back to their country.
1975: Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter speaks to Millsaps students about the crisis in the Middle East.
1988: Millsaps initiates the first campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity in Mississippi.
1989: Millsaps becomes the first school in Mississippi to have a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
2025: Millsaps fires tenured professor James E. Bowley for expressing his political opinions in an e-mail.
=== Presidents ===
William Belton Murrah, 1890–1910
David Carlisle Hull, 1910–1912
Alexander Farrar Watkins, 1912–1923
David Martin Key, 1923–1938
Marion Lofton Smith, 1938–1952
Homer Ellis Finger, Jr., 1952–1964
Benjamin Barnes Graves, 1965–1970
Edward McDaniel Collins, Jr., 1970–1978
George Marion Harmon (1978–2000) – After 22 years of leading Millsaps College, Harmon announced his resignation in the spring of 1999. His last day as president of Millsaps College was June 30, 2000.
Frances Lucas (2000–2010) – Lucas was the first woman to hold the post at Millsaps. Lucas resigned …
