text: The following individuals have held the position of President of this organization.
  * 1871: David Thomas
  * 1872–1874: Rossiter Worthington Raymond
  * 1875: Alexander Lyman Holley
  * 1876: Abram Stevens Hewitt
  * 1877: Thomas Sterry Hunt
  * 1878–1879: Eckley Brinton Coxe
  * 1880: William Powell Shinn
  * 1881: William Metcalf
  * 1882: Richard Pennefather Rothwell
  * 1883: Robert Woolston Hunt
  * 1884–1885: James Cooper Bayles
  * 1886: Robert Hallowell Richards
  * 1887: Thomas Egleston
  * 1888: William Bleeker Potter
  * 1889: Richard Pearce
  * 1890: Abram Stevens Hewitt
  * 1891–1892: John Birkinbine
  * 1893: Henry Marion Howe
  * 1894: John Fritz
  * 1895: Joseph D. Weeks
  * 1896: Edmund Gybbon Spilsbury
  * 1897: Thomas Messinger Drown
  * 1898: Charles Kirchhoff
  * 1899–1900: James Douglas
  * 1901–1902: Eben Erskine Olcott
  * 1903: Albert Reid Ledoux
  * 1904–1905: James Gayley
  * 1906: Robert Woolston Hunt
  * 1907–1908: John Hays Hammond
  * 1909–1910: David William Brunton 
  * 1911: Charles Kirchhoff
  * 1912: James Furman Kemp
  * 1913: Charles Frederic Rand
  * 1914: Benjamin Bowditch Thayer
  * 1915: William Lawrence Saunders
  * 1916: Louis Davidson Ricketts
  * 1917: Philip North Moore
  * 1918: Sidney Johnston Jennings
  * 1919: Horace Vaughn Winchell
  * 1920: Herbert Hoover
  * 1921: Edwin Ludlow
  * 1922: Arthur Smith Dwight
  * 1923: Edward Payson Mathewson
  * 1924: William Kelly
  * 1925: John van Wicheren Reynders
  * 1926: Samuel A. Taylor
  * 1927: Everette Lee DeGolyer
  * 1928: George Otis Smith
  * 1929: Frederick Worthen Bradley 
  * 1930: William Hastings Bassett
  * 1931: Robert Emmet Tally
  * 1932: Scott Turner
  * 1933: Frederick Mark Becket 
  * 1934: Howard Nicholas Eavenson 
  * 1935: Henry Andrew Buehler
  * 1936: John Meston Lovejoy
  * 1937: Rolland Craten Allen
  * 1938: Daniel Cowan Jackling
  * 1939: Donald Burton Gillies
  * 1940: Herbert George Moulton
  * 1941: John Robert Suman 
  * 1942: Eugene McAuliffe
  * 1943: Champion Herbert Mathewson
  * 1944: Chester Alan Fulton
  * 1945: Harvey Seeley Mudd
  * 1946: Louis S. Cates
  * 1947: Clyde Williams
  * 1948: William Embry Wrather
  * 1949: Lewis Emanuel Young
  * 1950: Donald Hamilton McLaughlin
  * 1951: Willis McGerald Peirce
  * 1952: Michael Lawrence Haider
  * 1953: Andrew Fletcher
  * 1954: Leo Frederick Reinartz
  * 1955: Henry DeWitt Smith
  * 1956: Carl Ernest Reistle Jr.
  * 1957: Grover Justine Holt
  * 1958: Augustus Braun Kinzel
  * 1959: Howard Carter Pyle
  * 1960: Joseph Lincoln Gillson
  * 1961: Ronald Russel McNaughton
  * 1962: Lloyd E. Elkins
  * 1963: Roger Vern Pierce
  * 1964: Karl Leroy Fetters
  * 1965: Thomas Corwin Frick
  * 1966: William Bishop Stephenson
  * 1967: Walter R. Hibbard Jr.
  * 1968: John Robertson McMillan	
  * 1969: James Boyd
  * 1970: John C. Kinnear
  * 1971: John Smith Bell
  * 1972: Dennis L. McElroy
  * 1973: James B. Austin
  * 1974: Wayne E. Glenn
  * 1975: James D. Reilly
  * 1976: Julius J. Harwood
  * 1977: H. Arthur Nedom
  * 1978: Wayne L. Dowdey	
  * 1979: William H. Wise
  * 1980: M. Scott Kraemer
  * 1981: Robert H. Merrill
  * 1982: Harold W. Paxton
  * 1983: Edward E. Runyan
  * 1984: Nelson Severinghaus, Jr.
  * 1985: Norman T. Mills
  * 1986:  Arlen L. Edgar
  * 1987: Alan Lawley
  * 1988: Thomas V. Falkie
  * 1989: Howard N. Hubbard, Jr.
  * 1990: Donald G. Russell
  * 1991: Milton E. Wadsworth
  * 1992: Roshan B. Bhappu
  * 1993: G. Hugh Walker
  * 1994: Noel D. Rietman
  * 1995: Frank V. Nolfi, Jr.
  * 1996: Donald W. Gentry
  * 1997: Leonard G. Nelson
  * 1998: Roy H. Koerner
  * 1999: Paul G. Campbell, Jr.
  * 2000: Robert E. Murray
  * 2001: Grant P. Schneider
  * 2002: George H. Sawyer
  * 2003: Robert H. Wagoner
  * 2004: Robert C. Freas
  * 2005: Alan W. Cramb
  * 2006: James R. Jorden
  * 2007: Dan J. Thoma
  * 2008: Michael Karmis
  * 2009: Ian Sadler
  * 2010: DeAnn Craig
  * 2011: Brajendra Mishra
  * 2012: George W. Luxbacher
  * 2013: Dale Heinz
  * 2014: Behrooz Fattahi
  * 2015: Garry W. Warren
  * 2016: Nikhil Trivedi
  * 2017: John G. Speer