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    Past Presidents

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    ABA Past Presidents (PDF)
    Michael Colburn Bio (PDF)
    ABA Presidents Arranged Alphabetically (PDF)
    ABA Presidents Arranged Chronologically (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. 2020)
    Col. Eugene W. Allen (d. 2020)
    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 (d. 2021)
    Dr. Myron D. Welch
    Frank B. Wickes (d. 2020)
    Dr. Stanley F. Michalski, Jr.
    Bryce B. Taylor (d. 2020)
    Edward S. Lisk
    Don Wilcox (d. 2024)
    James F. Keene (d. 2022)
    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
    Jay S. Gephart
    Kerry Taylor
    Col (ret.) Michael Colburn
    Bobby Francis
    Year(s) they served as ABA President
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    1963-64
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