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* '''1941'''
* [[John N. Luff|John Nicholas Luff]]
* [[Rowland Hill (postal reformer)|Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.B.]]
* [[Ralph Andrews Barry]]
* [[Beverly Sedgwick King]]
* [[John Walter Scott]]
* [[Thomas Tapling|Thomas Keay Tapling]]
* [[John Kerr Tiffany]]
* [[James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford|James Ludovic Lindsay]]
* [[Philip Mathias Wolsieffer]]
* [[Charles Esterly Severn]]
* [[Fred Melville|Frederick John Melville]]
* [[Charles Lathrop Pack]]
* [[Charles James Phillips]]
* [[Edward Spring Knapp]]
* [[Hugh McLellan Southgate]]
* '''1942'''
* [[W. Hamilton Barnum]]
* [[Walter J. Conrath]]
* [[Eveleen Mary Weldon Severn]]
* '''1944'''
* [[Eugene Klein (philatelist)|Eugene Klein]]
* '''1945'''
* [[Charles Foster Richards]]
* President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]
* [[Willard Otis Wylie]]
* '''1946'''
* [[Percy Gray Doane]]
* [[Julius (John) Murray Bartels]]
* '''1947'''
* [[William Carlos Stone]]
* '''1948'''
* [[Alfred Lichtenstein (philatelist)|Alfred F. Lichtenstein]]
* '''1949'''
* [[Edward Haven Mason]]
* [[Major James Starr]]
* '''1950'''
* [[Saul Newbury]]
* [[Frederic R. Harris|Rear Admiral Frederic R. Harris]]
* [[Walter Stone Scott]]
* '''1951'''
* [[Nicolas Sanabria]]
* [[James Benjamin Seymour]]
* [[Rev. William Hogarth Tower]]
* '''1952'''
* [[Donald W. Martin]]
* [[Walter R. McCoy]]
* '''1953'''
* [[Erik F. Hurt]]
* [[Judge David D. Caldwell]]
* '''1954'''
* [[Theresa Maria Clark]]
* Dr. James C. Goodwin
* Al Van Dahl
* '''1955'''
* [[Jeremiah Hess Barr]]
* [[Dr. Daniel Deronda Berolzheimer]]
* '''1956'''
* Dr. Clarence Wilson Brazer
* [[Holland Archer Davis|Dr. Holland Archer Davis]]
* Dr. Clarence William Hennan
* '''1957'''
* [[Hugh Massey Clark]]
* Col. [[Max G. Johl]]
* John W. Stowell, Sr.
* '''1958'''
* [[Sidney F. Barrett]]
* [[Theodore E. Steinway]]
* '''1959'''
* [[Stanley Bryan Ashbrook]]
* [[Stephen Gottheil Rich]]
* '''1960'''
* Dr. [[Carroll Chase]]
* Adolph Steeg
* '''1961'''
* '''1962'''
* F. Van Dyk MacBride
* [[George Benedict Sloane]]
* '''1963'''
* [[Louis Henry Barkhausen]]
* [[Hugh C. Barr]]
* [[Hiram Edmund Deats]]
* '''1964'''
* Henry Chaloner
* [[August Dietz|August A. Dietz, Sr.]]
* Howard H. Elliott
* '''1966'''
* [[Carl Einar Pelander]]
* [[Philip Henry Ward Jr.]]
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* '''1967'''
* [[William Woodbury Hicks]]
* [[George Ward Linn]]
* [[Harry Weiss (philatelist)|Harry Weiss]]
* '''1968'''
* [[Louise Boyd Dale]]
* [[Vincent Domanski Jr.]]
* [[Francis Spellman|Francis Cardinal Spellman]]
* '''1969'''
* [[Col. Charles S. Hamilton]]
* [[Henry Albert Meyer]]
* [[Dr. Gregory B. Salisbury]]
* '''1971'''
* [[Richard McPherren Cabeen]]
* [[Lloyd B. Gatchell]]
* Judge Donald Fisher Lybarger
* '''1972'''
* [[Lester George Brookman]]
* Sir [[Edward Denny Bacon]], K.C.V.O.
* [[Charles Haviland Mekeel]]
* '''1973'''
* [[Edith Margaret Faulstich]]
* [[Peter G. Keller]]
* [[Elliott Perry]]
* '''1974'''
* [[Winthrop Smillie Boggs]]
* [[Solomon Glass]]
* [[Edwin Müller]] (Mueller)
* '''1975'''
* [[Henry M. Goodkind]]
* [[Delf Norona]]
* '''1976'''
* Dr. Manuel Ma. Risueño
* Sir [[John Wilson (philatelist)|John Mitchell Harvey Wilson]], Bart., K.C.V.O.
* '''1977'''
* [[Alfred H. Caspary]]
* James Mensinger Chemi
* '''1978'''
* [[Alberto Diena]]
* [[Irwin M. Heiman]]
* Julius Caesar Morgenthau
* '''1979'''
* [[Henry Ellis Harris]]
* [[H. L. Lindquist|Harry L. Lindquist]]
* Dr. Lowell Joseph Ragatz
* '''1980'''
* [[James Richard William Purves]]
* [[George Townsend Turner]]
* Daniel W. Vooys
* '''1981'''
* William Ewart Gerrish
* [[James J. Matejka Jr.|Dr. James J. Matejka Jr.]]
* [[Ethel Bergstresser McCoy|Ethel Bergstresser (Stewart) McCoy]]
* '''1982'''
* [[Charles P. de Volpi]]
* Léon Dubus
* [[Svend Yort]]
* '''1983'''
* Warren Howard Colson
* [[Dr. Mohamed Dadkhah]]
* [[David Louis Lidman]]
* '''1984'''
* [[George E. Hargest]]
* [[Baron Takaharu Mitsui]]
* [[Andrew Earl Weatherly]]
* '''1985'''
* [[Eugene N. Costales]]
* [[Mortimer L. Neinken]]
* [[Joseph Schatzkés|Dr. Joseph Schatzkés]]
* '''1986'''
* [[Robert P. Alexander]]
* [[Lucien Berthelot]]
* [[Richard H. Thompson (philatelist)|Richard H. Thompson]]
* '''1987'''
* [[Soichi Ichida|Dr. Soichi Ichida]]
* Harrison Donald Seaman Haverbeck
* [[Ernest Anthony Kehr]]
* '''1988'''
* [[James H. Beal]]
* [[Herbert J. Bloch]]
* [[William Reynolds Ricketts]]
* '''1989'''
* [[Vincent Graves Greene]]
* Dr. Cyril Franklin dos Passos
* [[William Herbert Miller, Jr.]]
* [[Prescott Holden Thorp]]
*'''1990'''
* [[Robert B. Brandeberry]]
* [[Ellery Denison]]
* [[Catherine Lemmon Manning]]
* [[S. Kellogg Stryker]]
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* '''1991'''
* [[Everett C. Erle]]
* [[Charles L. Towle]]
* [[Lynne S. Warm-Griffiths]]
* '''1992'''
* [[Dr. P. Felix Ganz]]
* [[Clifford Washington Kissinger]]
* [[Leon Vincent Rapkin]]
* [[Roger G. Weill]]
* '''1993'''
* [[Ezra Danolds Cole]]
* [[Susan Marshall McDonald]]
* [[Bertram William Henry Poole]]
* '''1994'''
* [[Creighton C. Hart]]
* Clifton Armstrong Howes
* [[Dr. Leonard Kapiloff]]
* [[Robert A. Siegel]]
* '''1995'''
* [[Joseph Britton Leavy]]
* George Maybee Martin
* [[Charles J. Starnes]]
* '''1996'''
* [[James H. Baxter]]
* [[Charles C. Cratsenberg]]
* [[Gordon H. Torrey|Dr. Gordon H. Torrey]]
* '''1997'''
* [[Joseph M. Clary]]
* Pandelis J. Drossos
* [[Jacques Minkus]]
* [[Edward Boker Sterling]]
* '''1998'''
* [[Leo August]]
* [[Calvin Waters Christian]]
* [[Robson Lowe]]
* '''1999'''
* [[Dorothy B. Blaney]]
* Charles Henry Coster
* [[Robert Laurenson Dashiell Davidson|Dr. Robert Laurenson Dashiell Davidson]]
* [[John E. Foxworth, Jr.]]
* '''2000'''
* [[Ernest R. Ackerman|Hon. Ernest R. Ackerman]]
* [[Herman Herst, Jr.|Herman “Pat” Herst Jr.]]
* [[Leon Norman Williams]]
* '''2001'''
* [[Enzo Diena|Dr. Enzo Diena]]
* [[C. Belmont Faries]]
* Dr. Jacques Amable Legrand
* Walton Eugene Tinsley
* '''2002'''
* [[Victor E. Engstrom]]
* [[Edward Loines Pemberton]]
* [[Philip Silver]]
* '''2003'''
* Benjamin Hans Lagerloef
* Franceska Rapkin
* [[Robert Granville Stone]]
* [[Varro Eugene Tyler]]
* '''2004'''
* [[John Robert Boker, Jr.|John Robert Boker Jr.]]
* Horace White Harrison
* Colonel Ralph Archibald Kimble
* [[Raymond Henry Weill]]
* '''2005'''
* Dr. [[Herbert Munk]]
* [[Franklin Richard Bruns Jr.]]
* Lauson H. Stone
* Nils Vilhelm Strandell
* '''2006'''
* [[George Wendell Brett]]
* [[Ernst Max Cohn]]
* [[Emilio Diena]]
* Calvet Menger Hahn
* '''2007'''
* [[Paul Hilmar Jenson]]
* [[Clyde Jennings]]
* [[Mary Ann Aspinwall Owens]]
* '''2008'''
* [[William Penn Brown]]
* [[W. Wilson Hulme II]]
* [[Morton Dean Joyce]]
* '''2009'''
* Charles John Peterson
* William H. Bauer
* Dr. Karl Heinz Schimmer
* [[Bill Welch|William Lee Welch Jr.]]
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