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HSSC History- Presidents (1885-Present)

Presidents of the Historical Society of Southern California (1885 to present)

John Mansfield (1885)

Isaac Kinley (1886)

Ira Moore (1887)

Henry Dwight Barrows (1888)

Edward Wadsworth Jones (1889)

James Miller Guinn (1890)

George Butler Green (1891)

Ira Moore (1892)

Edward Wadsworth Jones (1893)

Chester Paul Dorland (1894)

Edwin Baxter  (1895)

Frank J. Polley (1896)

Mrs. M. Burton Williamson (1896)

Joseph D. Moody (1897-1898)

Albert E. Yerex (1899)

Walter Romayne Bacon (1900-1907)

William Lees Judson (1908-1909)

George Finley Bovard (1910-1915)

Rockwell Dennis Hunt (1916-1926)

Arthur McDonald Ellis (1927-1928)

John Carl Parish (1929-1930)

Joseph Gregg Layne (1931-1932)

Henry Raup Wagner (1933-1934)

Robert Glass Cleland (1935)

Marshall Stimson (1936-1937)

Joseph Byrne Lockey (1938)

Charles Gibbs Adams (1939)

Marco Ross Newmark (1940-1942)

Joseph Gregg Layne (1942-1945)

Roger J. Sterrett (1946-1947)

Edward Augustus Dickson (1948-1950)

John Corneby Wilson Austin (1951-1954)

John E. Fishburn, Jr. (1955)

Gustave Otto Arlt (1956-1961)

Justin George Turner (1962-1963)

Anna Marie Hagerty (1963-1965)

Charles E. Fulkerson (1965-1966)

Charles C. Powell (1966-1967)

John Haskell Kemble (1967-1970)

Russell E. Belous (1970-1971)

Victor R. Plukas (1971-1972)

E.W. Holland (1972-1975)

William W. Escherich (1975-1978)

Mary Helen Wayne (1978-1980)

Douglas E Richardson (1980-1982)

Harry Kelsey (1982-1984)

Michael H. Dougherty (1984-1987)

George A.V. Dunning (1987-1989)

Joseph S. O’Flaherty (1989-1990)

Powell M. Greenland (1991-1993)

Martin Ridge (1993-1998)

Siegfried G. Demke (1998-2003)

Larry Burgess (2003-2006)

John Pohlmann (2006-2014)

Kenneth Marcus (2014-2017)

Donna Schuele (2017-present)

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