As president of the Association in 1977, Dr. Frank F. Shuler, proposed that ADA past presidents be recognized by a display of their photographic portraits in a printed and bound album in the board room at the Association’s headquarters building. The Board of Trustees later approved the plan and the book was printed in an edition of several copies.
In this collection, the portraits are presented along with a brief biography of the president and historical highlights of the term year on the page facing each in the album.
The album portraits with accompanying biography and historical highlights were then published individually in a regular monthly series in The Journal of the American Dental Association from 1979 to 1985.
Submissions from 1977
ADA President 1860-1862: William Henry Atkinson, American Dental Association
ADA President 1862-1863: George Watt, American Dental Association
ADA President 1863-1864: William H. Allen, American Dental Association
ADA President 1864-1865: John Hugh McQuillen, American Dental Association
ADA President 1865-1866: Christopher Waterman Spalding, American Dental Association
ADA President 1866-1867: Chauncy P. Fitch, American Dental Association
ADA President 1867-1868: Ambrose Lawrence, American Dental Association
ADA President: 1868-1869 Jonathan Taft, American Dental Association
ADA President 1869-1870: Homer Judd, American Dental Association
ADA President 1870-1871: William Henry Morgan, American Dental Association
ADA President 1871-1872: George Hoppin Cushing, American Dental Association
ADA President 1872-1873: Phineas George Canning Hunt, American Dental Association
ADA President 1873-1874: Thomas Lea Buckingham, American Dental Association
ADA President 1874-1875: Mason Stillman Dean, American Dental Association
ADA President 1875-1876: Aaron Lockwood Northrop, American Dental Association
ADA President 1876-1877: George Watt Keely, American Dental Association
ADA President 1877-1878: Frederick Henry Rehwinkel, American Dental Association
ADA President 1878-1879: Henry James Byron McKellops, American Dental Association
ADA President 1879-1880: Luther Dimmick Shepard, American Dental Association
ADA President 1880-1881: Cyrus Newlin Peirce, American Dental Association
ADA President 1881-1882: Henry A. Smith, American Dental Association
ADA President 1882-1883: William Henry Goddard, American Dental Association
ADA President 1883-1884: Edwin Tyler Darby, American Dental Association
ADA President 1884-1885: John Nathan Crouse, American Dental Association
ADA President 1885-1886: William Clay Barrett, American Dental Association
ADA President 1886-1887: Walter Webb Allport, American Dental Association
ADA President 1887-1888: Frank Abbott, American Dental Association
ADA President 1888-1889: Charles Richard Butler, American Dental Association
ADA President 1889-1890: Matthew Whildin Foster, American Dental Association
ADA President 1890-1891: Alison Wright Harlan, American Dental Association
ADA President 1891-1892: William Wallace Walker, American Dental Association
ADA President 1892-1894: John Deans Patterson, American Dental Association
ADA President 1896-1897: James Truman, American Dental Association
ADA President 1897-1898: Thomas Fillebrown, American Dental Association
ADA President 1898-1899: Harvey Jacob Burkhart, American Dental Association
ADA President 1899-1900: B. Holly Smith, American Dental Association
ADA President 1900-1901: Greene Vardiman Black, American Dental Association
ADA President 1901-1902: James Addison Libbey, American Dental Association
ADA President 1902-1903: Llewellyn Garnet Noel, American Dental Association
ADA President 1903-1904: Charles C. Chittenden, American Dental Association
ADA President 1904-1905: Waldo Elias Boardman, American Dental Association
ADA President 1905-1906: Mark Florus Finley, American Dental Association
ADA President 1906-1907: Adelbert Henry Peck, American Dental Association
ADA President 1907-1908: William Carr, American Dental Association
ADA President 1908-1909: Vines Edmunds Turner, American Dental Association
ADA President 1909-1910: Burton Lee Thorpe, American Dental Association
ADA President 1910-1911: Edward Sanford Gaylord, American Dental Association
ADA President 1911-1912: Arthur Rice Melendy, American Dental Association
ADA President 1912-1913: Frank O. Hetrick, American Dental Association
ADA President 1913-1914: Homer C. Brown, American Dental Association
ADA President 1914-1915: Donald Mackay Gallie, American Dental Association
ADA President 1915-1916: Thomas Philip Hinman, American Dental Association
ADA President 1916-1917: Lafayette Layman Barber, American Dental Association
ADA President 1917-1918: William Hoffman Gardiner Logan, American Dental Association
ADA President 1918-1919: Clement Victor Vignes, American Dental Association
ADA President 1919-1920: John Vander Bie Conzett, American Dental Association
ADA President 1920-1921: H. Edmund Friesell, American Dental Association
ADA President 1921-1922: Thomas B. Hartzell, American Dental Association
ADA President 1922-1923: John Peter Buckley, American Dental Association
ADA President 1923-1924: William A. Giffen, American Dental Association
ADA President 1924-1925: Charles Nelson Johnson, American Dental Association
ADA President 1925-1926: Sheppard W. Foster, American Dental Association
ADA President 1926-1927: Henry Leo Banzhaf, American Dental Association
ADA President 1927-1928: Roscoe Henry Volland, American Dental Association
ADA President 1928-1929: Percy R. Howe, American Dental Association
ADA President 1929-1930: Robert Boyd Bogle, American Dental Association
ADA President 1930-1931: Robert Todd Oliver, American Dental Association
ADA President 1931-1932: Martin Dewey, American Dental Association
ADA President 1932-1933: George Walter Dittmar, American Dental Association
ADA President 1933-1934: Arthur Cornelius Wherry, American Dental Association
ADA President 1934-1935: Frank Monroe Casto, American Dental Association
ADA President 1935-1936: George Ben Wade Winter, American Dental Association
ADA President 1936-1937: Leroy Matthew Simpson Miner, American Dental Association
ADA President 1937-1938: C. Willard Camalier, American Dental Association
ADA President 1938-1939: Marcus Llewellyn Ward, American Dental Association
ADA President 1939-1940: Arthur Hastings Merritt, American Dental Association
ADA President 1940-1941: Wilfred H. Robinson, American Dental Association
ADA President 1941-1942: Oren Austin Oliver, American Dental Association
ADA President 1942-1943: J. Ben Robinson, American Dental Association
ADA President 1943-1944: Charles Raymond Wells, American Dental Association
ADA President 1944-1946: Walter H. Scherer, American Dental Association
ADA President 1946-1947: Sterling Vernon Mead, American Dental Association
ADA President 1947-1948: Harvey Benson Washburn, American Dental Association
ADA President 1948-1949: Clyde Estes Minges, American Dental Association
ADA President 1949-1950: Philip Edwin Adams, American Dental Association
ADA President 1950-1951: Harold Whinery Oppice, American Dental Association
ADA President 1951-1952: LeRoy Massey Ennis, American Dental Association
ADA President 1952-1953: Otto W. Brandhorst, American Dental Association
ADA President 1953-1954: Leslie Maurice Fitzgerald, American Dental Association
ADA President 1954-1955: Daniel Francis Lynch, American Dental Association
ADA President 1955-1956: Bernard C. Kingsbury, American Dental Association
ADA President 1956-1957: Harry Lyons, American Dental Association
ADA President 1957-1958: William Robert Alstadt, American Dental Association
ADA President 1958-1959: Percy Toumine Phillips, American Dental Association
ADA President 1959-1960: Paul Harold Jeserich, American Dental Association
ADA President 1960-1961: Charles Heston Patton, American Dental Association
ADA President 1961-1962: John Reinhart Abel, American Dental Association
ADA President 1962-1963: Gerald Desmond Timmons, American Dental Association
ADA President 1963-1964: James Porter Hollers, American Dental Association
ADA President 1964-1965: Fritz Arthur Pierson, American Dental Association