Officers 2026-2029

Christopher C Child
Deputy Governor
Historian
Treasurer

Board of Assistants

Continuing to 2027

Continuing to 2028

Continuing to 2029

Staff

Independent Contractors

Assistant Historian
Compact Editor

Former Massachusetts Society Governors

1896-1900Gamaliel Bradford
1900-1902Myles Standish
1902-1904Morton Dexter
1904-1907Charles A. Hopkins
1907-1910Asa P. French
1910-1913John Mason Little
1913-1916Lew C. Hill
1916-1918Rev. Frederick B. Allen
1918-1922William B. H. Dowse
1922-1923Charles A. Coolidge
1923-1928Frederick A. Washburn, M.D.
1928-1929Frederick Foster
1929-1933Robert Cushman
1933-1935Arthur Winslow
1935-1937Walter Merriam Pratt
1937-1940Henry Lowell Mason
1940-1942Charles B. Barnes
1942-1944Edward Dana
1944-1946Elliott B. Church
1946-1949Everett S. Litchfield
1949Benjamin H. Ticknor
1949-1951Charles S. Tapley
1951-1956Clement Kennedy
1956-1959Channing S. Swan, M.D.
1959-1960H. W. Dwight Rudd
1960-1962Eugene P. Carver, Jr.
1962-1965D. Stephen Thrall
1965-1966Brainard F. Gibbons
1966-1969Douglas F. Farrington
1969-1972Robert M. Putnam, M.D.
1972-1974James J. Doty
1974-1976R. Wendell Phillips, Jr.
1976-1980Walter Howard Mayo III
1980-1983S. Susan Thrall
1983-1985John W. Frenning
1985-1988Harry L. Walen
1988-1991Augustus W. Soule, Jr., Esq.
1991-1993Swift Harrison Godshalk
1993-1996Rev. Richard Howland Maxwell
1996-1999Robert W. Proctor
1999-2003Rev. Wesley H. Allen
2003-2006Virginia A. Mucciaccio
2006-2009Wigmore A. Pierson
2009-2011Michael H. Studley, Esq.
2011-2014Richard Standish Gilmore, Esq.
2014-2017Judith Chace Needham
2017-2020William F. Tinney
2020-2021Barbara Lee Kelly
2021-2026Lea Sinclair Filson