Eliot began his record-setting forty-year presidency a century later. However, Holyoke is still considered the oldest person to occupy the presidency of Harvard. See also Holyoke Chair References Sources Holyoke, A North American Family 1637 - 1992, John Gibbs Holyoke, Gateway Press, Inc. (Baltimore, 1993), First. Further reading 1689 births 1769 deaths American slave owners Harvard College alumni Presidents of Harvard University Clergy in the American Revolution American Protestant ministers and clergy People of colonial Massachusetts Harvard University librarians New Latin-language poets