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Past Presidents

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ABA Past Presidents (1930-2000) (PDF)

ABA Past Presidents (2001-2019) (PDF)

Past President
Dr. Edwin Franko Goldman (d. 1956)
Dr. Charles O’Neill (d. 1964)
Dr. Herbert L. Clarke (d. 1945)
Dr. Frank Simon (d. 1967)
Dr. Albert Austin Harding (d. 1958)
Dr. Karl L. King (d. 1971)
Dr. Peter Buys (d. 1964)
Capt. R. B. Hayward (d. 1961)
Henry Fillmore (d. 1956)
Dr. Glenn Cliffe Bainum (d. 1974)
Col. H. C. Bronson (d. 1960)
J. J. Richards (d. 1956)
Harold B. Bachman (d. 1972)
Col. Earl D. Irons (d. 1967)
Dr. William D. Revelli (d. 1994)
Lt. Col. Wm. F. Santelmann (d. 1984)
Comdr. Charles Brendler (d. 1965)
Dr. James C. Harper (d. 1986)
Col. George S. Howard (d. 1995)
Dr. Mark H. Hindsley (d. 1999)
Herbert N. Johnston (d. 2002)
Dr. Raymond F. Dvorak (d. 1982)
Carleton L. Stewart (d. 1985)
Otto J. Kraushaar (d. 1979)
Dr. Earl A. Slocum (d. 1994)
Dr. Paul V. Yoder (d. 1990)
Lt. Col. Chester E. Whiting (d. 1985)
Dr. George C. Wilson (d. 2001)
Fred McCall (d. 1977)
Col. Samuel R. Loboda (d. 1977)
Dr. James Berdahl (d. 1996)
Charles J. Payne (d. 1999)
Nilo W. Hovey (d. 1986)
Dr. James W. Dunlop (d. 1975)
Lt. Col. Clifford O. Hunt (d. 2003)
Jack H. Mahan (d. 1995)
Hugh E. McMillen (d. 1992)
Maj. John Yesulaitis (d. 2005)
John P. Paynter (d. 1996)
Ardeen J. Foss (d. 1977)
Dr. Donald E. McGinnis (d. 2016)
Butler R. Eitel (d. 2009)
Col. Arnald D. Gabriel
Dr. Al G. Wright (d. 2020)
Frederick C. Ebbs (d. 1984)
Martin Boundy (d. 1998)
Dr. Harry Begian (d. 2010)
Dr. Richard E. Strange (d. 2009)
Dr. Edgar B. Gangware, Jr. (d. 1994)
Dr. John M. Long (d. 2019)
Col. Eugene W. Allen
Dr. W J Julian (d. 2015)
Mark S. Kelly (d. 2017)
Col. John R. Bourgeois
Robert E. Foster
Dr. W. Francis McBeth (d. 2012)
Dr. William P. Foster (d. 2010)
Kenneth G. Bloomquist
Dr. Myron D. Welch
Frank B. Wickes (d. 2020)
Dr. Stanley F. Michalski, Jr.
Bryce B. Taylor (d. 2020)
Edward S. Lisk
Don Wilcox
James F. Keene
Ray Cramer
Jerry F. Junkin
Dr. John R. Locke
Dr. Thomas V. Fraschillo
Carl J. Bianchi
Robert D. Jorgensen (d. 2015)
Joseph W. Hermann
Dr. Paula A. Crider
Scott L. Taylor
Thomas G. Leslie
Dr. David A. Waybright
Dennis Zeisler (d. 2020)
Terry L. Austin
Dr. Timothy B. Rhea
Gary Smith
Dr. Lowell E. Graham
Dr. Linda R. Moorhouse
Year(s) they served as ABA President
1930-32
1933-34
1934-35
1935-36
1937-38
1938-39
1939-40
1940-41
1941-46
1947-48
1948-49
1949-50
1950-51
1951-52
1952-53
1953-54
1954-55
1955-56
1956-57
1957-58
1958-59
1959-60
1960-61
1961-62
1962-63
1963-64
1964-65
1965-66
1966-67
1967-68
1968-69
1969-70
1970-71
1971-72
1972-73
1973-74
1974-75
1975-76
1976-77
1977-78
1978-79
1979-80
1980-81
1981-82
1982-83
1983-84
1984-85
1985-86
1986-87
1987-88
1988-89
1989-90
1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
1993-94
1994-95
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
1998-99
1999-00
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
2016-17
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20

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