List of presidents of the Oxford Union


Past elected Presidents of the Oxford Union at the University of Oxford are listed below, with their college and the year/term in which they served. Iterum indicates that a person was serving a second term as President.

Key

Presidents of the United Debating Society

These are the Presidents as listed

Presidents of the Oxford Union Society

1826–1831

These are the Presidents as listed

1831–1850

1850–1875

1875–1900

1900–1925

1925–1950

1950–1975

1975–2000

2000–present

Other notable officers

was Union Secretary in Michaelmas 1848.
Harold Macmillan was Secretary of the Union in Hilary 1914, then Junior Treasurer in Trinity 1914; but for the war he would "almost certainly" have been President.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was Treasurer in Trinity 1924.
Humayun Kabir was Librarian in 1931.
Jacob Rees-Mogg was Librarian in 1990, losing the election for the presidency to future Education Secretary Damian Hinds.

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