Presidents
MHA presidents are recognized contributors to the field of Mormon history and serve for one year.
| Years | Name | Prominence at the time of service |
|---|---|---|
| 1966–67 | Leonard J. Arrington | MHA co-founder; Utah State University history professor; author of Great Basin Kingdom |
| 1967–68 | Eugene E. Campbell | Brigham Young University (BYU) history professor |
| 1968–69 | T. Edgar Lyon | Nauvoo Restoration |
| 1969–70 | S. George Ellsworth | Utah State University history professor |
| 1970–71 | Richard D. Poll | Western Illinois University vice-president; former Brigham Young University history professor |
| 1971–72 | Davis Bitton | MHA co-founder; University of Utah history professor |
| 1972–73 | James B. Allen | MHA co-founder; Brigham Young University history professor |
| 1973–74 | Reed C. Durham Jr. | Director of Institute of Religion at the University of Utah |
| 1974–75 | Thomas G. Alexander | |
| 1975–76 | Charles S. Peterson | University of Utah history professor; former director of the Utah State Historical Society. |
| 1976–77 | Paul M. Edwards | |
| 1977–78 | Douglas D. Alder | |
| 1978–79 | Milton Backman | Brigham Young University religious education professor |
| 1979–80 | Jan Shipps | Indiana University professor of history and religious studies |
| 1980–81 | Dean C. Jessee | Author of Letters of Brigham Young to his Sons; archivist and researcher with the LDS Church. |
| 1981–82 | Melvin T. Smith | |
| 1982–83 | William D. Russell | Professor of history at Graceland University |
| 1983–84 | Kenneth W. Godfrey | LDS Institute of Religion Director |
| 1984–85 | Maureen U. Beecher | Brigham Young University English professor with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History. |
| 1985–86 | Richard L. Bushman | Columbia University history professor; author of Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism. |
| 1986–87 | Richard W. Sadler | |
| 1987–88 | Valeen Tippetts Avery | Co-author of Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith |
| 1988–89 | Stanley B. Kimball | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville history professor; author of Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer |
| 1989–90 | Carol Cornwall Madsen | Brigham Young University history professor with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History. |
| 1990–91 | Richard P. Howard | World Church Historian of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints |
| 1991–92 | Ronald W. Walker | |
| 1992–93 | Marvin S. Hill | Brigham Young University history professor and author of Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism |
| 1993–94 | Roger D. Launius | |
| 1994–95 | Mario S. DePillis | |
| 1995–96 | David J. Whittaker | Brigham Young University archivist |
| 1996–97 | Linda King Newell | University of Utah history professor; co-author of Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith; former co-editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought; former John Whitmer Historical Association president |
| 1997–98 | Armand L. Mauss | Washington State University professor of sociology and religious studies |
| 1998–99 | Jill Mulvay Derr | BYU History professor, later director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute |
| 1999–2000 | Newell G. Bringhurst | |
| 2000–01 | William G. Hartley | |
| 2001–02 | Dean L. May | Professor of History, University of Utah, specializing in social history of the American West |
| 2002–03 | Lawrence Foster | Professor of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 2003–04 | Martha Sonntag Bradley | |
| 2004–05 | Donald Q. Cannon | Brigham Young University professor |
| 2005–06 | Philip L. Barlow | Harvard-trained professor of theology and American religious history at Utah State University |
| 2006–07 | Ronald K. Esplin | Director of Joseph Smith Papers Project; former Brigham Young University professor; former Joseph Fielding Smith Institute director. |
| 2007–08 | Paul L. Anderson | BYU Museum of Art curator |
| 2008–09 | Kathryn M. Daynes | Brigham Young University history professor; author of More Wives Than One. |
| 2009–10 | Ronald E. Romig | Community of Christ archivist |
| 2010–11 | William P. MacKinnon | Independent historian; author of At Sword's Point: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858. |
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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)
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—J.R. Pole (b. 1922)
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—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)