VHS/VMHC Chairs and Presidents
VHS/VMHC Chairs and Presidents
Chairperson of the Board of Trustees (the title changed from Presidents of the Virginia Historical Society after 2001)
John Marshall | 1831–1835 | Virginius Dabney | 1969–1972 | ||
Henry St. George Tucker | 1836–1847 | Edwin Cox | 1972–1975 | ||
William Cabell Rives | 1847–1868 | Joseph Clarke Robert | 1975–1978 | ||
Hugh Blair Grigsby | 1870–1881 | David Tennant Bryan | 1978–1981 | ||
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart | 1881–1891 | FitzGerald Bemiss | 1981–1984 | ||
William Wirt Henry | 1891–1892 | Lawrence Lewis, Jr. | 1984–1986 | ||
Joseph Bryan | 1892–1902 | John L. McElroy, Jr. | 1987–1988 | ||
William Gordon McCabe | 1903–1905 | Stuart G. Christian, Jr. | 1989–1991 | ||
Joseph Bryan | 1906–1908 | C. Coleman McGehee | 1992–1994 | ||
William Gordon McCabe | 1909–1920 | Brenton S. Halsey | 1995–1997 | ||
Edward Virginius Valentine | 1921–1929 | Austin Brockenbrough III | 1998–1999 | ||
Daniel Grinnan | 1930–1935 | Gerald L. Baliles | 2000–2001 | ||
John Stewart Bryan | 1936–1937 | Hugh R. Stallard | 2002–2003 | ||
Joseph Dupuy Eggleston | 1938–1943 | Hugh V. White, Jr. | 2004–2005 | ||
Alexander Wilbourne Weddell | 1944–1948 | E. Claiborne Robins, Jr. | 2006–2007 | ||
Edmund Randolph Williams | 1948–1952 | J. Stewart Bryan III | 2008–2009 | ||
Samuel Merrifield Bemiss | 1952–1958 | W. Taylor Reveley III | 2010–2011 | ||
Wyndham Bolling Blanton | 1958–1960 | Thomas G. Slater, Jr. | 2012–2013 | ||
George MacLaren Brydon | 1960 | E. Claiborne Robins, Jr. | 2014–2015 | ||
Beverley Randolph Wellford | 1960–1963 | John R. Nelson, Jr. | 2016–2018 | ||
David John Mays | 1963-1966 | Charles L. Cabell | 2019-2020 | ||
Eppa Hunton IV | 1966-1969 | Pamela Kiecker Royall | 2021–2022 |
President and CEOs of the Virginia Historical Society (the title changed from Directors after 2001)
Thomas Hicks Wynne | 1870–1875 | Paul Chester Nagel | 1981–1985 | |
Robert Alonzo Brock | 1875–1892 | Virginius C. Hall, Jr. (interim) | 1985–1986 | |
Philip Alexander Bruce | 1892–1898 | Donald Haynes | 1986–1988 | |
William Glover Stanard | 1898–1933 | Virginius C. Hall, Jr. (interim) | 1988 | |
Robert A. Lancaster | 1933–1940 | Charles F. Bryan, Jr. | 1988–2008 | |
William Clayton Torrence | 1940–1953 | Paul A. Levengood | 2008–2016 | |
John Melville Jennings | 1953–1978 | John R. Nelson, Jr. (interim) | 2016–2017 | |
Edwin L. Dooley, Jr. | 1979–1980 | Jamie O. Bosket | 2017–Present | |
William M. E. Rachal (interim) | 1980 |