VHS/VMHC Chairs and Presidents

Chairperson of the Board of Trustees (the title changed from Presidents of the Virginia Historical Society after 2001)

John Marshall	1831–1835	Virginius Dabney	1969–1972
Henry St. George Tucker	1836–1847	Edwin Cox	1972–1975
William Cabell Rives	1847–1868	Joseph Clarke Robert	1975–1978
Hugh Blair Grigsby	1870–1881	David Tennant Bryan	1978–1981
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart	1881–1891	FitzGerald Bemiss	1981–1984
William Wirt Henry	1891–1892	Lawrence Lewis, Jr.	1984–1986
Joseph Bryan	1892–1902	John L. McElroy, Jr.	1987–1988
William Gordon McCabe	1903–1905	Stuart G. Christian, Jr.	1989–1991
Joseph Bryan	1906–1908	C. Coleman McGehee	1992–1994
William Gordon McCabe	1909–1920	Brenton S. Halsey	1995–1997
Edward Virginius Valentine	1921–1929	Austin Brockenbrough III	1998–1999
Daniel Grinnan	1930–1935	Gerald L. Baliles	2000–2001
John Stewart Bryan	1936–1937	Hugh R. Stallard	2002–2003
Joseph Dupuy Eggleston	1938–1943	Hugh V. White, Jr.	2004–2005
Alexander Wilbourne Weddell	1944–1948	E. Claiborne Robins, Jr.	2006–2007
Edmund Randolph Williams	1948–1952	J. Stewart Bryan III	2008–2009
Samuel Merrifield Bemiss	1952–1958	W. Taylor Reveley III	2010–2011
Wyndham Bolling Blanton	1958–1960	Thomas G. Slater, Jr.	2012–2013
George MacLaren Brydon	1960	E. Claiborne Robins, Jr.	2014–2015
Beverley Randolph Wellford	1960–1963	John R. Nelson, Jr.	2016–2018
David John Mays	1963-1966	Charles L. Cabell	2019-2020
Eppa Hunton IV	1966-1969	Pamela Kiecker Royall	2021–2022

President and CEOs of the Virginia Historical Society (the title changed from Directors after 2001)