Presidents in the Lee House

• Robert Edward Lee, 1869-1870
• George Washington Custis Lee, 1871-1897
• William Lyne Wilson, 1897-1900
• George Hutcheson Denny, 1901-1911
• Henry Louis Smith, 1912-1929
• Francis Pendleton Gaines, 1930-1959
• Fred Carrington Cole, 1959-1967
• Robert Edward Royall Huntley*, 1968-1976
• John Delane Wilson, 1983-1995
• John William Elrod, 1995-2001
• Thomas Gerard Burish, 2002-2005
• Kenneth P. Ruscio, 2006 to present
  * Continued as president in another house to 1983.