4 years, 9 months and 26 days (acting); 1 year, 5 months and 23 days
Died in office[9][7] 5 John Rogers 1682–1684 2 years, 3 months and 2 days Died in office[10][11][7] 6 Increase Mather 1685–1686 (acting); 1686–1692 (rector); 1692–1701 16 years and 18 days (total); 1 year and 12 days (acting); 6 years and 4 days (rector); 9 years and 2 days Forced to resign[12][7] – Samuel Willard 1701–1707 (acting) 6 years and 6 days Resigned due to illness[13] 7 John Leverett 1708–1724 16 years, 3 months and 19 days First lawyer to serve as president. Died in office.[7][14] 8 Benjamin Wadsworth 1725–1737 11 years, 8 months and 9 days Died in office[11][7] 9 Edward Holyoke 1737–1769 32 years At 79, the oldest president; died in office.[11][7] – John Winthrop 1769 (acting) Declined presidency on a permanent basis on grounds of old age[15] 10 Samuel Locke 1770–1773 3 years, 6 months and 10 days Resigned after fathering a child out of wedlock[16][1] – John Winthrop 1773–1774 (acting) Declined presidency again on a permanent basis on grounds of old age [2] 11 Samuel Langdon 1774–1780 6 years, 1 month and 12 days Students petitioned the Corporation to dismiss him and he resigned.[7][17] – Edward Wigglesworth 1780–1781 (acting) [3] 12 Joseph Willard 1781–1804 23 years and 20 days Died in office[18] – Eliphalet Pearson 1804–1806 (acting) Acting president after death of Willard 13 Samuel Webber 1806–1810 4 years, 2 months and 11 days Died in office[19] – Henry Ware 1810 (acting) Served as acting president after Webber's death.[4] 14 John Thornton Kirkland 1810–1828 17 years, 4 months and 19 days Suffered a stroke, was accused of financial mismanagement by the Harvard Corporation, and resigned [5] – Henry Ware 1828-1829 (acting) Served as acting president after the resignation of Kirkland [6] 15 Josiah Quincy III 1829–1845 16 years, 6 months and 29 days Retired[20] 16 Edward Everett 1846–1848 2 years, 11 months and 27 days Resigned due to dissatisfaction with the job.[21] Later became United States Secretary of State and United States Senator. 17 Jared Sparks 1849–1853 4 years and 9 days Resigned due to dissatisfaction with the job[22] 18 James Walker 1853–1860 6 years, 11 months and 16 days Resigned due to arthritis[23] 19 Cornelius Conway Felton 1860–1862 2 years and 10 days Died from a disease of the heart en route to Washington, D.C. for a meeting at the Smithsonian Institution[24] – Andrew Preston Peabody 1862 (acting) Served as acting president after the death of Felton 20 Thomas Hill 1862–1868 5 years, 11 months and 24 days Resigned due to poor health[25] – Andrew Preston Peabody 1868-1869 (acting) Served as acting president after the resignation of Hill due to illness[26] 21 Charles William Eliot 1869–1909 40 years, 2 months and 7 days[27] At 35, the youngest president.[28] Longest term of office.[29][30] For a portion of 1900-1901[31] and 1905, Henry Pickering Walcott served as acting president while Eliot was on vacation. 22 A. Lawrence Lowell 1909–1933 24 years, 1 month and 2 days Retired[32][33] 23 James B. Conant 1933–1953 19 years, 6 months and 22 days Retired to become Allied High Commissioner for Occupied Germany and later U.S. ambassador to Germany[34] 24 Nathan Pusey 1953–1971 18 years and 29 days "Pusey called in the Cambridge police to end a student sit-in" in 1969. "Sharply criticized for his handling of the situation, he announced in 1970 that he would retire the following year".[35][36] 25 Derek Bok 1971–1991 19 years, 11 months and 29 days[37] Henry Rosovsky served as acting president in 1984 and 1987 when Bok traveled and took brief sabbaticals.[38][39] 26 Neil Rudenstine 1991–2001[40] 9 years, 11 months and 29 days Provost Albert Carnesale served as acting president for three months, from November 1994 to February 1995, during Rudenstine's medical leave of absence.[41] 27 Lawrence Summers 2001–2006 4 years, 11 months and 29 days First Jewish president[42][43][44][45][46] Shortest tenure since Civil War. Resigned following several clashes with faculty resulting in a no-confidence vote.[47][48][49][50] – Derek Bok 2006–2007 (interim) 11 months and 29 days Served as acting president after the resignation of Summers[51][7] 28 Drew Gilpin Faust 2007–2018 10 years, 11 months and 29 days First female president[7][52] 29 Lawrence Bacow 2018–2023 4 years, 11 months and 29 days Retired[7][53] 30 Claudine Gay 2023–2024 6 months and 1 day First black president.[54] Shortest serving president; resigned following congressional hearings into antisemitism on campus and multiple allegations of plagiarism.[55] 31 Alan Garber 2024–Present 1 year, 5 months and 29 days Appointed as interim president after Gay's resignation[56][57] Appointed permanently in August 2024 as 31st president until 2027, when Harvard will appoint a successor.[58]RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
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