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Everyone who has served on the Board

89 people since 27 August 1935, when the first three were sworn in. The Board keeps this list itself. What is added here is the last column but one: which President was in office when each began.

Of the 89 members the Board lists, the Board records 41 Democrats, 47 Republicans and 1 Independent.

Short service is common, because a member fills out whatever is left of a seat's term rather than starting a fresh five years. The three shortest: John C. Truesdale, 38 days, 24 January 1994 to 3 March 1994; John C. Miller, 74 days, 23 December 1982 to 7 March 1983; John C. Truesdale, 95 days, 23 October 1980 to 26 January 1981.

Member	Party	From	To	President then in office	Served as chairman
James R. Macy	Republican	17 August 2026	Still serving	Donald J. Trump
James R. Murphy	Republican	7 January 2026	Still serving	Donald J. Trump	03/27/2026 - Present
Scott A. Mayer	Republican	7 January 2026	Still serving	Donald J. Trump
Gwynne A. Wilcox	Democrat	11 September 2023	28 January 2025	Joseph R. Biden Jr.	12/17/2024 - 01/20/2025
David M. Prouty *	Democrat	22 September 2021	Still serving	Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Gwynne A. Wilcox	Democrat	4 August 2021	27 August 2023	Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Lauren McFerran	Democrat	10 August 2020	16 December 2024	Donald J. Trump	01/20/2021 - 12/16/2024
John F. Ring	Republican	16 April 2018	16 December 2022	Donald J. Trump	04/16/2018 - 01/20/2021
William J. Emanuel	Republican	26 September 2017	27 August 2021	Donald J. Trump
Marvin E. Kaplan	Republican	10 August 2017	27 August 2025	Donald J. Trump	01/20/2025 - 08/27/2025
Marvin E. Kaplan	Republican	10 August 2017	27 August 2025	Donald J. Trump	12/21/2017 - 04/15/2018
Lauren McFerran	Democrat	16 December 2014	16 December 2019	Barack Obama
Harry I. Johnson, III	Republican	12 August 2013	27 August 2015	Barack Obama
Philip A. Miscimarra	Republican	7 August 2013	16 December 2017	Barack Obama	04/24/2017 - 12/16/2017
Kent Y. Hirozawa	Democrat	5 August 2013	27 August 2016	Barack Obama
Nancy J. Schiffer	Democrat	2 August 2013	15 December 2014	Barack Obama
Richard F. Griffin, Jr.	Democrat	9 January 2012	2 August 2013	Barack Obama
Terence F. Flynn	Republican	9 January 2012	24 July 2012	Barack Obama
Sharon Block	Democrat	9 January 2012	2 August 2013	Barack Obama
Brian Hayes	Republican	29 June 2010	16 December 2012	Barack Obama
Mark G. Pearce	Democrat	7 April 2010	27 August 2018	Barack Obama	08/28/2011 - 01/22/2017
Craig Becker	Democrat	5 April 2010	3 January 2012	Barack Obama
Dennis P. Walsh	Democrat	17 January 2006	31 December 2007	George W. Bush
Peter N. Kirsanow	Republican	4 January 2006	31 December 2007	George W. Bush
Ronald E. Meisburg	Republican	12 January 2004	8 December 2004	George W. Bush
Peter C. Schaumber	Republican	17 December 2002	Still serving	George W. Bush	03/19/2008 - 01/19/2009
Robert J. Battista	Republican	17 December 2002	16 December 2007	George W. Bush	12/17/2002 - 12/16/2007
R. Alexander Acosta	Republican	17 December 2002	21 August 2003	George W. Bush
William B. Cowen	Republican	22 January 2002	22 November 2002	George W. Bush
Michael J. Bartlett	Republican	22 January 2002	22 November 2002	George W. Bush
Dennis P. Walsh	Democrat	30 December 2000	Still serving	William J. Clinton
John C. Truesdale	Democrat	4 December 1998	1 October 2001	William J. Clinton	12/04/98 - 05/14/2001
J. Robert Brame III	Republican	17 November 1997	27 August 2000	William J. Clinton
Wilma B. Liebman	Democrat	14 November 1997	27 August 2011	William J. Clinton	01/20/2009 - 08/27/2011
Peter J. Hurtgen	Republican	14 November 1997	Still serving	William J. Clinton	05/16/2001 - 08/01/2002
John E. Higgins, Jr.	Republican	3 September 1996	13 November 1997	William J. Clinton
Sarah M. Fox	Democrat	6 February 1996	15 December 2000	William J. Clinton
John C. Truesdale	Democrat	23 December 1994	3 January 1996	William J. Clinton
Charles I. Cohen	Republican	18 March 1994	27 August 1996	William J. Clinton
Margaret A. Browning	Democrat	9 March 1994	28 February 1997	William J. Clinton
William B. Gould IV	Democrat	7 March 1994	27 August 1998	William J. Clinton	03/07/94 - 08/27/98
John C. Truesdale	Democrat	24 January 1994	3 March 1994	William J. Clinton
John N. Raudabaugh	Republican	27 August 1990	26 November 1993	George H.W. Bush
Clifford R. Oviatt	Republican	14 December 1989	28 May 1993	George H.W. Bush
Dennis M. Devaney	Democrat	22 November 1988	16 December 1994	Ronald Reagan
John E. Higgins, Jr.	Republican	29 August 1988	22 November 1989	Ronald Reagan
Mary M. Cracraft	Democrat	7 November 1986	27 August 1991	Ronald Reagan
James M. Stephens	Republican	16 October 1985	27 August 1995	Ronald Reagan	12/17/87 - 03/06/94
Marshall B. Babson	Democrat	1 July 1985	31 July 1988	Ronald Reagan
Wilford W. Johansen	Republican	28 May 1985	15 June 1989	Ronald Reagan
Patricia Diaz Dennis	Democrat	5 May 1983	24 June 1986	Ronald Reagan
Donald L. Dotson	Republican	7 March 1983	16 December 1987	Ronald Reagan	03/07/83 - 12/16/87
John C. Miller	Republican	23 December 1982	7 March 1983	Ronald Reagan	12/27/82 - 03/07/83
John R. Van de Water	Republican	18 August 1981	16 December 1982	Ronald Reagan	08/18/81 - 12/16/82
Robert P. Hunter	Republican	14 August 1981	27 August 1985	Ronald Reagan
John C. Truesdale	Democrat	23 October 1980	26 January 1981	James Earl “Jimmy” Carter
Don A. Zimmerman	Independent	17 September 1980	16 December 1984	James Earl “Jimmy” Carter
John C. Truesdale	Democrat	25 October 1977	27 August 1980	James Earl “Jimmy” Carter
Peter D. Walther	Republican	26 November 1975	31 August 1977	Gerald R. Ford
Betty S. Murphy	Republican	18 February 1975	14 December 1979	Gerald R. Ford	02/18/75 - 04/13/77
John A. Penello	Democrat	22 February 1972	14 January 1981	Richard M. Nixon
Ralph E. Kennedy	Republican	14 December 1970	31 July 1975	Richard M. Nixon
Edward B. Miller	Republican	3 June 1970	16 December 1974	Richard M. Nixon	06/03/70 - 12/16/74
Sam Zagoria	Republican	20 April 1965	16 December 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson
Howard Jenkins, Jr.	Republican	28 August 1963	27 August 1983	John F. Kennedy 4
Gerald A. Brown	Democrat	14 April 1961	27 August 1971	John F. Kennedy 4
Frank W. McCulloch	Democrat	7 March 1961	27 August 1970	John F. Kennedy 4	03/07/61 - 06/02/70
Arthur A. Kimball	Republican	13 September 1960	6 March 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
John H. Fanning	Democrat	20 December 1957	16 December 1982	Dwight D. Eisenhower	02/19/74 - 02/19/75 04/14/77 - 08/14/81
Joseph Alton Jenkins	Democrat	28 March 1957	27 March 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stephen S. Bean	Republican	1 December 1955	27 August 1960	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Boyd S. Leedom	Republican	4 April 1955	16 December 1964	Dwight D. Eisenhower	11/02/55 - 03/06/61
Albert C. Beeson	Republican	2 March 1954	16 December 1954	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Philip Ray Rodgers	Republican	28 August 1953	27 August 1963	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Guy Farmer	Republican	13 July 1953	27 August 1955	Dwight D. Eisenhower	07/13/53 - 08/27/55
Ivar H. Peterson	Republican	21 March 1952	27 August 1956	Harry S. Truman
Paul L. Styles	Democrat	27 February 1950	31 August 1953	Harry S. Truman
J. Copeland Gray	Republican	1 August 1947	16 December 1949	Harry S. Truman
Abe Murdock	Democrat	1 August 1947	16 December 1957	Harry S. Truman
James J. Reynolds, Jr.	Republican	28 August 1946	31 December 1951	Harry S. Truman
Paul M. Herzog	Democrat	5 July 1945	30 June 1953	Harry S. Truman	07/05/45 - 06/30/53
John M. Houston	Democrat	15 March 1943	27 August 1953	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gerard D. Reilly	Republican	11 October 1941	26 August 1946	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry A. Millis	Democrat	26 November 1940	4 July 1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt	11/26/40 - 07/04/45
William M. Leiserson	Democrat	1 June 1939	23 February 1943	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Donald Wakefield Smith	Democrat	23 September 1936	31 May 1939	Franklin D. Roosevelt
John M. Carmody	Democrat	27 August 1935	31 August 1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt
J. Warren Madden	Democrat	27 August 1935	26 August 1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	08/27/35 - 08/26/40
Edwin S. Smith	Democrat	27 August 1935	27 August 1941	Franklin D. Roosevelt

The President column is worked out, not quoted The Board's list gives party and dates and nothing about appointment. This site matches each start date against the House of Representatives' table of who held the office when. A recess appointment, or a confirmation that lands just after an inauguration, would make it wrong. The Board's own columns are reproduced exactly.

Where this comes from

The Board's own Board Members Since 1935, read on 19 September 2026.
Who was President on a given day: the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives.

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