| Francis A. Walker (MIT)—1886-92 |
| Charles F. Dunbar (Harvard)—1893 |
| John B. Clark (Columbia)—1894-95 |
| Henry C. Adams (Michigan)—1896-97 |
| Arthur T. Hadley (Yale)—1898-99 |
| Richard T. Ely (Wisconsin)—1900-01 |
| Edwin R. A. Seligman (Columbia)—1902-03 |
| Frank W. Taussig (Harvard)—1904-05 |
| Jeremiah W. Jenks (Cornell)—1906-07 |
| Simon N. Patten (Pennsylvania)—1908 |
| Davis R. Dewey (MIT)—1909 |
| Edmund J. James (Illinois)—1910 |
| Henry W. Farnam (Yale)—1911 |
| Frank A. Fetter (Princeton)—1912 |
| David Kinley (Illinois)—1913 |
| John H. Gray (Minnesota)—1914 |
| Walter F. Willcox (Cornell)—1915 |
| Thomas N. Carver (Harvard)—1916 |
| John R. Commons (Wisconsin)—1917 |
| Irving Fisher (Yale)—1918 |
| Henry B. Gardner (Brown)—1919 |
| Herbert J. Davenport (Cornell)—1920 |
| Jacob H. Hollander (Johns Hopkins)—1921 |
| Henry R. Seager (Columbia)—1922 |
| Carl C. Plehn (California)—1923 |
| Wesley C. Mitchell (Columbia)—1924 |
| Allyn A. Young (Harvard)—1925 |
| Edwin W. Kemmerer (Princeton)—1926 |
| Thomas S. Adams (Yale)—1927 |
| Fred M. Taylor (Michigan)—1928 |
| Edwin F. Gay (Harvard)—1929 |
| Matthew B. Hammond (Ohio State)—1930 |
| Ernest L. Bogart (Illinois)—1931 |
| George E. Barnett (Johns Hopkins)—1932 |
| William Z. Ripley (Harvard)—1933 |
| Harry A. Millis (Chicago)—1934 |
| John M. Clark (Columbia)—1935 |
| Alvin S. Johnson (New School)—1936 |
| Oliver M. W. Sprague (Harvard)—1937 |
| Alvin H. Hansen (Harvard)—1938 |
| Jacob Viner (Chicago)—1939 |
| Frederick C. Mills (Columbia)—1940 |
| Sumner H. Slichter (Harvard)—1941 |
| Edwin G. Nourse (Brookings)—1942 |
| Albert B. Wolfe (Ohio State)—1943 |
| Joseph S. Davis (Stanford)—1944 |
| I. L. Sharfman (Michigan)—1945 |
| E. A. Goldenweiser (Institute for Advanced Study)—1946 |
| Paul H. Douglas (Chicago)—1947 |
| Joseph A. Schumpeter (Harvard)—1948 |
| Howard S. Ellis (California)—1949 |
| Frank H. Knight (Chicago)—1950 |
| John H. Williams (Harvard)—1951 |
| Harold A. Innis (Toronto)—1952 |
| Calvin B. Hoover (Duke)—1953 |
| Simon Kuznets (Pennsylvania)—1954 |
| John D. Black (Harvard)—1955 |
| Edwin E. Witte (Wisconsin)—1956 |
| Morris A. Copeland (Cornell)—1957 |
| George W. Stocking (Vanderbilt)—1958 |
| Arthur F. Burns (Columbia)—1959 |
| Theodore W. Schultz (Chicago)—1960 |