Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory

The Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory is an endowed chair at Harvard University. It was established in 1804, and endowed by the will of a Boston merchant, Nicholas Boylston.

Image Name Start date End date References
John Quincy Adams 1806 1809
Joseph McKean 1809 1818
Edward Tyrrel Channing 1819 1851
Francis James Child 1851 1876
Adams Sherman Hill 1876 1904
Le Baron Russell Briggs 1904 1925
Charles Townsend Copeland 1925 1928
Robert S. Hillyer 1937 1944
Theodore Spencer 1946 1949
Archibald MacLeish 1949 1962
Robert Stuart Fitzgerald 1965 1981
Seamus Heaney 1984 1995
Jorie Graham 1999
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