List of Cleveland Guardians ownership and front office personnel

Many people passed through the Cleveland Guardians' front office as team owner, president and general manager, and through that of the Cleveland Indians before that. These include: comedian Bob Hope, frozen food magnate Vern Stouffer, team executives Bill Veeck and Gabe Paul, as well as men who owned the other Cleveland franchises: Ellis Ryan, with the Cleveland Browns, and Nick Mileti, who owned the Cleveland Crusaders, the Cleveland Barons and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Presidents

Indians Presidents
Team	Years
Denny Long	1892	1895
Tom Loftus	1896	1899
John F. Kilfoyl	1899	Oct. 1908
Charles W. Somers	Oct. 1908	Feb. 21, 1916
James C. Dunn	Feb. 21, 1916	June 9, 1922
Ernest S. Barnard	June 9, 1922	Oct. 17, 1927
Edith Dunn	Oct. 17	Nov. 17, 1927
Alva Bradley	Nov. 17, 1927	June 21, 1946
William L. Veeck, Jr.	June 21, 1946	Nov. 21, 1949
Ellis W. Ryan	Nov. 21, 1949	Dec. 18, 1952
Myron H. Wilson, Jr.	Dec. 18, 1952	Aug. 19, 1962
William R. Daley	Aug. 19	Nov. 20, 1962
Gabriel H. Paul, Sr.	Nov. 20, 1962	Jan. 10, 1973
Nicholas J. Mileti	Jan. 10, 1973	Mar. 20, 1975
Alva T. Bonda	Mar. 20, 1975	Feb. 3, 1978
Gabriel H. Paul Sr.	Feb. 3, 1978	Nov. 29, 1984
Peter Bavasi	Nov. 29, 1984	Jan. 23, 1987
Henry J. Peters	Jan. 23, 1987	Jan. 1, 1992
Rick Bay	Jan. 1	Nov. 20, 1992
Richard E. Jacobs	Nov. 20, 1992	Feb. 15, 2000
Paul J. Dolan	Feb. 15, 2000	Oct. 3, 2010
Mark Shapiro	Oct. 3, 2010	Present

Team General Managers

Indians General Managers
Team	Years
John F. Kilfoyl & Charles W. Somers	1899	Mar. 1903
Ernest S. Barnard	Mar. 1903	Feb. 21, 1916
Bob McRoy	Feb. 21, 1916	Dec. 2, 1917
Ernest S. Barnard	Dec. 2, 1917	Nov. 3, 1927
Billy Evans	Nov. 3, 1927	Nov. 19, 1935
C.C. Slapnicka	Nov. 19, 1935	Sept. 27, 1941
Roger Peckinpaugh	Sept. 21, 1941	June 22, 1946
William L. Veeck, Jr.	June 22, 1946	Nov. 21, 1949
Hank Greenberg	Nov. 21, 1949	Oct. 16, 1957
Frank Lane	Nov. 12, 1957	Oct. 7, 1960
Walter Evers & Bob Kennedy	Oct. 7, 1960	Apr. 27, 1961
Gabriel H. Paul, Sr.	Apr. 27, 1961	Jan. 10, 1973
Phil Seghi	Jan. 10, 1973	Feb. 18, 1985
Joe Klein	Mar. 8, 1985	Dec. 18, 1987
Henry J. Peters	Dec. 18, 1987	Sept. 18, 1991
John Hart	Sept. 18, 1991	Nov. 3, 2001
Mark Shapiro	Nov. 3, 2001	Oct. 3, 2010
Chris Antonetti	Oct. 3, 2010	Present

Source

• Russell Schneider: The Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1996.
• Cleveland Guardians team ownership history