2007-2016 | The Rosenthal Era in the Editorial Department

On the 13th floor of The New York Times building is a very exclusive portrait gallery.

It is more exclusive than the Pulitzer Prize gallery on the 15th floor. It is even more exclusive than the collection of signed presidential portraits in the 16th-floor boardroom.

The 13th-floor gallery honors the eight men and one woman who formerly ran The Times’s editorial page. Their combined tenures extended 123 years. There were more popes in the same period.

A 10th portrait should be in the works soon.

Andrew Rosenthal, 60, who has been the editorial page editor since January 2007, is to step down at the end of April, it was announced on Monday. He will be succeeded by James Bennet, 49, the editor in chief and co-president of The Atlantic — and a 15-year Times veteran.

Their predecessors were Charles Ransom Miller (1883-1922), Rollo Ogden (1922-1937), John H. Finley (1937-1938), Charles Merz (1938-1961), John B. Oakes (1961-1976), Max Frankel (1977-1986), Jack Rosenthal (1986-1993), Howell Raines (1993-2001) and Gail Collins (2001-2006).

Mr. Rosenthal was born in India, where his father, A. M. Rosenthal, was stationed as a Times correspondent. His father was then in the early stages of a career that would lead to the executive editorship in 1977, and so the younger Mr. Rosenthal was steeped in Times history and tradition.