List of Boston Athenæum Officers

Librarians and Directors
William Smith Shaw, A.M., Librarian: 1807-1822
Joseph Backus, Assistant Librarian: 1820-1825
     in charge: 1822-1825
Seth Bass, M.D., Librarian: 1825-1846
Charles Folsom, A.M., Librarian: 1847-1856
William Fredrick Poole, M.A., LL. D., Librarian: 1856-1868
Charles Ammi Cutter, A.B., Librarian: 1869-1892
William Coolidge Lane, A.B., Librarian: 1893-1897
Charles Knowles Bolton, A.B., Librarian: 1898-1932
Elinor Gregory (Elinor Gregory Metcalf 1941), Librarian: 1933-1936
M.A. De Wolfe Howe, Director: 1933-1937
Elinor Gregory (Elinor Gregory Metcalf 1941), Director and Librarian: 1937-1946
Walter Muir Whitehill, Librarian: 1946
     Director and Librarian: 1947-1972
Rodney Armstrong, Director and Librarian: 1973-1996
Richard Wendorf, Director and Librarian: 1997-1999
     Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian: 2000-2009
Paula Matthews, Chief Librarian: October 2008
     Acting Director and Librarian May 2009
     Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian October 2009-

Presidents
Theophilus Parsons: 1807-1813
John Davis: 1814-1815
John Lowell: 1816-1819
Josiah Quincy: 1820-1829
Thomas Handasyd Perkins: 1830-1832
Francis Calley Gray: 1833-1836
George Hayward: 1837-1845
Thomas Greaves Cary: 1846-1859
John Amory Lowell: 1860-1876
Charles Francis Adams: 1877-1879
Samuel Eliot: 1880-1898
Arthur Theodore Lyman: 1899-1915
Howard Stockton:  1916-1931
Charles Frances Adams: 1932-1935
George Edward Cabot: 1936-1946
Roger Wolcott: 1947-1957
Carlton Rubira Richmond: 1958-Dec. 1968
James Barr Ames: Dec. 16, 1968-1981
Arthur E. Vershbow: 1982-1995
John G. L. Cabot: 1996-2001
George Marshall Moriarty: 2002-2009
Deborah H. Bornheimer: 2010-

Vice Presidents
John Davis: 1807-1813
John Lowell: 1814-1815
Josiah Quincy: 1816-1819
James Perkins: 1820
John Richards: 1821-1822
Peter Oxenbridge Thacher: 1823-1825
Francis Calley Gray: 1826-1832
George Ticknor: 1833
George Hayward: 1834-1836
Thomas Greaves Cary: 1837-1845
John Amory Lowell: 1846-1859
George Livermore: 1860-1865
Andrew Townshend Hall: 1866-1875
Charles Francis Adams: 1876
Charles Deane: 1877-1884
Robert William Hopper: 1885
James Eliot Cabot: 1886-1898
John Chipman Gray: 1899-1904
Howard Stockton: 1905-1916
Russell Gray: 1917-1929
Charles Francis Adams: 1930-1931
George Edward Cabot: 1932-1935
Roger Walcott: 1936-1946
Augustus Peabody Loring, Jr.: 1947-1950
Carlton Rubira Richmond: 1951-1957
Richard Cushing Paine: 1957-1962
Francis Murray Forbes, Jr.: 1962-1980
Arthur E. Vershbow: 1981-1982
Gaspard  D’Andelot Belin  1982-2001
Clarissa C. Hunnewell: 2002-2007
Deborah H. Bornheimer: 2008-2009
Charles A. Coolidge, III : 2010-

 
Treasurers
John Lowell: 1807-1810
Joseph Tilden: 1811-1815
Nathan Appleton: 1816-1827
Thomas Wren Ward: 1828-1836
Josiah Quincy Jr.: 1837-1851
Samuel Hopper: 1852-1853
Henry Bromfield Rogers: 1854-1867
Arthur Theodore Lyman: 1868
Henry Bromfield Rogers: 1869-1876
Charles Pickering Bowditch: 1877-1898
Alfred Bowditch: 1899-1918
Albert Thorndike: 1918-1935
    Arthur Lyman, Assistant Treasurer: 1918-1919
Charles Jackson: 1936-1957
Augustus Peabody Loring: 1957-1980
Lawrence Coolidge: 1981-1990
Gilbert M. Roddy, Jr.: 1991-		 Secretaries
William Smith Shaw: 1807-1823
Henry Codman: 1824-1827
Josiah Quincy Jr.: 1828-1830
William Turell Andrews: 1831-1845
Henry Tuke Parker: 1846-1850
Charles Pelham Curtis, Jr.: 1851-1852
William Sohier Dexter: 1853-1854
Henry Melville Parker: 1855
William Appleton, Jr.: 1856
Lemuel Shaw, Jr.: 1857-1861
Arthur Theodore Lyman: 1862-1867
Charles Francis Adams, Jr.: 1868-1872
Brooks Adams: 1873-1879
Charles Herbert Williams: 1880-1887
William Reuben Richards: 1888-1894
Albert Thorndike: 1895-1917
Charles Knowles Bolton: 1918-1932
Allston Burr: 1933-1935
George Casper Homans: 1936-1941
Allston Burr: 1942-1947
George Casper Homans: 1948-1949
Carlton Rubira Richmond: 1950-1951
Parkman Dexter Howe: 1951-1969
Alexander Whiteside Williams: 1969-1980
John Lowell Lyman: 1981-1986 (died April 29, 1986)
Frances Hovey Howe: 1986-1997
Bayard Henry: 1998-2005
Edward B. Baldini 2006-2009
Alex Altschuller: 2010-