Past
Harvard and Radcliffe Presidents
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| Harvard's Presidents |
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| President |
Term of Office |
| 1. Henry Dunster |
1640-1654 |
| 2. Charles Chauncy |
1654-1672* |
| 3. Leonard Hoar |
1672-1675 |
| 4. Urian Oakes |
1675-1681* |
| 5. John Rogers |
1682-1684* |
| 6. Increase Mather** |
1685-1701 |
| 7. John Leverett |
1708-1724* |
| 8. Benjamin Wadsworth |
1725-1737* |
| 9. Edward Holyoke |
1737-1769* |
| 10. Samuel Locke |
1770-1773 |
| 11. Samuel Langdon |
1774-1780 |
| 12. Joseph Willard |
1781-1804* |
| 13. Samuel Webber |
1806-1810* |
| 14. John Thornton Kirkland |
1810-1828 |
| 15. Josiah Quincy |
1829-1845 |
| 16. Edward Everett |
1846-1849 |
| 17. Jared Sparks |
1849-1853 |
| 18. James Walker |
1853-1860 |
| 19. Cornelius Conway Felton |
1860-1862* |
| 20. Thomas Hill |
1862-1868 |
| 21. Charles William Eliot |
1869-1909 |
| 22. Abbott Lawrence Lowell |
1909-1933 |
| 23. James Bryant Conant |
1933-1953 |
| 24. Nathan Marsh Pusey |
1953-1971 |
| 25. Derek Bok |
1971-1991 |
| 26. Neil L. Rudenstine |
1991-2001 |
| 27. Lawrence H. Summers |
2001-2006 |
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| Exercised the Office of President Without the Title |
| Nathaniel Eaton |
1637-1639 |
| John Leverett/William Brattle |
1688-1692 |
| Samuel Willard |
1701-1707 |
| Edward Wigglesworth |
1780-1781 |
| Eliphalet Pearson |
1804-1806 |
| Henry Ware |
1810 |
| Henry Ware |
1828-1829 |
| James Walker |
1845-1846 |
| Andrew Preston Peabody |
1862 |
| Andrew Preston Peabody |
1868-1869 |
| Henry Pickering Walcott |
1900-1901 |
| Derek Bok |
2006- |
*Died in office.
**His title was Rector from 1686 to 1690. |
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