ACS Presidents

In Chronological Order

Since 1876, individuals have been identified with the title of President of the American Chemical Society. The position of President (a one-year term) has evolved in importance and complexity since the founding of the Society.

List of ACS Presidents: 1876 - Present
1876John W. Draper1811-1882
1877J. Lawrence Smith1818-1883
1878Samuel W. Johnson1830-1909
1879, 1888T. Sterry Hunt1826-1892
1880Frederick A. Genth1820-1893
1881, 1889Charles F. Chandler1836-1924
1882John W. Mallet1832-1912
1883 - 1885James C. Booth1810-1888
1886Albert B. Prescott1832-1905
1887Charles A. Goessmann1827-1910
1890Henry B. Nason1831-1895
1891George F. Barker1835-1910
1892George C. Caldwell1834-1907
1893 - 1894Harvey W. Wiley1844-1930
1895Edgar Fahs Smith1854-1928
1896 - 1897Charles B. Dudley1842-1909
1898Charles E. Munroe1849-1938
1899Edward W. Morley1828-1923
1900William McMurtrie1851-1913
1901Frank W. Clarke1847-1931
1902Ira Remsen1846-1927
1903John H. Long1856-1918
1904Arthur A. Noyes1866-1936
1905Francis P. Venable1856-1934
1906William F. Hillebrand1853-1925
1907 - 1908Marston T. Bogert1868-1954
1909Willis R. Whitney1868-1958
1910Wilder D. Bancroft1867-1953
1911Alexander Smith1865-1922
1912 -1913Arthur D. Little1863-1935
1914Theodore W. Richards1868-1928
1915 1916Charles H. Herty1867-1938
1917Julius Stieglitz1867-1937
1918 - 1919William H. Nichols1852-1930
1920William A. Noyes1857-1941
1921 - 1922Edgar Fahs Smith1854-1928
1923Edward C. Franklin1862-1937
1924Leo H. Baekeland 
1925 - 1926James F. Norris1863-1944
1927George D. Rosengarten1869-1936
1928Samuel W. Parr1857-1931
1929Irving Langmuir1881-1957
1930William McPherson1864-1951
1931Moses Gomberg1866-1947
1932L.V. Redman1880-1946
1933Arthur B. Lamb1880-1952
1934Charles L. Reese1862-1940
1935Roger Adams1889-1971
1936Edward Bartow1870-1958
1937Edward R. Weidlein1887-1983
1938Frank C. Whitmore1887-1947
1939Charles A. Kraus1876-1967
1940Samuel C. Lind1879-1965
1941William Lloyd Evans1870-1954
1942Harry N. Holmes1879-1958
1943Per K. Frolich1899-1977
1944Thomas Midgley, Jr.1899-1944
1945Carl S. Marvel1894-1988
1946Bradley Dewey1887-1974
1947W. Albert Noyes, Jr.1898-1980
1948Charles A. Thomas1900-1982
1949Linus Pauling1901-1994
1950Ernest H. Volwiler1893-1992
1951N. Howell Furman1892-1965
1952Edgar C. Britton1891-1962
1953Farrington Daniels1889-1972
1954Harry L. Fisher1885-1961
1955Joel H. Hildebrand1881-1983
1956John C. Warner1897-1989
1957Roger J. Williams1893-1988
1958Clifford F. Rassweiler1899-1976
1959John C. Bailar, Jr.1904-1991
1960Albert L. Elder1901-1976
1961Arthur C. Cope1909-1966
1962Karl Folkers1906-1997
1963Henry Eyring1901-1981
1964Maurice H. Arveson1902-1974
1965Charles C. Price1913-2001
1966William J. Sparks1905-1976
1967Charles G. Overberger1920-1997
1968Robert W. Cairns1909-1985
1969Wallace R. Brode1900-1974
1970Byron Riegel1906-1975
1971Melvin Calvin1911-1997
1972Max Tishler1906-1989
1973Alan C. Nixon1908-2002
1974Bernard S. Friedman1907-1996
1975William J. Bailey1921-1989
1976Glenn T. Seaborg1912-1999
1977Henry A. Hill1915-1979
1978Anna J. Harrison1912-1998
1979Gardner W. Stacy1921-1995
1980James D. D'Ianni1914-2007
1981Albert C. Zettlemoyer1915-1991
1982Robert W. Parry1917-2006
1983Fred Basolo1920-2007
1984Warren D. Niederhauser1918-2005
1985Ellis K. Fields1917-2003
1986George C. Pimentel1922-1989
1987Mary L. Good1931-2019
1988Gordon L. Nelson1943-
1989Clayton F. Callis1923-2005
1990Paul G. Gassman1935-1994
1991S. Allen Heininger1925-
1992Ernest L. Eliel1921-2008
1993Helen M. Free1923-2021
1994Ned D. Heindel1937-
1995Brian M. Rushton1933-
1996Ronald Breslow1931-2017
1997Paul S. Anderson1938-
1998Paul H.L. Walter1934-
1999Edel Wasserman1932-
2000Daryle H. Busch1928-2021
2001Attila E. Pavlath1930-
2002Eli M. Pearce1929-2015
2003Elsa Reichmanis1953-
2004Charles P. Casey1942-
2005William F. Carroll, Jr.1952-
2006E. Ann Nalley1942-
2007Catherine T. (Katie) Hunt1955-
2008Bruce E. Bursten1954-
2009Thomas H. Lane1952-
2010Joseph S. Francisco1955-
2011Nancy B. Jackson1956-2022
2012Bassam Z. Shakhashiri1939-
2013Marinda P. Li Wu1950-
2014Thomas J. Barton1940-
2015Diane Grob Schmidt1945-
2016Donna J. Nelson1960-
2017Allison A. Campbell1963-
2018Peter K. Dorhout1962-
2019Bonnie A. Charpentier1952-
2020Luis Echegoyen1951-
2021H. N. Cheng1947-
2022Angela K. Wilson1967-
2023Judith C. Giordan1953-
2024Mary K. Carroll1964-