| Wayne E. Timmerman | 1929 – June 28, 1935 |
| Millar S. Johnson | 1935 – July 28, 1941 |
| Louis F. Kendall | 1941 – November 2, 1942 |
| Charles Goldsmith | 1942 – November 16, 1946 |
| Millar S. Johnson | 1946 – August 9, 1949 |
| Frank G. Buck | 1949 – July 10, 1957 |
| Stanley Savarie | 1957 – April 30 1973 |
| Eugene A. Schiller | August 20, 1973 – December 2, 1974 |
| Gerald A. Oxford | 1974 – June 1, 1975 |
| John Cullen | 1975 - January 28, 1976 |
| Gerald A. Oxford | 1975 – November 14, 1977 |
| E. John Lawless | 1976 – July 18, 1984 |
| Richard V. DePuy | 1984 – 1993 |
| Patrick Fitzgerald | 1993 - 1996 |
| Howard Riley | 2000 - 2005 |
| John Sweeney | 2005 |
| Richard V. DePuy | 2006 |
| Marty Murphy | 2007 - 2010 |
| John Sweeney | 2010 |
Adapted from a list compiled by Michele Tucker of the Adirondack Research Room, Saranac Lake Free Library.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 14, 2019, by Howard Riley
. . . The village manager form of government, a legal designation, was adopted in 1929. Saranac Lake officials decided that that position had to be filled by an engineer.
