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–