The position of Grand Marshal was created in 1865 to honor a student respected and admired by his classmates. The Grand Marshal and President of the Union were traditionally elected during the spring semester on a date determined by the Student Council.
Visit the Grand Marshal history page for more information.
| Year | Grand Marshall | President of the Union |
|---|---|---|
| 1865-66 | Albert M. Harper '67 | none |
| 1866-67 | Frank J. Hearne '67 | none |
| 1867-68 | Virgil G. Bogue '68 | none |
| 1868-69 | John Pierpoint '69 | none |
| 1869-70 | Thomas O’Neal Morris '70 | none |
| 1870-71 | George C. MacGregor '71 | none |
| 1871-72 | David Reeves '72 | none |
| 1872-73 | Daniel A. Tompkins '73 | none |
| 1873-74 | James N. Caldwell '74 | none |
| 1874-75 | William L. Fox '75 | none |
| 1875-76 | Morris S. Verner '76 | none |
| 1876-77 | Coddington Billings, Jr. '77 | none |
| 1877-78 | George S. Davison '78 | none |
| 1878-79 | Robert R. Bridgers '79 | none |
| 1879-80 | Frederick S. Young '80 | none |
| 1880-81 | Thomas D. Whistler '81 | none |
| 1881-82 | Independence Grove '82 | none |
| 1882-83 | Robert J. Pratt '83 | none |
| 1883-84 | William A. Aycrigg '84 | none |
| 1884-85 | Leverett S. Miller '85 | none |
| 1885 | James E. Larrowe '86 (resigned) | none |
| 1885-86 | Edward B. Ashby '86 | none |
| 1886-87 | Hasley B. Pomeroy '87 | none |
| 1887-88 | James M. Africa '88 | none |
| 1888-89 | Paul O. Hebert '89 | none |
| 1889-90 | William Easby, Jr. '90 | none |
| 1890-91 | none | W.C.H. Slagle '92 |
| 1891-92 | none | George A. Soper '93 |
| 1892-93 | none | James W. Frazier '94 |
| 1893-94 | none | Athol M. Miller |
| 1894-95 | Athol M. Miller '95 | Henry B. Voorhees '96 |
| 1896-97 | Charles McDonough '97 | Thomas R. Lawson '98 |
| 1897-98 | Thomas R. Lawson '98 | James B. Wilson '99 |
| 1898-99 | Gustave A. Keller '99 | William P. Creager '00 |
| 1899-00 | Parley L. Williams, Jr. '00 | Luis G. Morphy, '01 |
| 1900-01 | James W. Davis '01 | Prentice H. Burlingham '02 |
| 1901-02 | William H. Young '02 | James R. Fitzpatrick '03 |
| 1902-03 | Edward W. Banker '03 | John Q. Rankin '04 |
| 1903-04 | Homer G. Whitmore '04 | Allen Van Rensselaer '05 |
| 1904-05 | Cuyler W. Lush '05 | William S. Lozier '06 |
| 1905-06 | William S. Lozier '06 | Herman S. Chalfant '07 |
| 1906-07 | Herman S. Chalfant '07 | George Bryan, Jr. '08 |
| 1907-08 | Horace W. Rinearson '08 | Thorpe T. Walsh |
| 1908-09 | Robert A. Searle '09 | Harry R. Hayes '09 |
| 1909-10 | Carl W. Schedler, Jr. '10 | John L. Weber '09 |
| 1910-11 | James T. Ganson '11 | Henry H. Giles '11 |
| 1911-12 | Frank B. Watkins '12 | H. Dutton Smith '12 |
| 1912-13 | Edward D.P. Gross '13 | Edward P. Abbot '13 |
| 1913-14 | Philip C. Rummel, Jr. '14 | David Adams, Jr. |
| 1914-15 | Glenn W. Tisdal '15 | Thomas E. Dunham '15 |
| 1915-16 | John H. Howard '16 | William H. Cravens '15 |
| 1916-17 | Walter L. Johnson, Jr. '17 | Wisner R. Townsend, Jr. '17 |
| 1917-18 | Harry F. Parrott '18 | Kamman '18 / Robertson '18 |
| 1918-19 | Newell L. Nussbaumer '19 | Stanley L. Burns '19 |
| 1919-20 | John Van N. Richards '20 | Bruce G. Mackey '20 |
| 1920-21 | John S. Thompson '20 | William F. Dewey '21 |
| 1921-22 | Neal D. Howard '22 | Clifford H. Tyler '22 |
| 1922-23 | Gardner S. Staunton '23 | Herbert J. Gatje '23 |
| 1923-24 | William M. Stillwell, Jr. '24 | Thomas F. Perkinson, Jr. '24 |
| 1924-25 | George V. Robbins '25 | S. Townsend Tinker '25 |
| 1925-26 | H. Fuller Stearns '26 | William Busch '26 |
| 1926-27 | Marvin H. Anderson '27 | Earle K. Smith '27 |
| 1927-28 | James M. Robbins '28 | Horace K. Church '28 |
| 1928-29 | Bernard F. Wade '29 | Roger L. Doran '29 |
| 1929-30 | Edward P. Kennedy '30 | James W. Gaynor '30 |
| 1930-31 | Richard E. Warren '31 | Robert I. Warnecke '31 |
| 1931-32 | Meredith H. Thompson '32 | James E. Burdick '32 |
| 1932-33 | Howard D. Disbrow '33 | Howard K Mikkelsen '33 |
| 1933-34 | Carl H. Wunnenberg '34 | Roger P. Fox '34 |
| 1934-35 | J. Russell Schwarting '35 | Everett J. Parry '35 |
| 1935-36 | Walter F. Powers, Jr. '36 | William D. Luening '36 |
| 1937-38 | King Ward '38 | Robert G. Baumann '38 |
| 1938-39 | Eustace P. Hetzel '39 | Edward W. Osann, Jr. '39 |
| 1940-41 | Frank J. Sherry ‘41 | August Geib, Jr. '41 |
| 1941-42 | William L. Hawks '42 | Edwin C. Holmer '42 |
| 1942 | Allen Stokke '43 | Robert W. Martz '43 |
| 1942-43 (Nov. election) | Jack V. Richards '44 | William J. Baker, Jr. '44 |
| 1943-44 (Nov. election) | William D. Peace '45 | John J. Delany, III '45 |
| 1944-45 | none | none |
| 1945-46 | Frank P. Waters '47 | Philip A. Vautrain '47 |
| 1946-47 | Richard L. McLaughlin '48 | Allan U. Stone '47 |
| 1947-48 | Ronald F. Ball '49 | Jules A. E. Meylan '49 |
| 1948-49 | Daymon E. Jordan '50 | I. James Elmore '50 |
| 1949-50 | Gerald S. Ellsworth '50 | Robert C. Snaderson '50 |
| 1950-51 | Gibson W. Smith '51 | Walter J. Loick '51 |
| 1951-52 | William F. Payne '52 | Kenneth A. Geiger '52 |
| 1952-53 | Geraldo O. Penna '53 | Richard E. Schoenhardt '53 |
| 1953-54 | Glenn O. Brown '54 | George R. Reschke '54 |
| 1954-55 | Robert W. Fox '55 | James H. Porter '55 |
| 1955-56 | Larry O. Edwards '56 | Remo J. D’Ortenzio '56 |
| 1956-57 | David R. Murphy '57 | Norris C. Olsen '57 |
| 1957-58 | James F. Morgan '58 | Harry J. Zimmer '58 |
| 1958-59 | David E. Lord '59 | Lee S. Day '59 |
| 1959-60 | William J. Murdoch, Jr. '60 | Dan T. Spencer '60 |
| 1960-61 | J. Gregory Crozier '61 | Fredrick F. Forte '61 |
| 1961-62 | Gary B. Garofalo '62 | Richard A. Worth '62 |
| 1962-63 | Michael D. Spear '63 | Juan B. Rionda '63 |
| 1963-64 | Gordon N. McIntosh '64 | Earl D. Sedlik '64 |
| 1964-65 | Charles H. Harper '65 | David A. Rowell '65 |
| 1965-66 | Dolf H. Beil '66 | F. Terrell Jones '66 |
| 1966-67 | Kenneth A. Ullman '67 | Kentner P. Shell '67 |
| 1967-68 | Alan P. Hald '68 | G. William Criss, III '68 |
| 1968-69 | Zachary I. Levine '69 | John G. Almstead '69 |
| 1969-70 | W. Scott Staruch '70 | Robert N. Schmidt '70 |
| 1970-71 | Mark P. Rice '71 | Jack S. DeMao '71 |
| 1971-72 | Thomas J. Engellenner '72 | Richard A. Spillane '72 |
| 1972-73 | Robert J. Koch '73 | Kenneth E. Bossong '72 |
| 1973-74 | Ross B. Gingrich '73 | Steven A. Mitnick '74 |
| 1974-75 | Donald Michael Stull '76 | W. Stephens Walker '73 |
| 1975-76 | Gordon E. Michaels '75 | Randall D. Fox '76 |
| 1976-77 | Ira S. Tackel '76 | Jonathan S. Sigler '77 |
| 1977-78 | Mark R. Feinstein '77 | John B. Hill '77 |
| 1978-79 | John A. Malitoris '78 | J. Philip Ulrich, Jr. '79 |
| 1979-80 | Paul J. Kowalczyk '80 | Alan M. Ehrlich '80 |
| 1980-81 | William P. Duggan '80 | Roger H. Jens '82 |
| 1981-82 | Peter Traversy '83 (resigned) Jeffry Langan '82 | Willard A. Sanscrainte '81 |
| 1982-83 | James E. LaPosta '80 | Paul H. Scarbrough '83 |
| 1983-84 | Mary P. Garrity '83 | Laura E. Tanski '84 |
| 1984-85 | Richard E. Glassberg '85 | Timothy A. Frosell '85 |
| 1985-86 | John H. Cerveny '86 | Eric S. Gundrum '86 |
| 1986-87 | Catherine Ekstrand '85 | Andrew Morrison '87 |
| 1987-88 | Douglas K. MacKechnie '87 | Kara C. Murphy '89 |
| 1988-89 | David A. Sovie '89 | Russell S. Woodbridge '89 |
| 1989-90 | Eric M. Lambiaso '90 | Carrie A. Wallace '90 |
| 1990-91 | David W. O’Connor '91 | AnneMarie Ferraro '90 |
| 1991-92 | Mark N. Fellenz '91 | Paul D. Conforti '92 |
| 1992-93 | William Wheeler '94 | Patrick Tirino '94 |
| 1993-94 | Kriten Delvental '94 | Thea Zeak '94 |
| 1994-95 | Sonny Jandial '95 | Joanna M. Burt '95 |
| 1995-96 | Greg Waters '97 | Brian Dean '97 |
| 1996-97 | Kristen Trout '97 | Monica Loseman '97 |
| 1997-98 | Mamani Datta '98 | Chris DiPalma '99 |
| 1998-99 | Erica Kulesza '99 | Christine Ciccone '99 |
| 1999-00 | Eric Schmidt '01 | Kristine Norgren '01 |
| 2000-01 | Joseph Greco '01 | Lucas Johnson '01 |
| 2001-02 | Gil Valadez '02 | Ariana Twitchell '02 |
| 2002-03 | Chris Mather '03 | Zachary Ament '03 |
| 2003-04 | Michael Borzumate '04 | Suzanne Peluso '04 |
| 2004-05 | Mike Dillon '05 | Peter Baldwin '06 |
| 2005-06 | Max Yates '06 | Peter Baldwin '06 |
| 2006-07 | Carlos Perea '07 | James Fisher '07 |
| 2007-08 | Julia Leusner '08 | Erik Swanson '08 |
| 2008-09 | Kara Chesal '09 | Robert Odell '09 |
| 2009-10 | Michael Zwack '11 | Alex Franz '10 |
| 2010-11 | Benjamin Hunt ‘10 | Michael Spitz ‘11 |
| 2011-12 | Lee Sharma '12 (4/2011-1/2012) Russell Brown '14 (2/2012-4/2012) | Nikki Gallant '12 |
| 2012-13 | Kevin Dai '14 | John Stack '13 |
| 2013-14 | Charles Carletta '14 | Gretchin Sileo '14 |
| 2014-2015 | Kyle Keraga '15 | Erin Amarello |
| 2015-2016 | Marcus Flowers '16 | Nick Dvorak '16 |
| 2016-2017 | Paul Ilor '17 | Chip Kirchner '17 |
| 2017-2018 | Justin Etzine '18 | Matthew Rand '19 |
| 2018-2019 | Stephanie Warner '19 | Justin Etzine '18 |
| 2019-2020 | Meagan Lettko '20 | Caitlin Kennedy '20 |
| 2020-2021 | Advaith Narayan '21 | Anissa Choiniere '20 |
| 2021-2022 | Cait Bennett '22 | Yaseen Mahmoud '22 |
| 2022-2023 | Cait Bennett '22 | Colleen Corrigan '21 |
| 2023-2024 | Ben Viner '24 | Ava Gallagher '23 |
