Presidents
William Howard Taft was the President of the United States when the B.S.A. was founded in 1910. He proudly accepted the title of Honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America, and every U.S. President since has enjoyed that designation as well. It is easy to find postcards honoring the Presidents: it is far more difficult to find ones that document their relationship to Scouting.
- William McKinley
William McKinley died before the B.S.A. was founded, but his boyhood home became part of a Scout Camp in Ohio. As a result it appears on several postcards.
- Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt was no longer President when the B.S.A. was founded, but he was one of its staunch advocates, and he was elected Honorary Vice-president. Later he became the only person ever designated as Chief Scout Citizen.
pilgrimage to Roosevelt's home in Oyster Bay, L.I.
- William Jennings Bryan
Bryan never made it to the Presidency, losing three times, but he did serve as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1916, the year the B.S.A. received its congressional charter. He was an outspoken supporter of the Boy Scouts, and he is often credited as being the most popular speaker ever on the Chautauqua Circuit.
- Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge with a cowboy outfit.
- Woodrow Wilson
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Ronald Reagan
