ESA Past Presidents

The Entomological Society of America traces its roots to 1889, with the foundation of the American Association of Economic Entomologists. In 1907, the Entomological Society of America was founded, and the two organizations operated concurrently until their merger in 1953. Below, find a list of past presidents of both ESA and AAEE.

For biographical info on ESA and AAEE presidents prior to 1990, see "Vignettes of the Presidents of the Entomological Society of America, 1889–1989," Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America, Fall 1989.

Entomological Society of America Presidents (1907-Present)

Society Year President
ESA 2024 Ms. Jennifer A. Henke, BCE
ESA 2023 Dr. Marianne Alleyne
ESA 2022 Dr. Jessica L. Ware
ESA 2021 Ms. Michelle S. Smith, BCE
ESA 2020 Dr. Alvin M. Simmons
ESA 2019 Dr. Robert K. D. Peterson
ESA 2018 Dr. Michael P. Parrella
ESA 2017 Dr. Susan Weller
ESA 2016 Dr. May R. Berenbaum
ESA 2015 Dr. Phillip G. Mulder, Jr.
ESA 2014 Dr. Frank Zalom
ESA 2013 Dr. Robert Wiedenmann
ESA 2012 Dr. Grayson C. Brown
ESA 2011 Dr. Ernest S. Delfosse
ESA 2010 Dr. David B. Hogg
ESA 2009 Dr. Marlin E. Rice
ESA 2008 Dr. Michael E. Gray
ESA 2007 Dr. Scott H. Hutchins
ESA 2006 Dr. Frank E. Gilstrap
ESA 2005 Dr. Michael A. Ivie
ESA 2004 Dr. Kevin L. Steffey
ESA 2003 Dr. Z B Mayo, Jr.
ESA 2002 Dr. J. E. McPherson
ESA 2001 Dr. Larry L. Larson
ESA 2000 Dr. Sharron S. Quisenberry
ESA 1999 Dr. Christian Y. Oseto
ESA 1998 Dr. George G. Kennedy
ESA 1997 Dr. Douglas Dahlman
ESA 1996 Dr. Manya B. Stoetzel
ESA 1995 Dr. Eldon E. Ortman
ESA 1994 Dr. George L. Teetes
ESA 1993 Dr. Fred W. Knapp
ESA 1992 Dr. F. Tom Turpin
ESA 1991 Dr. Lowell R. Nault
ESA 1990 Dr. James H. Oliver, Jr.
ESA 1989 Dr. Dorothy Feir
ESA 1988 Dr. Lloyd Knutson
ESA 1987 Dr. Bobby C. Pass
ESA 1986 Dr. William A. Allen
ESA 1985 Dr. Charles A. Triplehorn
ESA 1984 Dr. Donald L. McLean
ESA 1983 Dr. W. Donald Duckworth
ESA 1982 Dr. Stanley D. Beck
ESA 1981 Dr. Carl B. Huffaker
ESA 1980 Dr. Harold T. Reynolds
ESA 1979 Dr. James Burton Kring
ESA 1978 Dr. Edward H. Glass
ESA 1977 Dr. Reece Ivan Sailer
ESA 1976 Dr. Ray F. Smith
ESA 1975 Dr. Kenneth L. Knight
ESA 1974 Dr. Perry L. Adkisson
ESA 1973 Dr. Gordon E. Guyer
ESA 1972 Dr. William G. Eden
ESA 1971 Mr. Robert H. Nelson
ESA 1970 Dr. Paul Osborne Ritcher
ESA 1969 Dr. Curtis W. Sabrosky
ESA 1968 Dr. Bailey Breazeale Pepper
ESA 1967 Dr. Anthony W. A. Brown
ESA 1966 Dr. Robert L. Usinger
ESA 1965 Mr. J. Everett Bussart
ESA 1964 Dr. Carroll N. Smith
ESA 1963 Dr. Edward Arthur Steinhaus
ESA 1962 Dr. Robert Glen
ESA 1961 Dr. Frank S. Arant
ESA 1960 Mr. Merlin Perry Jones
ESA 1959 Dr. Paul W. Oman
ESA 1958 Dr. Robert L. Metcalf
ESA 1957 Mr. Horace Morton Armitage
ESA 1956 Dr. Bennett Allen Porter
ESA 1955 Dr. George C. Decker
ESA 1954 Dr. Herbert Holdsworth Ross
ESA 1953 Dr. Charles E. Palm
ESA 1952 Dr. Earle Gorton Linsey
ESA 1951 Dr. James Chester Bradley
ESA 1950 Dr. William Patrick Hayes
ESA 1949 Dr. Alvah Peterson
ESA 1948 Dr. Harry Hazelton Knight
ESA 1947 Dr. Zeno Payne Metcalf
ESA 1946 Carl Frederick William Muesebeck
ESA 1945 James Abram Garfield Rehn
ESA 1944 Dr. Clarence E. Mickel
ESA 1943 Dr. Charles Paul Alexander
ESA 1942 Dr. Charles Paul Alexander
ESA 1941 William Brodbeck Herms (also AAEE President, 1928)
ESA 1940 Dr. William Delbert Funkhouser
ESA 1939 Dr. Edmund Murton Walker
ESA 1938 Dr. Axel Leonard Melander
ESA 1937 Dr. Oskar August Johannsen
ESA 1936 Dr. Herbert Barker Hungerford
ESA 1935 Dr. Clarence Hamilton Kennedy
ESA 1934 Dr. Clell Lee Metcalf
ESA 1933 Robert Evans Snodgrass
ESA 1932 John June Davis (also AAEE President, 1938)
ESA 1931 Dr. Justus Watson Folsom
ESA 1930 Dr. Edith Marion Patch
ESA 1929 Charles Thomas Brues II
ESA 1928 Edward Oliver Essig (also AAEE President, 1944)
ESA 1927 Frank Eugene Lutz
ESA 1926 Dr. William Albert Riley
ESA 1925 George Adam Dean (also AAEE President, 1921)
ESA 1924 Charles Willison Johnson
ESA 1923 Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
ESA 1922 Arthur Gibson (also AAEE President, 1926)
ESA 1921 Dr. John Merton Aldrich
ESA 1920 Leland Ossian Howard (also AAEE President, 1894)
ESA 1919 Dr. James George Needham
ESA 1918 Nathan Banks
ESA 1917 Lawrence Bruner (also AAEE President, 1900)
ESA 1916 Ephraim Porter Felt (also AAEE President, 1902)
ESA 1916 Francis Marion Webster (also AAEE President, 1897)
ESA 1915 Vernon Lyman Kellogg
ESA 1914 Dr. Philip Powell Calvert
ESA 1913 Charles James Stewart Bethune
ESA 1912 Stephen Alfred Forbes (also AAEE President, 1893, 1908)
ESA 1911 Herbert Osborn (also AAEE President, 1898)
ESA 1910 John Bernhardt Smith (also AAEE President, 1895)
ESA 1909 Henry Skinner
ESA 1908 William Morton Wheeler
ESA 1907 John Henry Comstock

 

American Association of Economic Entomologists Presidents (1889-1952)

Society Year President
AAEE 1952 Dr. Edward Fred Knipling
AAEE 1951 Roy Elliot Campbell
AAEE 1950 Curtis Paul Clausen
AAEE 1949 Alfred Mullikin Boyce
AAEE 1948 Sievert Allen Rohwer
AAEE 1947 Dr. Ernest Neal Cory
AAEE 1946 Dr. Clay Lyle
AAEE 1945 Delos Lewis Van Dine
AAEE 1944 Edward Oliver Essig (also ESA President, 1928)
AAEE 1943 Dr. Percy Nicol Annand
AAEE 1942 Harry Bischoff Weiss
AAEE 1941 Dr. John Robert Parker
AAEE 1940 Harry Scott Smith
AAEE 1939 Ernest Ralph Sasscer
AAEE 1938 John June Davis (also ESA President, 1932)
AAEE 1937 Dr. Fred Corry Bishopp
AAEE 1936 Leonard Septimus McLaine
AAEE 1935 Lee Abram Strong
AAEE 1934 Dr. Everett Franklin Phillips
AAEE 1933 Dr. Warren Elmer Hinds
AAEE 1932 Dr. Wesley Pillbury Flint
AAEE 1931 John Samuel Houser
AAEE 1930 Franklin Sherman, Jr.
AAEE 1929 Dr. Thomas Jefferson Headlee
AAEE 1928 William Brodbeck Herms (also ESA President, 1941)
AAEE 1927 Robey Wentworth Harned
AAEE 1926 Arthur Gibson (also ESA President, 1922)
AAEE 1925 Dr. Royal Norton Chapman
AAEE 1925 Harry Arthur Gossard
AAEE 1924 Albert Franklin Burgess
AAEE 1923 Arthur Gordon Ruggles
AAEE 1922 Dr. James Glossbrenner Sanders
AAEE 1921 George Adam Dean (also ESA President, 1925)
AAEE 1920 Dr. Wilmon Newell
AAEE 1919 Dr. Walter Collins O'Kane
AAEE 1918 Dr. Elmer Darwin Ball
AAEE 1917 Robert Allen Cooley
AAEE 1916 Dr. Charles Gordon Hewitt
AAEE 1915 Glenn Washington Herrick
AAEE 1914 Dr. Henry Torsey Leroy Fernald
AAEE 1913 Percival John Parrott
AAEE 1912 Walter David Hunter
AAEE 1911 Frederick Leonard Washburn
AAEE 1910 Dr. Ezra Dwight Sanderson
AAEE 1909 Wilton Everett Britton
AAEE 1908 Stephen Alfred Forbes (also ESA President, 1912)
AAEE 1907 Harcourt Alexander Morgan
AAEE 1906 Archie Howard Kirkland
AAEE 1905 Harrison Garman
AAEE 1904 Altus Lacy Quaintance
AAEE 1903 Mark Vernon Slingerland
AAEE 1902 Ephraim Porter Felt (also ESA President, 1916)
AAEE 1901 Clarence Preston Gillette
AAEE 1900 Lawrence Bruner (also ESA President, 1917)
AAEE 1899 Charles Lester Marlatt
AAEE 1898 Herbert Osborn (also ESA President, 1911)
AAEE 1897 Francis Marion Webster (also ESA President, 1916)
AAEE 1896 Charles Henry Fernald
AAEE 1895 John Bernhardt Smith (also ESA President, 1910)
AAEE 1894 Leland Ossian Howard (also ESA President, 1920)
AAEE 1893 Stephen Alfred Forbes (also ESA President, 1912)
AAEE 1892 Joseph Albert Lintner
AAEE 1891 James Fletcher
AAEE 1889-90 Charles Valentine Riley
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