Athenaeum Presidents
| Edward E. Scharff | 2018-Present |
| Robert E. Linck | 2015-2018 |
| Lea Carson Sherk |
1996-2015 |
| George Vaux, X |
1965-1996 |
| Thomas Hart |
1955-1965 |
| Edwin O. Lewis |
1950-1955 |
| William B. Linn |
1946-1950 |
| John Morin Scott |
1925-1945 |
| George Harrison Fisher |
1923-1925 |
| Charles Biddle |
1915-1923 |
| Ernest Zantzinger |
1911-1915 |
| Richard L. Ashurst |
1907-1911 |
| William Grasett Thomas |
1902-1907 |
| Charles Hare Hutchinson |
1888-1902 |
| Edward Ellenborough Law |
1867-1887 |
| Joshua Francis Fisher |
1865-1866 |
| Samuel Norris |
1863-1864 |
| Samuel Breck |
1845-1862 |
| Peter S. Du Ponceau |
1828-1844 |
| William Tilghman |
1814-1827 |