Presidents
The following list contains the Senior Officers of the IGU from 1922-present:
- 1922–24 Prince Bonaparte, France
- 1924–28 General Vacchelli, Italy
- 1928–31 General Bourgeois, France
- 1931–34 Isaiah Bowman, United States
- 1934–38 Sir Charles Close, UK
- 1938–49 Emmanuel de Martonne, France
- 1949–52 George B. Cressey, United States
- 1952–56 L. Dudley Stamp, UK
- 1956–60 Hans W. Ahlmann, Sweden
- 1960–64 Carl Troll, Germany
- 1964–68 Shiba P. Chatterjee, India
- 1968–72 Stanisław Leszczycki, Poland
- 1972–76 Jean Dresch, France
- 1976–80 Michael J. Wise, UK
- 1980–84 Akin L. Mabogunje, Nigeria
- 1984–88 Peter Scott, Australia
- 1988–92 Roland J. Fuchs United States
- 1992–96 Herman Th. Verstappen, Netherlands
- 1996–2000 Bruno Messerli, Switzerland
- 2000–2004 Anne Buttimer, Ireland
- 2004–2006 Adalberto Vallega, Italy, died in office
- 2006–2008 José Palacio-Prieto, Mexico, acting
- 2008–present Ronald Francis Abler, United States
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
“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)
“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)