title: List of National League presidents
text: # List of National League presidents
  
  The National League President was the chief executive of the National League of professional baseball until 1999, when the NL and the American League merged into Major League Baseball.
  
  ## National League presidents
  
  Key :
  
  | † | Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame |
  | - | - |
  | Name | Year(s) |
  | Morgan $Bulkeley^†$ | 1876 |
  | William $Hulbert^†$ | 1877–1882 |
  | Arthur Soden | 1882 |
  | Abraham G. Mills | 1883–1884 |
  | Nicholas Young | 1885–1902 |
  | Harry Pulliam | 1903–1909 |
  | John Heydler | 1909 |
  | Thomas Lynch | 1910–1913 |
  | John K. Tener | 1913–1918 |
  | John Heydler | 1918–1934 |
  | Ford $Frick^†$ | 1934–1951 |
  | Warren $Giles^†$ | 1951–1969 |
  | Chub Feeney | 1970–1986 |
  | A. Bartlett Giamatti | 1986–1989 |
  | Bill White | 1989–1994 |
  | Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. | 1994–1999 |
  
  ### Honorary president
  
  Following the 1999 season, the American and National Leagues were merged with Major League Baseball, and the leagues ceased to exist as business entities. The role of the league president was eliminated. In 2001, Bill Giles, son of Warren Giles, was named honorary president of the NL.
  
  