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. ImageNameStart dateEnd dateReferencesJohn Quincy Adams18061809Joseph McKean18091818Edward Tyrrel Channing18191851Francis James Child18511876Adams Sherman Hill18761904Le Baron Russell Briggs19041925Charles Townsend Copeland19251928Robert S. Hillyer19371944Theodore Spencer19461949Archibald MacLeish19491962Robert Stuart Fitzgerald19651981Seamus Heaney19841995Jorie Graham19992025Tracy K. Smith2025

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