NavigationAAS Members Who Have Served as United States President
Members, who now number more than a thousand persons, are elected by their colleagues in recognition of scholarship, for support of cultural institutions, for manifest interest in bibliographical matters, or for distinction as community or national leaders in humanistic affairs.
The following fourteen presidents of the United States are among the individuals who have been elected to the American Antiquarian Society.
Presidential Term |
Elected to AAS |
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| John Adams (1735-1826) | 1797-1801 | 1813 |
| Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | 1801-1809 | 1814 |
| James Madison (1751-1836) | 1809-1817 | 1818 |
| James Monroe (1758-1831) | 1817-1825 | 1818 |
| John Q. Adams (1767-1848) | 1825-1829 | 1839 |
| Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) | 1829-1837 | 1818 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) | 1877-1881 | 1890 |
| Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) | 1901-1909 | 1918 |
| William H. Taft (1857-1930) | 1909-1913 | 1912 |
| Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) | 1913-1921 | 1913 |
| Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) | 1923-1929 | 1925 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) | 1933-1945 | 1924 |
| Jimmy Carter (1924- ) | 1977-1981 | 1988 |
| William J. Clinton (1946- ) | 1993-2001 | 2010 |
