Document Type
Article
Publication Title
ADA Presidents Album
Abstract
Doctor Truman, of Philadelphia, was elected thirty-fourth president of the Association at the 1896 meeting at Saratoga Springs, New York. In his acceptance address, he said he would work to "overcome the apathy" which he said had characterized the Association in recent years. Doctor Truman was a professor of dental physiology and operative dentistry at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery from 1865 to 1876. He incurred the antagonism of many dentists by strongly advocating the admission of women to the dental profession. From 1882 to 1896, after practicing in Germany several years, he was with the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry, first as a professor of dental pathology, therapeutics and materia medica, and later as dean. Doctor Truman was prominent as a dental editor and as an investigator of dental materials. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1826 and died in 1914.
Publication Date
1977
Recommended Citation
American Dental Association, "ADA President 1896-1897: James Truman" (1977). ADA Presidents. 103.
https://commons.ada.org/presidents/103
Included in
Dentistry Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Nonprofit Administration and Management Commons
Comments
Content comprises text (a brief biography and historical highlights), facsimile of autograph and a photographic portrait for each ADA President from 1860 to 1977.