| Name | Years Served |
|---|---|
| Thomas G. Appleton | 1852–1856 |
| John P. Bigelow | 1852–1868 |
| Edward Everett | 1852–1864 |
| Nathaniel B. Shurtleff | 1852–1868 |
| George Ticknor | 1852–1866 |
| William W. Greenough | 1856–1888 |
| Henry I. Bowditch | 1865–1867 |
| Winslow Lewis | 1867 |
| Justin Winsor | 1867–1868 |
| Samuel A. Green | 1868–1878 |
| Weston Lewis | 1868–1879 |
| George Putnum | 1868–1877 |
| Edwin P. Whipple | 1868–1870 |
| Jarvis D. Braman | 1869–1872 |
| Ellis W. Morton | 1870–1873 |
| George S. Hillard | 1872–1875 |
| Daniel S. Curtis | 1873–1875 |
| Richard Frothingham | 1875–1879 |
| George B. Chase | 1876–1885 |
| Benjamin F. Thomas | 1877–1878 |
| Samuel A. B. Abbott | 1879–1895 |
| James F. Clarke | 1879–1888 |
| Henry W. Haynes | 1880–1894 |
| William H. Whitmore | 1885–1888 |
| Phineas Pierce | 1888–1894 |
| Frederick O. Prince | 1888–1899 |
| William R. Richards | 1889–1895 |
| Josiah H. Benton | 1894–1917 |
| Henry P. Bowditch | 1894–1902 |
| Samuel Carr | 1895–1896 |
| 1908–1922 | |
| James De Normandie | 1895–1908 |
| Francis A. Walker | 1896 |
| Solomon Lincoln | 1897–1907 |
| Thomas Dwight | 1899–1908 |
| Thomas F. Boyle | 1902–1912 |
| William F. Kenney | 1908–1921 |
| Alexander Mann | 1908–1923 |
| John A. Brett | 1912–1916 |
| Arthur T. Connolly | 1916–1932 |
| Daniel H. Coakley | 1917–1919 |
| Louis E. Kirstein | 1919–1942 |
| Michael J. Murray | 1921–1926 |
| Guy W. Currier | 1922–1930 |
| William A. Gaston | 1923–1927 |
| Gordon Abbott | 1926–1931 |
| Clifton H. Dwinnell | 1927–1928 |
| Frank W. Buxton | 1928–1961 |
| Ellery Sedgwick | 1930–1948 |
| John L. Hall | 1931–1946 |
| William H. O’Connell | 1932–1936 |
| Robert H. Lord | 1936–1952 |
| Abraham E. Pinanski | 1943–1949 |
| Francis B. Masterson | 1946–1951 |
| Frank J. Donahue | 1948–1956 |
| Lee M. Friedman | 1949–1957 |
| Patrick F. McDonald | 1951–1963 |
| Richard J. Cushing | 1952–1958 |
| Erwin D. Canham | 1956–1973 |
| Sidney R. Rabb | 1957–1980 |
| Edward G. Murray | 1958–1979 |
| Augustin H. Parker | 1961–1979 |
| Lenahan O’Connell | 1963–1972 |
| Patricia H. White | 1972–1978 |
| Frank B. Maher | 1973–1980 |
| Paul Parks | 1979–1984 |
| Arthur F.F. Snyder | 1979–1983 |
| Micho F. Spring | 1980–1984 |
| James V. Young | 1980–1984 |
| Doris K. Goodwin | 1983–1990 |
| William M. Bulger | 1983–2008 |
| Kevin F. Moloney | 1984–1990 |
| Berthé M. Gaines | 1984–2011 |
| Marianne R. Luthin | 1984–1990 |
| Robert W. Consalvo | 1990–1993 |
| William O. Taylor | 1990–2006 |
| Arthur F.F. Snyder | 1990–1996 |
| Michael J. Whouley | 1993–1995 |
| V. Paul Deare | 1995–2003 |
| Donna M. DePrisco | 1995–2012 |
| David McCullough | 1995–2000 |
| Pamela Seigle | 1995–2003 |
| Kim Lan Tran | 1995–1996 |
| Libby Lai-Bun Chiu | 1996–2000 |
| Joseph E. Mullaney | 1996–2004 |
| Angelo M. Scaccia | 2000–2009 |
| James Carroll | 2000–2011 |
| Karyn M. Wilson | 2003–2009 |
| Jeffrey B. Rudman | 2004–2015 |
| A. Raymond Tye | 2006–2010 |
| Paul La Camera | 2009–2018 |
| Byron Rushing | 2010–2019 |
| Carol Fulp | 2010–2017 |
| Dennis Lehane | 2011–2015 |
| Laura DeBonis | 2013–2016 |
| Robert E. Gallery | 2015–2021 |
| Zamawa Arenas | 2006-2022 |
| Joyce Linehan | 2021-2022 |
| Ben Bradlee Jr | 2016-2023 |
| Jabari Asim | 2018-2023 |
| Linda Dorcena Forry | 2018-2023 |
| Priscilla H. Douglas | 2017-2024 |
| Chynah Tyler | 2019-2024 |