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Past Aha Presidents

Past AHA Presidents


2009 - Present
David Niose

Honorary President, April 2009 to his death July 31, 2012
Gore Vidal

2003 - 2008
Mel Lipman

1995 - 2002
Edd Doerr

March 1993 - 1994
Michael W. Werner

Honorary President, May 1992 to his death April 11, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut

April 6, 1992 - Feb. 1993
Suzanne I. Paul

1985 to his death April 6, 1992
Isaac Asimov

1980 - 1984
Lyle L. Simpson

June 1979 to 1980
Louis R. Gomberg

1973 - May 1979
Bette Chambers

1969 - 1972
Lloyd L. Morain

1966 - 1968
Robert W. McCoy

1962 - 1965
Vashti McCollum

1959 - 1961
George L. Axtelle

1956 - 1958
Hermann J. Muller

1951 - 1955
Lloyd L. Morain

1949 - 1950
Curtis W. Reese

1947 - 1948
J. Hutton Hynd

1944 - 1946
E. Burdette Backus

1941 - 1943
Raymond B. Bragg

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