List of Hamilton College people
Hamilton College is a private, independent liberal arts college located in Clinton, New York. It has been coeducational since 1978, when it merged with Kirkland College.
Below is a non-comprehensive list of Hamiltonians who have made notable achievements or contributions in their chosen fields.
Notable alumni
Selected Hamilton Alumni
Law, government, and politics
Legislative branch
- David Jewett Baker, class of 1816 - U.S. Senator from Illinois[1]
- Matt Cartwright, class of 1983 - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania[2]
- Michael Castle, class of 1961 - 69th Governor of Delaware, U.S. Representative from Delaware, 2010 Senate candidate (graduation speaker 2004)[3]
- Thomas Treadwell Davis, class of 1831 - U.S. Representative from New York[4]
- Joseph Irwin France, class of 1895 - U.S. Senator from Maryland[5]
- Abijah Gilbert, class of 1822 - U.S. Senator from Florida[6]
- Joseph Roswell Hawley, class of 1847 - served two terms in the United States House of Representatives; four-term U.S. Senator from Connecticut; 42nd Governor of Connecticut[7]
- John N. Hungerford, class of 1846 - U.S. Representative from New York (1877–79)[8]
- Irving Ives, class of 1919 - U.S. Senator from New York[9]
- Henry B. Payne, class of 1832 - U.S. Senator from Ohio[10]
- Theodore M. Pomeroy, class of 1842 - U.S. Representative from New York[11]
Executive branch
- Drew S. Days, III, class of 1963 - United States Solicitor General, 1993–1996; currently Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law at Yale Law School
- William Henry Harrison Miller, class of 1861 - United States Attorney General, 1889–1893
- Victor H. Metcalf, Law School class of 1868 - US Secretary of the Navy (1906–08)
- Ralph Oman, class of 1962 - United States copyright law
- Elihu Root, class of 1864 - United States Secretary of State and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912
- James S. Sherman, class of 1878 - Vice President of the United States
- Tom Vilsack, class of 1972 - United States Secretary of Agriculture; governor of Iowa; candidate for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president; 2001 graduation speaker
Judicial branch
- Charles Fremont Amidon, class of 1882 - Judge for the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota
- Ward Hunt (attended) - United States Supreme Court Justice (1872–82)
- David Aldrich Nelson, class of 1954 - Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Alfred W. Newman, class of 1857 - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice
- Roger Gordon Strand, class of 1955 - Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
- John Curtiss Underwood, class of 1832 - lawyer, abolitionist politician, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- William James Wallace - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Diplomats
- Philip Jessup, class of 1917 - diplomat, international law scholar, ambassador
- Sol Linowitz, class of 1935 - attorney, diplomat; negotiated return of the Panama Canal
- William H. Luers, class of 1951 - US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1983–86)
- Arnold Raphel, class of 1964 - US Ambassador to Pakistan (1987–88)
- Edward S. Walker, Jr., class of 1962 - former Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, Middle East Institute president, Hamilton professor
- John B. Emerson, class of 1975 - US Ambassador to Germany (2013 - present)
State and city politicians, activists, and other
- Dean Alfange, class of 1922 - politician; founding member of the Liberal Party of New York; Greek-American; Zionist activist[12]
- Mary Bonauto, class of 1983 - gay rights activist and attorney; successfully argued the Obergefell v. Hodges case that overturned state bans on same-sex marriage in 2015.
- George W. Clinton, class of 1825 - Mayor of Buffalo, District Attorney of Ontario County, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Judge of the Buffalo Superior Court[13]
- Steve Culbertson, class of 1979 - President & Chief Executive Officer at Youth Service America
- Bruce Cutler, class of 1970 - Criminal defense lawyer; attorney for John Gotti and Louis Eppolito
- Bela Hubbard, class of 1834 - Michigan pioneer, writer, geologist, lawyer, lumberman
- Robert Parris Moses, class of 1956 - civil rights activist (the Algebra Project)
- Bill Purcell, class of 1976 - mayor of Nashville
- Thomas J. Schwarz, class of 1969 - senior partner and former national practice leader of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Litigation Department; former acting president of Hamilton[14]
- Gerrit Smith, class of 1818 -- leading abolitionist, philanthropist, and temperance activist. Member of the so-called Secret Six group of abolitionists who financed John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
- Theodore Dwight Weld - abolitionist
- Matthew Zeller, class of 2004 - Politician, U.S. Army & Afghan War veteran, Co-Founder of No One Left Behind - a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to resettling the Afghan and Iraqi translators and other wartime allies who served the U.S. at war.
Literature and journalism
- Samuel Hopkins Adams, class of 1891 - author and investigative journalist
- Henry Allen, class of 1963 - critic who won Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
- Frank Baldwin, class of 1985 - author of Balling the Jack
- Albert Barnes, class of 1820 - theologian
- Josh Billings, class of 1840 (did not graduate) - pen name of Henry Wheeler Shaw
- Terry Brooks, class of 1966 - fantasy author
- Peter Cameron, class of 1982 - author of Leap Year, The Weekend, Andorra, and The City of Your Final Destination
- Benet Davetian (Davidian) , class of 1968 (did not graduate) - professor and author of The Seventh Circle , winner Mordecai Richler Prize, and Civility - A Cultural History
- Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, class of 1835 - educator and author
- Alf Evers, class of 1928 (did not graduate) - historian
- Amanda Filipacchi, class of 1988 - author of Nude Men, Vapor, and Love Creeps
- James Grinwis - poet
- George Wheeler Hinman, class of 1884 - newspaper publisher and writer
- Harry Kondoleon, class of 1977 - author and playwright, Obie Award winner
- Thomas Meehan, class of 1951 - wrote the books for the musicals Annie and The Producers
- John Nichols, class of 1962 - author of The Milagro Beanfield War and The Sterile Cuckoo
- Bruce Porter, class of 1959 - professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and author of Blow (the basis for 1999 film Blow featuring Johnny Depp)
- Ezra Pound, class of 1905 - poet, modernist polemicist, critic
- Kamila Shamsie, class of 1995 - novelist
- Clinton Scollard, class of 1881 - poet
- Evan Smith, class of 1987 — Texas Tribune CEO and editor-in-chief
- Charles Dudley Warner, class of 1851 - essayist
- Alexander Woollcott, class of 1909 - critic and commentator; early contributor to The New Yorker; member of the Algonquin Round Table
Scientists, mathematicians and researchers
- Paul Greengard, class of 1948 - neuroscientist awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2000
- Edward Skinner King, class of 1887 - astronomer and developer of the King Tracking Rate
- William Howell Masters, class of 1938 -physician and research pioneer in the fields of hormone replacement therapy and sexology; co-author (with Virginia E. Johnson) of Human Sexual Response (1966)
- B.F. Skinner, class of 1926 - behavioral psychologist
- Augustus William Smith, class of 1825 - mathematician and astronomer
Other scholars
- Samih Farsoun - influential Arab Studies scholar
- Daniel Willard Fiske (did not graduate) - Icelandic scholar
- Matthew Kahn - economist, author of Climatopolis
- James H. Morey - medievalist
Arts and entertainment
- Robert Bilheimer, class of 1966 - Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, A Closer Walk
- Kevin Burns, class of 1977 - Emmy Award-winning television producer and filmmaker
- Tori Campbell, class of 1986 - morning news anchor, KTVU
- Lisa Daniels, class of 1994 - MSNBC anchor
- Peter Falk, class of 1949 (did not graduate) - actor, most famous for Columbo TV series
- Nat Faxon, class of 1997 - Academy Award-winning screenwriter (The Descendants); actor (Grosse Pointe, Joey, Beerfest)
- Josh Gardner - actor, comedian, writer; best known as the titular character in the cult TV show Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust
- Jonathan Gilbert - actor, Little House on the Prairie
- Eugene Goossen (1921–1997), art critic and historian.[15]
- Hilary Gordon, class of 1999 - child actor (The Great Outdoors, The Mosquito Coast)
- Joe Howard, class of 1972 - actor, Mathnet
- Frederick King Keller, class of 1972 - television and movie director
- Harry Kondoleon, class of 1977 - playwright and novelist; awarded Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim fellowships
- Christopher Kostow, class of 1999 - executive chef, The Restaurant at Meadowood; James Beard Foundation Award winner and recipient of three Michelin stars
- Paul Lieberstein, class of 1989 - actor, Toby Flenderson on NBC's The Office
- Grayson McCouch, class of 1991 - actor, As the World Turns
- Richard Nelson, class of 1972 - playwright; current director of playwriting program at Yale University
- Sarah Rafferty, class of 1993 - actress, Suits, 2011–present
- Jay Reise, class of 1982 - composer
- Evan Schneider, class of 1990 - photojournalist for the United Nations
- Ryan Serhant, class of 2006 - actor, realtor, Million Dollar Listing New York[16]
- David Thornton, class of 1977 - actor; husband of Cyndi Lauper
- Thomas Tull, class of 1992 - founder, chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures
- Melinda Wagner, class of 1979 - winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Music Composition
Businesspeople
- J. Carter Bacot, class of 1955 - former chairman and CEO, Bank of New York
- Robert F. Bernstock, class of 1972 - Former President of the United States Postal Service (2008–2010)
- David Blood, class of 1981 - co-founder (with Al Gore) and Managing Partner of Generation Investment Management; former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- William McLaren Bristol, class of 1882 - co-founder of Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Henry Elghanayan - New York real estate developer[17]
- Dan Ferguson, class of 1948 - former CEO of Newell Rubbermaid
- James L. Ferguson, class of 1949 - former CEO of General Foods
- Edward Gelsthorpe, class of 1942 - marketing executive called "Cranapple Ed" for his best-known product launch[18]
- David P. Hess, class of 1977 - President of Pratt & Whitney
- Joel Johnson, class of 1965 - CEO of Hormel (1993–2005)
- John Jay Knox, class of 1849 - financier and Comptroller of the Treasury (1867–84)
- A. G. Lafley, class of 1969 - CEO of Procter & Gamble; named one of America's Best Leaders by US News
- Eric Kuhn, class of 2009 - Media strategist; brought social platforms to CBS News, CNN, NBA,
- John Ripley Myers, class of 1887 - co-founder of Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Dan Nye, class of 1988 - former CEO of LinkedIn
- Marc Randolf, class of 1980 - co-founder of Netflix
- John G. Rice, class of 1978 - Vice Chairman of General Electric, and President and CEO of GE Infrastructure
- Stephen Sadove, class of 1973 - CEO of Saks Incorporated, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue; a Hamilton Trustee
- David Solomon, class of 1984 - co-head of Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs[19]
Clergy
- David Riddle Breed, class of 1867 - Presbyterian theologian, author of History and Use of Hymns and Hymn Tunes
- Edwin Otway Burnham, class of 1852 - rifle-shooting Presbyterian missionary in Sioux Indian territory
- Franklin Clark Fry, class of 1921 - President of the United Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran Church in America
- Arthur Tappan Pierson, class of 1857 - Presbyterian theologian; author of The Crisis of Missions (1886)
- George Warren Wood Jr., class of 1865 - Presbyterian missionary to Northern Michigan, missionary to the Dakota Mission, and charter member of the utopian Fairhope Single Tax Corporation[20]
Sports
- André Matias, class of 2012 - 2016 olympic rower
- Guy Hebert, class of 1989 - professional hockey player
- Garret Kramer, class of 1984 - sports psychologist
- Merritt Paulson, class of 1995 - majority owner of Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns
- Bill Smith, class of 1980 - General Manager, Minnesota Twins
- Kevin P. Smith, class of 1977 - professional basketball player, Washington Generals
- Kyle Smith, class of 1992 - head men's basketball coach, Columbia University
- Ward Wettlaufer, class of 1959 - amateur golfer
- Gillian Zucker, class of 1990 - former president of Auto Club Speedway, and currently president of business operations for the Los Angeles Clippers.
- Joseph Lin, class of 2015 - professional basketball player in the Taiwanese Super Basketball League; brother of NBA player Jeremy Lin.
Titles and Peerages
- Sir David Hayes, class of 1981 - Chevalier of the National Order of Merit (France)
Alumni from Works of Fiction
- Newspaper editor Charles Webb from the Thorton Wilder play Our Town
Notable faculty
Current members
- Frank Anechiarico government and law
- Dennis Gilbert - sociologist, developed the Gilbert Model
- Maurice Isserman - historian with notable works on the American Left, the 1960s, and mountaineering
- Derek C. Jones - economist
- Philip Klinkner - political scientist specializing in American politics
- Scott MacDonald - avant-garde film historian
- Jack F. Matlock, Jr. - former US Ambassador to Soviet Union under Reagan
- Heidi Ravven - expert on Jewish ethics, Spinoza, and the relationship between religion and science
- Edward S. Walker - former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the UAE; Middle East specialist
Former members (both permanent and visiting)
- Agha Shahid Ali - poet, finalist for the National Book Award
- Robert C. Allen - economic historian and professor at Oxford University
- Alfred Atherton - former United States Ambassador to Egypt
- J. Brian Atwood - diplomat and former Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development
- Natalie Babbitt - author of children's literature, Tuck Everlasting
- Thomas Bass - author, The Eudaemonic Pie
- Joel Black - literary critic
- Brigitte Boisselier - Raëlian and CEO of Clonaid, the "scientific wing" of the Raëlian movement
- Hermann Carl George Brandt - German literature and language scholar
- Francis Marion Burdick -legal scholar and longtime professor at Columbia Law School
- Albert Huntington Chester - geologist and mountaineer
- Richard N. Current - historian, winner of the Bancroft Prize
- Hubert Dreyfus - artificial intelligence philosopher and professor at University of California, Berkeley
- Sereno Edwards Dwight - intellectual historian and Congregationalist minister
- Theodore William Dwight - jurist and pioneering dean of Columbia Law School
- Edwin Erickson - member of the Pennsylvania Senate, representing the 26th District
- James Fankhauser - conductor
- Karl Geiringer - German-American musicologist and biographer
- Richard Haas - President of the Council on Foreign Relations
- Elaine Tuttle Hansen - president of Bates College
- Jerome B. Komisar - economist and President of the University of Alaska
- John Hiram Lathrop - first president of the University of Missouri; first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; president of Indiana University
- George Lenczowski - political scientist and longtime professor at University of California, Berkeley
- Arthur Marder - naval historian
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty - post-colonial feminist theorist
- John Monteith - first President of the University of Michigan
- Howard Nemerov - poet, twice Poet Laureate of the United States
- Duncan Rice - Principal of the University of Aberdeen; former Vice-Chancellor of New York University
- David P. Robbins - mathematician
- Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator from Vermont
- A.P. Saunders - professor of chemistry; peony breeder; compiled genetic records (with G. Ledyard Stebbins) of 15,000 new hybrids
- Clinton Scollard - poet
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - gender theorist and cultural critic
- Kamila Shamsie - novelist
- Charles Henry Smyth, Jr. - geologist
- Leo Strauss - political philosopher and classicist
- Orest Subtelny - scholar of Ukrainian history
Presidents of Hamilton College[21]
- Azel Backus, 1812-16
- Henry Davis, 1817-33
- Sereno Edwards Dwight, 1833-35
- Joseph Penney, 1835-39
- Simeon North, 1839-57
- Samuel Ware Fisher, 1858-66
- Samuel Gilman Brown, 1866-81
- Henry Darling, 1881-91
- Melancthon Woolsey Stryker, 1892-1917
- Frederick Carlos Ferry, 1917-38
- William Harold Cowley, 1938-44
- David Worcester, 1945-47
- Thomas Brown Rudd, 1947-49
- Robert Ward McEwen, 1949-66
- Richard Watrous Couper, 1966-68 (acting)
- John Wesley Chandler, 1968-73
- Samuel Fisher Babbitt, 1968-78 (Kirkland College)
- J. Martin Carovano, 1974-88
- Harry C. Payne, 1988-93
- Eugene M. Tobin, 1993-2003
- Joan Hinde Stewart, 2003 -2016
- David Wippman, 2016--
References
- ↑ "Class of 1816 Letter David Jewett Baker". Hamilton College. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
- ↑ "Matthew Cartwright '83 Runs for Congress Alumni News & Notes". Hamilton College. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
- ↑ "Delaware Congressman, Alumnus Mike Castle to Deliver Commencement Address". Hamilton College. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
- ↑ Hamilton College (1860). Catalogue. Hamilton College. p. 33. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ↑ Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) (1899). Decennial celebration, 1889-1899. Clark. p. 494. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ↑ "GILBERT, Abijah, (1806 - 1881)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
- ↑ "HAWLEY, Joseph Roswell, (1826 - 1905)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ Hamilton College (1904). Hamilton Literary Magazine, Volume 39. Hamilton College. p. 48.
- ↑ Courier Press (1916). Hamilton Literary Magazine, Volume 51. Courier Press. p. 419.
- ↑ Hamilton College (1917). Hamilton Literary Magazine, Volume 52. Hamilton College. p. 33. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ↑ "Theodore M. Pomeroy". The New York Times. March 24, 1905. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ↑ The Trustees of Hamilton College (2010). "An Inspiration to All: Dean Alfange, Class of 1922". Clinton, Oneida County, New York: Hamilton College. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
- ↑ Ellis, William Arba (1911). Norwich University, 1819-1911: Her History, Her Graduates, Her Roll of Honor, Volume 3. Montpelier, VT: Capital City Press. p. 567.
- ↑ "Thomas J. Schwarz". Skadden. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
- ↑ Dobryznski, Judith H. "Eugene Goossen, 76, Art Critic", The New York Times, July 17, 1997. Accessed July 25, 2010.
- ↑ "Ryan Serhant NestSeekers International Million Dollar Listings". Nest Seekers. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
- ↑ The Real Deal: "Henry Elghanayan" By Katherine Clarke retrieved November 5, 2016
- ↑ Grimes, William. "Edward Gelsthorpe, Master Marketer, Dies at 88", The New York Times, September 27, 2009. Accessed September 29, 2009.
- ↑ LaCapra, Lauren (2011-06-26). "Goldman's Solomon: Dark horse contender in CEO race". Reuters. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
- ↑ Tompkins, Hamilton Bullock (1877). Biographical Record of the Class of 1865, of Hamilton College. p. 77. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- ↑ "Office of the President - Hamilton College Presidents - Hamilton College". Hamilton.edu. 2001-08-15. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
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