Boston Jenkins Drayton (1821–1865) was a Liberian politician and Lutheran minister who served as the 3rd Chief Justice of Liberia from 1861 until 1864.

[2] In December 1855, Drayton ousted Prout, who had become increasingly unpopular, and assumed the governorship, later being unanimously elected in April 1856 as the Governor of Maryland.

[2] By December of that year, relations between the American settlers and the native Grebo population had deteriorated to the point of open warfare.

In response, President Joseph Jenkins Roberts dispatched a militia force to put down the Grebo rebellion.

[2] Drayton was later appointed Chief Justice of Liberia by President Stephen Allen Benson in 1861, serving until stepping down in 1864.