List of national presidents of the Boy Scouts of America

National president
Owner	Boy Scouts of America
Created	February 8, 1910
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The national president is the leading volunteer of the Executive Board of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America, a position comparable to the chairman of a board of directors.

2010–	Rex Tillerson
2008–2010	John Gottschalk
2006–2008	William F. "Rick" Cronk
2004–2006	John C. Cushman III
2002–2004	Roy S. Roberts
2000–2002	Milton H. Ward
1998–2000	Edward Whitacre, Jr.
1996–1998	John W. Creighton, Jr.
1994–1996	Norman Ralph Augustine
1992–1994	John Clendenin
1990–1992	Richard H. Leet
1988–1990	Harold S. Hook
1986–1988	Charles M. Pigott
1984–1986	Sanford N. McDonnell
1982–1984	Edward C. Joullian III
1980–1982	Thomas C. MacAvoy
1979–1980	Downing B. Jenks
1979	John D. Murchison (died in office)
1977–1979	Downing B. Jenks
1975–1977	Arch H. Monson. Jr.
1973–1975	Robert W. Reneker
1971–1973	Norton Clapp
1968–1971	Irving Feist
1964–1968	Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
1959–1964	Ellsworth H. Augustus
1956–1959	Kenneth K. Bechtel
1951–1956	John M. Schiff
1946–1951	Amory Houghton
1931–1946	Walter W. Head
1931	Mortimer L. Schiff (died in office)
1926–1931	Walter W. Head
1926 (Mar–May)	Milton A. McRae
1925–1926	James J. Storrow (died in office)
1910–1925	Colin H. Livingstone

References

• Peterson, Robert W. (1984). The Boy Scouts: An American Adventure. American Heritage. ISBN 0-8281-1173-1. 
• Halter, Jon C. (1999). "Strong Values, Strong Leaders". Scouting. Boy Scouts of America. http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/9909/a-svsl.html. Retrieved 2006-06-24.