The leaders of the League of Nations consisted of a secretary-general, deputy secretary-general and a president of the Assembly selected from member states.
Secretaries general
Deputy secretaries general
PortraitNameTermCountry1Jean Monnet1919–19232Joseph Avenol1923–19323Pablo de Azcárate1933–1936Massimo Pilotti4Seán Lester1937–19405 Francis Paul Walters1940–1946
Under secretaries general
NationNameTermRaymond B. Fosdick1919 (provisional)Bernardo Attolico1919–1920Nitobe Inazo1919–1926Dionisio Anzilotti1920–1921Albert Dufour-Feronce1927–1932Giacomo Paulucci di Calboli1927–19321927–1933Ernst Trendelenburg1932–1933Francis Paul Walters1933–1939Vladimir Sokoline1937–19391938–1943Thanassis Aghnides1939–1942
Presidents of the Assembly Nation Portrait Name Term Léon Bourgeois 1920 Paul Hymans 1920–1921 Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek 1921–1922 Agustín Edwards 1922–1923 Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza 1923–1924 Giuseppe Motta 1924–1925 Raoul Dandurand 1925–1926 Afonso Costa 1926 Momčilo Ninčić 1926–1927 Alberto Guani 1927–1928 Herluf Zahle 1928–1929 José Gustavo Guerrero 1929–1930 Nicolae Titulescu 1930–1932 Paul Hymans 1932–1933 Charles Theodore Te Water 1933–1934 Rickard Sandler 1934 Francisco Castillo Nájera 1934–1935 Edvard Beneš 1935–1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas 1936–1937 Tevfik Rüştü Aras 1937–1937 Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III 1937–1938 Éamon de Valera 1938–1939 C. J. Hambro 1939–1946
See also
List of secretaries-general of the United Nations
References Northedge, F. S. (1986) The League of Nations: Its Life and Times, 1920–1946 Holmes & Meier, New York,