Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory
Endowed chair at Harvard University
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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.[1]
| Image | Name | Start date | End date | References |
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John Quincy Adams | 1806 | 1809 | [2] |
| Joseph McKean | 1809 | 1818 | [2] | |
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Edward Tyrrel Channing | 1819 | 1851 | [2] |
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Francis James Child | 1851 | 1876 | [2] |
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Adams Sherman Hill | 1876 | 1904 | [2] |
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Le Baron Russell Briggs | 1904 | 1925 | [2] |
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Charles Townsend Copeland | 1925 | 1928 | [2] |
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Robert S. Hillyer | 1937 | 1944 | [2] |
| Theodore Spencer | 1946 | 1949 | [2] | |
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Archibald MacLeish | 1949 | 1962 | [2] |
| Robert Stuart Fitzgerald | 1965 | 1981 | [2] | |
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Seamus Heaney | 1984 | 1995 | [2][3] |
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Jorie Graham | 1999 | 2025 | [4][5] |
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Tracy K. Smith | 2025 | [6] |