American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Presidents, 1791-present

Presidents, 1791-present

• 1791–1814 John Adams
• 1814–1820 Edward Augustus Holyoke
• 1820–1829 John Quincy Adams
• 1829–1838 Nathaniel Bowditch
• 1838–1839 James Jackson
• 1839–1846 John Pickering
• 1846–1863 Jacob Bigelow
• 1863–1873 Asa Gray
• 1873–1880 Charles Francis Adams
• 1880–1892 Joseph Lovering
• 1892–1894 Josiah Parsons Cooke
• 1894–1903 Alexander Agassiz
• 1903–1908 William Watson Goodwin
• 1908–1915 John Trowbridge
• 1915–1917 Henry Pickering Walcott
• 1917–1919 Charles Pickering Bowditch
• 1919–1921 Theodore William Richards
• 1921–1924 George Foot Moore
• 1924–1927 Theodore Lyman
• 1927–1931 Edwin Bidwell Wilson
• 1931–1933 Jeremiah D. M. Ford
• 1933–1935 George Howard Parker
• 1935–1937 Roscoe Pound
• 1937–1939 Dugald C. Jackson
• 1939–1944 Harlow Shapley
• 1944–1951 Howard Mumford Jones
• 1951–1954 Edwin Herbert Land
• 1954–1957 John Ely Burchard
• 1957–1961 Kirtley Fletcher Mather
• 1961–1964 Hudson Hoagland
• 1964–1967 Paul A. Freund
• 1967–1971 Talcott Parsons
• 1971–1976 Harvey Brooks
• 1976–1979 Victor Frederick Weisskopf
• 1979–1982 Milton Katz
• 1982–1986 Herman Feshbach
• 1986–1989 Edward Hirsch Levi
• 1989–1994 Leo Leroy Beranek
• 1994–1997 Jaroslav Pelikan
• 1997–2000 Daniel C. Tosteson
• 2000–2001 James O. Freedman
• 2001–2006 Patricia Meyer Spacks
• 2006–2009 Emilio Bizzi
• 2010–present Leslie C. Berlowitz