Historijat Predsjedništva BiH počinje 1974. godine, kada je Ustavom tadašnje Socijalističke Republike Bosne i Hercegovine, u okviru SFRJ, ustanovljena nova institucija u društ.–poli. sistemu.
The history of the Presidency of BiH begins in 1974, when a new institution was established in the socio-political system by the Constitution of the then Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, within SFRY.