FINA - Presidents

Presidents

Each presidential term is four years, beginning and concluding with the year following the Summer Olympics (i.e., 2009-2013 is the current term).

FINA Presidents
Name	Country	Term
George Hearn	Great Britain	1908–1924
Erik Bergvall	Sweden	1924–1928
Émile-Georges Drigny	France	1928–1932
Walther Binner	Germany	1932–1936
Harold Fern	Great Britain	1936–1948 (*)
Rene de Raeve	Belgium	1948–1952
M.L. Negri	Argentina	1952–1956
Jan de Vries	Netherlands	1956–1960
Max Ritter	Germany	1960–1964
William Berge Phillips	Australia	1964–1968
Javier Ostos Mora	Mexico	1968–1972
Dr. Harold Henning	United States	1972–1976
Javier Ostos Mora	Mexico	1976–1980
Ante Lambasa	Yugoslavia	1980–1984
Robert Helmick	United States	1984–1988
Mustapha Larfaoui	Algeria	1988–2009
Dr. Julio Maglione	Uruguay	2009–present

Famous quotes containing the word presidents:

“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

“You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in “the people.” One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.”
—J.R. Pole (b. 1922)