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This is a list of some notable people affiliated with
Amherst College .
Seniors marching, Amherst College
Notable alumni
College founders and presidents
Edward Jones 1826,
Principal of forerunner of
Fourah Bay College , Africa (the predecessor of the
University of Sierra Leone )
Patrick Hues Mell 1833,
Chancellor of the
University of Georgia
Edward Duffield Neill 1842, first Chancellor,
University of Minnesota , 1858–1861; founder, first president, and professor,
Macalester College
William S. Clark 1848, second president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the
University of Massachusetts Amherst ), co-founder of
Sapporo Agricultural College (now
Hokkaido University ) in Japan
Julius Hawley Seelye 1849, fifth president of Amherst College (implemented the
Latin honors system)
Reverend
Daniel Bliss 1852, founder and president of
American University of Beirut (1866–1902)
James Griswold Merrill , president of
Fisk University (1901–1908)
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Francis Amasa Walker 1860, third president of
MIT (1881–1897)
George Harris 1866, seventh president of Amherst College
William Jacob Holland 1869, fifth Chancellor,
University of Pittsburgh
Joseph Hardy Neesima 1870, founder of
Doshisha University in Japan
Frank Johnson Goodnow 1879, third president of
Johns Hopkins University
Benjamin Rush Rhees 1883, third president of the
University of Rochester (1900–1935)
James Hayden Tufts 1884, acting president, vice-president, dean, and professor,
University of Chicago
Frederic B. Pratt 1887, president of
Pratt Institute (1893–1937)
Bertrand Snell 1894, president of
Clarkson University (1920–1945)
Ernest Hatch Wilkins 1900, president of
Oberlin College (1927–1946)
Stanley King 1903, eleventh president of Amherst College
J. Seelye Bixler 1916, 16th president of
Colby College
Lewis Williams Douglas 1916, ninth
Principal of
McGill University
Dexter Keezer 1918, president of
Reed College
Charles W. Cole 1927, twelfth president of Amherst College
Richard Glenn Gettell 1933, thirteenth president of
Mount Holyoke College
David Truman 1935, fifteenth president of Mount Holyoke College
John W. Atherton 1939, founding president of
Pitzer College
Calvin Plimpton 1939, thirteenth president of Amherst College; president of
Downstate Medical Center and
American University of Beirut
Julian Gibbs 1947, fifteenth president of Amherst College
Charles R. Longsworth 1951, president of
Hampshire College , founding vice-president
Ralph Z. Sorenson 1955, seventh president of
Babson College (1974–1981), one of co-founders of the
Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in the
Philippines
Richard M. Freeland 1963, president of
Northeastern University (1996–2006)
David K. Lewis 1964, interim president, provost and dean of faculty, professor,
Connecticut College
Colin Diver 1965, current president of Reed College
Richard L. McCormick 1969, former president of
Rutgers University ; former president of the
University of Washington , 1995–2002; vice-chancellor and provost of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William S. Pfeiffer 1969, current president of
Warren Wilson College
Peter Dorman 1970, 15th president of
American University of Beirut
Alan Townsend 1988, current interim president of
Colorado College
Howard J. Burnett 1952, former president of
Washington & Jefferson College , 1970-1998.
Academics
Philologist and
lexicographer
Francis Andrew March 1845, principal founder of modern
comparative linguistics in
Anglo-Saxon
Geologist
Benjamin Kendall Emerson 1865, geologist, author, and professor
Political Scientist
John Burgess 1867, one of the founders of modern
political science
Historian
Herbert Baxter Adams 1872, writings introduced scientific methods of investigation, credited with bringing study of politics into realm of
social sciences
Librarian
Melvil Dewey 1874, of the
Dewey Decimal System , founder of
American Library Association
Economist
John Bates Clark 1875, namesake of the
John Bates Clark Medal
Statistician
Richmond Mayo-Smith 1875, at the time one of the foremost authorities on the subject
Astronomer
David Peck Todd 1875, noted astronomer, leader of significant astronomical expeditions
Political Scientist
Frank Johnson Goodnow 1879, scholar of
public administration and
administrative law , advisor in drafting Chinese constitution in 1913–14 (appears above)
Librarian
Ernest Cushing Richardson 1880, noted librarian, theologian and scholar
Historian, author, librarian
Frederic Bancroft 1882, namesake of the
Bancroft Prize
Philosopher
James Hayden Tufts 1884, co-founder of University of Chicago School of Pragmatism
Psychologist
Edmund B. Delabarre 1886, pioneer in shape perception, among other fields
Astronomer
Raymond Smith Dugan 1899, discovered 16 Asteroids (including
516 Amherstia ), wrote standard two volume textbook
Historian
Preserved Smith 1901, historian of
Protestant Reformation ; Prof. at Amherst, Harvard
Economist
John Maurice Clark 1905, best known forerunner of American school of pragmatic economics
Educator
Claude Fuess 1905, a noted author and historian, 10th
Headmaster of
Phillips Academy ,
Andover, Massachusetts
Educator and philosopher
Scott Buchanan 1916, founder of
Great Books program at
St. John's College
E. Merrill Root 1917, writer, educator, and opponent of
communism and
liberal intrusion into the educational system
Robert Percy Barnes , 1921, American chemist and professor at
Howard University ; 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
Gerald Warner Brace 1922, writer, educator, sailor and boat builder
Sociologist
Talcott Parsons 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 is taught and practiced in the world
Mathematician
Stephen Cole Kleene 1930, helped lay foundations for
theoretical computer science
Chemist
William Summer Johnson 1936, among the world's leading synthetic organic chemists
American historian, professor, and activist
H. Stuart Hughes 1937
Historian
John Whitney Hall 1939, pioneer in field of
Japanese studies , authority on pre-war Japan
Poet and professor
Richard P. Wilbur 1942, second U.S.
Poet Laureate ; Amherst College professor
Robert Frost was Wilbur's teacher and mentor
Linguist and professor
Eric P. Hamp 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
Chemist
Julian Howard Gibbs 1947, former President of Amherst College (won the High Polymer Prize of the
American Physical Society , 1967)
Neuroscientist
James Olds 1947, one of the foremost psychologists of the twentieth century
Political Scientist
Richard Fenno 1948, namesake of
Fenno's paradox and Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize
Physicist
Henry Way Kendall 1950, experimental work provided first evidence of
quarks and
quark model
Microbiologist
Carl R. Woese 1950, redrew
taxonomic tree, originator of
RNA world hypothesis
Political Scientist
Andrew Hacker 1951, novel interdisciplinary work on questions of
race , class, and
gender
Physical chemist
Peter Toennies 1952, former director of the
Max Planck Institute 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 1955, known for translations of
ancient Greek
classics , particularly translations of
epic poems of
Homer
Economist
Edmund Phelps 1955, seminal work,
natural rate of unemployment ,
Golden Rule savings rate
Political Scientist
Alan Schechter 1957
Scientist
David Suzuki 1958, internationally honoured Canadian environmental scientist and activist
Historian
John W. Dower 1959, scholar of modern Japanese history,
Bancroft Prize
Economist
David Bradford 1960, economist, professor at Princeton University
Planetary scientist
Andrew Ingersoll 1960, recipient of
Kuiper Prize (2007)
Philosopher and law professor
James Boyd White 1960, founder of "
Law and Literature " movement
MIT
Institute Professor
John M. Deutch 1961, chairman of Chemistry Dept., Dean of Science, Provost
Musicologist and musician
Philip Gossett 1963, one of the world's leading authorities on 19th century Italian music; Prof., Univ. of Chicago and Univ. of Rome
Psychologist
Roger Tarpy 1963, author of numerous textbooks on learning and memory
Economist
Joseph E. Stiglitz 1964,
John Bates Clark Medal ; former professor at
Oxford , Yale, Stanford, and Princeton; work in
the theory of markets with asymmetric information and
efficiency wages
Sterling Professor of French
R. Howard Bloch 1965,
Bibliotheque National ,
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Physical Chemist
Robert W. Field 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 for Theoretical Particle Physics
Philosopher
William Lycan 1966, contributions to philosophy of language, mind, epistemology, linguistics
Historian
Theodore Rosengarten 1966, scholar of U.S. Southern history
Computer scientist
David S. Johnson 1967, computer scientist, head of Algorithms and Optimization Department (research) at
AT&T Labs (former
Bell Labs )
Bestselling author
Daniel Goleman 1968
Anthropologist
Loring Danforth 1971, award-winning scholar; pre-eminent expert,
Macedonia naming dispute
Ecologist
Peter Vitousek 1971, professor of biology at
Stanford University ; member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1992)
Astronomer
David Helfand 1973, chair of the department of Astronomy at Columbia University, co-director of Columbia
Astrophysics Laboratory, professor in physics department
Ethnomusicologist
Theodore Levin 1973
Geophysicist, earth and planetary scientist, and astronomer
Raymond Jeanloz 1975
Historian
Peter Jelavich 1975, professor of history,
Johns Hopkins University , specializing in the cultural history of modern Germany
Historian
Walter Johnson 1988, Winthrop Professor of History,
Harvard University
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Economist
Gilbert E. Metcalf 1975, John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and professor of economics,
Tufts University , specializing in taxation, energy, and climate policy
Mathematician and political scientist
Joshua M. Epstein 1976, pioneer in
agent based models ; modeling of social, economic, and biological systems; groundbreaking work on
epidemics and
bioterrorism
Historian, author of books on the Vietnam War
Christian Appy 1977
Historian
Andrew R. Heinze 1977
Bioethicist
Ezekiel J. Emanuel 1979, leading medical ethicist
Timothy Luehrman 1979, finance academic (
corporate finance and
real options )
Rajiv Ratan 1981, scientist
Andrew Kuchins 1981,
political scientist and former President of
American University of Central Asia
Chemist
Amy Rosenzweig 1988, leader in advancing
synchrotron -based
protein crystallography
Joseph M. Hall, Jr. , 1991, Professor of American History,
Bates College
Political Scientist
Sumantra Bose 1992, professor of Internatl. & Comp. Pol.,
London School of Economics
Law professor and television correspondent
Stephen Vladeck 2001
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Art historian
Charles C. Eldredge , 1966, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture Emeritus,
University of Kansas
Organic Chemist
Robert E. Ireland , 1951, Professor of Chemistry at
University of Michigan ,
California Institute of Technology and
University of Virginia
Professional athletes and coaches
Steve Partenheimer 1913, third baseman,
Detroit Tigers , 1913
Howard Groskloss 1930, infielder,
Pittsburgh Pirates , 1930–1932
Harry Dalton 1950, general manager
Baltimore Orioles 1965–1971,
Los Angeles Angels 1971–1977,
Milwaukee Brewers 1977–1991
Doug Swift 1970, linebacker,
Miami Dolphins , 1970–1975
Jean Fugett 1972, tight end,
Dallas Cowboys 1972–1975, and
Washington Redskins , 1976–1979
Freddie Scott 1974, wide receiver,
Baltimore Colts , 1974–77, and
Detroit Lions 1978–1983
Richard N. Thompson 1980, pitcher,
Cleveland Indians , 1985, and
Montreal Expos , 1989–1990
John J. Cerutti 1982, pitcher,
Toronto Blue Jays , 1985–1990, and
Detroit Tigers , 1991
Dave Jauss 1980, bench coach,
New York Mets , 2009–present
Dan Duquette , 1980, general manager,
Montreal Expos 1991–1994,
Boston Red Sox 1994–2002,
Baltimore Orioles 2011–2018
Neal Huntington 1991, general manager,
Pittsburgh Pirates , 2007–2019
Ben Cherington 1996, general manager,
Boston Red Sox , 2011–2015
Alex Bernstein 1997, offensive lineman,
Baltimore Ravens ,
New York Jets ,
Cleveland Browns ,
Atlanta Falcons , 1997–2000
Willy Workman (born 1990),
American-Israeli basketball player for
Hapoel Jerusalem in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Clergy and Biblical scholars
Missionary and linguist
Isaac Grout Bliss 1844, translator of the Bible into Kurdish
Missionary and linguist
David Oliver Allen 1823, first American
Protestant missionary appointed to
Bombay , India; first translation of the
Bible in the Mahratta language
Biblical scholar
Bela Bates Edwards 1824, also editor-in-chief of
Bibliotheca Sacra , the oldest continuous theological journal in the United States
Missionary and scholar
Elijah Coleman Bridgman 1826, the first American
Protestant missionary appointed to China, America's first "China expert"
John H. Burt , Episcopal priest and Eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio (1967–1983)
Missionary and linguist
Justin Perkins 1829, first American
Protestant missionary appointed to Iran
Biblical scholar
Horatio Balch Hackett 1830
Preacher
Henry Ward Beecher 1834
Archbishop
James Roosevelt Bayley ex 1835, eighth
Archbishop of Baltimore
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock 1836, president of
Union Theological Seminary (1880–87)
Preacher
Benjamin M. Palmer ex 1836, acclaimed orator, Bible-based theologian; confederate preacher
Bishop
Frederic Dan Huntington 1839, first
Episcopal bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Central New York
Biblical scholar
Henry Preserved Smith 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 1887, founder of
Nonchurch Movement of Christianity in Japan
Theologian
Robert McAfee Brown 1943,
Presbyterian minister, theologian, international leader and activist in
social justice ,
civil rights , and
ecumenical causes
Canadian
Anglican priest
Roland de Corneille 1947,
human rights activist
Farzam Arbab 1964, member of the
Universal House of Justice , the supreme governing body of the
Baháʼí Faith
Clark Lowenfield 1980, bishop of the
Anglican Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast
Buddhist scholar, teacher, and practitioner
B. Alan Wallace 1987, translator for dozens of
Tibetan
lamas in India, Europe, and North America, including the
Dalai Lama
Presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of national government
Royalty
Cabinet members
Horace Maynard 1838,
Postmaster General , cabinet of
Rutherford Hayes (prior to 1972, a cabinet office)
Charles H. Allen 1869,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy replacing
Theodore Roosevelt in McKinley administration
Robert Lansing 1886,
United States Secretary of State 1915–1920; nominal head, US Commission to the
Paris Peace Conference
William Henry Lewis 1892, first African-American appointed to a sub-cabinet position, Assistant
United States Attorney General
Harlan Fiske Stone 1894,
United States Attorney General
Calvin Coolidge 1895, twenty-ninth
Vice-President of the United States (1921–1923) (appears above)
William F. Whiting 1896,
Secretary of Commerce (1928–1929)
Lewis W. Douglas 1916,
Director of the Budget , now
Office of Management and Budget
John J. McCloy 1919, Assistant
United States Secretary of War (1941–1945)
Amon Nikoi 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
John M. Deutch 1960, U.S.
Director of Central Intelligence in
Bill Clinton administration;
United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
Joseph E. Stiglitz 1964, former member and Chairman of the
President's Council of Economic Advisors
Antonis Samaras 1974, Greek
Leader of the Opposition and President of
New Democracy ;
Minister for Foreign Affairs (1989–92)
Francisco G. Flores 1981, former Secretary of Information; President of Congress (El Salvador) (appears above)
Stavros Lambrinidis 1984, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece (2011)
Kevin McAleenan 1994, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security (2019)
United States Supreme Court
Diplomats and government officials
John Elliot Ward ex 1835, U.S.
Minister to China, elected acting Lieut. Gov. of
Georgia ,
U.S. Attorney (GA)
Horace Maynard 1838, Minister to Turkey in Administration of
Ulysses S. Grant (appears above)
Edward Duffield Neill 1842,
consul to
Dublin (appears above)
John C. Caldwell 1855, Min. to Uruguay and Paraguay; con. to
Valparaiso , Chile, and
San José, Costa Rica
Francis Amasa Walker 1860, Chief of U.S. Bureau of Statistics, Director of both 9th and 10th U.S. census
Arthur Sherburne Hardy ex 1869, Minister Plenipotentiary (Ambassador) to
Persia , Greece, Romania, Serbia, Switzerland, and Spain
Walter Wyman 1870, third
Surgeon General of the United States
Frank C. Partridge 1882, Solicitor of the
Department of State ; Min. to Venezuela; con. general to
Tangier, Morocco
Sir
Herbert Ames 1885, financial director, Secretariat of the
League of Nations (Member of Parliament, Canada)
Sir
Chentung Liang-Cheng 1885, Ambassador of China to the United States
Dwight Morrow 1895, Ambassador to Mexico, chairman of the Morrow Board
Joseph Bartlett Eastman 1904,
Interstate Commerce Commissioner (1919–1944); Federal Coordinator of Railroads
Dr.
Warren Fales Draper 1906, Deputy Surgeon General of the
United States Public Health Service (see Physicians)
Leland Olds 1912, Chairman of the
Federal Power Commission under President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lewis W. Douglas 1916, head,
War Shipping Administration ; Ambassador to the United Kingdom
John J. McCloy 1919, second president of the
World Bank , member of the
Warren Commission and
Draper Committee (appears above)
Robert H. Thayer 1922, Minister to Romania, Asst. Secretary of State for Ed. and Cultural Affairs
George Yeh 1925, Ambassador to the U.S. from the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Charles W. Cole 1927, ambassador to Chile, director of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston , president of Amherst College
Toshikazu Kase 1927, Japan's first Ambassador to the United Nations
Philip Hall Coombs 1937, first
Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Robert G. Neumann 1940 MA,
Ambassador to Afghanistan ,
Morocco , and
Saudi Arabia
Talcott Williams Seelye 1944,
Ambassador to Syria ,
Tunisia , 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 1952, Ambassador to Algeria, staff member of the
National Security Council
Amon Nikoi 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.
Department of the Treasury (appears above)
Harold E. Varmus 1961, Director of the
National Institutes of Health (1993–2000)
Joseph E. Stiglitz 1964, Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the
World Bank (appears above)
Kenneth Bacon 1966,
Department of Defense spokesman who later served as president of
Refugees International
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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–)
Stavros Lambrinidis 1984, European Union Special Representative for Human Rights (2011–)
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
Representative
Lincoln Clark 1825 (
Iowa ) (
Attorney General of
Alabama and circuit judge)
Representative
James Humphrey 1831 (New York)
Robert Purvis 1831(?),
antebellum African-American
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 1838 (
Michigan ) (President
Abraham Lincoln appointed him brigadier general in
Civil War )
Representative
Horace Maynard (
Tennessee ) 1838 (
Attorney General of Tennessee) (appears above)
Senator
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy ex (1836–38) (
Kansas ) (mayor; railroad president)
John P. Sanderson 1839, member of
Provisional Confederate Congress (Florida)
Representative
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 P. Thompson 1846 (Massachusetts) (U.S. Assistant D. A. and judge)
Representative
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 1868 (Massachusetts) (state legislator and judge)
Representative
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 )
Representative
George H. Utter 1877 (
Rhode Island )
Representative
George P. Lawrence 1880 (Massachusetts) (state legislator and judge)
Senator
Frank C. Partridge 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
Herbert Ames 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"
Bertrand Snell 1894 (New York) (appears above)
Representative
Charles B. Law 1895 (New York)
Senator
Dwight Morrow 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
Thomas Ballenger 1948 (Ohio) (served consecutive terms, 1986–2005)
Member of Parliament in Canada
Roland de Corneille 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
Representative
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)
Antonis Samaras 1974, member of the
European Parliament ; former member of the
Greek Parliament (appears above)
George Papandreou 1975, member of the Greek Parliament; leader of
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
Stavros Lambrinidis 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
University of Kansas )
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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
Charles H. Allen 1869, first civil Governor of
Puerto Rico (appears above)
George H. Utter 1877,
Rhode Island Governor,
Lieutenant Governor , and Secretary of State
Calvin Coolidge 1895, Governor,
Lieutenant Governor of
Massachusetts (mayor) (appears above)
John J. McCloy 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 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
Harlan Fiske Stone 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
SJD ;
Spingarn Medal
John J. McCloy 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;
U.S. Attorney , 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
Howard University 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 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
U.S. Attorney
William H. Webster 1947, U.S. District Court judge (
Missouri ) and Federal Appellate judge (
Eighth Circuit ) (also
U.S. Attorney , 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)
Colin Diver 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 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. Attorney ;
U.S. Dept. of Justice
Special Counsel in charge of investigating the
Valerie Plame affair
Karin Immergut 1982,
U.S. Attorney
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 1981, entrepreneur and founder of
Mindspring Enterprises, an
internet service provider
Benjamin P. Cherington 1996, vice president of player personnel for the
Boston Red Sox
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
Harry Dalton 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
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
[7]
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
Neal Huntington 1991, general manager of the
Pittsburgh Pirates
Daniel Willis James 1863, head of
Phelps, Dodge, and Company , philanthropist
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
John J. McCloy 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)
[8]
Dwight Morrow 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,
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
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
[9]
Alan Webber 1970, former managing editor of the
Harvard Business Review , co-founder of
Fast Company
Robert W. Wilson (philanthropist) 1946, hedge fund manager and philanthropist
Sarah Meeker Jensen , 1977,
FAIA , architect and medical planner
Directors of Central Intelligence (DCI), CIA, and the FBI
Nobel Prize winners
Crafoord Prize winner
Pulitzer Prize winners
Alfred Friendly 1933 (1968, International Reporting)
Richard P. Wilbur 1942 (1957, Poetry; 1989, Poetry) (U.S.
Poet Laureate ;
National Book Award ;
Bollingen Prize ;
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize ;
Edna St. Vincent Millay award;
Frost Medal ) (appears above)
James I. Merrill 1947 (1977, Poetry) (twice named recipient of
National Book Award , 1967 and 1979;
National Book Critics Circle Award ;
Bollingen Prize ;
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry )
Tad Mosel 1947 (1961, Drama)
William S. McFeely 1952 (1982, Biography) (
Lincoln Prize )
John W. Dower 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
Theodore Rosengarten 1966, historian;
National Book Award ;
National Book Critics Circle Award
Raymond Jeanloz 1975, geophysicist, earth and planetary scientist, and astronomer
Kellie Jones 1981, art historian and curator
[10]
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
Astronauts
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
Arthur Sherburne Hardy 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 Drew 1926,
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,
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
Human Genome Research Institute
Kellyn LaCour-Conant , biologist and restoration ecologist
Physicians
Dr.
Walter Wyman 1870,
Surgeon General of the United States from 1891 to 1911 (appears above)
Dr.
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 and professor of surgery at
Long Island University ; later a Connecticut state legislator
Dr.
Warren Fales Draper 1906, Deputy Surgeon General of the
United States Public Health Service and member of General
Dwight Eisenhower 's staff in Europe during
World War II ; his medical care program for miners won the
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 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.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel 1979, Diane and Robert Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania; former Chair of the Department of Bioethics at NIH
Dr.
D. Drew Pinsky 1980, talk-show host
Entertainers
Playwright
Clyde Fitch 1886, distinguished dramatist, wrote over 60 plays
Actor
Emery B. Pottle 1899 (actor in 88 silent films and motion pictures)
Actor
Burgess Meredith 1931,
Academy Award –nominated
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)
Oscar and
Emmy Award –winning composer
Fred Karlin 1958
Musician and
Grammy Award –winning music producer
Jim Rooney 1960
Actor
Ken Howard 1966, a
Tony Award – and Emmy Award–winning actor
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 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 ,
Law & Order
Composer
Mason Daring 1971
Comedian and actor
Lawrence J. Miller 1975,
Max Keeble's Big Move ,
The Nutty Professor ,
10 Things I Hate About You
Writer and director
Caroline Thompson 1978, screenplays for
Edward Scissorhands ,
The Addams Family ,
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 ,
Ever After ,
Erin Brockovich
Actor
John Michael Higgins 1985
Musician
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 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 Goldberg 1996, on
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 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 1851, author
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
[11]
Sonya Clark 1989, artist and professor,
United States Artists Fellow 2011,
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award 2006
Harlan F. Coben 1984, novelist; first writer to receive an
Edgar , a
Shamus , and an
Anthony Award
Ted Conover 1983, journalist and author,
National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction (2000)
Thomas Cornell 1959, painter and printmaker; Professor of Art at
Bowdoin College
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 1945, writer,
National Book Critics Circle Award (1979)
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
[12]
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
Joseph Moncure March 1920, Poet and essayist,
The Wild Party and
The Set-Up
William Rutherford Mead 1867, architect of
McKim, Mead, and White (appears above)
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
Catherine Newman , memoirist and novelist
Warren Olney 1959, journalist, host, executive producer of
PRI program
To the Point ;
Emmy Award
Graydon Parrish 1999, artist and realist painter
Charles Patterson 1958,
[13] Author and historian
Fred Pfeil 1971, literary critic and novelist,
O. Henry Award ,
New York Times "Notable Book of the Year"
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 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
[14]
Benjamin Eli Smith 1877, editor
Margaret Stohl 1989, author of thirteen novels including
Beautiful Creatures and many Marvel comics
Wylie Sypher 1927, writer
Aatish Taseer 2001, writer and journalist
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 , 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
Major General ,
Civil War
Edward Duffield Neill 1842, army and hospital chaplain in
Union Army ,
Civil War ; private secretary of presidents
Abraham Lincoln and
Andrew Johnson
Francis Amasa Walker 1860, brevet brigadier general (
II Corps , Army of the Potomac),
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
John J. McCloy 1919, U.S.
Distinguished Service Medal ;
Legion of Honor (France);
Sylvanus Thayer Award
John Michael Murphy ex 1943, U.S.
Distinguished Service Cross ,
Korean War
Robert McAfee Brown 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
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,
Phrenologist
Sylvester Graham ex 1827, American reformer, temperance minister, and father of
Graham crackers
[15]
Jim Guest 1962, President,
Consumers Union
J. Franklin Jameson 1879, received first doctorate in history at
Johns Hopkins University , instrumental in founding
National Archives
James Jordan 1952, best known for his work at
BBDO
advertising agency
Theodore Levin 1973, ethnomusicologist
Asa Lovejoy 1830 (?),
Oregon pioneer; co-founder, city of
Portland ; mayor,
Oregon City ; speaker of house of
Oregon Territorial Legislature
Richmond Mayo-Smith 1875 Economist
Augustus Post 1895, founder of the
American Automobile Association (AAA), early aviator, and American adventurer
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
Bancroft Prize ,
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
Benjamin Kendall Emerson 1865, Prof. of Geology, 1872–1917 (appears above)
Robert Frost , 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 , 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
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
Henry Preserved Smith 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 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
David Peck Todd 1875, Prof. of Astronomy, 1881–1917, 1917 (Emeritus) (appears above)
William Seymour Tyler , 1830, Prof. of
Latin ,
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
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