Henry Miller (1891 -- 1893) Queren Jansen (1893 -- 1894) H.W. Sherman (1894 -- 1897) J.H. Maloney (1897 -- 1899) Thomas Wheeler (1899 -- 1901) W.A. Jackson (1901 -- 1903) Frank Joseph McNulty (1903 -- 1919) -- first full - time, paid president of the union; elected at Salt Lake City Conference in 1903, retired at New Orleans Conference in 1919 James Patrick Noonan (acting president, 1917, president 1919 -- 1929) -- died in office Henry H. Broach (1929 -- 1933) Daniel (Dan) W. Tracy (1933 -- 1940) Edward J. Brown (1940 -- 1947) Daniel (Dan) W. Tracy (1947 -- 1954) J. Scott Milne (1954 -- 1955) Gordon M. Freeman (1955 -- 1968) Charles H. Pillard (1968 -- 1986) John Joseph (Jack) Barry (1986 -- 2001) Edwin D. (Ed) Hill (2001 -- 2015) Lonnie R. Stephenson (2015 -- present)
who was the first president of the nbew
Henry Miller