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

• Professorships at Harvard University