| Chair | Tenure | Hometown while serving |
| Edwin D. Morgan | 1856–1858 1874–1875 | Manhattan |
| James Kelly | 1858–1860 | Manhattan |
| Simeon Draper | 1860–1862 | Manhattan |
| Henry R. Low | 1862–1863 | Monticello |
| Charles Jones | 1863–1865 | Brooklyn |
| William R. Stewart | 1865–1866 | Manhattan |
| Hamilton Harris | 1866–1870 | Albany |
| Alonzo B. Cornell | 1870–1874 1875–1877 1878–1879 | Manhattan |
| John F. Smyth | 1877–1878 1882–1883 | Albany |
| Chester A. Arthur | 1879–1881 | Manhattan |
| B. Platt Carpenter | 1881–1882 | Stanford |
| James D. Warren | 1883–1885 | Buffalo |
| Chester S. Cole | 1885–1887 | Corning |
| Cornelius N. Bliss | 1887–1889 | Manhattan |
| John N. Knapp | 1889–1891 | Auburn |
| William Brookfield | September 1891 – September 1894 | |
| Charles W. Hackett | September 1894 – April 1898 | Utica |
| Benjamin Odell | May 1898 – November 1900 April 1904 – September 1906 | Newburgh |
| George W. Dunn | November 1900 – April 1904 | Binghamton |
| Timothy L. Woodruff | September 1906 – October 1910 | Brooklyn |
| Ezra P. Prentice | October 1910 – January 1911 | Manhattan |
| William Barnes Jr. | January 1911 – September 1914 | Albany |
| Frederick C. Tanner | October 1914 – January 1917 | Manhattan |
| George A. Glynn | January 1917 – September 1922 | Watertown |
| George K. Morris | September 1922 – August 1928 | Amsterdam |
| H. Edmund Machold | August 1928 – June 1929 | Watertown |
| William J. Maier | June 1929 – November 1930 | Seneca Falls |
| W. Kingsland Macy | December 1930 – September 1934 | Islip |
| Melvin C. Eaton | September 1934 – November 1936 | Norwich |
| William S. Murray | January 1937 – April 1940 | Utica |
| Edwin Jaeckle | April 1940 – November 1944 | Buffalo |
| Glen R. Bedenkapp | January 1945 – February 1949 | Lewiston |
| William L. Pfeiffer | 1949 – September 1953 | Buffalo |
| Dean P. Taylor | September 1953 – September 1954 | Troy |
| L. Judson Morhouse | September 1954 – January 1963 | Ticonderoga |
| Fred A. Young | April 1963 – January 1965 | Lowville |
| Carl Spad | February 1965 – May 1967 | White Plains |
| Charles A. Schoeneck Jr. | May 1967 – April 1969 | Syracuse |
| Charles T. Lanigan | 1969 – November 1972 | Utica |
| Richard M. Rosenbaum | November 1972 – June 1977 | Rochester |
| Bernard M. Kilbourn | June 1977 – 1981 | Utica |
| George L. Clark Jr. | March 1981 – July 1985 | Brooklyn |
| Anthony J. Colavita | September 19, 1985 – June 22, 1989 | Westchester County |
| J. Patrick Barrett | June 22, 1989 – January 14, 1991 | Syracuse |
| William Powers | January 14, 1991 – March 8, 2001 | Rensselaer County |
| Sandy Treadwell | March 8, 2001 – November 15, 2004 | Westport |
| Stephen Minarik | November 15, 2004 – November 15, 2006 | Webster |
| Joseph Mondello | November 15, 2006 – September 29, 2009 | Hempstead |
| Edward F. Cox | September 29, 2009 – July 1, 2019
March 13, 2023 – present |
Manhattan |
| Nick Langworthy | July 1, 2019 – March 13, 2023 | Amherst |