| Samuel Blatchford (1767 - 1828) |
1824 - 1828 |
| John Chester (1785 - 1829) |
1828 - 1829 |
| Eliphalet Nott (1773 - 1866) |
1829 – 1845 |
| Nathan S.S. Beman (1785 - 1871) |
1845 – 1865 |
| John Flack Winslow (1810 - 1892) |
1865 – 1868 |
| Thomas C. Brinsmade (1802 - 1868) |
1868 |
| James Forsyth (1817 - 1886) |
1868 – 1886 |
| William Gurley (1821 - 1887) |
1886 – 1887 (acting) |
| Albert E. Powers (b. 1816) |
1887 – 1888 (acting) |
| John H. Peck (1838 - 1919) |
1888 – 1901 |
| Palmer C. Ricketts (1856 - 1934) |
1901-1934 |
| Edwin Seton Jarrett (1862 - 1938) |
1934 – 1935 (acting) |
| William O. Hotchkiss (1878 - 1954) |
1935 – 1943 |
| Livingston W. Houston (1891 - 1977) |
1944 – 1958 |
| Richard Gilman Folsom (1907 - 1996) |
1958 – 1971 |
| Richard J. Grosh (b. 1927) |
1971 – 1976 |
| George M. Low (1926 - 1984) |
1976 – 1984 |
| Daniel Berg (b. 1929) |
1984 – 1985 (acting), 1985 – 1987 |
| Stanley I. Landgraf (1925 - 1997) |
1987 – 1988 (acting) |
| Roland Schmitt (1923 - 2017) |
1988 – 1993 |
| R. Byron Pipes (b. 1941) |
1993 – 1998 |
| Cornelius J. Barton (b. 1936) |
1998 – 1999 (acting) |
| The Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson 2022, PhD, D.L. (Hon.), D.Sc. (Hon.), NAE President Emerita for Life |
1999 - 2022 |
