Herbert Baxter Adams AHA Executive Secretary, 1884â1900 A. Howard Clark AHA Executive Secretary, 1900â08 Charles Homer Haskins AHA President, 1922 and AHA Executive Secretary, 1900â12 Waldo Gifford Leland AHA Executive Secretary, 1908â19 Evarts B. Greene AHA President, 1930 and AHA Executive Secretary, 1913â19 John Spencer Bassett AHA Executive Secretary, 1920â28 Dexter Perkins AHA President, 1956 and AHA Executive Secretary, 1928â33 Conyers Read AHA President, 1949 and AHA Executive Secretary, 1933â41 Guy Stanton Ford AHA President, 1937 and AHA Executive Secretary, 1941â53 Boyd C. Shafer AHA Executive Secretary, 1953â63 W. Stull Holt AHA Executive Secretary, 1963â64 Louis B. Wright AHA Executive Secretary, 1964â65 Paul L. Ward AHA Executive Secretary, 1965â73 Mack E. Thompson AHA Executive Director, 1974â81 Samuel R. Gammon III AHA Executive Director, 1981â94 James B. Gardner AHA Interim Executive Director, 1994 and Deputy Executive Director, 1986â1995 Sandria B. Freitag AHA Executive Director, 1995â99 Arnita A. Jones AHA Executive Director, 1999â2010 James R. Grossman AHA Executive Director, 2010â25 Sarah Jones Weicksel AHA Executive Director, 2025âexecutivedirector@historians.org