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	The American Economic Association is the largest organization of professional economists in the United States and in the world. It was organized at Saratoga, New York, on September 9, 1885. The title of president of the AEA is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on an economist. The following are the past presidents of the AEA and their years of service (with their university or institute affiliations in parentheses). Presidents of the American Economic Association (AEA) 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 Paul A. Samuelson (MIT)—1961 Edward S. Mason (Harvard)—1962 Gottfried Haberler (Harvard)—1963 George J. Stigler (Chicago)—1964 Joseph J. Spengler (Duke)—1965 Fritz Machlup (Princeton)—1966 Milton Friedman (Chicago)—1967 Kenneth E. Boulding (Colorado)—1968 William J. Fellner (Yale)—1969 Wassily Leontief (Harvard)—1970 James Tobin (Yale)—1971 John Kenneth Galbraith (Harvard)—1972 Kenneth J. Arrow (Harvard)—1973 Walter W. Heller (Minnesota)—1974 Robert Aaron Gordon (California)—1975 Franco Modigliani (MIT)—1976 Lawrence R. Klein (Pennsylvania)—1977 Jacob Marschak (California)—1978 Tjalling C. Koopmans (Yale)—1978 Robert M. Solow (MIT)—1979 Moses Abramovitz (Stanford)—1980 William J. Baumol (Princeton)—1981 Gardner Ackley (Michigan)—1982 W. Arthur Lewis (Princeton)—1983 Charles L. Schultze (Brookings)—1984 Charles P. Kindleberger (MIT)—1985 Alice M. Rivlin (Brookings)—1986 Gary S. Becker (Chicago)—1987 Robert Eisner (Northwestern)—1988 Joseph A. Pechman (Brookings)—1989 Gerard Debreu (California)—1990 Thomas C. Schelling (Maryland)—1991 William Vickrey (Columbia)—1992 Zvi Griliches (Harvard)—1993 Amartya K. Sen (Harvard)—1994 Victor R. Fuchs (Stanford)—1995 Anne O. Krueger (Stanford)—1996 Arnold C. Harberger (UCLA)—1997 Robert W. Fogel (Chicago)—1998 D. Gale Johnson (Chicago)—1999 Dale W. Jorgenson (Harvard)—2000 Sherwin Rosen (Chicago)—2001 Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (Chicago)—2002 Peter A. Diamond (MIT)—2003 Martin S. Feldstein (NBER, Harvard)—2004 Daniel McFadden (Berkeley)—2003 Thomas Sargent (NYU, Hoover)—2003	Table: Presidents of the American Economic Association See also: American Economic Association Official AEA website John Bates Clark Awards Richard T. Ely Lecturers Francis A. Walker Medals Nobel Prize Winners

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