List of Wabash College people

This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Wabash College.

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Alumni

Academia

• George J. Graham, Jr., political theorist
• John S. Hougham, natural scientist and President, Purdue University, 1876
• William Parker McKee, President, Shimer College
• Tom Ostrom, social psychologist
• Stephen H. Webb, theologian and philosopher of religion

Business

• Robert Allen, former AT&T CEO
• Robert Charles, inventor of the Happy Meal
• James Bert Garner, Head of the Chemistry Department, 1901–14; inventor of the gas mask used in World War I

Law

• Edward Daniels, co-founder of Baker & Daniels (now Faegre Baker Daniels)
• David E. Kendall, President Bill Clinton's attorney, known for a number of anti-death penalty cases

Media and the arts

• Eric Daman, Emmy-winning costumer and fashion designer
• Dean Jagger, Oscar-winning motion picture actor
• Andrea James, LGBT rights activist and film producer
• Kenyon Nicholson, playwright, screenwriter
• Byron Price, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (1944), Director of the Office of Censorship
• Frank Reynolds, ABC World News Tonight anchor
• Lawrence Sanders, novelist
• Allen Saunders, cartoonist
• Dan Simmons, science-fiction author, dedicated his novel Ilium to the college
• Sheldon Vanauken, author, confidante of C. S. Lewis

Medicine

• Robert G. Roeder, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Biochemical and Molecular Biology at The Rockefeller University
• Emery Andrew Rovenstine, co-founder of the American Society of Anesthesiologists

Military

• Major General Edward Canby, only United States general killed during the Indian Wars
• Brigadier General John Coburn, Civil War officer; accepted the surrender of Atlanta
• General Charles Cruft, Civil War officer
• Brigadier General Speed S. Fry, Civil War officer
• Major General Lew Wallace, Civil War officer, statesman, and author of Ben-Hur

Politics

• John C. Black, US Representative and Medal of Honor recipient
• John Coburn, United States Representative from Indiana
• Hiram Orlando Fairchild, speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Stephen Goldsmith, former Mayor of Indianapolis, former Deputy Mayor of New York City
• Dwight Green, Governor of Illinois and Capone prosecutor
• Andrew Hamilton, US Representative
• Bayless W. Hanna, Indiana Attorney General, United States Ambassador to Iran and United States Ambassador to Argentina
• Will Hays, postmaster general and film censor czar
• Randall Head, Indiana State Senator, District 18
• Thomas Riley Marshall, twenty-eighth Vice-President of the United States (under Woodrow Wilson)
• Joseph E. McDonald, US Representative and Senator
• Reginald Meeks, Kentucky State Representative
• Luke Messer, United States Congressman
• Thomas MacDonald Patterson, US Representative and Senator
• William Pittenger, US Representative
• John Pope, Chicago alderman (10th ward)
• Todd Rokita, United States Congressman
• Richard J. Stephenson, financier of conservative causes
• Reginald H. Sullivan, Mayor of Indianapolis
• Brent Waltz, Indiana State Senator, District 36
• Charles P. White, former Indiana Secretary of State and convicted felon
• Raymond E. Willis, US Senator
• Henry Lane Wilson, US Ambassador to Mexico
• James Wilson, United States Representative from Indiana
• John L. Wilson, US Representative and Senator

Science

• Robert Dirks, computational chemist

Sports

• Knute Cauldwell, NFL player
• Ward Lambert, college basketball coach
• Don Leppert, Major League Baseball player, homered in first at-bat, first position player All-Star in Washington-Texas franchise history
• Ward Meese, National Football League player
• Pete Metzelaars, National Football League all-time leader in games played by a tight end and four-time AFC champion
• Century Milstead, college football Hall of Famer
• Ed Summers, Major League Baseball player, pitched in Games 1 and 4 of 1908 World Series