PAST GRAND CAPTAINS GENERAL FROM 1816
| Conclave | YEAR | NAME | CITY/STATE | Conclave | YEAR | NAME | CITY/STATE |
| I | 1816 | Ezra Ames | Albany, NY | XXXVII | 1928 | Isaac Huyett Hettinger | Kansas City, MO |
| II | 1819 | Ezra Ames | Albany, NY | XXXVIII | 1931 | Mark Norris | Grand Rapids, MI |
| III | 1826 | William Gibbs Hunt | Nashville, TN | XXXIX | 1934 | John Campbell | Seattle, WA |
| IV | 1829 | James Eyland | Charleston, SC | | | Charles Noah Orr | St. Paul, MN |
| V | 1832 | Thomas Hubbard | Pomfret, CT | XL | 1937 | John Temple Rice | El Paso, TX |
| VI | 1835 | Joel Roberts Poinsett | Charleston, SC | XLI | 1940 | Robert Brainerd Gaylord | San Francisco, CA |
| VII | 1838 | William James Reese | Lancaster, OH | XLII | 1943 | Caleb Byron Lear | Ridgewood, NJ |
| VIII | 1841 | William Henry Ellis | New Haven, CT | XLIII | 1946 | William Catron Gordon | Marshall, MO |
| IX | 1844 | Wm. Blackstone Hubbard | Columbus, OH | XLIV | 1949 | Walter Allen DeLamater | Rhinebeck, NY |
| X | 1847 | Charles Whitlock Moore | Boston, MA | | | Louis Henry Wieber | Cleveland, OH |
| XI | 1850 | William Tracy Gould | Augusta, GA | XLV | 1952 | Paul Miller Moore | Aliquippa, PA |
| XII | 1853 | Ezra Smith Barnum | Utica, NY | XLVI | 1955 | Ansel Alva Packard | Middletown, CT |
| XIII | 1856 | James Sorley | Galveston, TX | | | Wilber Marion Brucker | Detroit, MI |
| XIV | 1859 | James Van Zandt Blaney | Chicago, IL | XLVII | 1958 | Charles Vernon Eddy | Winchester, VA |
| XV | 1862 | Azariah T. C. Pierson | St. Paul, MN | XLVIII | 1961 | George Wilbur Bell | Chandlerville, IL |
| XVI | 1865 | Kent Jarvis | Massillon, OH | L | 1967 | Willard Meredith Avery | Knightstown, IN |
| XVII | 1868 | George Washington Belt | Weston, MO | LI | 1970 | John B. Cottrell, Jr. | Media, PA |
| XVIII | 1871 | Benjamin Dean | Boston, MA | LII | 1973 | Kenneth Culver Johnson | Little Rock, AR |
| XIX | 1874 | Edward Thomas Schultz | Baltimore, MD | LIII | 1976 | Ned Eugene Dull | Van Wert, OH |
| XX | 1877 | Lafayette Lyttle | Toledo, OH | | 1977 | William Porter Wilson | Woodland, CA |
| XXI | 1880 | John Peter Shindel Gobin | Lebanon, PA | LIV | 1979 | Donald Hinslea Smith | Richmond, KY |
| XXII | 1883 | Hugh McCurdy | Corunna, MI | | 1980 | Marvin Edward Fowler | Alexandria, VA |
| XXIII | 1886 | Warren LaRue Thomas | Danville, KY | LV | 1982 | William Henry Thornley, Jr. | Denver, CO |
| XXIV | 1889 | Reuben Hedley Lloyd | San Francisco, CA | LVI | 1985 | Blair Christy Mayford | St. Peters, MO |
| XXV | 1892 | Henry Bates Stoddard | Bryan, TX | LVII | 1988 | James Morris Ward | Jackson, MS |
| XXVI | 1895 | George Mayhew Moulton | Chicago, IL | LVIII | 1991 | William Jackson Jones | Villa Grove, IL |
| XXVII | 1898 | Henry Warren Rugg | Providence, RI | LIX | 1994 | Kenneth Bernard Fischer | Friendswood, TX |
| XXVIII | 1901 | William Bromwell Melish | Cincinnati, OH | LX | 1997 | Richard Burditt Baldwin | Burke, VA |
| XXIX | 1904 | Frank Hillebert Thomas | Washington, D.C. | LXI | 2000 | William Howard Koon, II | Columbus Grove, OH |
| XXX | 1907 | William Frank Pierce | San Francisco, CA | LXII | 2003 | David Dixon Goodwin | Vestal, NY |
| XXXI | 1910 | Lee Stewart Smith | Pittsburgh, PA | LXIII | 2006 | Sid Cornelius Dorris, III | Mount Juliet, TN |
| XXXII | 1913 | Jehiel Weston Chamberlin | St. Paul, MN | | 2007 | Duane Lee Vaught | Bloomington, IN |
| XXXIII | 1916 | Leonidas Perry Newby | Knightstown, IN | LXIV | 2009 | Duane Lee Vaught | Bloomington, IN |
| XXXIV | 1919 | William Henry Norris | Manchester, IA | LXV | 2012 | Michael Burke Johnson | Crowheart, WY |
| XXXV | 1922 | William Leslie Sharp | Chicago, IL | LXVI | 2015 | David Joseph Kussman | Anaheim, CA |
| XXXVI | 1925 | Harry Clay Walker | Binghamton, NY | LXVII | 2018 | Jeffrey A. Bolstad | Lewistown, MT |
| XLIX | 1964 | Roy Wilford Riegle | Emporia, KS | | | | |
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