The Council's Presidents through the Years
The following is a list of presidents who served the Council of Churches of the City of New York since 1895.
1895 - 1897: Spencer Trask
1897 - 1921: Dean J.B. Brooks and Theodore Roosevelt Serving as Vice President
1921 - 1926: Watsdon S. Moore
1924 - 1926: John M. Moore
1926 - 1929: Daniel A. Poling
1929 - 1931: Ralph W. Sockman
1931 - 1932: A. Edwin Keigwin
1932 - 1934: Charles Trexler
1935 - 1936: Eugene C. Carder
1936 - 1939: Charles H. Tuttle
1939 - 1943: Theodore Savage
1943 - 1944: Henry P. Fletcher
1944 - 1945: Cleveland E. Dodge
1945 - 1946: Jospeh R. Sizoo
1946 - 1947: Frederick B. Newell
1947 - 1950: Cleveland E. Dodge
1950 - 1952: Charles K. Gilbert
1952 - 1956: Ralph W. Sockman
1956 - 1958: Phillips P. Elliott
1958 - 1961: Gardner C. Taylor (First African American President)
1961 - 1962: John Sutherland Bonnell
1962 - 1965: Arthur Lee Kinsolving
1965 - 1968: Norman Vincent Peale
1968 - 1972: M.L. Wilson
1972 - 1975: George M. Duff, Jr.
1975 - 1978: Kenneth K. Folkes
1978 - 1981: Gordon M. Brown
1981 - 1983: Samuel G. Simpson
1983 - 1984: Ronald Kreisman
1984 - 1987: Donald L. Thomas
1987 - 1991: Norman Quick
1991 - 1993: Spencer C. Gibbs
1993 - 1998: Michael Kendall
1998 - 2008: Calvin O. Butts, III
2008 - 2014: A. R. Bernard, Sr.
2015 - Today: G. Morris Gurley, Esq.
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