The following list of ACS Presidents contains links to further information about many of them. This is a work in progress. If there is information that should be added or questions about any of the ACS Presidents, please contact us at preshistory@acs.org.
| 1876 | John W. Draper | 1811 - 1882 |
| 1877 | J. Lawrence Smith | 1818-1883 |
| 1878 | Samuel W. Johnson | 1830-1909 |
| 1879, 1888 | T. Sterry Hunt | 1826-1892 |
| 1880 | Frederick A. Genth | 1820-1893 |
| 1881, 1889 | Charles F. Chandler | 1836-1924 |
| 1882 | John W. Mallet | 1832-1912 |
| 1883 - 1885 | James C. Booth | 1810-1888 |
| 1886 | Albert B. Prescott | 1832-1905 |
| 1887 | Charles A. Goessmann | 1827-1910 |
| 1890 | Henry B. Nason | 1831-1895 |
| 1891 | George F. Barker | 1835-1910 |
| 1892 | George C. Caldwell | 1834-1907 |
| 1893 - 1894 | Harvey W. Wiley | 1844-1930 |
| 1895 | Edgar Fahs Smith | 1854-1928 |
| 1896 - 1897 | Charles B. Dudley | 1842-1909 |
| 1898 | Charles E. Munroe | 1849-1938 |
| 1899 | Edward W. Morley | 1828-1923 |
| 1900 | William McMurtrie | 1851-1913 |
| 1901 | Frank W. Clarke | 1847-1931 |
| 1902 | Ira Remsen | 1846-1927 |
| 1903 | John H. Long | 1856-1918 |
| 1904 | Arthur A. Noyes | 1866-1936 |
| 1905 | Francis P. Venable | 1856-1934 |
| 1906 | William F. Hillebrand | 1853-1925 |
| 1907 - 1908 | Marston T. Bogert | 1868-1954 |
| 1909 | Willis R. Whitney | 1868-1958 |
| 1910 | Wilder D. Bancroft | 1867-1953 |
| 1911 | Alexander Smith | 1865-1922 |
| 1912 -1913 | Arthur D. Little | 1863-1935 |
| 1914 | Theodore W. Richards | 1868-1928 |
| 1915 1916 | Charles H. Herty | 1867-1938 |
| 1917 | Julius Stieglitz | 1867-1937 |
| 1918 - 1919 | William H. Nichols | 1852-1930 |
| 1920 | William A. Noyes | 1857-1941 |
| 1921 - 1922 | Edgar Fahs Smith | 1854-1928 |
| 1923 | Edward C. Franklin | 1862-1937 |
| 1924 | Leo H. Baekeland | |
| 1925 - 1926 | James F. Norris | 1863-1944 |
| 1927 | George D. Rosengarten | 1869-1936 |
| 1928 | Samuel W. Parr | 1857-1931 |
| 1929 | Irving Langmuir | 1881-1957 |
| 1930 | William McPherson | 1864-1951 |
| 1931 | Moses Gomberg | 1866-1947 |
| 1932 | L.V. Redman | 1880-1946 |
| 1933 | Arthur B. Lamb | 1880-1952 |
| 1934 | Charles L. Reese | 1862-1940 |
| 1935 | Roger Adams | 1889-1971 |
| 1936 | Edward Bartow | 1870-1958 |
| 1937 | Edward R. Weidlein | 1887-1983 |
| 1938 | Frank C. Whitmore | 1887-1947 |
| 1939 | Charles A. Kraus | 1876-1967 |
| 1940 | Samuel C. Lind | 1879-1965 |
| 1941 | William Lloyd Evans | 1870-1954 |
| 1942 | Harry N. Holmes | 1879-1958 |
| 1943 | Per K. Frolich | 1899-1977 |
| 1944 | Thomas Midgley, Jr. | 1899-1944 |
| 1945 | Carl S. Marvel | 1894-1988 |
| 1946 | Bradley Dewey | 1887-1974 |
| 1947 | W. Albert Noyes, Jr. | 1898-1980 |
| 1948 | Charles A. Thomas | 1900-1982 |
| 1949 | Linus Pauling | 1901-1994 |
| 1950 | Ernest H. Volwiler | 1893-1992 |
| 1951 | N. Howell Furman | 1892-1965 |
| 1952 | Edgar C. Britton | 1891-1962 |
| 1953 | Farrington Daniels | 1889-1972 |
| 1954 | Harry L. Fisher | 1885-1961 |
| 1955 | Joel H. Hildebrand | 1881-1983 |
| 1956 | John C. Warner | 1897-1989 |
| 1957 | Roger J. Williams | 1893-1988 |
| 1958 | Clifford F. Rassweiler | 1899-1976 |
| 1959 | John C. Bailar, Jr. | 1904-1991 |
| 1960 | Albert L. Elder | 1901-1976 |
| 1961 | Arthur C. Cope | 1909-1966 |
| 1962 | Karl Folkers | 1906-1997 |
| 1963 | Henry Eyring | 1901-1981 |
| 1964 | Maurice H. Arveson | 1902-1974 |
| 1965 | Charles C. Price | 1913-2001 |
| 1966 | William J. Sparks | 1905-1976 |
| 1967 | Charles G. Overberger | 1920-1997 |
| 1968 | Robert W. Cairns | 1909-1985 |
| 1969 | Wallace R. Brode | 1900-1974 |
| 1970 | Byron Riegel | 1906-1975 |
| 1971 | Melvin Calvin | 1911-1997 |
| 1972 | Max Tishler | 1906-1989 |
| 1973 | Alan C. Nixon | 1908-2002 |
| 1974 | Bernard S. Friedman | 1907-1996 |
| 1975 | William J. Bailey | 1921-1989 |
| 1976 | Glenn T. Seaborg | 1912-1999 |
| 1977 | Henry A. Hill | 1915-1979 |
| 1978 | Anna J. Harrison | 1912-1998 |
| 1979 | Gardner W. Stacy | 1921-1995 |
| 1980 | James D. D'Ianni | 1914-2007 |
| 1981 | Albert C. Zettlemoyer | 1915-1991 |
| 1982 | Robert W. Parry | 1917-2006 |
| 1983 | Fred Basolo | 1920-2007 |
| 1984 | Warren D. Niederhauser | 1918-2005 |
| 1985 | Ellis K. Fields | 1917-2003 |
| 1986 | George C. Pimentel | 1922-1989 |
| 1987 | Mary L. Good | 1931- |
| 1988 | Gordon L. Nelson | 1943- |
| 1989 | Clayton F. Callis | 1923-2005 |
| 1990 | Paul G. Gassman | 1935-1994 |
| 1991 | S. Allen Heininger | 1925- |
| 1992 | Ernest L. Eliel | 1921-2008 |
| 1993 | Helen M. Free | 1923- |
| 1994 | Ned D. Heindel | 1937- |
| 1995 | Brian M. Rushton | 1933- |
| 1996 | Ronald Breslow | 1931- |
| 1997 | Paul S. Anderson | 1938- |
| 1998 | Paul H.L. Walter | 1934- |
| 1999 | Edel Wasserman | 1932- |
| 2000 | Daryle H. Busch | 1928- |
| 2001 | Attila E. Pavlath | 1930- |
| 2002 | Eli M. Pearce | 1929- |
| 2003 | Elsa Reichmanis | 1953- |
| 2004 | Charles P. Casey | 1942- |
| 2005 | William F. Carroll, Jr. | 1952- |
| 2006 | E. Ann Nalley | 1942- |
| 2007 | Catherine T. (Katie) Hunt | 1955- |
| 2008 | Bruce E. Bursten | 1952- |
| 2009 | Thomas H. Lane | 1952 |
| 2010 | Joseph S. Francisco | 1955- |
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