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Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...

Notable alumni

College founders and presidents

* Edward Jones 1826, Principal of forerunner of

Fourah Bay College Fourah Bay College is a public university in the neighbourhood of Mount Aureol in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Founded on 18 February 1827, it is the first western-style university built in Sub-Saharan Africa and, furthermore, the first university-le ...

, Africa (the predecessor of the

University of Sierra Leone The University of Sierra Leone is the name of the former unitary public university system in Sierra Leone. Established in February 1827, it is the oldest university in Africa. As of May 2005, the University of Sierra Leone was reconstituted int ...

) *

Patrick Hues Mell Patrick Hues Mell (July 19, 1814 – January 26, 1888) was the president of the Southern Baptist Convention in two terms from 1863 to 1871 and from 1880 to 1887. He also served as chancellor of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Ge ...

1833,

Chancellor Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...

of the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

Edward Duffield Neill Edward Duffield Neill (1823 – 1893) was an American author and educator. Neill was born in Philadelphia. After studying at the University of Pennsylvania for some time, he enrolled at Amherst College and graduated from Amherst in 1842, then stu ...

1842, first Chancellor,

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

, 1858–1861; founder, first president, and professor,

Macalester College Macalester College () is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1874, Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 2,174 students in the fall of 2018 from 50 U.S. states, four U.S te ...

* William S. Clark 1848, second president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

), co-founder of

Sapporo Agricultural College was a school in Sapporo, Hokkaidō established in September 1875 for the purpose of educating students in the agriculture industry. History The first president of the college was Zusho Hirotake. Dr. William Smith Clark, a graduate of Amhers ...

(now

Hokkaido University , or , is a Japanese national university in Sapporo, Hokkaido. It was the fifth Imperial University in Japan, which were established to be the nation's finest institutions of higher education or research. Hokkaido University is considered ...

) in Japan *

Julius Hawley Seelye Julius Hawley Seelye (September 14, 1824 – May 12, 1895) was a missionary, author, United States Representative, and former president of Amherst College. The system of Latin honors in use at many universities worldwide is said to have been cr ...

1849, fifth president of Amherst College (implemented the

Latin honors Latin honors are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned. The system is primarily used in the United States. It is also used in some Sou ...

system) *Reverend

Daniel Bliss Daniel Bliss (August 17, 1823 in Georgia, Vermont, United States – July 27, 1916 in Beirut, Lebanon) was a Christian missionary from the United States and the founder of the American University of Beirut. Life and work Born in the town of Geor ...

1852, founder and president of

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

(1866–1902) * James Griswold Merrill, president of

Fisk University Fisk University is a private historically black liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1866 and its campus is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1930, Fisk was the first Africa ...

(1901–1908) *

Francis Amasa Walker Francis Amasa Walker (July 2, 1840 – January 5, 1897) was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and an officer in the Union Army. Walker was born into a prominent Boston family, the son of the econo ...

1860, third president of

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...

(1881–1897) * George Harris 1866, seventh president of Amherst College *

William Jacob Holland Rev William Jacob Holland FRSE LLD (August 16, 1848 – December 13, 1932) was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891–1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished zoologist and paleontolo ...

1869, fifth Chancellor,

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

Joseph Hardy Neesima (born ; 12 February 1843 – 23 January 1890), better known by his English name Joseph Hardy Neesima, was a Japanese Protestant missionary and educator of the Meiji era who founded Doshisha English School (later Doshisha University). He ...

1870, founder of

Doshisha University , mottoeng = Truth shall make you free , tagline = , established = Founded 1875,Chartered 1920 , vision = , type = Private , affiliation = , calendar = , endowment = €1 ...

in Japan *

Frank Johnson Goodnow Frank Johnson Goodnow (January 18, 1859 – November 15, 1939) was an American educator and legal scholar. He was the first president of the American Political Science Association. Personal life He married Elizabeth Lyall (1861–1942) in 1886 ...

1879, third president of

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

Benjamin Rush Rhees Benjamin Rush Rhees ( 08 February 1860–05 January 1939) was the third president of the University of Rochester, serving from 1900 to 1935. Education Rhees, great-grandson of radical Baptist minister Morgan John Rhys, earned his undergraduate d ...

1883, third president of the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...

(1900–1935) *

James Hayden Tufts James Hayden Tufts (1862–1942), an influential American philosopher, was a professor of the then newly founded Chicago University. Tufts was also a member of the Board of Arbitration, and the chairman of a committee of the social agencies ...

1884, acting president, vice-president, dean, and professor,

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

Frederic B. Pratt Frederic Bayley Pratt (22 February 1865 – 3 May 1945) was an American heir, the president of the board of trustees of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute for 44 years, from 1893 to 1937, and president of the United States Olympic Committee in 1910. ...

1887, president of

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...

(1893–1937) *

Bertrand Snell Bertrand Hollis Snell (December 9, 1870 – February 2, 1958) was an American politician who represented upstate New York in the United States House of Representatives. He was a pro-business, low-tax, isolationist conservative Republican who ...

1894, president of

Clarkson University Clarkson University is a private research university with its main campus in Potsdam, New York, and additional graduate program and research facilities in the New York Capital Region and Beacon, New York. It was founded in 1896 and has an enr ...

(1920–1945) * Ernest Hatch Wilkins 1900, president of

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...

(1927–1946) *

Stanley King Stanley King (May 11, 1883 – April 28, 1951) was the eleventh president of Amherst College. He held that position from 1932 to 1946. Biography Early life Stanley N. King was born at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York on May 11, 1883, the son of ...

1903, eleventh president of Amherst College * J. Seelye Bixler 1916, 16th president of

Colby College Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the city where it resides. The donations of Christian philanthr ...

Lewis Williams Douglas Lewis Williams Douglas (July 2, 1894March 7, 1974) was an American politician, diplomat, businessman and academic. Early life and education Douglas was the son of James Douglas, Jr., a mining executive employed by the Phelps Dodge Company, and ...

1916, ninth Principal of

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

* Dexter Keezer 1918, president of

Reed College Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at ...

Charles W. Cole Charles Woolsey Cole (February 8, 1906 – February 20, 1978) was an American diplomat and academic who served as the twelfth president of Amherst College from 1946 to 1960, serving longer in that post than any other president. Biography Cole was ...

1927, twelfth president of Amherst College *

Richard Glenn Gettell Richard Glenn Gettell (March 3, 1912 – August 14, 1988) was an American educator who served as the 12th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1957 to 1968. His mother, Nelene Groff Gettell (née Knapp), taught at Amherst High School fr ...

1933, thirteenth president of

Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. ...

David Truman David Bicknell Truman (June 1, 1913 – August 28, 2003) was an American academic who served as the 15th president of Mount Holyoke College from 1969–1978. He is also known for his role as a Columbia University administrator during the Columbia ...

1935, fifteenth president of Mount Holyoke College * John W. Atherton 1939, founding president of

Pitzer College Pitzer College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. One of the Claremont Colleges, the college has a curricular emphasis on the social sciences, behavioral sciences, international programs, and media studies. Pitzer is k ...

Calvin Plimpton Calvin Hastings Plimpton (7 October 1918 – 30 January 2007) was an American physician and educator, who served as president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut. He is known for appointing a commission in 1970 whose findings re ...

1939, thirteenth president of Amherst College; president of

Downstate Medical Center SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University (Downstate) is a public medical school and hospital in Brooklyn, New York. It is the southernmost member of the State University of New York (SUNY) system and the only academic medical center for healt ...

and

Julian Gibbs Julian Howard Gibbs (June 24, 1924 – February 20, 1983) was an American educator and the fifteenth President of Amherst College. Gibbs graduated from Amherst College in 1947. He earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in 1949 and 1950 from P ...

1947, fifteenth president of Amherst College * Charles R. Longsworth 1951, president of

Hampshire College Hampshire College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges ...

, founding vice-president * Ralph Z. Sorenson 1955, seventh president of

Babson College Babson College is a private business school in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Established in 1919, its central focus is on entrepreneurship education. It was founded by Roger W. Babson as an all-male business institute, but became coeducational i ...

(1974–1981), one of co-founders of the

Asian Institute of Management The Asian Institute of Management (AIM) is an international management school and research institution. It is one of the few business schools in Asia to be internationally accredited with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Busine ...

(AIM) in the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

Richard M. Freeland Richard Middleton Freeland (born May 13, 1941, in Orange, New Jersey) was president of Northeastern University from 1996 to 2006 and served as the Commissioner of Higher Education for Massachusetts from 2008 until 2015. Freeland grew up in Mount ...

1963, president of

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in ...

(1996–2006) *

David K. Lewis David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) was an American philosopher who is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton University fr ...

1964, interim president, provost and dean of faculty, professor,

Connecticut College Connecticut College (Conn College or Conn) is a private liberal arts college in New London, Connecticut. It is a residential, four-year undergraduate institution with nearly all of its approximately 1,815 students living on campus. The college w ...

Colin Diver Colin S. Diver (born December 29, 1943) is an American lawyer and university president who was the president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He was also the dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1989 to 1999. Early life and ...

1965, current president of Reed College *

Richard L. McCormick Richard Levis McCormick (born December 26, 1947) is a historian, professor and president emeritus of Rutgers University. Early life The son of Richard Patrick McCormick, a Rutgers professor and administrator, and Katheryne C. Levis, a Universit ...

1969, former president of

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

; former president of the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

, 1995–2002; vice-chancellor and provost of the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

* William S. Pfeiffer 1969, current president of

Warren Wilson College Warren Wilson College (WWC) is a private liberal arts college in Swannanoa, North Carolina. It is known for its curriculum that combines academics, work, and service as every student must complete a requisite course of study, work an on-campus ...

Peter Dorman Peter FitzGerald Dorman (born 1948) is an epigrapher, philologist, and Egyptologist. Recently a professor of history and archaeology at the American University of Beirut (AUB), he served as the 15th President of the university from 2008 to 2015. H ...

1970, 15th president of

* Alan Townsend 1988, current interim president of

Colorado College Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell in his daughter's memory. The college enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduates at its campus. The college offer ...

Academics

Philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...

Francis Andrew March Dr. Francis Andrew March (October 25, 1825 – September 9, 1911) was an American polymath, academic, philologist, and lexicographer. He is considered the principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Old English. Also known as the "G ...

1845, principal founder of modern

comparative linguistics Comparative linguistics, or comparative-historical linguistics (formerly comparative philology) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic relatedness ...

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons were a Cultural identity, cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo- ...

*Geologist

Benjamin Kendall Emerson Benjamin Kendall Emerson (December 20, 1843 – April 7, 1932) was an American geologist and author. Biography Emerson attended Amherst College, where he joined the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and from which he graduated in 1865 as valedictor ...

1865, geologist, author, and professor *Political Scientist John Burgess 1867, one of the founders of modern

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

*Historian

Herbert Baxter Adams Herbert Baxter Adams (April 16, 1850 – July 30, 1901) was an American educator and historian who brought German rigor to the study of history in America; a founding member of the American History Association; and one of the earliest ed ...

1872, writings introduced scientific methods of investigation, credited with bringing study of politics into realm of

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...

*Librarian

Melvil Dewey Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an influential American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, a founder of the Lake Placid Club, and a chief lib ...

1874, of the

Dewey Decimal System The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject. Section 4.1 ...

, founder of

American Library Association The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with 49,727 members a ...

*Economist

John Bates Clark John Bates Clark (January 26, 1847 – March 21, 1938) was an American neoclassical economist. He was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutionalist school of economics, and spent most of his career as ...

1875, namesake of the

John Bates Clark Medal The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." The award is named after the ...

*Statistician

Richmond Mayo-Smith Richmond Mayo-Smith (February 9, 1854 – November 11, 1901) was an American economist noted for his work in statistics. He was born in Troy, Ohio, educated at Amherst College (graduating in 1875), then at Berlin and Heidelberg University. He beca ...

1875, at the time one of the foremost authorities on the subject *Astronomer

David Peck Todd David Peck Todd (March 19, 1855 — June 1, 1939) was an American astronomer. He produced a complete set of photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus. Biography Todd was born in Lake Ridge, New York, the son of Sereno Edwards Todd and Rhoda (Pe ...

1875, noted astronomer, leader of significant astronomical expeditions *Political Scientist

1879, scholar of

public administration Public Administration (a form of governance) or Public Policy and Administration (an academic discipline) is the implementation of public policy, administration of government establishment (public governance), management of non-profit establ ...

and

administrative law Administrative law is the division of law that governs the activities of government agency, executive branch agencies of Forms of government, government. Administrative law concerns executive branch rule making (executive branch rules are gener ...

, advisor in drafting Chinese constitution in 1913–14 (appears above) *Librarian

Ernest Cushing Richardson Ernest Cushing Richardson (February 9, 1860 – June 3, 1939) was an American librarian, theologian and scholar. Throughout his life Richardson strived to make advances in cataloging systems and increased access to necessary research materials i ...

1880, noted librarian, theologian and scholar *Historian, author, librarian Frederic Bancroft 1882, namesake of the

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...

*Philosopher

1884, co-founder of University of Chicago School of Pragmatism *Psychologist

Edmund B. Delabarre Edmund Burke Delabarre (1863 – 1945), was a researcher and professor of psychology at Brown University. He graduated from Amherst College in 1886. He was a pioneer in the field of shape perception and on the interaction between mental processe ...

1886, pioneer in shape perception, among other fields *Astronomer

Raymond Smith Dugan Raymond Smith Dugan (May 30, 1878 – August 31, 1940) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. His parents were Jeremiah Welby and Mary Evelyn Smith and he was born in Montague in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. His undergr ...

1899, discovered 16 Asteroids (including

516 Amherstia Amherstia ( minor planet designation: 516 Amherstia) was the 8th asteroid discovered by Raymond Smith Dugan, and was named after Amherst College, his alma mater. Amherstia is a large M-type asteroid, with an estimated diameter of 73 km. It ...

), wrote standard two volume textbook *Historian Preserved Smith 1901, historian of

Protestant Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

; Prof. at Amherst, Harvard *Economist

John Maurice Clark John Maurice Clark (1884–1963) was an American economist whose work combined the rigor of traditional economic analysis with an "institutionalist" attitude. Clark was a pioneer in developing the notion of workable competition and the theore ...

1905, best known forerunner of American school of pragmatic economics *Educator

Claude Fuess Claude Moore Fuess (January 12, 1885 – September 11, 1963) was an American author, historian, educator, and the 10th Headmaster of Phillips Academy Andover from 1933 to 1948. After attending Amherst College and earning a PhD at Columbia Univ ...

1905, a noted author and historian, 10th

Headmaster A head master, head instructor, bureaucrat, headmistress, head, chancellor, principal or school director (sometimes another title is used) is the teacher, staff member of a school with the greatest responsibility for the management of the school ...

Phillips Academy ("Not for Self") la, Finis Origine Pendet ("The End Depends Upon the Beginning") Youth From Every Quarter Knowledge and Goodness , address = 180 Main Street , city = Andover , state = Ma ...

Andover, Massachusetts Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was settled in 1642 and incorporated in 1646."Andover" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th ed., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 387. As of th ...

*Educator and philosopher

Scott Buchanan Scott Buchanan (1895 – 1968) was an American philosopher, educator, and foundation consultant. He is best known as the founder of the Great Books program at St. John's College, at Annapolis, Maryland.The same program is used at St. John's Colle ...

1916, founder of

Great Books A classic is a book accepted as being exemplary or particularly noteworthy. What makes a book "classic" is a concern that has occurred to various authors ranging from Italo Calvino to Mark Twain and the related questions of "Why Read the Cl ...

program at St. John's College * E. Merrill Root 1917, writer, educator, and opponent of

communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

and

liberal Liberal or liberalism may refer to: Politics * a supporter of liberalism ** Liberalism by country * an adherent of a Liberal Party * Liberalism (international relations) * Sexually liberal feminism * Social liberalism Arts, entertainment and m ...

intrusion into the educational system * Robert Percy Barnes, 1921, American chemist and professor at

Howard University Howard University (Howard) is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commissi ...

; was the first African American faculty member at Amherst College and the first African American person to receive a PhD in chemistry from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

Gerald Warner Brace Gerald Warner Brace (September 24, 1901 – July 20, 1978) was an American novelist, writer, educator, sailor and boat builder. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England. Biography Early life and ancestors He was born ...

1922, writer, educator, sailor and boat builder *Sociologist

Talcott Parsons Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in sociol ...

1924, one of the most influential sociologists during much of the 20th century; Professor at Harvard from 1927 to 1973. *Chemist Paul Doughty Bartlett 1928, revolutionized the way

organic chemistry Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.Clayden, J.; ...

is taught and practiced in the world *Mathematician

Stephen Cole Kleene Stephen Cole Kleene ( ; January 5, 1909 – January 25, 1994) was an American mathematician. One of the students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Rózsa Péter, Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of ...

1930, helped lay foundations for

theoretical computer science Theoretical computer science (TCS) is a subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on mathematical aspects of computer science such as the theory of computation, lambda calculus, and type theory. It is difficult to circumsc ...

*Chemist

William Summer Johnson William Summer Johnson (February 24, 1913 – August 19, 1995) was an American chemist and teacher. From 1940 to 1958, Johnson was an instructor and then professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1958, he moved to Stanford Universi ...

1936, among the world's leading synthetic organic chemists *American historian, professor, and activist

H. Stuart Hughes Henry Stuart Hughes (1916–1999) was an American historian, professor, and activist. He advocated the application of psychoanalysis to history. Early life Hughes was born on May 16, 1916, in New York City, the son of Marjory Bruce Stuart and C ...

1937 *Historian

John Whitney Hall John Whitney Hall (September 13, 1916 – October 21, 1997),"John Whitney Hall papers, 1930–1999", Yale University Library was an American historian of Japan who specialized in premodern Japanese history. His life work was recognized by the Japane ...

1939, pioneer in field of

Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ...

, authority on pre-war Japan *Poet and professor Richard P. Wilbur 1942, second U.S.

Poet Laureate A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...

; Amherst College professor

Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloq ...

was Wilbur's teacher and mentor * Linguist and professor

Eric P. Hamp Eric Pratt Hamp (November 16, 1920 – February 17, 2019) was an American linguist widely respected as a leading authority on Indo-European linguistics, with particular interests in Celtic languages and Albanian. Unlike many Indo-Europeanists, wh ...

1942, LHD (hon.)'72, The University of Chicago, known for expertise in lesser-known Indo-European languages and dialects. *Poet and translator David Ferry 1946, recipient of the

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry The Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry is awarded biennially by the Library of Congress on behalf of the nation in recognition for the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two y ...

*Chemist Julian Howard Gibbs 1947, former President of Amherst College (won the High Polymer Prize of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

, 1967) *Neuroscientist

James Olds James Olds (May 30, 1922 – August 21, 1976) was an American psychologist who co-discovered the pleasure center of the brain with Peter Milner while he was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in 1954. He is considered to be one of the fou ...

1947, one of the foremost psychologists of the twentieth century *Political Scientist

Richard Fenno Richard Francis Fenno Jr. (December 12, 1926 – April 21, 2020) was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work on the U.S. Congress and its members. He was Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Roche ...

1948, namesake of

Fenno's paradox Fenno's paradox is the belief that people generally disapprove of the United States Congress as a whole, but support the congressmen from their own congressional districts. It is named after political scientist Richard Fenno, who discussed this in ...

and Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize *Physicist

Henry Way Kendall Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep ...

1950, experimental work provided first evidence of

quarks A quark () is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. All commonly o ...

and

quark model In particle physics, the quark model is a classification scheme for hadrons in terms of their valence quarks—the quarks and antiquarks which give rise to the quantum numbers of the hadrons. The quark model underlies "flavor SU(3)", or the E ...

*Microbiologist Carl R. Woese 1950, redrew

taxonomic Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...

tree, originator of

RNA world hypothesis The RNA world is a hypothetical stage in the evolutionary history of life on Earth, in which self-replicating RNA molecules proliferated before the evolution of DNA and proteins. The term also refers to the hypothesis that posits the existence ...

*Political Scientist

Andrew Hacker Andrew Hacker (born 1929) is an American political scientist and public intellectual. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Queens College in New York. He did his undergraduate work at Amherst College, follow ...

1951, novel interdisciplinary work on questions of

race Race, RACE or "The Race" may refer to: * Race (biology), an informal taxonomic classification within a species, generally within a sub-species * Race (human categorization), classification of humans into groups based on physical traits, and/or s ...

, class, and

gender Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most cultures u ...

*Physical chemist Peter Toennies 1952, former director of the

Max Planck Institute Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1 ...

for Flow Research; recipient, inter alia, of Physics Award of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, Stern-Geriach Gold Medal (experimental physics), Kolos Medal (chemistry) (2005), and Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (2006) *Translator and poet

Robert Fagles Robert Fagles (; September 11, 1933 – March 26, 2008) was an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek and Roman classics, especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer. ...

1955, known for translations of

ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

, particularly translations of

epic poems An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants. ...

Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

*Economist

Edmund Phelps Edmund Strother Phelps (born July 26, 1933) is an American economist and the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Early in his career, he became known for his research at Yale's Cowles Foundation in the first half of ...

1955, seminal work,

natural rate of unemployment The natural rate of unemployment is the name that was given to a key concept in the study of economic activity. Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps, tackling this 'human' problem in the 1960s, both received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Scienc ...

, Golden Rule savings rate *Political Scientist

Alan Schechter Alan Schechter (born 1936) is a political scientist. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He was educated at Amherst College, where he received his AB, and at Columbia University, where he earned ...

1957 *Scientist

David Suzuki David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at th ...

1958, internationally honoured Canadian environmental scientist and activist *Historian

John W. Dower John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American author and historian. His 1999 book ''Embracing Defeat, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II'' won the U.S. National Book Awar ...

1959, scholar of modern Japanese history,

*Economist David Bradford 1960, economist, professor at Princeton University *Planetary scientist

Andrew Ingersoll Andrew Perry Ingersoll is a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology. Ingersoll was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997. He received the lifetime achievement award in planetary science, the G ...

1960, recipient of

Kuiper Prize The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize is awarded annually by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of planetary science. The prize is named for Gerard P. Kuiper. Kuiper Pr ...

(2007) *Philosopher and law professor

James Boyd White James Boyd White (born 1938) is an American law professor, literary critic, scholar and philosopher who is generally credited with founding the "law and Literature" movement. He is a proponent of the analysis of constitutive rhetoric in the anal ...

1960, founder of "

Law and Literature The law and literature movement focuses on connections between law and literature. This field has roots in two developments in the intellectual history of law—first, the growing doubt about whether law in isolation is a source of value and mean ...

" movement *MIT

Institute Professor An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can ...

John M. Deutch John Mark Deutch (born July 27, 1938) is an American physical chemist and civil servant. He was the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1995 and Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from May 10, 1995 until December 15, 1996 ...

1961, chairman of Chemistry Dept., Dean of Science, Provost *

Musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

and musician

Philip Gossett Philip Gossett (September 27, 1941 – June 12, 2017) was an American musicologist and historian, and Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago. His lifelong interest in 19th-century Italian opera bega ...

1963, one of the world's leading authorities on 19th century Italian music; Prof., Univ. of Chicago and Univ. of Rome *

Psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how indi ...

Roger Tarpy Roger M. Tarpy (born 1941) is an American psychologist. Tarpy is a specialist in the study of learning and memory in both humans and animals. He is best known as the author and editor of text books at the undergraduate and graduate levels in these ...

1963, author of numerous textbooks on learning and memory *Economist

Joseph E. Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, and a full professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the Joh ...

1964,

; former professor at

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton; work in the theory of markets with asymmetric information and

efficiency wages The term efficiency wages (or rather "efficiency earnings") was introduced by Alfred Marshall to denote the wage per efficiency unit of labor. Marshallian efficiency wages would make employers pay different wages to workers who are of different ef ...

Sterling Professor Sterling Professor, the highest academic rank at Yale University, is awarded to a tenured faculty member considered the best in his or her field. It is akin to the rank of university professor at other universities. The appointment, made by the ...

of French R. Howard Bloch 1965, Bibliotheque National,

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and Letters) is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is ...

*Physical Chemist

Robert W. Field ''For the painter, see Robert Field (painter)'' Robert W. Field (born June 13, 1944) is the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor since 1974. His AB degree is in chemi ...

1965, recipient, inter alia, of the Broida Prize, Plyler Prize, Lippincott Award, and Nobel Laureate Signature Award *Physicist Davison E. Soper 1965, recipient of the 2009

Sakurai Prize The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual April Meeting, and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory. The prize consists of a monetary award ($10,000 U ...

for Theoretical Particle Physics *Philosopher

William Lycan William G. Lycan (; born September 26, 1945) is an American philosopher and professor emeritus at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was formerly the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor. Since 2011, Lycan is also ...

1966, contributions to philosophy of language, mind, epistemology, linguistics *Historian

Theodore Rosengarten Theodore Rosengarten (born December 17, 1944) is an American historian. He graduated from Amherst College in 1966 with a BA, and earned his PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation on Ned Cobb (1885–1973), a former Alabama tenant far ...

1966, scholar of U.S. Southern history *Computer scientist

David S. Johnson David Stifler Johnson (December 9, 1945 – March 8, 2016) was an American computer scientist specializing in algorithms and optimization. He was the head of the Algorithms and Optimization Department of AT&T Labs Research from 1988 to 2013, an ...

1967, computer scientist, head of Algorithms and Optimization Department (research) at

AT&T Labs AT&T Labs is the research & development division of AT&T, the telecommunications company. It employs some 1,800 people in various locations, including: Bedminster NJ; Middletown, NJ; Manhattan, NY; Warrenville, IL; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Atlan ...

(former

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

) *Bestselling author

Daniel Goleman Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an author, psychologist, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for ''The New York Times'', reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences. His 1995 book ''Emotional Intelligence'' was on ''Th ...

1968 *Anthropologist

Loring Danforth Loring M. Danforth (born 1949) is an American professor of anthropology and an author working at Bates College. His research has focused on the interpretation of a wide variety of symbolic or expressive forms in a range of cultures. Education and ...

1971, award-winning scholar; pre-eminent expert,

Macedonia naming dispute The use of the country name "Macedonia (terminology), Macedonia" was disputed between Greece and the North Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) between 1991 and 2019. The dispute was a source of instability in the Balkans#W ...

*Ecologist

Peter Vitousek Peter Morrison Vitousek (born January 24, 1949 http://www.japanprize.jp/data/press/2010/Citation_CV_ProfVitousek_E.pdf ) is an American ecologist, particularly known for his work on the nitrogen cycle. Born in Hawaii, Vitousek graduated from Amh ...

1971, professor of biology at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

; member of the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

(1992) *Astronomer

David Helfand David J. Helfand is a U.S. astronomer who served as president of Quest University Canada from 2008 to 2015. Prior to his presidency at Quest, he was a Visiting Tutor at Quest. He has also served as chair of the Department of Astronomy at Columb ...

1973, chair of the department of Astronomy at Columbia University, co-director of Columbia

Astrophysics Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of the founders of the discipline said, Astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the nature of the h ...

Laboratory, professor in physics department *

Ethnomusicologist Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dim ...

Theodore Levin Theodore Levin (February 18, 1897 – December 31, 1970) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Education and career Levin was born on February 18, 1897, in Chicago, Illinoi ...

1973 *Geophysicist, earth and planetary scientist, and astronomer

Raymond Jeanloz Raymond Jeanloz is a professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Educated at the California Institute of Technology, Amherst College and at Deep Springs College, he has contributed researc ...

1975 *Historian

Peter Jelavich Peter Jelavich (born 1954) is an author and Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the son of historians Barbara Jelavich, Barbara and Charles Jelavich. Previously, Jelavich was professor of history and chair of the Department ...

1975, professor of history,

, specializing in the cultural history of modern Germany *Historian

Walter Johnson Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946), nicknamed "Barney" and "The Big Train", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 21-year baseball career in Major League Baseball as a right-ha ...

1988, Winthrop Professor of History,

*Economist

Gilbert E. Metcalf Gilbert E. Metcalf is the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and a professor of economics at Tufts University. In addition, he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a University Fellow at ...

1975, John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and professor of economics,

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

, specializing in taxation, energy, and climate policy *Mathematician and political scientist

Joshua M. Epstein Joshua Morris Epstein is Professor of Epidemiology at the New York University College of Global Public Health. Formerly Professor of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, with joint appointments in the departments of Applied Mathematic ...

1976, pioneer in

agent based model An agent-based model (ABM) is a computational models, computational model for computer simulation, simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous agents (both individual or collective entities such as organizations or groups) in order to un ...

s; modeling of social, economic, and biological systems; groundbreaking work on

epidemics An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί ''epi'' "upon or above" and δῆμος ''demos'' "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of patients among a given population within an area in a short period of time. Epidemics of infectious d ...

and

bioterrorism Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents. These agents are bacteria, viruses, insects, fungi, and/or toxins, and may be in a naturally occurring or a human-modified form, in much the same ...

*Historian, author of books on the Vietnam War

Christian Appy Christian Gerard Appy (born April 5, 1955) is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is widely known as a leading expert on the Vietnam War experience. The most recent of his three books on the subject is ''American ...

1977 *Historian Andrew R. Heinze 1977 *

Bioethicist Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, med ...

Ezekiel J. Emanuel Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel (born September 6, 1957) is an American oncologist, bioethicist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He is the current Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and chai ...

1979, leading medical ethicist *

Timothy Luehrman Timothy A. Luehrman is a finance academic, formerly a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. He is best known for his work on valuation and real options; specifically, he conceived the idea of treating business strategy as a series of option (f ...

1979, finance academic (

corporate finance Corporate finance is the area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the Value investing, value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and anal ...

and

real options Real options valuation, also often termed real options analysis,Adam Borison (Stanford University)''Real Options Analysis: Where are the Emperor's Clothes?'' (ROV or ROA) applies option valuation techniques to capital budgeting decisions.Campbe ...

) * Rajiv Ratan 1981, scientist *

Andrew Kuchins Andrew Carrigan Kuchins is an Americans, American political scientist, academic, and former head of American University of Central Asia. He has held senior positions at several think tanks, including Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Ce ...

1981,

political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

and former President of

American University of Central Asia The American University of Central Asia (AUCA) (russian: Американский университет в Центральной Азии; ky, Борбордук Азиядагы Америка Университети), formerly the ''Kyrgyz ...

*Chemist Amy Rosenzweig 1988, leader in advancing

synchrotron A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its closed p ...

-based

protein crystallography X-ray crystallography is the experimental science determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into many specific directions. By measuring the angles ...

* Joseph M. Hall, Jr., 1991, Professor of American History,

Bates College Bates College () is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals with a small urban campus which includes 33 Victorian Houses as some of the dormitories. It maintains of nature p ...

*Political Scientist

Sumantra Bose Sumantra Bose is an Indian political scientist and professor of international and comparative politics at the London School of Economics. He specialises in the study of ethnic and national conflicts and their management, with a particular focus on ...

1992, professor of Internatl. & Comp. Pol.,

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

*Law professor and television correspondent Stephen Vladeck 2001 *Art historian

Charles C. Eldredge Charles "Charlie" Child Eldredge (born April 12, 1944 in Boston) is an American art historian, educator, and curator. Eldredge is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture Emeritus at the University of Kansas. He also served a ...

, 1966, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture Emeritus,

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

Professional athletes and coaches

* Steve Partenheimer 1913, third baseman,

Detroit Tigers The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit. The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the American League (AL) Central division. One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was f ...

, 1913 * Howard Groskloss 1930, infielder,

Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Founded as part of the American Associati ...

, 1930–1932 *

Harry Dalton Harry Inglis Dalton (August 23, 1928 – October 23, 2005) was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball. He served as general manager of three American League (AL) teams, the Baltimore Orioles (1966–71), California Angels (1 ...

1950, general manager

Baltimore Orioles The Baltimore Orioles are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore. The Orioles compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League East, East division. As one of the American L ...

1965–1971,

Los Angeles Angels The Los Angeles Angels are an American professional baseball team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Angels compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. Since 1966, the team ha ...

1971–1977,

Milwaukee Brewers The Milwaukee Brewers are an American professional baseball team based in Milwaukee. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division. The Brewers are named for t ...

1977–1991 * Doug Swift 1970, linebacker,

Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member team of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team pla ...

, 1970–1975 * Jean Fugett 1972, tight end,

Dallas Cowboys The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divisi ...

1972–1975, and

Washington Redskins The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The Commanders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) N ...

, 1976–1979 *

Freddie Scott Freddie Scott (April 24, 1933 – June 4, 2007) was an American soul singer and songwriter. His biggest hits were " Hey, Girl", a top ten US pop hit in 1963, and " Are You Lonely for Me", a no. 1 hit on the R&B chart in early 1967. Life and car ...

1974, wide receiver,

Baltimore Colts The Baltimore Colts were a professional American football team that played in Baltimore from its founding in 1953 to 1984. The team now plays in Indianapolis, as the Indianapolis Colts. The team was named for Baltimore's history of horse breed ...

, 1974–77, and

Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North Division. The team play their home games at Ford ...

1978–1983 * Richard N. Thompson 1980, pitcher,

Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland. The Guardians compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. Since , they have played at Progressive F ...

, 1985, and

Montreal Expos The Montreal Expos (french: link=no, Les Expos de Montréal) were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal, Quebec. The Expos were the first Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located outside the United States. They played in t ...

, 1989–1990 * John J. Cerutti 1982, pitcher,

Toronto Blue Jays The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Since 1989, the team has played its home games ...

, 1985–1990, and

, 1991 *

Dave Jauss David Patrick Jauss (born January 16, 1957) is an American professional baseball coach and scout who currently serves as an advisor in the Washington Nationals organization. He previously served as a coach for the New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Lo ...

1980, bench coach,

New York Mets The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division. They are one of two major league ...

, 2009–present *

Dan Duquette Dan Duquette (born May 26, 1958) is an American baseball executive. He is the former general manager of the Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, and Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. He is also the founder of the Dan Duquette Sports Academy ...

, 1980, general manager,

1991–1994,

Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight ...

1994–2002,

2011–2018 *

Neal Huntington Neal Alden Huntington (born February 4, 1969) is the former General Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball and currently works in the front office of the Cleveland Guardians. Background A native of Amherst, New Hampshire, Hunt ...

1991, general manager,

, 2007–2019 *

Ben Cherington Benjamin P. Cherington (born July 14, 1974) is an American baseball executive serving as the general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB) since November 2019. He previously served as the vice-president of baseball oper ...

1996, general manager,

, 2011–2015 * Alex Bernstein 1997, offensive lineman,

Baltimore Ravens The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Ravens compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. The team plays its ...

New York Jets The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The J ...

Cleveland Browns The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference ( ...

Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Falcons joined th ...

, 1997–2000 *

Willy Workman Willy Workman ( he, וילי וורקמן; born March 14, 1990) is an American-Israeli professional basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball at Amherst. Workman holds dual-Ame ...

(born 1990),

American-Israeli , native_name_lang = , image = , caption = , population = 110,000–150,000 , popplace = New York metropolitan area, Los Angeles metropolitan area, Miami metropolitan area, and other large metropolitan are ...

basketball player for

Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Jerusalem is a sport organization in Jerusalem as a local branch of the Hapoel movement. The branch was established in the 1920s and represents the city in more sports than any other sport organization in Jerusalem. Today, the club's leadi ...

in the

Israeli Basketball Premier League Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional sports, professional competition in Israeli sports club, club basketball, making ...

Clergy and Biblical scholars

*Missionary and linguist Isaac Grout Bliss 1844, translator of the Bible into Kurdish *Missionary and linguist

David Oliver Allen David Oliver Allen (1800–1863) was an American missionary to India and an author. Life Allen was born in Barre, Massachusetts to Moses and Mahitable Allen. His father relocated the family to Princeton, Massachusetts while David Allen was an i ...

1823, first American

Protestant Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...

missionary appointed to

Bombay Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

, India; first translation of the Bible in the Mahratta language *Biblical scholar

Bela Bates Edwards Bela Bates Edwards (1802–1852) was an American man of letters. Biography Edwards was born at Southampton, Massachusetts, on 4 July 1802. He graduated at Amherst College in 1824, was a tutor there from 1827 to 1828, graduated at Andover Theologic ...

1824, also editor-in-chief of

Bibliotheca Sacra ''Bibliotheca Sacra'' (colloquially referred to as "BibSac") is a List of theological journals, theological journal published by Dallas Theological Seminary, first published in 1844 and the oldest theological journal in the United States. It was f ...

, the oldest continuous theological journal in the United States *Missionary and scholar

Elijah Coleman Bridgman Elijah Coleman Bridgman (April22, 1801November2, 1861) was the first American Protestant Christian missionary appointed to China. He served with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. One of the first few Protestant missionarie ...

1826, the first American

missionary appointed to China, America's first "China expert" * John H. Burt, Episcopal priest and Eighth bishop of the Episcopal Dicese of Ohio (1967–1983) *Missionary and linguist

Justin Perkins Justin Perkins (March 5, 1805 – December 31, 1869) was an American Presbyterian missionary and linguist. He was the first citizen of the United States to reside in Iran (formally Qajar Iran). He became known for his work among the people there ...

1829, first American

missionary appointed to Iran *Biblical scholar Horatio Balch Hackett 1830 *Preacher

Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the Abolitionism, abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery ...

1834 *Archbishop

James Roosevelt Bayley James Roosevelt Bayley (August 23, 1814 – October 3, 1877) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of Newark (1853–1872) and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (1872–1877). Early life and educat ...

ex 1835, eighth

Archbishop of Baltimore The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Baltimore ( la, link=no, Archidiœcesis Baltimorensis) is the premier (or first) see of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the United States. The archdiocese comprises the City of Baltimore and nine of Mar ...

* Roswell Dwight Hitchcock 1836, president of Union Theological Seminary (1880–87) *Preacher

Benjamin M. Palmer Benjamin Morgan Palmer (January 25, 1818 – May 28, 1902) was a Presbyterian minister, theologian, in the United States. He served as first Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) in 1861. Life Palmer was born in Charl ...

ex 1836, acclaimed orator, Bible-based theologian; confederate preacher *Bishop

Frederic Dan Huntington Frederic (or Frederick) Dan Huntington (May 28, 1819, Hadley, Massachusetts – July 11, 1904, Hadley, Massachusetts) was an American clergyman and the first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York. Early life, e ...

1839, first

Episcopal Episcopal may refer to: *Of or relating to a bishop, an overseer in the Christian church *Episcopate, the see of a bishop – a diocese *Episcopal Church (disambiguation), any church with "Episcopal" in its name ** Episcopal Church (United State ...

bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Central New York *Biblical scholar

Henry Preserved Smith Henry Preserved Smith (October 12, 1847 – February 26, 1927) was an American biblical scholar. Smith was born in Troy, Ohio. He graduated at Amherst College in 1869 and studied theology in Lane Theological Seminary in 1869–1872, in Berlin ...

1869, professor at Amherst College (1897–1906) * William Greenough Thayer 1885, Episcopal minister and headmaster of headmaster of St. Mark's School *Christian thinker

Uchimura Kanzo Uchimura may refer to * Uchimura (surname) * Uchimura Dam in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan *Uchimura Produce , produced by Teruyoshi Uchimura, is a Japanese TV comedy program that aired from 2000 to 2005 on TV Asahi. Summary The program that Ter ...

1887, founder of Nonchurch Movement of Christianity in Japan *Theologian

Robert McAfee Brown Robert McAfee Brown (1920–2001) was an American Presbyterian minister, theologian, and activist. Life Born on May 28, 1920, in Carthage, Illinois, Brown was the son of a Presbyterian minister and the grandson of theologian and Presbyterian mini ...

1943,

Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...

minister, theologian, international leader and activist in

social justice Social justice is justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals fu ...

civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life of ...

, and

ecumenical Ecumenism (), also spelled oecumenism, is the concept and principle that Christians who belong to different Christian denominations should work together to develop closer relationships among their churches and promote Christian unity. The adjec ...

causes *Canadian

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

priest

Roland de Corneille Roland de Corneille (May 19, 1927 – December 30, 2014) was a Canadian Anglican priest, human rights activist and politician. He represented the riding of Eglinton-Lawrence in the House of Commons of Canada as a member of the Liberal Party ...

1947,

human rights activist A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists, environmentalists, whistleblowers, trade unionists, lawyers, teachers, housing campai ...

Farzam Arbab The Universal House of Justice ( fa, بیت‌العدل اعظم) is the nine-member supreme ruling body of the Baháʼí Faith. It was envisioned by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, as an institution that could legislate o ...

1964, member of the

Universal House of Justice The Universal House of Justice ( fa, بیت‌العدل اعظم) is the nine-member supreme ruling body of the Baháʼí Faith. It was envisioned by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, as an institution that could legislate o ...

, the supreme governing body of the

Baháʼí Faith The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the Baháʼí Faith and the unity of religion, essential worth of all religions and Baháʼí Faith and the unity of humanity, the unity of all people. Established by ...

* Clark Lowenfield 1980, bishop of the

Anglican Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast The Anglican Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, comprising 15 parishes, 10 in Texas and 5 in Louisiana. The movement to start a new diocese of the ACNA in the states of Texas and Louisiana begu ...

Buddhist Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and ...

scholar, teacher, and practitioner

B. Alan Wallace Bruce Alan Wallace (born 1950) is an American author and expert on Tibetan Buddhism. His books discuss Eastern and Western scientific, philosophical, and contemplative modes of inquiry, often focusing on the relationships between science and Buddh ...

1987, translator for dozens of

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

lama Lama (; "chief") is a title for a teacher of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism. The name is similar to the Sanskrit term ''guru'', meaning "heavy one", endowed with qualities the student will eventually embody. The Tibetan word "lama" means "hi ...

s in India, Europe, and North America, including the

Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (, ; ) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dal ...

Presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of national government

Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; ; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a History of the Republican Party (United States), Republican lawyer ...

1895, 30th President of the United States (1923–1929) *

George Papandreou George Andreas Papandreou ( el, Γεώργιος Ανδρέας Παπανδρέου, , shortened to ''Giorgos'' () to distinguish him from his grandfather; born 16 June 1952) is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from ...

1975, former

Prime Minister of Greece The prime minister of the Hellenic Republic ( el, Πρωθυπουργός της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας, Prothypourgós tis Ellinikís Dimokratías), colloquially referred to as the prime minister of Greece ( el, Πρωθυ� ...

(2009–11) and

Minister for Foreign Affairs A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between coun ...

(1999–2004, 2009–10) *

Antonis Samaras Antonis Samaras ( el, Αντώνης Σαμαράς, ; born 23 May 1951) is a Greek politician who served as 14th Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015. A member of the New Democracy party, he was its president from 2009 until 2015. Samara ...

1974, former

(2012–2015) and leader of

New Democracy New Democracy, or the New Democratic Revolution, is a concept based on Mao Zedong's Bloc of Four Social Classes theory in Chinese Communist Revolution, post-revolutionary China which argued originally that democracy in China would take a path ...

(2009–2015);

(1989–92) *

Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born 26 October 1961) is a Kenyan politician who served as the fourth president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022. Kenyatta was chosen by Daniel Arap Moi as his preferred successor, but Kenyatta was defeated by opposition le ...

1985, 4th

President of Kenya The president of the Republic of Kenya () is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Kenya. The President is also the head of the executive branch of the Government of Kenya and is the commander-in-chief of the Kenya Defe ...

(2013–2022).

Royalty

* Albert II 1981,

Sovereign Prince of Monaco The sovereign prince (french: prince de Monaco) is the monarch and head of state of the Principality of Monaco. All reigning princes have taken the name of the House of Grimaldi, although some have belonged to other families (Goyon de Matignon or ...

(2005–)

Cabinet members

Horace Maynard Horace Maynard (August 30, 1814 – May 3, 1882) was an American educator, attorney, politician and diplomat active primarily in the second half of the 19th century. Initially elected to the House of Representatives from Tennessee's 2nd Cong ...

1838,

Postmaster General A Postmaster General, in Anglosphere countries, is the chief executive officer of the postal service of that country, a ministerial office responsible for overseeing all other postmasters. The practice of having a government official respons ...

, cabinet of

Rutherford Hayes Rutherford may refer to: Places Australia * Rutherford, New South Wales, a suburb of Maitland * Rutherford (Parish), New South Wales, a civil parish of Yungnulgra County Canada * Mount Rutherford, Jasper National Park * Rutherford, Edmonto ...

(prior to 1972, a cabinet office) *

Charles H. Allen Charles Herbert Allen (April 15, 1848 – April 20, 1934) was an American politician and businessman. After serving in state and federal elected positions, he was appointed as the first United States-appointed civilian governor of Puerto Rico wh ...

1869,

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (ASN) is the title given to certain civilian senior officials in the United States Department of the Navy. From 1861 to 1954, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy was the second-highest civilian office in the Depar ...

replacing

Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26t ...

in McKinley administration *

Robert Lansing Robert Lansing (; October 17, 1864 – October 30, 1928) was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as Counselor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I, and then as United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wils ...

1886,

United States Secretary of State The United States secretary of state is a member of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States and the head of the U.S. Department of State. The office holder is one of the highest ranking members of the president's Ca ...

1915–1920; nominal head, US Commission to the Paris Peace Conference *

William Henry Lewis William Henry Lewis (November 28, 1868 – January 1, 1949) was an African-American pioneer in athletics, law and politics. Born in Virginia to freedmen, he graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he had been one of the first Africa ...

1892, first African-American appointed to a sub-cabinet position, Assistant

United States Attorney General The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the p ...

Harlan Fiske Stone Harlan is a given name and a surname which may refer to: Surname *Bob Harlan (born 1936 Robert E. Harlan), American football executive *Bruce Harlan (1926–1959), American Olympic diver *Byron B. Harlan (1886–1949), American politician *Byron G ...

1894,

1895, twenty-ninth

Vice-President of the United States The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice pr ...

(1921–1923) (appears above) * William F. Whiting 1896,

Secretary of Commerce The United States secretary of commerce (SecCom) is the head of the United States Department of Commerce. The secretary serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all matters relating to commerce. The secretary rep ...

(1928–1929) * Lewis W. Douglas 1916, Director of the Budget, now

Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, but it also examines agency programs, pol ...

John J. McCloy John Jay McCloy (March 31, 1895 – March 11, 1989) was an American lawyer, diplomat, banker, and a presidential advisor. He served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II under Henry Stimson, helping deal with issues such as German sa ...

1919, Assistant

United States Secretary of War The secretary of war was a member of the President of the United States, U.S. president's United States Cabinet, Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's Presidency of George Washington, administration. A similar position, called either "Se ...

(1941–1945) *

Amon Nikoi Amon Nikoi, born Seth Amon Nikoi, (19 January 1930 – 5 September 2002) was a Ghanaian economist and diplomat. He was the Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations between 1957 and 1960 as well as the Governor of the Bank of Ghana ...

1953, Senior Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Finance; Minister of Finance and Economic Planning (Ghana) * David Bradford 1960, former member of

President's Council of Economic Advisors The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the President of the United States on economic policy. The CEA provides much of the empirical resea ...

1960, U.S.

Director of Central Intelligence The director of central intelligence (DCI) was the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2005, acting as the principal intelligence advisor to the president of the United States and the United States National Security C ...

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

administration;

United States Deputy Secretary of Defense The deputy secretary of defense (acronym: DepSecDef) is a statutory office () and the second-highest-ranking official in the Department of Defense of the United States of America. The deputy secretary is the principal civilian deputy to the se ...

1964, former member and Chairman of the

1974, Greek

Leader of the Opposition The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government. The leader of the opposition is typically se ...

and President of

;

(1989–92) * Francisco G. Flores 1981, former Secretary of Information; President of Congress (El Salvador) (appears above) *

Stavros Lambrinidis Stavros Lambrinidis ( el, Σταύρος Λαμπρινίδης; born 6 February 1962) is a Greek lawyer and politician who has served as the Ambassador of the European Union to the United States since March 2019. He previously served as the Eu ...

1984, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece (2011) *

Kevin McAleenan Kevin Kealoha McAleenan (born September 5, 1971) is an American attorney and government official who 2019–2020 Department of Homeland Security appointment disputes, unlawfully served as the acting United States secretary of homeland security f ...

1994, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security (2019)

United States Supreme Court

1894,

Associate Justice Associate justice or associate judge (or simply associate) is a judicial panel member who is not the chief justice in some jurisdictions. The title "Associate Justice" is used for members of the Supreme Court of the United States and some state ...

(1925–1941) and twelfth Chief Justice (1941–1946); the only justice physically to have filled all nine seats on the bench of the

United States Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...

, having moved by seniority from the most junior Associate Justice to the most senior Associate Justice to the Chief Justice; principal role in upholding President

Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...

New Deal The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. Major federal programs agencies included the Civilian Cons ...

programs

Diplomats and government officials

* John Elliot Ward ex 1835, U.S. Minister to China, elected acting Lieut. Gov. of

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

U.S. Attorney United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts. Each U.S. attorney serves as the United States' chief federal c ...

(GA) *

1838, Minister to Turkey in Administration of

Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Ar ...

(appears above) *

1842,

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throug ...

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

(appears above) *

John C. Caldwell John Curtis Caldwell (April 17, 1833 – August 31, 1912) was a teacher, a Union general in the American Civil War, and an American diplomat. Early life Caldwell was born in Lowell, Vermont. He graduated from Amherst College in 1855 and mov ...

1855, Min. to Uruguay and Paraguay; con. to Valparaiso, Chile, and

San José, Costa Rica San José (; meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Central Valley, within San José Canton. San ...

1860, Chief of U.S. Bureau of Statistics, Director of both 9th and 10th U.S. census *

Arthur Sherburne Hardy Arthur Sherburne Hardy (August 13, 1847 – March 14, 1930) was an American engineer, educator, editor, diplomat, novelist, and poet. Early life and education Hardy was born in 1847 in Andover, Massachusetts, the son of Alpheus and Susan W. (Ho ...

ex 1869, Minister Plenipotentiary (Ambassador) to

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Switzerland, and Spain *

Walter Wyman Walter Wyman (17 August 1848 – 21 November 1911) was an American physician and soldier. He was appointed the third Surgeon General of the United States from 1891 until his death in 1911. Biography Early years Wyman was born in St. Louis, Mi ...

1870, third

Surgeon General of the United States The surgeon general of the United States is the operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States. Th ...

Frank C. Partridge Frank C. Partridge (May 7, 1861March 2, 1943) was an American attorney, diplomat, and business executive from Vermont. A Republican, he served briefly in the United States Senate, appointed to fill the vacancy left by the death of Frank L. Gree ...

1882, Solicitor of the

Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other nati ...

; Min. to Venezuela; con. general to

Tangier, Morocco Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the ca ...

* Sir

Herbert Ames Sir Herbert Brown Ames (June 27, 1863 – March 31, 1954) was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and politician. Ames was born in Montreal as the only son of Evan Fisher Ames (who founded the shoe manufacturer Ames, Holden & Company in ...

1885, financial director, Secretariat of the

League of Nations The League of Nations (french: link=no, Société des Nations ) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ...

(Member of Parliament, Canada) * Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng 1885, Ambassador of China to the United States *

Dwight Morrow Dwight Whitney Morrow (January 11, 1873October 5, 1931) was an American businessman, diplomat, and politician, best known as the U.S. ambassador who improved U.S.-Mexican relations, mediating the religious conflict in Mexico known as the Cristero ...

1895, Ambassador to Mexico, chairman of the Morrow Board * Joseph Bartlett Eastman 1904,

Interstate Commerce Commission The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminat ...

er (1919–1944); Federal Coordinator of Railroads * Dr. Warren Fales Draper 1906, Deputy Surgeon General of the

United States Public Health Service The United States Public Health Service (USPHS or PHS) is a collection of agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services concerned with public health, containing nine out of the department's twelve operating divisions. The Assistant S ...

(see Physicians) *

Leland Olds Leland Olds (December 31, 1890 – August 5, 1960) was an American economist interested in labor, development of public electric power, and ecology. Education Olds was a son of George Olds, president of Amherst College. He studied mathematics ...

1912, Chairman of the

Federal Power Commission The Federal Power Commission (FPC) was an independent commission of the United States government, originally organized on June 23, 1930, with five members nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The FPC was originally created in 1 ...

under President

* Lewis W. Douglas 1916, head,

War Shipping Administration The War Shipping Administration (WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the United States needed for fighting the war. Both shipbuilding under the Maritime Co ...

; Ambassador to the United Kingdom *

1919, second president of the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...

, member of the

Warren Commission The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through on November 29, 1963, to investigate the assassination of United States Pr ...

and

Draper Committee The Presidents Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program ("''Draper Committee.''") was a bipartisan committee, created in November 1958 by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to undertake a completely independent, objective, a ...

(appears above) * Robert H. Thayer 1922, Minister to Romania, Asst. Secretary of State for Ed. and Cultural Affairs *

George Yeh George Kung-chao Yeh (1904–1981), also known as Yeh Kung-chao, was a diplomat and politician of the Republic of China. Educated in the U.S. and the U.K., he graduated from Amherst College in 1925 and later Cambridge University. He taught Engl ...

1925, Ambassador to the U.S. from the Republic of China (Taiwan) *

1927, ambassador to Chile, director of the

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, commonly known as the Boston Fed, is responsible for the First District of the Federal Reserve, which covers New England: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and all of Connecticut except ...

, president of Amherst College * Toshikazu Kase 1927, Japan's first Ambassador to the United Nations *

Philip Hall Coombs Philip Hall Coombs (1915 at Holyoke, MA – February 15, 2006 in Chester, CT), is an American teacher. An undergraduate study was at Amherst College and post-grad work was at the University of Chicago. He taught economics at Williams College an ...

1937, first

Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs The Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, a bureau within the United States Department of State. The Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cul ...

Robert G. Neumann Robert Gerhard Neumann (January 2, 1916 – June 18, 1999) was an American politician and diplomat who served as the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia. Biography Born in Vienna, Austria, Neumann received degrees from the ...

1940 MA, Ambassador to Afghanistan,

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

, and

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

Talcott Williams Seelye Talcott Williams Seelye (March 6, 1922 – June 8, 2006) was a United States Foreign Service Officer, Ambassadors from the United States, United States Ambassador, author, and commentator. Early life Seelye was born in Beirut, Lebanon, the so ...

1944, Ambassador to Syria,

Tunisia ) , image_map = Tunisia location (orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Africa , image_map2 = , capital = Tunis , largest_city = capital , ...

, Saudi Arabia; U.S. Presidential Envoy to Lebanon * Edward Ney 1946, Ambassador to Canada * Harry G. Barnes, Jr. 1949, Ambassador to Chile, India, and Romania *

Ulric Haynes Ulric St. Clair Haynes Jr. (June 8, 1931 – August 21, 2020) was an American diplomat, lawyer and university professor. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Algeria from 1977 to 1981, and a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, Council of ...

1952, Ambassador to Algeria, staff member of the

National Security Council A national security council (NSC) is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security. An NSC is often headed by a na ...

1953, Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations; Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund; Chairman and Governor of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Ghana * Hiroaki Fujii 1958, Ambassador of Japan to Thailand, Great Britain (current president of the Japan Foundation) * David Bradford 1960, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, U.S. United States Department of the Treasury, Department of the Treasury (appears above) * Harold E. Varmus 1961, Director of the National Institutes of Health (1993–2000) *

1964, Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the

(appears above) * Kenneth Bacon 1966, United States Department of Defense, Department of Defense spokesman who later served as president of Refugees International * David Aaron Kessler, David Kessler 1973, head of Food and Drug Administration (1990–1997) * Jeff Bleich 1983, Ambassador to Australia * Sarah Bloom Raskin 1983, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (2014–) *

1984, European Union Special Representative for Human Rights (2011–) * Catherine E. Lhamon, Catherine Lhamon 1993, Chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education

Senators, Representatives, and other politicians

* Representative Edward Dickinson 1823, father of Emily Dickinson, Emily * Representative Lincoln Clark 1825 (Iowa) (Attorney General of Alabama and circuit judge) * Representative James Humphrey (New York politician), James Humphrey 1831 (New York) * Robert Purvis 1831(?), Antebellum era, antebellum African-American Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist, supporter of Underground Railroad * Representative Nathan Belcher 1832 (Connecticut) (state legislator and lawyer) * Representative Lucien Barbour 1837 (Indiana) (U.S. Attorney) * State Representative Edward Ralph May 1837 (did not graduate), sole delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 to support African American suffrage. * Representative David Stuart (Michigan politician), David Stuart 1838 (Michigan) (President Abraham Lincoln appointed him brigadier general in American Civil War, Civil War) * Representative

(Tennessee) 1838 (Attorney General of Tennessee) (appears above) * Senator Samuel Clarke Pomeroy ex (1836–38) (Kansas) (mayor; railroad president) * John Pease Sanderson, John P. Sanderson 1839, member of Provisional Confederate Congress (Florida) * Representative Martin Russell Thayer, Martin R. Thayer ex 1840 (Pennsylvania) (state judge) * Representative Charles Delano 1840 (Massachusetts) * Representative Waldo Hutchins 1842 (New York) * Speaker of the House Galusha A. Grow 1844 (Pennsylvania) (24th Speaker) (railroad president) * Representative Julius H. Seelye 1849 (Massachusetts) (president of Amherst College) (appears above) * Representative Charles Perkins Thompson, Charles P. Thompson 1846 (Massachusetts) (U.S. Assistant D. A. and judge) * Representative Samuel Mayes Arnell, Samuel M. Arnell 1844(?) (Tennessee) * Representative William Whiting II 1862 (Massachusetts) (state legislator and mayor) * Representative William Shadrach Knox 1865 (Massachusetts) * Representative Francis W. Rockwell (politician), Francis W. Rockwell 1868 (Massachusetts) (state legislator and judge) * Representative Charles Herbert Allen, Charles H. Allen 1869 (Massachusetts) (appears above) * Representative Caleb R. Layton 1873 (Delaware) (Delaware Secretary of State and physician) * Representative Lewis Sperry 1873 (Connecticut) (state legislator and lawyer) * Senator and "Speaker of the House" Frederick H. Gillett 1874 (Massachusetts) (37th Speaker) * Representative Henry Stockbridge, Jr. 1877 (Maryland) (Regent of the University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland) * Representative George H. Utter 1877 (Rhode Island) * Representative George P. Lawrence 1880 (Massachusetts) (state legislator and judge) * Senator

1882 (Vermont) (appears above) * Speaker of the House Henry T. Rainey 1883 (Illinois) (40th Speaker) * Representative Edward Bassett 1884 (New York) (a founding father of modern-day urban planning) * Member of Parliament in Canada Sir

1885 (appears above) * Representative Allen T. Treadway 1886 (Massachusetts) (in office sixteen consecutive terms) * William Estabrook Chancellor 1889, nemesis of Warren G. Harding * Representative George B. Churchill 1889 (Massachusetts) (professor at Amherst College) * Representative and "House minority leader"

1894 (New York) (appears above) * Representative Charles B. Law 1895 (New York) * Senator

1895 (New Jersey) (appears above) * Representative Albert E. Austin 1899 (Connecticut) (physician and stepfather of Clare Boothe Luce) * Representative Foster Waterman Stearns 1903 (New Hampshire) (regent of the Smithsonian Institution) * Representative Bruce Fairchild Barton 1907 (New York) * Representative Lewis W. Douglas 1916 (Arizona) (appears above) (Council on Foreign Relations) * Representative Augustus W. Bennet 1918 (New York) * Senator Kingsley A. Taft 1925 (Ohio) (judge and chief justice of Ohio Supreme Court) * Representative John Michael Murphy ex 1943 (New York) * Representative Cass Ballenger, Thomas Ballenger 1948 (Ohio) (served consecutive terms, 1986–2005) * Member of Parliament in Canada

1947 (appears above) * Senator Thomas F. Eagleton 1950 (Missouri) (1969–1987), one-time running mate of George McGovern (Missouri Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor) * Richard W. DeKorte 1957 New Jersey, Energy Czar and former member and majority leader of the New Jersey General Assembly * Representative Robert H. Steele 1960 (Connecticut, 1970–1975) * Paul Offner 1964 Wisconsin State Legislature, and educator * Stephen Hartgen 1966, Idaho House of Representatives (2008–current) and former editor and publisher of the ''Times-News (Idaho), Times-News'' * Representative Thomas M. Davis, Thomas M. Davis III 1971 (Virginia) * Eric Kriss 1971, former Massachusetts Secretary for Finance and Administration * Samuel I. Rosenberg 1972, member of the Maryland House of Delegates; law professor * Peter Franchot 1973, Maryland Comptroller and former member of the Maryland House of Delegates * Representative Martin Hoke 1973 (Ohio) (1993–1997) *

1974, member of the European Parliament; former member of the Greek Parliament (appears above) *

1975, member of the Greek Parliament; leader of Panhellenic Socialist Movement, PASOK, opposition party (appears above) * Eric T. Schneiderman 1977, New York Attorney General, former deputy minority leader * Bradley Campbell 1983, New Jersey Commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection *

1984, member and Vice-President of European Parliament (2004–2011) from Greece (appears above) * Senator Chris Coons 1985 (Delaware) * Craig M. Johnson 1993, member of New York State Senate * Rob Witwer 1993, member of Colorado House of Representatives * Paul Rieckhoff 1998, Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America *John Buchanan Robinson, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional district (1891–1897) * Erastus G. Smith, Wisconsin State Assembly and educator * Alan Webber 1970, Mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico (appears below)

Governors and Premiers, elected and appointed

*Alexander H. Bullock 1836, Governor of Massachusetts (state legislator, judge, and mayor) *Charles L. Robinson 1839 (?), first Governor of Kansas (1861–1863), first elected "territorial Governor" of Kansas (physician, abolitionist, and regent of the

) *Charles Bartlett Andrews 1858, Governor of Connecticut *Dave Freudenthal 1973, twice Governor of Wyoming, former U.S. attorney *Lucius F. C. Garvin 1862, twice Governor of Rhode Island *

1869, first civil Governor of Puerto Rico (appears above) *George H. Utter 1877, Rhode Island Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Secretary of State *

1895, Governor, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (mayor) (appears above) *

1919, U.S. military Governor and High Commissioner of Germany (appears above) *William Henry Hastie 1925, first African-American civil Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands *Adélard Godbout, Premier of Québec (1936; 1939–1944), majored in agronomy from the Amherst Agricultural College *Uhuru Kenyatta, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (1985–1989), studied economics, political science and government at Amherst

Lawyers and judges

*Henry M. Spofford 1845, Justice, Louisiana Supreme Court *Addison Brown ex 1852, U.S. District Court judge (New York) (one of the founders of N.Y. Botanical Gardens) *Charles Bartlett Andrews 1858, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (appears above) *Henry Stockbridge, Jr. 1877, Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals (1911–1926) (appears above) *Albert S. Bard 1888, Lawyer and Civic Activist in New York City, Albert S. Bard Award is named after him *William H. Lewis 1888, lawyer, Assistant US Attorney General; first college football player and All-American *Luther Ely Smith 1894, lawyer and founder of Gateway Arch National Park *

1894, professor and Dean of Columbia Law School (appears above) *John Teele Pratt 1896, lawyer, philanthropist, music impresario and financier *Charles Hamilton Houston 1915, legal architect of school desegregation strategy; first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review and first to receive Doctor of Juridical Science, SJD; Spingarn Medal *

1919, name partner in Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; adviser of nine presidents *James Focht McClure, Jr. 1913, U.S. District Court Judge (Pennsylvania) *Leonard Page Moore 1919, Federal appellate judge (Second Circuit), 1957–1971; senior status, 1971;

, 1953–1957 * Robert H. Thayer 1922, lawyer, naval officer and diplomat *William Henry Hastie 1925, first African-American U.S. District Court judge (Virgin Islands); first black Federal appellate judge and Chief Judge (Third Circuit); dean of

Law School; editor of the Harvard Law Review; Spingarn Medal *Benjamin J. Davis Jr. 1925, African-American graduate of Harvard Law School, radical lawyer, member of New York City Council, and a communist who was jailed for his beliefs *Kingsley A. Taft 1925, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (appears above) *Donald Gaines Murray, Donald G. Murray 1934, plaintiff in Murray v. Pearson *Nauman Scott 1934, U.S. District Court judge (Louisiana) (1970–2001) *Robert M. Morgenthau 1941, District Attorney of New York County and former

*William H. Webster 1947, U.S. District Court judge (Missouri) and Federal Appellate judge (Eighth Circuit) (also

, 1960–1961; awarded National Security Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom) *Alexander M. Keith 1950, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota State Supreme Court; Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota *James J. White 1956, leading scholar of commercial law, Professor of Law at Michigan University *Philip H. Lilienthal 1962, humanitarian and AIDS activist; founder of WorldCamps *Peter Messitte 1963, U.S. District Court judge (Maryland) *James T. Giles 1964, U.S. District Court judge (Pennsylvania), Chief Judge (1999–2006) *

1965, former professor and Dean, University of Pennsylvania Law School (appears above) *John C. Coffee 1966, professor, Columbia Law School *William P. Alford 1970, Professor and Director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School *Samuel H. Mays 1970, U.S. District Court judge (Tennessee) *William W. Fisher 1976, professor, Harvard Law School *William J. Kayatta Jr. 1976, U.S. Court of Appeals judge *Paul M. Smith 1976, winning attorney of ''Lawrence v. Texas'' (Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court practitioner) *Eric T. Schneiderman 1977, New York Attorney General *William Z. Stuart 1811-1876, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court *Patrick Fitzgerald 1982,

; U.S. Dept. of Justice U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel, Special Counsel in charge of investigating the Valerie Plame affair *Karin Immergut 1982,

*Scott Kafker 1981, Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court *Michael P. Shea 1989, U.S. District Court judge (Connecticut)

Businesspeople

*John Abele 1959, founder and director of Boston Scientific *Frank Lusk Babbott 1878, jute merchant, art collector, patron, and philanthropist *Bruce Fairchild Barton 1907, co-founder of precursor to BBDO, head of BBDO until 1961 (appears above) *Clarence Birdseye ex 1910, food preservationist, founder of Birds Eye Foods, National Inventors Hall of Fame *Charles R. Blyth 1905, investment banker, partner at Blyth, Eastman Dillon & Co. *Charles Brewer (businessman), Charles Brewer 1981, entrepreneur and founder of Mindspring Enterprises, an internet service provider *Ben Cherington, Benjamin P. Cherington 1996, vice president of player personnel for the

*Wei Christianson 1985 (BA political science), co-CEO Asia of Morgan Stanley *Daniel Collamore Heath 1868, publisher, founder of D.C. Heath and Company, now part of Houghton Mifflin *

1950, executive of American Major League Baseball; general manager of three major league baseball teams *Arthur Vining Davis 1888, president and chairman of Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa); founder of Arthur Vining Davis Foundations *Dan Duquette, Daniel F. Duquette 1980, baseball executive; general manager of two major league baseball teams *Henry Clay Folger 1879, Standard Oil president, Folger Shakespeare Library founder *William E. Ford 1983, CEO of General Atlantic * Martin S. Fox (1924–2020), publisher *George N. Gillett, Jr. ex-chairman of Booth Creek Management Corp., owns interests in food industry and sports teams *H. Irving Grousbeck 1956, current managing partner of the Boston Celtics, co-founder of Continental Cablevision, professor at Stanford Business School *Amos Hostetter, Jr. 1958, former chief executive officer of MediaOne *

1991, general manager of the

*Daniel Willis James 1863, head of Phelps, Dodge, and Company, philanthropist *Jeff Jordan (venture capitalist), Jeff Jordan 1981, venture capitalist; partner at Andreessen Horowitz *Eric Kriss 1971, co-founder of Bain Capital, former CEO of MediQual Systems (appears above) *Thai Lee 1980, founder and CEO of SHI International, billionaire *Richard LeFrak 1967, chairman and CEO of LeFrak *Glen Lewy 1971, member, Council on Foreign Relations; National Chair of the Anti-Defamation League; lawyer and venture capitalist *Dave MacLennan 1981, CEO of Cargill *

1919, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, Council on Foreign Relations, and Ford Foundation *Charles E. Merrill ex 1908, founder of Merrill Lynch *John S. Middleton 1977, former owner of the John Middleton Co. and part owner of the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB) *

1895, partner at J.P. Morgan & Co. *Edward N. Ney 1946, CEO of Young & Rubicam *Frits van Paasschen 1983, former CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Worldwide, Inc.; former CEO of Coors Brewing Company *Charles Millard Pratt 1879, company secretary of Standard Oil *George Dupont Pratt 1893, conservation movement, conservationist and philanthropist *Harold I. Pratt 1899, oil industrialist *Herbert L. Pratt 1895, head of Standard Oil *Hugh B. Price 1963, former President of the National Urban League *Lloyd Schermer 1950, CEO of Lee Enterprises; chairman of predecessor of the Newspaper Association of America *Martin S. Schwartz 1967, Wall Street trader, author, profiled in national bestseller "Market Wizards" *Gary Shilling, financial analyst and commentator *Winthrop H. Smith, Jr. 1971, entrepreneur; CEO of Summit Ventures; former executive vice president of Merrill Lynch; member, Council on Foreign Relations *Kim Sung-joo (entrepreneur), Sung-Joo Kim 1981, chairman and CEO of MCM Group; founder and former director of Sung Joo International in South Korea *John Tarnoff 1973, senior executive at DreamWorks Animation, head of Show Development *Sigourney Thayer 1918, American theatrical producer, World War I aviator, and poet *Alan Webber 1970, former managing editor of the Harvard Business Review, co-founder of Fast Company (magazine), Fast Company *Robert W. Wilson (philanthropist) 1946, hedge fund manager and philanthropist *Sarah Meeker Jensen, 1977, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, FAIA, architect and medical planner

Directors of Central Intelligence (DCI), CIA, and the FBI

1960 (1995–96) *Stansfield Turner ex 1945 (1977–81) (president of U.S. Naval War College, 1972–74) *William H. Webster 1947 (1987–91) (FBI Director, 1978–87)

Nobel Prize winners

*Henry W. Kendall 1950 (1990, Physics) *

1955 (2006, Economics) *Harold E. Varmus 1961 (1989, Physiology or Medicine) *

1964 (2001, Economics) *Jeffrey C. Hall 1967 (2017, Physiology or Medicine)

Crafoord Prize winner

* Carl R. Woese 1950 (2003, Microbiology)

Pulitzer Prize winners

*Alfred Friendly 1933 (1968, International Reporting) * Richard P. Wilbur 1942 (1957, Poetry; 1989, Poetry) (U.S.

; National Book Award; Bollingen Prize; Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize; Edna St. Vincent Millay award; Frost Medal) (appears above) *James Merrill, James I. Merrill 1947 (1977, Poetry) (twice named recipient of National Book Award, 1967 and 1979; National Book Critics Circle Award; Bollingen Prize;

) *Tad Mosel 1947 (1961, Drama) *William S. McFeely 1952 (1982, Biography) (Lincoln Prize) *

1959 (2000, General Non-Fiction) (National Book Award) (appears above) *Walter Allen McDougall 1968 (1986, General Non-Fiction) *Blair Kamin 1979 (1999, Criticism) *Richard Read 1980 (1999, Explanatory; 2001, Public Service (team)) *Debby Applegate 1989 (2007, Biography)

MacArthur Fellowship winners

* Carl R. Woese 1950, microbiologist *

1966, historian; National Book Award; National Book Critics Circle Award *

1975, geophysicist, earth and planetary scientist, and astronomer *Kellie Jones 1981, art historian and curator *Rosanne Haggerty 1982, leading creator of solutions to homelessness *David Foster Wallace 1985, novelist *Thomas W. Mitchell 1987, law professor * Amy Rosenzweig 1988, chemist *Andrea Dutton 1995, paleoclimatologist

National Medal of Science winners

* Paul Doughty Bartlett 1928, chemist *

1930, mathematician *

1936, chemist * Carl R. Woese 1950, microbiologist *Harold E. Varmus 1961, physician

Astronauts

*Robert A. R. Parker 1958 (B.A., astronomy and physics; PhD, Caltech (Astronomy)); physicist *Jeffrey A. Hoffman 1966 (B.A., astronomy; PhD, Harvard University (

)); astrophysicist; mem. Spanish Academy of Engineering

Engineers, inventors, and scientists

*Alvan Wentworth Chapman 1830, botanist and physician, wrote the first comprehensive description of U.S flora beyond the northeast *Amiel Weeks Whipple ex 1840, military engineer, surveyor of the First transcontinental railroad *William Rutherford Mead 1867, engineer *

ex 1869, engineer, professor of civil engineering and mathematics *John Mason Clarke 1877, New York state paleontologist and geologist *L. Hamilton McCormick 1881, inventor, scientist, and author * Frank Lewis Nason 1882 A.B., 1885 M.A., mining engineer and writer; the mineral nasonite is named after him *Hubert Lyman Clark 1892, zoologist, curator of echinoderms at Harvard, awarded Clark Medal *Robert Stanley Breed 1898, biologist *Clarence Birdseye ex 1910, father of frozen food, businessperson, National Inventors Hall of Fame *Preston Bassett 1913, charter member of NASA; pioneer in instruments for aviation; inventor, engineer *Alfred Romer 1917, paleontologist, a key figure in evolutionary research, Prof. at Chicago and Harvard *Charles R. Drew, Charles Drew 1926, Doctor of Medicine, M.D., developed system of separating liquid blood cells from solid plasma and storing and reconstituting them *Melvin Kranzberg 1938, creator of Kranzberg's laws of technology; co-founder of Society for the History of Technology *Lloyd Conover 1947, chemist and inventor of tetracycline; National Inventors Hall of Fame *Craig Call Black 1954, paleontology, paleontologist *Lewis Joel Greene 1955, American-Brazilian biochemist, Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit *Steve Baer ex 1960 (studied physics and mathematics at Amherst), inventor of the postgeodesic system called the zome *Jonathan Borden 1984, application of computer science to neurobiology; professor of neurosurgery *Julie Segre 1987, epithelial biologist, Chief of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Human Genome Research Institute *Kellyn LaCour-Conant, biologist and restoration ecologist

Physicians

*Dr.

1870,

from 1891 to 1911 (appears above) *Dr. James Ewing (pathologist), James Ewing 1888, namesake of Ewing sarcoma; eminent experimental oncologist; helped found progenitor of the American Cancer Society; responsible for the creation of present-day Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City *Dr. Walter Childs Wood, 1886, chief surgeon at Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn Hospital and professor of surgery at Long Island University; later a Connecticut state legislator *Dr. Warren Fales Draper 1906, Deputy Surgeon General of the

and member of General Dwight Eisenhower's staff in Europe during World War II; his medical care program for miners won the Lasker Award, Lasker Group Award in 1956 *Dr. Charles R. Drew 1926, inventor of blood plasma preservation system, established first Red Cross blood bank, Spingarn Medal *Dr. Lloyd Saxon Graham 1943, epidemiologist *Dr. Harold E. Varmus 1961, Nobel Prize for his studies of the nature and control of oncogenes; former Director of the National Institutes of Health *Dr. David D. Burns 1964, influential psychotherapist, central role in the development of Cognitive Therapy *Dr. James Kocsis 1964, professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic *Dr. Robert Yarchoan 1971, played a significant role in discovering and developing the first effective drugs for the treatment of AIDS *Dr. David Aaron Kessler, David Kessler 1973 former Head of the Food and Drug Administration, former Dean of Yale School of Medicine, and former Dean and Vice Chancellor University of California, San Francisco *Dr. Bruce D. Perry 1977, psychiatrist, internationally recognized authority on children in crisis *Dr.

1979, Diane and Robert Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania; former Chair of the Department of Bioethics at NIH *Dr. Drew Pinsky, D. Drew Pinsky 1980, talk-show host

Entertainers

*Playwright Clyde Fitch 1886, distinguished dramatist, wrote over 60 plays *Actor Gilbert Emery, Emery B. Pottle 1899 (actor in 88 silent films and motion pictures) *Actor Burgess Meredith 1931, Academy Award–nominated *Actor Douglas Kennedy (actor), Douglas Kennedy 1936, television and film actor, star of ''Steve Donovan, Western Marshal'' (1955–1956) *Playwright Tad Mosel 1947 (New York Drama Critics Award) (appears above) *Theater critic, director, playwright, author Robert Brustein 1947, founding director of Yale Repertory Theatre and American Repertory Theater; The New Republic, drama critic; Polk Award (1964) *Academy Award, Oscar and Emmy Award–winning composer Fred Karlin 1958 *Musician and Grammy Award–winning music producer Jim Rooney (music), Jim Rooney 1960 *Actor Ken Howard 1966, a Tony Award– and Emmy Award–winning actor *Actor Stephen Collins (actor), Stephen Collins 1969, award-winning theater, television, and film actor *Composer Jim Steinman 1969, songwriter and producer for Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, and Celine Dion *Magician Raymond Joseph Teller, Raymond J. Teller 1969, of Penn and Teller *Writer and director Henry Bromell 1970, wrote, produced ''Chicago Hope'', ''Northern Exposure'' *Writer Robert Stuart Nathan 1970, wrote, produced ''ER (TV series), ER'', ''Law & Order'' *Composer Mason Daring 1971 *Comedian and actor Larry Miller (entertainer), Lawrence J. Miller 1975, ''Max Keeble's Big Move'', ''The Nutty Professor (1996 film), The Nutty Professor'', ''10 Things I Hate About You'' *Writer and director Caroline Thompson 1978, screenplays for ''Edward Scissorhands'', ''The Addams Family (1991 film), The Addams Family'', ''The Secret Garden (1993 film), The Secret Garden'' *Director David O. Russell 1981E *John Cerutti 1982, major-league baseball pitcher and broadcaster *Writer and director Susannah Grant 1984, screenplays, ''Pocahontas (1995 film), Pocahontas'', ''Ever After'', ''Erin Brockovich (film), Erin Brockovich'' *Actor John Michael Higgins 1985 *Musician Jonatha Brooke, Jonatha Brooke Mallet 1985, singer-songwriter *Musician Jennifer Kimball 1986, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist *Composer Harold Meltzer 1988, 2004 Rome Prize, 2004 Charles Ives Fellowship *Actor Jeffrey Wright (actor), Jeffrey Wright 1987, Tony Award–, Emmy Award–, and Golden Globe Award–winning actor *Actor/Comedian Matt Besser 1989, founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade *Actor John Cariani 1991, on ''Law & Order'' and in the musicals ''Something Rotten!'' and ''The Band's Visit'' *Actress Sarah Danielle Madison, Sarah Goldberg 1996, on ''7th Heaven (TV series), 7th Heaven'' and ''Judging Amy'' *Composer Harris Wulfson 1996 *Actor Hamish Linklater 1998, on ''The New Adventures of Old Christine'' and ''American Dreams'' *Actor Rob Brown (actor), Rob Brown 2006, on ''Coach Carter'' and ''Finding Forrester''; lead role of Ernie Davis in ''The Express: The Ernie Davis Story'' *Comedian, actress, and writer Aparna Nancherla 2005, on ''Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell'' *Podcaster David Chen, 2006, host and producer of ''/Film'' and ''The Tobolowsky Files'' *Musician Tim Eriksen of folk-punk band Cordelia's Dad *Actor and playwright Everett Glass *Radio and TV show host Dr. Drew Pinsky *Musician Chelsea Cutler, singer-songwriter, producer

Artisans

* Printer Ronald Gordon 1965, established the Oliphant Press, New York City

Authors and artists

* Jerome Allen (author), Jerome Allen 1851, author * Bill Amend, William J. C. Amend III 1984, ''FoxTrot'' cartoonist * Edward Deming Andrews 1916, historian and leading authority on the Shakers * Calvin Baker 1994, novelist, author of ''Naming the New World'', ''Once Two Heroes'', and ''Dominion'' * Chris Bohjalian 1982, novelist; his novel ''Midwives'' was a Publishers Weekly best book and an Oprah Winfrey book club selection * Thomas Boswell 1969, sports columnist * Dan Brown 1986, author of ''The Da Vinci Code'', novelist * Rafael Campo 1987, poet, practising physician; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School * Dan Chiasson 1993, poet, recipient of the Pushcart Prize and a Whiting Writer's Award * Sonya Clark 1989, artist and professor, United States Artists Fellow 2011, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award 2006 * Harlan Coben, Harlan F. Coben 1984, novelist; first writer to receive an Edgar Award, Edgar, a Shamus Award, Shamus, and an Anthony Award * Ted Conover 1983, journalist and author, National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction (2000) * Thomas Cornell (artist), Thomas Cornell 1959, painter and printmaker; Professor of Art at Bowdoin College * Darby Conley, Darby N. Conley 1994, ''Get Fuzzy'' cartoonist * Walter Alden Dyer 1900, author and journalist * Andre du Bouchet ex 1945, French poet, won "Prix national de poesie" (National Poetry Prize – France) * Philip D. Eastman 1933, Children's author * Thomas Flanagan (writer), Thomas Flanagan 1945, writer, National Book Critics Circle Award (1979) * Amy Fox (playwright), Amy Fox 1997, playwright * Jared French 1925, painter, master of magic realism * Alfred Friendly 1933, journalist, managing editor of the ''Washington Post'' (appears above) * Lauren Groff 2001, author, recipient of the Pushcart Prize and author of ''The Monsters of Templeton'' and ''Delicate Edible Birds'' * Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor 1897, journalist, father of photojournalism; first full-time editor of ''National Geographic Magazine'' * John S. Hagmann 1959, architect * Charles Hallock 1854, author * Jonathon Keats 1994, artist and author * Jonathan Landman 1974, journalist, deputy managing editor of the ''New York Times'' * Alan Lelchuk, novelist, Visiting Writer 1982–1984 * Michael Light 1986, photographer, creator of the books ''Full Moon'' and ''100 Suns'' * Tracye McQuirter, 1988, cookbook author and vegan activist * George B. Mallon 1887, journalist; an editor and writer for ''The Sun (New York), The Sun'' * Joseph Moncure March 1920, Poet and essayist, ''The Wild Party (poem), The Wild Party'' and ''The Set-Up (poem), The Set-Up'' * William Rutherford Mead 1867, architect of McKim, Mead, and White (appears above) * Stephen Mitchell (translator), Stephen Mitchell 1964, Translator, anthologist, poet, and author * Cullen Murphy 1974, editor of the ''Atlantic Monthly'' and writer, ''Prince Valiant'' comic strip * Andrew Nagorski 1969, journalist, senior editor at ''Newsweek magazine, Newsweek'' * Catherine Newman, memoirist and novelist * Warren Olney (journalist), Warren Olney 1959, journalist, host, executive producer of Public Radio International, PRI program ''To the Point''; Emmy Award * Graydon Parrish 1999, artist and realist painter * Charles Patterson (author), Charles Patterson 1958, Author and historian * Fred Pfeil 1971, literary critic and novelist, O. Henry Award, ''New York Times'' "Notable Book of the Year" * Edward Clark Potter, Edward C. Potter ex 1882, sculptor of the New York Public Library Main Branch lions * Julie Powell 1995, author * Stephen Rodefer 1963, poet and painter, one of founders of the Language Poetry Movement * Terry Rodgers 1969, painter * John Ross (author), John Ross 1979, novelist, ''Unintended Consequences'', also the designer of a version of the Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum revolver * J. G. Sandom 1978, novelist, writer of thrillers, mysteries; also founded first interactive advertising agency * Kate Seelye 1984, journalist * Walt Simonson 1968, comic book artist and writer, winner of multiple Shazam awards and 2010 Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award * Benjamin Eli Smith 1877, editor * Margaret Stohl 1989, author of thirteen novels including ''Beautiful Creatures (novel), Beautiful Creatures and many Marvel comics'' * Wylie Sypher 1927, writer * Aatish Taseer 2001, writer and journalist * Scott Turow, Scott F. Turow 1970, novelist, ''The Burden of Proof'', ''Presumed Innocent''; also a practising lawyer * Carl Vigeland, author; Associate Secretary for Public Affairs 1978-1983 * David Foster Wallace 1985 (appears above), novelist * Herbert Dickinson Ward 1884, author and journalist * William Hayes Ward 1856, editor-in-chief of the ''New York Independent'' * Bill Wasik 1996, author and editor at ''Wired (magazine), Wired'', inventor of the flash mob * Richard Wilbur 1942, poet, won two Pulitzer Prizes and was Poet Laureate of the United States (appears above)

Military

* Amiel Weeks Whipple ex 1840, Brigadier General, Brevet (military), Brevet Major General, American Civil War, Civil War *

1842, army and hospital chaplain in Union Army, American Civil War, Civil War; private secretary of presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson *

1860, brevet brigadier general (II Corps (Union Army), II Corps, Army of the Potomac), American Civil War, Civil War * Dwight W. Morrow 1895, chief civilian aide to General John J. Pershing, World War I * Albert E. Austin 1899, regimental surgeon, World War I *

1919, U.S. Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army), Distinguished Service Medal; Legion of Honor (France); Sylvanus Thayer Award * John Michael Murphy ex 1943, U.S. Distinguished Service Cross (United States), Distinguished Service Cross, Korean War *

1943, United States Navy chaplain * Admiral Stansfield Turner (ret) ex 1945, former commander-in-chief Allied Forces Southern Europe within NATO; commander U.S. forces in Japan and Korea; commander of U.S. Second Fleet * Paul Rieckhoff 1998, served in the U.S. Army in Iraq War, nationally recognized authority on war in Iraq issues pertaining to troops, military families, and veterans; founder and executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, IAVA; author of ''Chasing Ghosts''

Other notables

* John Henry Boalt 1857, engineer, lawyer, and judge; namesake of the school of law (Boalt Hall) at the University of California, Berkeley * Robert Billingham 1979, Olympic silver medalist in sailing (1988, Soling Class) * Eric Britton 1960, political scientist and sustainability activist * Don Cohan 1951, Olympic bronze medalist in sailing (1972, Dragon Class) * Joseph Gallup Cochran 1842, American Presbyterian missionary to Qajar Iran * Kelly Close 1990, diabetes patient advocate * Ruth Davidon 1987, gold and silver medalist, 1994 Goodwill Games * Orson Squire Fowler 1834, Phrenology, Phrenologist * Sylvester Graham ex 1827, American reformer, temperance minister, and father of Graham crackers * Jim Guest 1962, President, Consumers Union * J. Franklin Jameson 1879, received first doctorate in history at

, instrumental in founding National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives * James Jordan (publicist), James Jordan 1952, best known for his work at BBDO advertising agency * Theodore Levin (ethnomusicologist), Theodore Levin 1973, ethnomusicologist * Asa Lovejoy 1830 (?), Oregon pioneer; co-founder, city of Portland, Oregon, Portland; mayor, Oregon City, Oregon, Oregon City; speaker of house of Oregon Territorial Legislature *

1875 Economist * Augustus Post 1895, founder of the American Automobile Association (AAA), early aviator, and American adventurer * List of hazing deaths in the United States, Jonathan D. Torrance, Amherst student who died in a class hazing accident in 1847 * William James Rolfe 1849, Shakespearean scholar * Kimmie Weeks 2005, global activist and humanitarian who founded Youth Action International * Walter Zanger 1956, Rabbi, tour guide and television personality

Notable faculty

*Wande Abimbola, Scholar in Residence (Comparative Religious Ethics), in the early 1980s and 1990s *Charles Baker Adams 1834, Prof. of Astronomy, Zoology, and Natural Sciences, 1847–1853 *Hadley Arkes, Prof. of Political Science since 1966 *Clarence Edwin Ayres, Prof. of Economics, 1920–1923, principal thinker of the Texas school of institutional economics *Theodore Baird, Prof. of English, 1927–1969 *Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn, Prof. of Paleobotany and Paleontology, 1941–1946 *Amrita Basu, Prof. of Political Science (South Asian politics, Women's Studies), 1981–1987, 1989–present *David W. Blight, Prof. of History, 1990–2003, winner of

, Lincoln Prize *George B. Churchill 1889, Prof. of English Literature, 1898–1925 *Henry Steele Commager, Prof. of History, 1956–1992 *Constance Congdon, Playwright-in-Residence, 1993–2018 *Benjamin DeMott, Prof. of Humanities, 1950–1990, 1990–2005 (Emeritus) *Lawrence Douglas, Prof. of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought since 1991, Andrew Carnegie Fellow *

1865, Prof. of Geology, 1872–1917 (appears above) *

, Prof. of English, 1916–1938, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the Bollingen Prize *Norton Garfinkle, Prof. of Economics and Economic History, c. 1957–1967 *Alexander George (philosopher), Alexander George, Prof. of Philosophy *Edward Hitchcock, noted geologist and the third President of Amherst College (1845–1854) *George Kateb, Prof. of Political Science, 1957–1987 *Nicholas Kurti, former Distinguished Visiting Prof. of Physics, a leading experimental physicist in his era *Anthony Lake, Prof. of International Relations, 1981–1984, former National Security Advisor (United States), National Security Advisor *Henry Littlefield, dean of students, football and wrestling coach, 1968–1976, known for his political interpretation of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' *Archibald MacLeish, Prof. of English, 1963–1967, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes; the National Book Award; the Bollingen Prize; an Academy Award (screenplay); Librarian of Congress; Presidential Medal of Freedom *Jen Manion, Prof. of History and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, historian, author *Jim Mauldon, Walker Professor of Mathematics (retired 1990) *Hermann J. Muller, Prof. of Biology, 1940–1945, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine *Roland Merullo, Prof. of Creative Writing 2002–2003, novelist and memoirist *Austin Sarat, Prof. of Political Science and Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought since 1974 *Eric Sawyer, Prof. of Music (composition and theory) since 2002, award-winning composer *John Servos, Prof. of Science, past president of the History of Science Society *Anita Shreve, Prof. of Creative Writing in the 1990s, award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction *

1869, Prof. of Religion, 1897–1906 *Lewis Spratlan, Prof. of Music, 1970–2006, 2006 (Emeritus), winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music *Ilan Stavans, Prof. of Spanish since 1993 *William Taubman, Prof. of Political Science; winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in biography and the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography *Rowland Abiodun, Prof. of Art, the History of Art, and Black Studies,1997 - present, distinguished author and historian of African Art *Robert Thurman, Prof. of Religion, 1973–1988, selected by ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine as one of the 25 most influential Americans *Ronald Tiersky, Prof. of Political Science since 1973 *Jim Ostendarp, head football coach 1959–1991, president of the American Football Coaches Association 1982 *

1875, Prof. of Astronomy, 1881–1917, 1917 (Emeritus) (appears above) *William Seymour Tyler, 1830, Prof. of Latin, Greek language, Greek, and Greek literature, 1836–1893 *Stark Young, Prof. of English, 1915–1921, Order of the Crown of Italy *Colston Warne, Prof. of Economics, 1930–1969, co-founder of Consumers Union, and president of its board of directors 1936–1979 *Perez Zagorin, Prof. of History, 1947–1949

References

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