* [[John James Beckley]] ([[1802]]–[[1807]])
* [[Patrick Magruder]] ([[1807]]–[[1815]])
* [[George Watterston]] ([[1815]]–[[1829]])
* [[John Silva Meehan]] ([[1829]]–[[1861]])
* [[John Gould Stephenson]] ([[1861]]–[[1864]])
* [[Ainsworth Rand Spofford]] ([[1864]]–[[1897]])
* [[John Russell Young]] ([[1897]]–[[1899]])
* [[Herbert Putnam]] ([[1899]]–[[1939]])
* [[Archibald MacLeish]] ([[1939]]–[[1944]])
* [[Luther H. Evans]] ([[1945]]–[[1953]])
* [[Lawrence Quincy Mumford]] ([[1954]]–[[1974]])
* [[Daniel J. Boorstin]] ([[1975]]–[[1987]])
* [[James Hadley Billington]] ([[1987]]–[[2015]])
* [[Carla Hayden]] ([[2015]]–)
Historie Kultur Foreninger Organisationer