NEA Presidents and Annual Meeting Cities

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Below are the names of every NEA president since 1857, his or her hometown, the year(s) in which he or she served, and the location of the annual meeting that year.

1857-1881

1857—James L. Enos (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
           (Chairman of first annual meeting, not the first president)
           Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1858—Zalmon Richards (Washington, D.C.)
           Cincinnati, Ohio            

1859—Andrew Jackson Rickoff (Cincinnati, Ohio)
           Washington, D.C.

1860—John Williams Bulkley (Brooklyn, New York)
           Buffalo, New York

1861—John Dudley Philbrick (Boston, Massachusetts)
           No session

1862—John Dudley Philbrick (Boston, Massachusetts)
           No session

1863—John Dudley Philbrick (Boston, Massachusetts)
           Chicago, Illinois  

1864—William Harvey Wells (Chicago, Illinois)
           Ogdensburg, New York

1865—Samuel Stillman Green (Providence, Rhode Island)
           Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

1866—James Pyle Wickersham (Millersville, Pennsylvania)
            Indianapolis, Indiana

1867—John Milton Gregory (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
           No session

1868—John Milton Gregory (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
           Nashville, Tennessee

1869—Libertus Van Bokkelen (Baltimore, Maryland)
           Trenton, New Jersey

1870—Daniel Bernard Hagar (Salem, Massachusetts)
            Cleveland, Ohio

1871—Josiah Little Pickard (Chicago, Illinois)
            St. Louis, Missouri

1872—Emerson Elbridge White (Columbus, Ohio)
           Boston, Massachusetts

1873—Birdsey Grant Northrop (New Haven, Connecticut)
            Elmira, New York

1874—Samuel Holmes White (Peoria, Illinois)
            Detroit, Michigan

1875—William Torry Harris (St. Louis, Missouri)
            Minneapolis, Minnesota

1876—William Franklin Phelps (Winona, Minnesota)
            Baltimore, Maryland

1877—McFadden Alexander Newell (Baltimore, Maryland)
            Louisville, Kentucky

1878—John Hancock (Dayton, Ohio)
            No session

1879—John Hancock (Dayton, Ohio)
            Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1880—James Ormond Wilson (Washington, D.C.)
            Chautauqua, New York

1881—James Henry Smart (Indianapolis, Indiana)
            Atlanta, Georgia