List of Union College alumni
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This list of Union College alumni includes graduates of Union College in Schenectady, New York, United States who have achieved some notability or influence in the public or private spheres. Such a list is necessarily selective, and perforce subjective. Union offers a standard liberal arts curriculum across some 21 academic departments, as well as opportunities for interdepartmental majors and self-designed organizing theme majors. In common with only a few other liberal arts colleges, Union also offers ABET-accredited undergraduate degrees in computer engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Approximately 25% of students major in the social sciences; 9% in history; 10% in psychology; 11% in engineering; 10% in biology; 10% in the liberal arts; while some 5% design their own majors. By the time they graduate, about 60% of Union students will have engaged in some form of international study or study abroad.[1]
Since 1797, the year of the first graduation, Union alumni have transferred the knowledge and skills they acquired in the academic world to the larger world beyond Union. Many alumni have distinguished themselves in fields such as law, medicine, ministry, botany, geology, engineering, local, state, and federal government, literature and poetry, photography, military service, education, journalism, and architecture.
Among Union’s 19th-century graduates were important figures in American secondary and post-secondary education. These included Gideon Hawley[2] (1809), the first superintendent of public instruction in New York State; Francis Wayland[3] (1813), president of Brown University; Henry Philip Tappan[4] (1825), president of the University of Michigan; and Sheldon Jackson[5] (1855), who was the first superintendent of public instruction in Alaska and introduced the idea of domesticating reindeer as a food source for the native population.
Union has produced many graduates who had (and continue to have) distinguished careers in government and public service. These include John C. Spencer[6] (1806), Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury; William H. Seward[7] (1820), Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, Governor of New York, and architect of the Alaska Purchase; Chester A. Arthur[8] (1848), 21st President of the United States; and Neil Abercrombie (1959), current Governor of Hawaii.
In 1845 Union established a course in civil engineering. Many of the graduates in this course went on to work on significant construction projects. In fact, it has been claimed that, for a time, the “designers and builders of the country’s canals and railroads were overwhelmingly graduates of the military academy at West Point, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Union College...”.[9] Among these early engineering graduates were James Chatham Duane, who was head of the Army Corps of Engineers[10] (1844) and Jacob Hays Linville[11] (1848). Solomon Deyo (1870) was the engineer in charge of constructing the first New York City subway system.[12]
A number of alumni have made meaningful contributions to arts and letters: Joel T. Headley[13] (1839), author of numerous books about the Adirondack Mountains and early American history; William James Stillman[14] (1848), photographer and author; Fitz Hugh Ludlow[15] (1856), author of The Hasheesh Eater; Andrea Barrett (1974), winner of the National Book Award (for Ship Fever) and the Pulitzer Prize for works of fiction; and David Markson (1950), author of titles such as The Ballad of Dingus Magee.
Other notable Union alumni include: Dr. Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1946), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Henry Wager Halleck[16] (1837), chief of staff for the Union Armies during the Civil War; Howard Simons (1951), managing editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate era; Nikki Stone (1995), winner of a gold medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics for aerial skiing; Armand V. Feigenbaum (1942), businessman and developer of the concept of Total Quality Management; and Robert "Bob" Moffat (1978), senior executive at IBM arrested in 2009 for securities fraud and conspiracy.
Alumni list
Name | Year | Notability | Reference |
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Morris S. Miller | 1798 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [17] |
John Van Buren | 1818 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [18] |
Sarah Rios Arnold | 1843 | Pioneering dairy woman | [19] |
Joshua Forman | 1798 | Founder of Syracuse, New York | [20] |
Alexander McLeod | 1798 | Clergyman and abolitionist | [21] |
Walter Case | 1799 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [22] |
John Savage | 1799 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [23] |
John Cramer | 1801 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [24] |
John B. Yates | 1802 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [25] |
Abraham Bockee | 1803 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [26] |
James M. Matthews | 1803 | First Chancellor of New York University | [27] |
John W. Taylor | 1803 | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (two terms) | [28] |
Thomas Church Brownell | 1804 | President of Washington College (Trinity College) | [29] |
Harmanus Peek | 1804 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [30] |
Thomas Macauley | 1804 | First president of Union Theological Seminary | [27] |
John C. Spencer | 1806 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; United States Secretary of War; United States Secretary of the Treasury | [6] |
Theodric Romeyn Beck | 1807 | Author of pioneering Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1823) | [31] |
Adam Empie | 1807 | President of The College of William & Mary | [32] |
John Watts Cady | 1808 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [33] |
Gideon Hawley | 1809 | First New York State Superintendent of Common Schools; Regent of the State University of New York; "Father of the New York State Common School System" | [34] |
John F. Schermerhorn | 1809 | Missionary; appointed Indian Commissioner by Andrew Jackson | [35] |
Alfred Conkling | 1810 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; Federal judge; United States Minister to Mexico | [36] |
William Kendall Fuller | 1810 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [37] |
John Maynard | 1810 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [38] |
Abraham Maus Schermerhorn | 1810 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [39] |
Charles Borland, Jr. | 1811 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [40] |
Eliphalet W. Gilbert | 1813 | Founding president of Delaware College | [41] |
Benjamin P. Johnson | 1813 | Agriculturist; president and corresponding secretary of the New York State Agricultural Society | [42] |
Francis Wayland | 1813 | President of Brown University | [3] |
George Washington Gale | 1814 | Founder of the Oneida Institute and Knox College (Illinois) | [43] |
John Ludlow | 1814 | President of the University of Pennsylvania | [44] |
Richard M. Blatchford | 1815 | Secretary to William H. Seward; New York Central Park Commissioner | [45] |
Gilbert Morgan | 1815 | President of Western University of Pennsylvania, Edgeworth Female Seminary, Harmony Female College | [46] |
Dudley Selden | 1815 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [47] |
Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge | 1815 | Member of the United States Senate | [48] |
Henry Booth Cowles | 1816 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [49] |
John W. Edmonds | 1816 | Prison reformer; Justice of the New York Supreme Court | [50] |
Lewis C. Beck | 1817 | Geologist, botanist, mineralogist | [31] |
Adiel Sherwood | 1817 | President of Shurtleff College, Masonic College, Marshall College | [51] |
Sidney Breese | 1818 | Member of the United States Senate; author of landmark judicial decisions on state and national economic regulation | [52] |
James G. Brooks | 1818 | Editor, poet (Florio) | [53] |
George Washington Doane | 1818 | Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey | [54] |
Augustus Seymour Porter | 1818 | Member of the United States Senate | [55] |
Alonzo Potter | 1818 | Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania | [56] |
Charles Rogers | 1818 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [57] |
Robert J. Breckinridge | 1819 | President of Jefferson College; Superintendent of Public Instruction for Kentucky | [58] |
Joseph William Chinn | 1819 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [59] |
James Irvine | 1819 (1821?) | President of Ohio University | [60] |
Andrew W. Loomis | 1819 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [61] |
David Stewart | 1819 | Member of the United States Senate | [62] |
John Blatchford | 1820 | President of Marion College | [63] |
Baynard R. Hall | 1820 | Author, educator | [64] |
Laurens Perseus Hickok | 1820 | Educator; author; President of Union College (New York) | [65] |
Archibald L. Linn | 1820 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [66] |
William H. Seward | 1820 | Governor of New York; member of the United States Senate; United States Secretary of State | [7] |
George A. Starkweather | 1819 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [67] |
Nathaniel Boyden | 1821 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [68] |
Edward Curtis | 1821 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [69] |
Joseph I. Foote | 1821 | President of Washington College (Tennessee) | [70] |
Hiram Gray | 1821 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [71] |
Sherlock J. Andrews | 1821 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [72] |
John Williamson Nevin | 1821 | President of Franklin & Marshall College | [73] |
Gideon Hard | 1822 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [74] |
Ichabod S. Spencer | 1822 | Clergyman; founder of Union Theological Seminary | [75] |
Albert S. White | 1822 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate | [76] |
James Wood | 1822 | President of Hanover College | [77] |
David P. Brewster | 1823 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [78] |
Chesselden Ellis | 1823 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [79] |
Hiram P. Goodrich | 1823 | President of Marion College | [80] |
John A. Lott | 1823 | Member of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly; Justice of the New York Superior Court | [80] |
John S. Stone | 1823 | President of Hobart College; Dean of the Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge) | [81] |
Stephen Alexander | 1824 | Astronomer; original member of the United States National Academy of Sciences | [82] |
Alonzo Crittenden | 1824 | Principal of the Albany Female Academy | [83] |
Charles Goodyear | 1824 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [84] |
Ira Harris | 1824 | Member of the United States Senate; lawyer, judge, educator | [85] |
Charles J. Jenkins | 1824 | Governor of Georgia | [86] |
Josiah Sutherland | 1824 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [87] |
Bradford Ripley Wood | 1824 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [88] |
Samuel Dickson | 1825 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [89] |
Amasa J. Parker | 1825 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; Regent of the State University of New York; Justice of the New York State Supreme Court; a founder of Albany Law School | [90] |
John F. McLaren | 1825 | President of Western University of Pennsylvania | [91] |
William W. Reid | 1825 | Physician, surgeon | [92] |
Henry Philip Tappan | 1825 | President of the University of Michigan | [4] |
William F. Allen | 1826 | New York State Comptroller; Justice of the New York State Supreme Court; Justice of the New York Court of Appeals | [93] |
Amos Dean | 1826 | President of the University of Iowa; a founder of Albany Law School | [94] |
George Emlen Hare | 1826 | Dean of the Philadelphia Divinity School | [95] |
Horatio Potter | 1826 | Episcopal Bishop in the Diocese of New York; founded the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York | [96] |
Edmund Grindal Rawson | 1826 | President of New York College of Veterinary Surgeons | [97] |
Thomas Fielder Bowie | 1827 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [98] |
M. Lindley Lee | 1827 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [99] |
Samuel W. Beall | 1827 | Explorer; Indian agent; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin; one of the founders of Denver | [100] |
William W. Campbell | 1827 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; Justice of the Superior Court of New York City; Justice of the New York State Supreme Court; historian | [101] |
Peter Clark | 1827 | President of Washington College, Maryland | [102] |
Levi Hubbell | 1827 | Wisconsin Supreme Court | [103] |
Preston King | 1827 | Member of the United States Senate | [104] |
Erasmus D. MacMaster | 1827 | President of Hanover College | [105] |
Virgil Delphini Parris | 1827 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [106] |
Rufus Wheeler Peckham | 1827 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [107] |
Leonard Woods | 1827 | President of Bowdoin College | [108] |
John B. Adger | 1828 | Missionary; educator; minister to African Americans in Charleston | [109] |
Ward Hunt | 1828 | Mayor of Utica, New York; Justice of the United States Supreme Court | [110] |
Joseph G. Masten | 1828 | Mayor of Buffalo, New York; Judge of the New York Superior Court | [111] |
Robert A. Toombs | 1828 | Member of the United States Senate; Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America | [112] |
William Wilson | 1828 | President of the College of Cincinnati | [111] |
Joseph Alden | 1828 | President of the New York State Normal Institute; president of Jefferson College | [109] |
George W. Eaton | 1829 | President of Colgate University | [113] |
Israel T. Hatch | 1829 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [114] |
Nelson Rounds | 1829 | President of Willamette University | [115] |
John L. Wilson | 1829 | African missionary and explorer; author of Western Africa: Its History, Condition, and Prospects (1856) | [116] |
Leander Babcock | 1830 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [117] |
Frank Hastings Hamilton | 1830 | Surgeon; president of the New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence; author of important medical texts | [118] |
Henry James | 1830 | Philosopher and author; father of Henry James (novelist) and William James (philosopher/psychologist) | [119] |
Henry S. Randall | 1830 | Historian; author of The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858) | [120] |
Augustus Schell | 1830 | Lawyer; stock market manipulator; successor of William M. Tweed as Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society | [121] |
John O. Taylor | 1830 | Author of The District School | [122] |
Silas Totten | 1830 | President of Trinity College; Chancellor of the University of Iowa | [123] |
Squire Whipple | 1830 | The "Father of American Metal Bridges"; civil engineer; inventor; bridge designer | [124] |
John Covert | 1831 | Established Ohio Female College, Terre Haute Female College, Glendale Female College, Lyons Female College, and Michigan Female College | [125] |
William Mack | 1831 | President of Jackson College (Columbia, Tennessee) | [126] |
Orsamus H. Marshall | 1831 | Chancellor of the University of Buffalo | [126] |
Roswell Park | 1831 | President of Racine College | [127] |
Don A. J. Upham | 1831 | Mayor of Milwaukee | [128] |
Stephen Wickes | 1831 | Physician; medical historian | [129] |
Alexander W. Bradford | 1832 | Lawyer; politician | [130] |
Thomas Allen | 1832 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; railroad builder; printer to the Senate and House | [131] |
Edward Dorr Griffin Prime | 1832 | Religious journalist | [132] |
John H. Raymond | 1832 | Founder of the University of Rochester; president of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; president of Vassar College | [133] |
Charles E. West | 1832 | Principal of Rutgers Female Seminary; principal of Buffalo Female Seminary | [134] |
Henry Wikoff | 1832 | Author; publisher; impresario | [135] |
William Cassidy | 1833 | Journalist; essayist; critic | [136] |
Joseph Mullin | 1833 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [137] |
Daniel Pratt | 1835 | New York State Supreme Court Justice | [138] |
Albert T. Chester | 1834 | Principal of the Buffalo Female Academy | [139] |
George F. Comstock | 1834 | Lawyer; Solicitor of the United States Treasury; Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals | [140] |
Edmund Sears | 1834 | Clergyman; author; hymn writer ("It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," "Calm on the Listening Ears of Night") | [141] |
John Bigelow | 1835 | Consul-General to Paris during the Civil War; Minister to France; founder of the New York Public Library | [142] |
Villeroy D. Reed | 1835 | President of Alexander College | [143] |
Levi Sternberg | 1835 | President of Hartwick Seminary and Iowa Lutheran College | [143] |
John Wells | 1835 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [144] |
Matthew Meigs | 1836 | President of Delaware College | [145] |
Joshua Phelps | 1836 | President of Alexander College | [146] |
Marcius Wilson | 1836 | Educator; author of school readers and textbooks | [147] |
Henry W. Halleck | 1837 | General-in-Chief of the Union Armies | [16] |
Samuel R. House | 1837 | Pioneer medical missionary | [148] |
Levi Augustus Mackey | 1837 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [149] |
Stuart Perry | 1837 | Inventor | [150] |
Edward Tuckerman | 1837 | Botanist; lichenologist; namesake of Tuckerman Ravine | [151] |
John Newman | 1838 | President of Ripley Female College | [152] |
Simmons Stevens | 1838 | Principal of Young Ladies Seminary, Richmond, Virginia | [152] |
Maunsell Van Rensselaer | 1838 | President of Deveaux College and Hobart College | [153] |
Clarence A. Walworth | 1838 | Catholic priest; author; historian | [154] |
Austin Blair | 1839 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Michigan | [155] |
James F. Chamberlain | 1839 | Superintendent of the Institution for the Blind, New York City | [156] |
Edward Cooper | 1839 | President of Asbury Female Academy | [156] |
George R. Fairbanks | 1839 | Florida historian; founder of the University of the South | [157] |
Joel T. Headley | 1839 | New York Secretary of State; historian and author | [13] |
James A. McMaster | 1839 | Journalist; Catholic polemicist | [158] |
John Upfold Pettit | 1839 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [159] |
George W. Clarke | 1840 | Founder of the Mount Washington Collegiate Institute | [160] |
Adam Craig | 1840 | Principal of Female Academy, Windsor, Connecticut; principal of Female Academy, Milford, Delaware | [161] |
James Hoyt | 1840 | President of Talladega Institute | [161] |
Leonard Jerome | 1839 | New York City financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill | [162] |
Lewis Henry Morgan | 1840 | Anthropologist; ethnologist; the "Father of American Anthropology" | [163][164] |
Alfred A. Abbott | 1841 | President of the Peabody Institute | [165] |
Augustus Cowles | 1841 | President of Elmira College | [166] |
Thomas C. Strong | 1841 | President of Wells College; president of Pennsylvania Female College | [167] |
George Van Santvoord | 1841 | Biographer and writer on jurisprudence | [168] |
John W. Cary | 1842 | Wisconsin State Senator | [169] |
Stephen Mattoon | 1842 | President of Biddle University | [170] |
Charles C. Parry | 1842 | Botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture; explorer and botanist of the Rocky Mountains | [171] |
Clarkson N. Potter | 1842 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [172] |
William S. Robertson | 1842 | Pioneer educator of American Indians | [173] |
Otis H. Waldo | 1842 | President of Milwaukee Female College | [174] |
Silas S. Harmon | 1843 | President of Washington College (California) | [175] |
William W. Harsha | 1843 | President of Bellevue College (Nebraska) | [176] |
Franklin B. Hough | 1843 | Botanist; mineralogist; forester; historian of New York State; Director of the United States Census; "Father of American Forestry" | [177] |
Hamilton W. Pierson | 1843 | President of Cumberland College | [178] |
Addison B. Atkins | 1844 | Principal of Baltimore Female Seminary | [179] |
Charles Lewis Beale | 1844 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [180] |
James C. Duane | 1844 | Military engineer | [10] |
William C. Kenyon | 1844 | President of Alfred University | [181] |
Philip Phelps, Jr. | 1844 | President of Hope College | [182] |
Alexander H. Rice | 1844 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Massachusetts and mayor of Boston | [183] |
Edward B. Walsworth | 1844 | President of Female College of the Pacific; chancellor of Ingham University | [182] |
Abram N. Littlejohn | 1845 | Episcopal Bishop of Long Island | [184] |
Edward P. Allis | 1845 | International manufacturer; inventor | [185] |
Robert Earl | 1845 | Judge on the New York State Court of Appeals | [186] |
Daniel Hall | 1845 | Member and Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly | [187] |
Daniel Bigelow | 1846 | Regent of the University of Washington; founder of the University of Puget Sound | [188] |
John Michael Carroll | 1846 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [189] |
John M. Gregory | 1846 | President of the University of Illinois and Kalamazoo College | [190] |
John T. Hoffman | 1846 | Governor of New York | [191] |
Bradley Phillips | 1846 | Clergyman and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly | [192] |
Henry R. Pierson | 1846 | Chancellor of the University of the State of New York | [193] |
James Rankine | 1846 | President of Hobart College | [194] |
Peter V. Veeder | 1846 | President of City College of San Francisco | [195] |
Gabriel Bouck | 1847 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [196] |
James W. Hoyte | 1847 | Principal of the Female Academy, Nashville, Tennessee | [197] |
Chester A. Arthur | 1848 | Twenty-first President of the United States | [8] |
William James Stillman | 1848 | Journalist; artist; photographer; diplomat; American Consul to Rome during the Civil War; American Consul at Crete | [14] |
Hannibal Goodwin | 1848 | Inventor of roll film | [198] |
Charles C. Nott | 1848 | Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims | [199] |
Daniel Butterfield | 1849 | Civil War general; composer of revised "Taps" bugle call; Civil War chief of staff for General Joseph Hooker; Civil War chief of staff for General George Meade | [200][201] |
Robert Cruikshank | 1849 | President of Highland University | [202] |
Alonzo Flack | 1849 | President of Claverac College | [203] |
Andrew H. Green | 1849 | One of the founders of Theta Delta Chi; Judge Advocate of United States Navy Squadron, Pacific Squadron | [203] |
Frederick W. Seward | 1849 | Diplomat; journalist; son of William H. Seward; Assistant Secretary of State | [204] |
Horatio N. Powers | 1850 | President of Griswold College (Iowa) | [205] |
Charles F. Preston | 1850 | Translator of the New Testament into Cantonese; missionary to China | [206] |
Job B. Ellis | 1851 | Mycologist | [207] |
Levi Cooper Lane | 1851 | President of Cooper Medical College, which became Stanford University School of Medicine | [208] |
David Murray | 1852 | Leader in the establishment of the Japanese education system | [209] |
Allen Wright | 1852 | Governor, Choctaw Nation; author of English-Choctaw dictionary | [210] |
John F. Hartranft | 1853 | Governor of Pennsylvania | [211] |
Edward Tuckerman Potter | 1853 | Architect of the Nott Memorial; architect of Mark Twain's residence in Hartford, Connecticut | [212] |
William Clarke Whitford | 1853 | President of Milton College | [213] |
Orlow W. Chapman | 1854 | Solicitor General of the United States | [214] |
Edwin W. Rice | 1854 | Editor and author with the American Sunday School Union | [215] |
Sheldon Jackson | 1855 | Presbyterian missionary in the Western United States; first United States Superintendent of Public Instruction in Alaska | [5] |
Philip S. Post | 1855 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [216] |
Clement Hall Sinnickson | 1855 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [217] |
William G. Donnan | 1856 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [218] |
De Witt Clinton Durgin | 1856 | President of Hillsdale College | [219] |
Horace Morrison Hale | 1856 | President of the University of Colorado | [220] |
George W. Hough | 1856 | Astronomer; inventor of meteorological instruments; president of the World Congress on Astronomy and Astrophysics | [221] |
Seaman A. Knapp | 1856 | Pioneer in experimental agriculture and practical education; president of Iowa State University | [222] |
Fitz Hugh Ludlow | 1856 | Author; drug experimentalist; author of The Hasheesh Eater | [15] |
Seth L. Milliken | 1856 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [223] |
Laurenus C. Seelye | 1857 | First president of Smith College; advocate for women's colleges | [224] |
Franc B. Wilkie | 1857 | Chief Civil War correspondent for The New York Times | [225] |
Thomas B. Brooks | 1858 | Engineer; surveyor; mapped the Brooks Iron Range | [226] |
John K. McLean | 1858 | President of Pacific Theological Seminary | [227] |
Warring Wilkinson | 1858 | Principal of the California Institution for the Deaf and the Blind | [228] |
Charles Horton Peck | 1859 | Mycologist; New York State Botanist | [229] |
Elnathan Sweet | 1859 | New York State Engineer and Surveyor | [230] |
Weston Flint | 1860 | United States Consul to China; head of the scientific library of the United States Patent Office; first librarian of the Washington Free Public Library | [231][232] |
Warner Miller | 1860 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate | [233] |
Charles E. Patterson | 1860 | Speaker of the New York State Assembly | [234] |
Americus Vespucius Rice | 1860 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [235] |
Samuel R. Thayer | 1860 | United States Minister to the Netherlands | [236] |
Frederick W. Corliss | 1861 | Chancellor of Des Moines University | [237] |
Chester Holcombe | 1861 | Missionary; diplomat; secretary of the United States Legation to China | [238] |
Melville D. Landon | 1861 | Humorist; author (pen name, "Eli Perkins") | [239] |
Eliphalet Nott Potter | 1861 | Educator; Episcopal clergyman; president of Union College | [240][241] |
Charles E. Smith | 1861 | United States minister to Russia; United States Postmaster General | [242] |
Ridgley C. Powers | 1862 | Governor of Mississippi | [243] |
Edward H. Ripley | 1862 | Civil War general | [244] |
George Arnot Beattie | 1863 | President of Sedalia University | [245] |
Edward Cary | 1863 | Editorial writer for the New York Times | [246] |
Robert M. Fuller | 1863 | Inventor of tablet triturates | [247] |
Harrison T. Hickok | 1863 | Educator; economist; scientist | [248] |
Amasa J. Parker, Jr. | 1863 | New York State Senator; Union College trustee; author of Banking Law of New York | [249] |
Charles Edward Pearce | 1863 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [250] |
William Appleton Potter | 1864 | Architect; designed many Princeton University buildings; Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury | [251] |
Daniel Newton Lockwood | 1865 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [252] |
Richard S. Lyon | 1865 | President of the Chicago Board of Trade | [253] |
Cady Staley | 1865 | President of Case Western Reserve University | [254] |
Edward Wemple | 1866 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; New York State Comptroller | [255] |
Joseph M. Carey | 1867? | Member of the United States Senate; member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Wyoming; author of the Carey Arid Lands Act (1894) | [256] |
James N. Fiero | 1867 | President of the New York State Bar Association; vice-president of the American Bar Association | [257] |
Clark L. McCracken | 1869 | Principal of the Freedmen's Institute, Henderson, North Carolina | [258] |
Solomon Le Fevre Deyo | 1870 | Chief Engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Company; Chief Engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company | [259] |
John F. Genung | 1870 | Educator; prolific author of books on rhetoric and composition | [260] |
John Van Rensselaer Hoff | 1871 | Chief Surgeon of the Department of the Lakes; Chief Surgeon of the Department of the East | [261] |
Preston King | 1827 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate | [262] |
George H. Benjamin | 1872 | Physician; scientist; inventor; lawyer; editor of The National Cyclopedia of Applied Mechanics | [263] |
Charles H. Leonard | 1872 | Gynecologist; author of numerous medical textbooks | [264] |
Frank Tweedy | 1875 | Topographer with the United States Geological Survey; author of Flora of the Yellowstone National Park (1886) | [265] |
Franklin H. Giddings | 1877 | "Father of American Sociology" | [266] |
William B. Rankine | 1877 | Pioneer in the development of Niagara Falls power | [267] |
Frederick W. Cameron | 1881 | United States Commissioner of Patents | [268] |
Joseph E. Ransdell | 1882 | Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate from Louisiana; career ended by Huey Pierce Long, Jr. | [269] |
Edgar Starr Barney | 1884 | Principal of the Hebrew Technical Institute | [270] |
Wallace T. Foote | 1885 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [271] |
Jessie B. Snow | 1889 | Civil engineer; substantially expanded and improved the New York City subway system | [272] |
Roger G. Perkins | 1893 | Bacteriologist; introduced chlorination into Cleveland's water supply | [273] |
Arthur J. Roy | 1893 | Chief Astronomer of the Department of Meridian Astronomy, Carnegie Institution of Washington | [274] |
Henry A. Van Alstyne | 1893 | New York State Engineer and Surveyor | [275] |
George L. Streeter | 1895 | Embryologist; Director of Embryology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington | [276] |
Archibald Rutledge | 1904 | Educator, author | [277] |
Mark Watson | 1908 | Pulitzer Prize winning reporter on international affairs | |
Samuel M. Cavert | 1910 | Founder of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and of the World Council of Churches | [278] |
Robert P. Patterson | 1912 | United States Secretary of War | [279] |
George Stibitz | 1927 | One of the fathers of the modern digital computer | [280] |
Albert H. Stevenson | 1936 | Chief engineer of the United States Public Health Service | [281] |
John Schiller Wold | 1938 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [282] |
Clare W. Graves | 1940 | Psychologist; developed theory of human development known as "emergent cyclical levels of existence theory" | [283] |
Edward R. Kane | 1940 | Physical chemist and president of DuPont Company | [284] |
Gordon Gould | 1941 | Widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser | [285] |
Armand V. Feigenbaum | 1942 | Businessman; developer of the concept of Total Quality Management/Control | [286] |
Robert Bishop | 1943 | Senior Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange | [287] |
Roland Fitzroy | 1943 | Manhattan Project engineer | |
John L. Clowe | 1944 | President of the American Medical Association | [288] |
Marshall C. Yovits | 1944 | IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award winner; ACM Fellow | [289] |
Gordon F. Newell | 1945 | Scientist in the field of applied mathematics; Gordon–Newell theorem named for him and colleague William J. Gordon | [290] |
Baruch S. Blumberg | 1946 | Nobel Prize in Medicine (1976) | [291] |
Donald Feigenbaum | 1946 | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, General Systems | [286] |
John P. Balio | 1947 | Associate Justice for the Appellate Division for the 4th Department, State of New York | [292] |
Herbert Freeman | 1947 | Computer Pioneer Award winner from the IEEE Computer Society; designer of the Sperry Corporation's first digital computer, the SPEEDAC | [293] |
Harry Mazer | 1948 | Author of books for children and young adults | [294] |
Richard Selzer | 1948 | Surgeon and author | [295] |
Hermann A. Haus | 1949 | Frederic Ives Medal; National Medal of Science | [296] |
David Markson | 1950 | Author of works such as Wittgenstein's Mistress and The Ballad of Dingus Magee | [297] |
Herman W. Nickel | 1951 | Ambassador to South Africa | [298] |
John H. Ostrom | 1951 | Paleontologist | [299] |
Howard Simons | 1951 | Managing editor of The Washington Post | [300] |
Ivan P. Kaminow | 1952 | Head of the Photonic Networks and Components Research Department at Bell Labs;recipient of the John Tyndall Award | [301] |
Don Loughry | 1952 | Standards manager at Hewlett-Packard | [302] |
Robert Chartoff | 1955 | Producer | [303] |
David Anderson | 1958 | Ambassador to Yugoslavia | [304] |
Charles Baltay | 1958 | Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Yale University | [305] |
Neil Abercrombie | 1959 | Politician in Hawaii; member of the US House of Representatives (1986-87, 1991-2010) and 7th Governor of Hawaii (2010-2014) | [306] |
George DiCenzo | 1962 | Character actor and acting teacher | [307] |
Raymond Gilmartin | 1963 | President, Chairman, and CEO of Merck & Co. | [308] |
Alfred Sommer | 1963 | Ophthalmologist; discovered the benefits of Vitamin A for children deficient in this vitamin | [309] |
Alan Horn | 1964 | President and COO of Warner Bros. Entertainment | [310] |
John Dooley | 1965 | Associate Justice, Vermont Supreme Court | [311] |
Victor H. Fazio | 1965 | Member of the United States House of Representatives | [312] |
Michael Goldberg | 1965 | Executive Director, American Society for Microbiology | [313] |
Douglas LaBier | 1965 | Psychologist; psychotherapist; writer; director of the Center for Adult Development | [314] |
Martin Jay | 1965 | Historian; critic | [315] |
Robert Borofsky | 1966 | Director of the Center for a Public Anthropology | [316] |
Richard Fateman | 1966 | One of the developers of the Macsyma computer algebra system and the Franz Lisp system | [317] |
David Duchscherer | 1967 | President of Wendel Duchscherer Architects and Engineers (public transport facility design and planning) | [318] |
Michael Fuchs | 1967 | Executive producer for HBO | [319] |
Neil A. Lewis | 1968 | New York Times reporter | [320] |
Kenneth Merchant | 1968 | Chair of Accountancy at the Leventhal School of Accounting, University of Southern California | [321] |
Jeffrey DeMunn | 1969 | Film and television actor | [322] |
D. Peter Drotman | 1969 | Editor in Chief, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | [323] |
Joseph James | 1969 | Economic development expert and leader of The Greening of Black America; winner of 2008 Purpose Prize | [324] |
Stephen Herrick | 1969 | Judge, Albany County Court, Albany, New York | "|[325] |
Anderson Mazoka | 1969 | Zambian politician and president of the United Party for National Development (UPND), a leading opposition party | |
Scott Siegler | 1969 | Motion picture producer | [326] |
Wilson Colucci | 1971 | Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine | [327] |
Philip G. DiSorbo | 1971 | Pioneer in the Community Hospice movement and in bringing hospice services to sub-Saharan Africa | |
Phil Alden Robinson | 1971 | Screenwriter; director | [328] |
R. Douglas Arnold | 1972 | William Church Osborn Professor of Public Affairs, Princeton University; author | [329] |
Theodore Berger | 1972 | Neural prosthesis researcher | [330] |
James Casella | 1972 | Chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | [331] |
Howard Goldberg | 1972 | Associate Director for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention | [313] |
Jim Tedisco | 1972 | New York State Assemblyman | [332] |
Kate White | 1972 | Author; editor | [333] |
Marc Allinson | 1973 | Vice President for Financial Services, Rolls-Royce North American Inc. | [334] |
Robert Berhhardt | 1973 | Music Director and Conductor for the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera | [335] |
Steven Zaloga | 1973 | American historian; defense consultant; author | [336] |
Andrea Barrett | 1974 | Author; National Book Award winner; MacArthur Fellow | [337] |
Mark Bennett | 1976 | Attorney General for the State of Hawaii | [338] |
Steven Carr | 1976 | Director of Proteomics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | [339] |
Judith Dein | 1976 | Chief Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | [340] |
Robert Henkel | 1976 | Chief Executive Officer, Ascension Health | [341] |
John Kelly III | 1976 | Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research | [342] |
David Viniar | 1976 | Chief Financial Officer, Goldman Sachs | [343] |
Judy Aschner | 1977 | Julia Carell Stadler Professor of Pediatrics; Director, the Mildred Stahlman Division of Neonatology, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center | [344] |
Art Fritzson | 1977 | Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton | [345] |
Matthew H. Fronk | 1979 | Chief Engineer at General Motors | [345] |
Julie Greifer-Swidler | 1979 | Sr. Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs, RCA Music Group | "|[346] |
Renee Garbus | 1980 | Vice President and Assistant Treasurer, Pepsico | [347] |
Rich Templeton | 1980 | Chairman, president and CEO of Texas Instruments | [332] |
Evanthia Aretakis | 1981 | CEO of Siemens Communications, Siemens Corporation | [348] |
Michael Glassner | 1982 | Director, Center for Reproductive Medicine at Bryn Mawr Hospital | [349] |
David Stern | 1982 | Philanthropist; activist; CEO of Equal Justice Works and president of the Stern Family Fund | [350] |
Ilene Landress | 1983 | Producer | [351] |
Judybeth Greene | 1984 | Attorney, United States Department of Justice; graphic artist | "|[352] |
Kimberley Forbes-McKean | 1984 | Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Cutanea Life Sciences | [353] |
Sue Goldie | 1984 | MacArthur Fellow | [313] |
Kathy Magliato | 1985 | Cardiothoracic surgeon | [354] |
Charles Persico | 1985 | Vice president of RF engineering for Entropic Communications; senior vice president of engineering for Qualcomm | [355] |
Ann Gould | 1985 | Vice President, IBM Brand Expression and Global Advertising | |
Suzanne Beitel | 1986 | Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Chase, Financial Services | [356] |
Lydia Altman | 1987 | Vice President, Fifth Third Bank | [357] |
Robert Bleifer | 1987 | Executive Chef of Culinary Productions at the Food Network | [358] |
Julie Breslow | 1987 | Magistrate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia | [359] |
Jeffrey Berkowitz | 1988 | Senior Vice President, Global Market Access at Merck | [360] |
Chris Sheridan | 1989 | Writer and television producer noted for his work on Family Guy | [361] |
Andy Miller | 1990 | Corporate executive and entrepreneur | [362] |
Christine Brennan | 1991 | Collections Manager, Metropolitan Museum of Art | [363] |
Andria Coletta | 1994 | Partner, Taylor, Duane, Barton & Gilman, LLP | [364] |
Peter DeBoer | 1993 | Managing Director and Head of Strategy and Business Development for Standard and Poor's | [365] |
Jennifer Einhorn | 1994 | Senior Coordinator of Special Events for Major League Baseball | [364] |
Laura Fink | 1994 | Vice President of Marketing, American Express | [366] |
Dylan Ratigan | 1994 | Television journalist; host of MSNBC's Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan | [367] |
Nikki Stone | 1995 | Olympian; first American to win a gold medal in inverted aerial skiing; motivational speaker | [368] |
Greg Roth | 1996 | Vice President, Buddy Media, Inc. | [369] |
Rawson Marshall Thurber | 1997 | Screenwriter; director | [369] |
Lilith Amado | 1999 | Executive Director, International Fashion and Beauty, Teen Vogue | [370] |
Christine Bower | 1999 | Art Director, Hemispheres Magazine/Ink Publishing; Creative Director, Billboard Magazine | [371] |
Elizabeth Fancher | 1999 | Policy Advisor, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | [372] |
Ben Schwartz | 2003 | Actor and comedian, known for House of Lies and Parks and Recreation |
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Neil Abercrombie, seventh Governor of Hawaii
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John Bigelow, Minister to France under Lincoln
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Daniel Butterfield, Union General in the Civil War
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Joseph M. Carey, governor of Wyoming, 1911-1915
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Franklin H. Giddings, "Father of American sociology"
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Gordon Gould, developer of the laser
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Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Union Armies
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Ira Harris, member of the U.S. Senate, 1861-1867
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John F. Hartranft, governor of Pennsylvania, 1873-1879
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Franklin B. Hough, first chief of the US Division of Forestry
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Ward Hunt, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1873-1882
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Henry James, Sr., philosopher and author
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Fitz Hugh Ludlow, author of The Hasheesh Eater and Union's alma mater
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Lewis Henry Morgan, "Father of American anthropology"
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John W. Nevin, president of Franklin and Marshall College, 1866-1876
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Robert P. Patterson, U.S. Secretary of War under Harry S. Truman
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Clarkson N. Potter, president of the American Bar Association (1881 – 1882) and US Congressman from New York (1869 – 1875)
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Laurenus C. Seelye, first president of Smith College, 1875-1910
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Frederick W. Seward, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson
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John C. Spencer, U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Tyler
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William Stillman, journalist, artist, photographer, and diplomat
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Henry Philip Tappan, first President of the University of Michigan, 1852-1863
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Jim Tedisco, Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly from 2005 to 2009
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Robert Toombs, first Confederate States Secretary of State
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Francis Wayland, president of Brown University, 1827-1855
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