List of Presidents of Harvard University

Five Harvard University presidents sit in the order in which they held office: Josiah Quincy , Edward Everett , Jared Sparks , James Walker, and Cornelius Conway Felton .

That list includes the presidents of Harvard University .

Nathaniel Eaton ("schoolmaster", 1637–1639)
Henry Dunster (1640-1654)
Charles Chauncy (1654–1672)
Leonard Hoar (1672–1675)
Urian Oakes (1675–1680: Interim President, 1680–1681: President)
John Rogers (1682-1684)
Increase Mather (1685–1686: interim president, 1686–1692: rector, 1692–1701: president)
Samuel Willard (1701–1707: interim president)
John Leverett (1708-1724)
Benjamin Wadsworth (1725-1737)
Edward Holyoke (1737–1769)
Samuel Locke (1770–1773)
Samuel Langdon (1774–1780)
Joseph Willard (1781-1804)
Eliphalet Pearson (1804–1806: Interim President)
Samuel Webber (1806-1810)
John Thornton Kirkland (1810-1828)
Josiah Quincy (1829-1845)
Edward Everett (1846-1849)
Jared Sparks (1849-1853)
James Walker (1853-1860)
Cornelius Conway Felton (1860-1862)
Thomas Hill (1862–1868)
Charles William Eliot (1869-1909)
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1909-1933)
James Bryant Conant (1933-1953)
Nathan Marsh Pusey (1953-1971)
Derek Curtis Bok (1971–1991)
Neil Leon Rudenstine (1991-2001)
Lawrence H. Summers (2001-2006)
Derek Curtis Bok (2006–2007: Interim President)
Drew Gilpin Faust (2007-2018)
Lawrence S. Bacow (since 2018)

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