Francis Jackson Garrison is the first president of the Boston Branch NAACP.

[Moorfield Storey-Miletsky] He is succeeded by Josph Loud, Butler Wilson, the first African-American president (1926), Irwin Dorch (1936), Julian Steele (1941), Rev. Kenneth deP. Hughes (1946), John Lane (1947), and Florence Lesueur, the first woman president (1949), Lionel Lindsay (1951), Larkland Hewitt (1954), Herbert Tucker (1956), Melnea Cass (1960), Kenneth Guscott (1963), Leon Nelson (1969), Jack Robinson (1971), Marvin Harrell (1973), Hansford Brown (1975), Thomas Atkins (1976), Joseph Feaster Jr. (1979), Leonard Alkins (1995), Michael Curry (2011), and Tanisha Sullivan (2016). (?).