Members of the Board of Trustees

The following is a list of Members of the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., since its inception in 1923. [1]

Name Dates of Service
W. Howard Adams 1976-1992
Charles Barham, Jr. 1950-1973
  • Vice President 1950-1966
  • Treasurer 1951-1966
  • President 1966-1973
  • Honorary 1974-1983
Alfred M. Barrett 1923-1936
C. Waller Barrett 1966-1971

Honorary 1971-1990

George Gordon Battle 1923
Michael R. Beschloss Trustee 2000-
Francis L. Berkeley, Jr. 1964-1982
  • Vice President 1966-1970, 1974-1975 & 1981-1982
  • Secretary 1974-1975
  • Honorary 1982-present
Claude G. Bowers 1926-1951
Julian P. Boyd 1952-1963
John J. Boylan 1937-1938

Honorary 1976-1980

W. L. Lyons Brown, Jr. 1998
J. Stewart Bryan III Trustee 2002-
Alfonso Carney, Jr. Trustee 2000-
Katherine A. Couric Trustee 2000-
Robert Carter 1986-1989
  • Secretary 1986-1988
  • Chairman 1989
  • Honorary 1990
  • Emeritus 1991-1995
Hugo B. Chapman 1990-
Adele Chatfield-Taylor Trustee 2002-
Mrs. George M. Cochran 1982-1995
  • Secretary 1989
  • President 1990-1993
  • Chairman 1994-1995
  • Emeritus 1996-present
John F. Cooke 1998-
T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. 1986-1994
Charles T. Cullen Trustee 2004-
Miss Ruth Read Cunningham 1923
Martin S. Davis 1995-1999

Vice Chairman 1998-1999

Mrs. Luella Davis 1999 & 2003

Trustee 2003-

B. Grady Durham Trustee 2002-
Mrs. S. Henry Edmunds 1979-1986

Honorary 1987-1990

Milton C. Elliott 1924-1926
Albert D. Ernest 1998-

Treasurer 1998-

Junius R. Fishburne 1972-1985
  • Treasurer 1974-1983
  • Vice President 1974-1984
  • Honorary 1986-1990
Wendell D. Garrett 1971-1993
  • Secretary 1976-1985
  • Vice President 1976-1985
  • President 1986-1989
  • Chairman 1990-1993
  • Honorary 1995-present
Richard Gelder Trustee 2003-
Stuart G. Gibboney 1923-1944

President 1923-1944

Richard Gilder 1994-
Mills E. Godwin, Jr. 1971-1973

Honorary 1974-1990

David R. Goode Trustee 2008-
John Griffin Trustee 2001-
Moses H. Grossman 1923-1942

Vice President 1923

Brenton S. Halsey 1989-
  • Vice President 1993
  • Vice Chairman 1994-1997
  • Chairman 1998-
Alice W. Handy 1998

Chairman 2008-

Andrew D. Hart, Jr. 1993-present
Betty Scripps Harvey 1992-1997

Emeritus 1997-1998

Charles N. Haskell 1923

Vice President 1923

Caryl P. Haskins 1972-1978

Honorary 1979-1990

Robert V. Hatcher, Jr. 1993-present
  • Vice Chairman 1994-1996
  • Treasurer 1995
  • Chairman 1996-1997
Roger Hertog 2008-present
William S. Hildreth 1943-1966
  • Treasurer 1943-1950
  • Secretary 1944-1950
  • Vice President 1950-1957
  • President 1957-1966
Charles D. Hilles 1923

Vice President 1923

Frank K. Houston 1933-1969
  • Treasurer 1933-1942
  • Vice President 1943-1944
  • President 1944-1957
  • Chairman 1957-1969
  • Honorary 1970-1974
Henry Alan Johnston 1923-1956
  • Secretary 1923-1943
  • Vice President 1944-1956
R. Crosby Kemper III 2003-
1988-1997

Honorary 1997-present

Fiske Kimball 1939-1955
James C. Lehrer 1992-1995
Hunter Lewis 1989-1995
H. Eugene Lockhart, Jr. Trustee 2007-
Breckinridge Long 1926-1952

Vice President 1944-1950

Augustus P. Loring 1981-1985

Honorary 1986

Charles D. Makepeace 1923-1933

Treasurer 1923-1933

Dumas Malone 1956-1969

Honorary 1970-1986

David McCullough

1966-1999

Honorary 1999-present

Murray M. McGuire 1923-1924
Carter McNeely 2004-
Paul Mellon Honorary 1992-present
Richard A. Merrill 1989-present

Secretary 1992-present

Thomas J. Michie 1951-1969

Honorary 1970-1973

Leigh B. Middleditch 1995-
Joseph Miller, Jr. 1933-1947
Howard P. Milstein 2006-
Frederick D. Nichols 1971-1981

Honorary 1982-1995

Frederick D. Nolting, Jr. 1974-1981
  • Chairman 1976-1980
  • Honorary 1981-1989
George C. Palmer II 1966-1992
  • Vice President 1970-1976 & 1986-1992
  • Treasurer 1972-1973
  • President 1976-1981
  • Chairman 1981-1985
  • Emeritus 1994-present
Alton Brooks Parker 1923
Sonja Perkins 2006-
Merrill D. Peterson 1987-1991
  • Secretary 1990-1991
  • Emeritus 1992-2009
Earl A. Powell III 1994-1997
Rebecca W. Rimel 1994-present
Rodman S. Rockefeller 1992-
  • Vice Chairman 1995-1997
  • Secretary 1998-present
Theodore Roosevelt 1923

Vice President 1923

Dr. George J. Ryan 1927-1949
Stuart T. Saunders 1964-1970
Thomas A. Saunders III 1997-
Virginius R. Shackelford, Jr. 1979-1986
  • Vice President 1982-1983
  • President 1984-1985
  • Chairman 1986
  • Honorary 1987-1990
  • Emeritus 1991-
Edgar F. Shannon 1974-1988
  • President 1981-1983
  • Chairman 1987-1988
  • Honorary 1988-1990
  • Emeritus 1991-1997
James R. Sheffield 1923

Vice President 1923

Hunter J. Smith 1996-
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. 1944-1949
Whitney Stone 1950-1980

Vice President 1970-1980

Henry J. Taylor 1947-1972
  • Vice President 1956-1971
  • Honorary 1973-1984
John Charles Thomas 1992 & 2007
Mrs. Roy M. Tolleson, Jr. 1989-1993
William R. Tyler 1974-1979
Jeffrey C. Walker Trustee 2001-

Chairman 2006-2008

Walter M. Whitehill 1956-1976
  • Secretary 1970-1974
  • Vice President 1970-1974
  • President 1974-1976
  • Honorary 1976-1979
John Wilmerding 1982-1992
David J. Wood, Jr. 1982-1994
  • Treasurer 1984-1994
  • Vice President 1984-1985 & 1990-1993
  • Vice Chairman 1994

 

Footnotes

  1. This article is based on "Members of the Board 1923-present," in Seventy-Five Years of Preservation and Education: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1923-1998. Charlottesville, Va. : Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1998, p. 28. Additional and updated information is derived from the Minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings.

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