehoney
1964-1966 (term served); 1964, 1965 (elected)
H. Franklin Paschall
1966-1968 (term served); 1966, 1967 (elected)
W. A. Criswell
1968-1970 (term served); 1968, 1969 (elected)
Carl E. Bates
1970-1972 (term served); 1970, 1971 (elected)
James L. Sullivan
1976-1977 (term served); 1976 (elected)
James G. Merritt
2000-2002 (served); 2000, 2001 (elected)
Bryant Wright
2010-2012 (served); 2010, 2011 (elected)
Ed Litton
2021-2022 (served); 2021 (elected)

Sources:
The Tie, Fall 2002
SBC Annuals, 1845-present
SBC Presidents, Baptist Press/SBC Life compilation by Andy Beachum and Rebecca Wolford, 2014.
Ergun and Emir Caner, eds. The Sacred Desk: Sermons of the Southern Baptist Convention Presidents (Broadman and Holman, 2004).

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