List of chancellors of the University of Denver * David Hastings Moore (October 1880 – June 1889) * William Fraser McDowell (1890 – June 1899) * Henry Augustus Buchtel (December 1899 – September 1920) * Heber Reece Harper (November 1922 – January 1927) * (July 1928 – September 1935) * (September 1935 – March 1941) * Caleb Frank Gates (March 1941 – November 1943) * Ben Mark Cherrington (November 1943 – February 1946) * Caleb Frank Gates (February 1946 – August 1947) * James F. Price (April–October 1948) * Alfred Clarence Nelson, interim (October 1948 – November 1949) * Albert Charles Jacobs (November 1949 – March 1953) * Chester M. Alter (August 1953 – July 1966) * Maurice Bernard Mitchell (September 1967 – March 1978) * Ross Pritchard (October 1978 – January 1984) * Dwigh