Past Officers and Executive Directors

See also:

A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888-1938, by Raymond Clare Archibald
The first fifty years of the AMS: the founding, Bulletin of the AMS, meetings, officers...

History of the Second Fifty Years, American Mathematical Society, 1939-1988, by Everett Pitcher
The second fifty years of the AMS: officers, executive directors, Mathematical Reviews®, primary journals, membership and dues, international meetings, policy committees, finances...


Presidents
(see also AMS Presidents: A Timeline)

  • John Howard Van Amringe, 1889–1890
  • John Emory McClintock, 1891–1894
  • George William Hill, 1895–1896
  • Simon Newcomb, 1897–1898
  • Robert Simpson Woodward, 1899–1900
  • Eliakim Hastings Moore, 1901–1902
  • Thomas Scott Fiske, 1903–1904
  • William Fogg Osgood, 1905–1906
  • Henry Seely White, 1907–1908
  • Maxime Bôcher, 1909–1910
  • Henry Burchard Fine, 1911–1912
  • Edward Blurr Van Vleck, 1913–1914
  • Ernest William Brown, 1915–1916
  • Leonard Eugene Dickson, 1917–1918
  • Frank Morley, 1919–1920
  • Gilbert Ames Bliss, 1921–1922
  • Oswald Veblen, 1923–1924
  • George David Birkhoff, 1925–1926
  • Virgil Snyder, 1927–1928
  • Earle Raymond Hedrick, 1929–1930
  • Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, 1931–1932
  • Arthur Byron Coble, 1933–1934
  • Solomon Lefschetz, 1935–1936
  • Robert Lee Moore, 1937–1938
  • Griffith Conrad Evans, 1939–1940
  • Harold Calvin Marston Morse, 1941–1942
  • Marshall Harvey Stone, 1943–1944
  • Theophil Henry Hildebrandt, 1945–1946
  • Einar Hille, 1947–1948
  • Joseph Leonard Walsh, 1949–1950
  • John von Neumann, 1951–1952
  • Gordon Thomas Whyburn, 1953–1954
  • Raymond Louis Wilder, 1955–1956
  • Richard Dagobert Brauer, 1957–1958
  • Edward James McShane, 1959–1960
  • Deane Montgomery, 1961–1962
  • Joseph Leo Doob, 1963–1964
  • Abraham Adrian Albert, 1965–1966
  • Charles Bradfield Morrey, Jr., 1967–1968
  • Oscar Zariski, 1969–1970
  • Nathan Jacobson, 1971–1972
  • Saunders Mac Lane, 1973–1974
  • Lipman Bers, 1975–1976
  • R. H. Bing, 1977–1978
  • Peter David Lax, 1979–1980
  • Andrew Mattei Gleason, 1981–1982
  • Julia Bowman Robinson, 1983–1984
  • Irving Kaplansky, 1985–1986
  • George Daniel Mostow, 1987–1988
  • William Browder, 1989–1990
  • Michael Artin, 1991–1992
  • Ronald L. Graham, 1993–1994
  • Cathleen Synge Morawetz, 1995–1996
  • Arthur M. Jaffe, 1997–1998
  • Felix E. Browder, 1999–2000
  • Hyman Bass, 2001–2002
  • David Eisenbud, 2003–2004
  • James G. Arthur, 2005–2006
  • James G. Glimm, 2007–2008
  • George E. Andrews, 2009–2010
  • Eric M. Friedlander, 2011–2012
  • David A. Vogan, Jr., 2013–2014
  • Robert L. Bryant, 2015–2016
  • Kenneth A. Ribet, 2017–2018
  • Jill C. Pipher, 2019–2020
  • Ruth Charney, 2021–2022

Secretaries

  • Thomas Scott Fiske, 1888–1895
  • Frank Nelson Cole, 1896–1920
  • Roland George Dwight Richardson, 1921–1940
  • John Robert Kline, 1941–1950
  • Edward Griffith Begle, 1951–1956
  • John W. Green, 1957–1966
  • Everett Pitcher, 1967–1988
  • Robert M. Fossum, 1989–1998
  • Robert J. Daverman, 1999–2012
  • Carla D. Savage, 2013–2020
  • Boris Hasselblatt, 2021–

Treasurers

  • Thomas Scott Fiske, 1890–1891
  • Harold Jacoby, 1892–1894
  • Robert Simpson Woodward, 1895–1896
  • Harold Jacoby, 1897–1899
  • William S. Dennett, 1900–1907
  • John Henry Tanner, 1908–1920
  • William Benjamin Fite, 1921–1929
  • G. W. Mullins, 1930–1936
  • Paul Althaus Smith, 1937
  • Bennington P. Gill, 1938–1948
  • Albert E. Meder, Jr., 1949–1964
  • William T. Martin, 1965–1973
  • Franklin P. Peterson, 1974–1998
  • John M. Franks, 1999–2010
  • Jane M. Hawkins, 2011–2020
  • Douglas L. Ulmer, 2021–

Executive Directors

  • Holbrook M. MacNeille, 1949–1954
  • John H. Curtiss, 1954–1959
  • Gordon L. Walker, 1959–1977
  • William J. LeVeque, 1977–1988
  • William H. Jaco, 1988–1995
  • John H. Ewing, 1995–2009
  • Donald E. McClure, 2009–2016
  • Catherine A. Roberts, 2016–2023
  • John Meier, July 1, 2024–