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Yr. as Pres.	# Pres	Name of President	Presidential Address Title	Date of Address	JASA, Journal Vol., #, and Yr.	Download	Read
1983	78th	Anderson, Richard L.	Goals: Where Are We, Where Should We Be Going?	8/16/1983	Vol. 79, No. 386 (1984)
1926	21st	Ayres, Leonard P.	The Dilemma of the New Statistics	12/29/1926	Vol. 22, No. 157 (1927)
1987	82nd	Bailar, Barbara A.	Statistical Practice in Research: The Essential Interactions	8/18/1987	Vol. 83, No. 401 (1988)
1970	65th	Bancroft, T. A.	The American Statistical Association: A Single Scientific and Educational Community	12/28/1970	Vol. 66, No. 333 (1971)
1990	85th	Barabba, Vincent P.	Through a Glass Less Darkly	8/7/1990	Vol. 86, No. 413 (1991)
1996	91st	Billard, Lynne	Statistics - A Voyage of Discovery	8/6/1996	Vol. 92, No. 437 (1997)
1964	59th	Bowker, Albert H.	Quality and Quantity in Higher Education	12/29/1964	Vol. 60, No. 309 (1965)
1963	58th	Bowman, Raymond T.	The American Statistical Association and Federal Statistics	9/5/1963	Vol. 59, No. 305 (1964)
1978	73rd	Box, George E. P.	Problems of Statistics & Everyday Life	8/15/1978	Vol. 74, No. 365 (1979)
1981	76th	Bradley, Ralph A.	The Future of Statistics as a Discipline	8/11/1981	Vol. 77, No. 377 (1982)
1937	32nd	Burgess, W. Randolph	The Statistical Equivalent of Gold	12/28/1937	Vol. 33, No. 201 (1938)
1925	20th	Chaddock, Robert E.	The Function of Statistics in Undergraduate Training	12/28/1925	Vol. 21, No. 153 (1926)
1938	33rd	Coats, Robert H.	Science and Society	12/28/1938	Vol. 34, No. 205 (1939)
1953	48th	Cochran, William G.	The Present Structure of the Association	12/28/1953	Vol. 49, No. 265 (1954)
1974	69th	Cornfield, Jerome	A Statistician's Apology	8/27/1974	Vol. 70, No. 349 (1975)
1956	51st	Cox, Gertrude M.	Statistical Frontiers	9/9/1956	Vol. 52, No. 277 (1957)
1936	31st	Davis, Joseph S.	Statistics and Social Engineering	12/29/1936	Vol. 32, No. 197 (1937)
1927	22nd	Day, Edmund E.	The Role of Statistics in Business Forecasting	12/28/1927	Vol. 23, No. 161 (1928)
1921	16th	Doten, Carroll W.	Statistics in the Service of Economics	12/27/1921	Vol. 18, No. 137 (1922)
1924	19th	Dublin, Louis I.	The Statistician and the Population Problem	12/29/1924	Vol. 20, No. 149 (1925)
1915	10th	Durand, E. Dana	The Emergence of Unearned Increment	12/28/1915	Vol. 15, No. 113 (1916)
1969	64th	Eckler, A. Ross	Statisticians and Shoemakers	8/20/1969	Vol. 65, No. 329 (1970)
2004	99th	Efron, Bradley	Bayesians, Frequentists, and Scientists	8/10/2004	Vol. 100, No. 470 (2005)
1971	66th	Eisenhart, Churchill	The Development of the Concept of the Best Mean of a Set of Measurements from Antiquity to the Present Day	8/24/1971	-
1999	94th	Ellenberg, Jonas H.	Statisticians' Significance	8/5/1999	Vol. 95, No. 449 (2000)
1932	27th	Fisher, Irving	Statistics in the Service of Economics	12/29/1932	Vol. 28, No. 181 (1933)
1845-1839	1st	Fletcher, Richard	none	None
1975	70th	Frankel, Lester R.	Statisticians and People -- The Statistician's Responsibilities	8/26/1975	Vol. 71, No. 353 (1976)
1995	90th	Gail, Mitchell H.	Statistics in Action	8/15/1995	Vol. 91, No. 433 (1996)
1961	56th	Gainsbrugh, Martin R.	Statistics We Live By	12/28/1961	Vol. 57, No. 297 (1962)
1943	38th	Goldenweiser, Emanuel A.	Research and Policy 2/	No Meeting W.W.II	Vol. 39, No. 225 (1944)
1976	71st	Graybill, Franklin A.	What Lies Ahead?	8/23/1976	Vol. 72, No. 357 (1977)
1960	55th	Hansen, Morris H.	Cooperation Among Statistical and Other Societies	8/25/1960	Vol. 56, No. 293 (1961)
1979	74th	Hartley, Herman Otto	Statistics as a Science and as a Profession	8/14/1979	Vol. 75, No. 369 (1980)
1962	57th	Hauser, Philip M.	Statistics and Society	9/8/1962	Vol. 58, No. 301 (1963)
1940	35th	Hayford, F. Leslie	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Statisticians	12/27/1940	Vol. 36, No. 213 (1941)
1973	68th	Hildreth, Clifford G.	Expected Utility of Uncertain Ventures	12/28/1973	Vol. 69, No. 345 (1974)
1919	14th	Hill, Joseph A.	The Essentials of a Good Census	12/19/1919	Vol. 17, No. 129 (1920)
1958	53rd	Hoadley, Walter E.	Statisticians -- Today and Tomorrow	12/29/1958	Vol. 54, No. 285 (1959)
1911	7th	Hoffman, Frederick L.	No title	12/28/1911	Vol. 13, No. 97 (1912)
1988	83rd	Hogg, Robert V.	How to Hope with Statistics	8/23/1988	Vol. 84, No. 405 (1989)
1993	88th	Hunter, J. Stuart	Statistics As A Profession	8/10/1993	Vol. 89, No. 425 (1994)
1994	89th	Iman, Ronald L.	New Paradigms for the Statistics Profession	8/16/1994	Vol. 90, No. 429 (1995)
1882-1852	3rd	Jarvis, Edward	On the System of Taxation Prevailing in the United States and Especially in Massachusetts	unknown
1997	92nd	Kettenring, Jon R.	Shaping Statistics for Success in the 21st Century	8/12/1997	Vol. 92, No. 440 (1997)
1935	30th	King, Willford I.	Consolidating Our Gains	12/30/1935	Vol. 31, No. 193 (1936)
1977	72nd	Kish, Leslie	Chance, Statistics, and Statisticians	8/15/1978	Vol. 73, No. 361 (1978)
1914	9th	Koren, John	Some Statistical Ideals	12/28/1914	Vol. 14, No. 109 (1915)
1982	77th	Kruskal, William H.	Miracles and Statistics: The Casual Assumption of Independence	8/17/1982	Vol. 83, No. 929 (1988)
1949	44th	Kuznets, Simon	Conditions of Statistical Research	12/28/1949	Vol. 45, No. 249 (1950)
1957	52nd	Leonard, William R.	An Outlook Report	9/12/1957	Vol. 53, No. 281 (1958)
1959	54th	Likert, Rensis	The Dual Function of Statistics	12/29/1959	Vol. 55, No. 289 (1960)
1942	37th	Lotka, Alfred J.	Some Reflections -- Statistical and Other -- on a Non-Material Universe 1/	No Meeting W.W.II	Vol. 38, No. 221 (1943)
1946	41st	Lubin, Isador	Social and Economic Adjustments in a Democratic World	1/25/1947	Vol. 42, No. 237 (1947)
1986	81st	Marquardt, Donald W.	The Importance of Statistics	8/19/1986	Vol. 82, No. 397 (1987)
1954	49th	Marshall, Herbert	Canada-Northern Neighbor	9/11/1954	Vol. 50, No. 269 (1955)
1980	75th	Martin, Margaret E.	Statistical Practice in Bureaucracies	8/12/1980	Vol. 76, No. 373 (1981)
2003	98th	Mason, Robert L.	Does the Statistics Profession Have An Identity Crisis?	8/5/2003	Vol. 99, No. 465(2004)
1934	29th	Mills, Frederick C.	Statistics and Leviathan	12/28/1934	Vol. 30, No. 189 (1935)
1918	13th	Mitchell, Wesley C.	Statistics and Government	12/27/1918	Vol. 16, No. 125 (1919)
1998	93rd	Moore, David S.	Statistics Among the Liberal Arts	8/11/1998	Vol. 93, No. 444 (1998)
1968	63rd	Moore, Geoffrey H.	Forecasting Short-Term Economic Change	8/21/1968	Vol. 64, No. 324 (1969)
1967	62nd	Mosteller, Frederick	Association and Estimation in Contingency Tables	12/29/1967	Vol. 63, No. 321 (1968)
1916	11th	Neill, Charles P.	Opportunities for Practical Work by the Statistical Association	12/28/1916	Vol. 15, No. 117 (1917)
1985	80th	Neter, John	Boundaries of Statistics -- Sharp or Fuzzy?	8/6/1985	Vol. 81, No. 393 (1986)
1910	6th	North, S. N. D.	Fifty Years of Life Insurance Progress (Given by Frederick L. Hoffman, Vice President of ASA)	12/28/1910	Vol. 12, No. 93 (1911)
1989	84th	Norwood, Janet L.	Statistics for Public Policy: Reflections of a Changing World	8/8/1989	Vol. 85, No.409 (1990)
2000	95th	O'Fallon, W. Michael	Statistical Meetings: View of Past, Vision of Future	8/15/2000	Vol. 96, No. 456 (2001)
1931	26th	Ogburn, William F.	Statistics and Art	12/29/1931	Vol. 27, No. 177 (1932)
1939	34th	Pearl, Raymond	The Aging of Populations*	12/29/1939	Vol. 35, No. 209 (1940)
1923	18th	Persons, Warren M.	Some Fundamental Concepts of Statistics	12/27/1923	Vol. 19, No. 145 (1924)
1951	46th	Reed, Lowell J.	Man as a Planning Animal	12/27/1951	Vol. 47, No. 257 (1952)
1933	28th	Rice, Stuart A.	Statistical Opportunities and Responsibilities	12/28/1933	Vol. 29, No. 185 (1934)
1941	36th	Riefler, Winfield W.	Government and the Statistician	12/29/1941	Vol. 37, No. 217 (1942)
1920	15th	Roberts, George E.	The Equilibrium in Industry	12/29/1920	Vol. 17, No. 133 (1921)
1930	25th	Rorty, Malcolm B.	Statistics and the Scientific Method	12/31/1930	Vol. 26, No. 173 (1931)
1922	17th	Rossiter, William S.	The Adventure of Population Growth	12/27/1922	Vol. 18, No. 141 (1923)
1984	79th	Savage, I. Richard	Hard/Soft Problems	8/14/1984	Vol. 80, No. 389 (1985)
2001	96th	Scheaffer, Richard L.	Statistical Bridges	8/7/2001	Vol. 97, No. 457 (2002)
2005	100th	Scheuren, Fritz J.	Statistics, A Rights Discipline	8/9/2005	Vol. 101, No. 473 (2006)
1851-1846	2nd	Shattuck, George C.	none	None
1972	67th	Shaw, William H.	Paradoxes, Problems, and Progress	8/15/1972	Vol. 68, No. 341 (1973)
1945	40th	Shewhart, Walter A.	The Advancing Statistical Front	1/26/1946	Vol. 41, No. 233 (1946)
1948	43rd	Snedecor, George W.	On a Unique Feature of Statistics	12/28/1948	Vol. 44, No. 245 (1949)
1928	23rd	Snyder, Carl	The Problem of Prosperity	12/27/1928	Vol. 24, No. 165 (1929)
1966	61st	Stephan, Frederick F.	The Quality of Statistical Information & Statistical Inference in a Rapidly Changing World	8/17/1966	Vol. 62, No. 317 (1967)
2002	97th	Straf, Miron L.	Statistics: The Next Generation	8/13/2002	Vol. 98, No. 461 (2003)
1947	42nd	Thorp, Willard L.	Statistics and Foreign Policy	12/29/1947	Vol. 43, No. 241 (1948)
1896-1883	4th	Walker, Francis A.	Statistics of the Colored Race in the United States	unknown
1944	39th	Walker, Helen M.	The Role of the American Statistical Association	12/27/1944	Vol. 40, No. 229 (1945)
1965	60th	Wallis, W. Allen	Economic Statistics and Economic Policy	9/9/1965	Vol. 61, No. 313 (1966)
1992	87th	Wallman, Katherine K.	Enhancing Statistical Literacy: Enriching Our Society	8/11/1992	Vol. 88, No. 421 (1993)
1955	50th	Watkins, Ralph J.	Confession of Faith: 1955	12/29/1955	Vol. 51, No. 273 (1956)
1952	47th	Wickens, Aryness Joy	Statistics and the Public Interest	12/28/1952	Vol. 48, No. 261 (1953)
1950	45th	Wilks, Samuel S.	Undergraduate Statistical Education	12/28/1950	Vol. 46, No. 253 (1951)
1912	8th	Willcox, Walter F.	The Need of Social Statistics as an Aid to the Courts	12/28/1912	Vol. 13, No. 101 (1913)
1929	24th	Wilson, Edwin B.	Mathematics and Statistics	12/28/1929	Vol. 25, No. 169 (1930)
1909-1897	5th	Wright, Carroll D.	(1st Presidential Address) A brief historical statement of the origin and work of the Association	1/17/1908	Vol. 11, No. 85 (1909)
1917	12th	Young, Allyn A.	National Statistics in War and Peace	12/27/1917	Vol. 16, No. 121 (1918)
1991	86th	Zellner, Arnold	Statistics, Science, and Policy	8/20/1991	Vol. 87, No. 417 (1992)
1913			(75th Anniversary) The American Statistical Association, 1839 - 1914	2/13/1914	Vol. 14, No. 105 (1914)