Prominent Princeton University Graduates

By William P. Litynski
Executive Branch of the U.S. Government:
James Madison (A.B. 1771) President of the United States (1809-1817); Secretary of State (1801-1809)
Woodrow Wilson (A.B. 1879) President of the United States (1913-1921)
Aaron Burr (A.B. 1772) Vice President of the United States (1801-1805)
George M. Dallas (A.B. 1810) Vice President of the United States (1845-1849)
Robert Smith (A.B. 1781) U.S. Secretary of State (1809-1811); Secretary of the Navy (1801-1809)
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) U.S. Secretary of State (1831-1833)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Secretary of State (1834-1841)
John Foster Dulles (A.B. 1908) U.S. Secretary of State (1953-1959)
George P. Shultz (A.B. 1942) U.S. Secretary of State (1982-1989); Secretary of the Treasury (1972-1974); Secretary of Labor (1969-1970)
James A. Baker III (A.B. 1952) U.S. Secretary of State (1989-1992); Secretary of the Treasury (1985-1988)
William Bradford Jr. (A.B. 1772) U.S. Attorney General (1794-1795)
Charles Lee (A.B. 1775) U.S. Attorney General (1795-1801)
Robert Smith (A.B. 1781) U.S. Attorney General (1805)
Richard Rush (A.B. 1797) U.S. Attorney General (1814-1817); Secretary of the Treasury (1825-1828)
John M. Berrien (A.B. 1796) U.S. Attorney General (1829-1831)
Benjamin H. Brewster (A.B. 1834) U.S. Attorney General (1881-1885)
Nicholas Katzenbach (A.B. 1945) U.S. Attorney General (1964-1966)
Lucius H. Stockton (A.B. 1787) Secretary of War (1801)
George W. Crawford (A.B. 1820) Secretary of War (1849-1850)
William W. Belknap (A.B. 1848) Secretary of War (1869-1876)
James D. Cameron (A.B. 1852) Secretary of War (1876-1877)
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) Secretary of the Navy (1818-1823)
Samuel L. Southard (A.B. 1804) Secretary of the Navy (1823-1829)
Mahlon Dickerson (A.B. 1789) Secretary of the Navy (1834-1838)
George M. Robeson (A.B. 1847) Secretary of the Navy (1869-1877)
Frank C. Carlucci (A.B. 1952) U.S. Secretary of Defense (1987-1989)
Donald H. Rumsfeld (A.B. 1954) U.S. Secretary of Defense (1975-1977, 2001-2006)
George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) Secretary of the Treasury (1814)
George M. Bibb (A.B. 1792) Secretary of the Treasury (1844-1845)
Ebenezer Hazard (A.B. 1762) Postmaster General of the United States (1782-1789); Surveyor-General of U.S. Post Office (1776-82)
Allen W. Dulles (A.B. 1914) Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1953-1961)
William E. Colby (A.B. 1940) Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1973-1976)
Frank C. Carlucci (A.B. 1952) National Security Advisor (1986-1987)
Robert S. Mueller III (A.B. 1966) Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation (2001-2013)
William Marshall Bullitt (B.S. 1894) Solicitor General of the United States (1912-1913)
Charles Fried (A.B. 1956) Solicitor General of the United States (1985-1989)
Elena Kagan (A.B. 1981) Solicitor General of the United States (2009-2010)
Frank Pace Jr. (A.B. 1933, M.A. 1950) Secretary of the Army (1950-1953)
James H. Douglas Jr. (A.B. 1920) Secretary of the Air Force (1957-1959); Deputy U.S. Secretary of Defense (1959-1961)
Dudley C. Sharp (B.S. 1927) Secretary of the Air Force (1959-1961)
Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. (A.B. 1893) Director of the U.S. Mint (1909-1910)
Thomas Hartley Crawford (A.B. 1804) Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1838-1845)
Nathaniel G. Taylor (A.B. 1840) Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1867-1869)
Andrew Jackson Goodwin Jr. (A.B. 1934, M.B.A. Harvard 1936) Commissioner of Securities and Exchange Commission (1953-1955)
Bevis Longstreth (B.S. 1956) Commissioner of Securities and Exchange Commission (1981-1984)

U.S. Diplomats:
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) U.S. Minister to France (1833-1835)
George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) U.S. Minister to Russia (1818-1821)
Richard Rush (A.B. 1797) U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1817-1825); U.S. Minister to France (1847-1851)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Minister to Spain (1819-1823)
Joseph R. Ingersoll (A.B. 1804) U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1852-1853)
Christopher Hughes (A.B. 1805) U.S. Charge daffaires to Sweden (1818-1825, 1830-1841); U.S. Charge daffaires to the
Netherlands (1826-1830, 1842-1845)
George M. Dallas (A.B. 1810) U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1856-1861); U.S. Minister to Russia (1837-1839)
William Lewis Dayton (A.B. 1825) U.S. Minister to France (1861-1864)
John Forsyth Jr. (A.B. 1832) U.S. Minister to Mexico (1856-1858)
George H. Boker (A.B. 1842) U.S. Minister to Russia (1875-1877); U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire (1872-1875)
John Potter Stockton (A.B. 1843) U.S. Minister to Rome (1858-1861)
Allen Thomas (A.B. 1850) U.S. Minister to Venezuela (1895-1897)
William Austin Seay (A.B. 1850) U.S. Minister to Bolivia (1885-1887)
William Lewis Dayton (A.B. 1858) U.S. Minister to the Netherlands (1882-1885)
Samuel R. Gummere (A.B. 1870) U.S. Minister to Morocco (1906-1909); U.S. Consul General at Tangier (1898-1905)
Richmond Pearson (A.B. 1872) U.S. Minister to Persia (1903-1907); U.S. Minister to Greece (1907-1909); U.S. Minister to
Montenegro (1907-1909)
Henry van Dyke (A.B. 1873) U.S. Minister to the Netherlands (1913-1917); U.S. Minister to Luxembourg (1913-1917)
Charles Denby Jr. (A.B. 1882) U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, China (1907-1909); U.S. Consul General in Vienna (1909-1915)
Albert Halstead (A.B. 1889) U.S. Consul General in Vienna (1915-1917); U.S. Consul General in Stockholm, Sweden (January
1918-May 1919); U.S. Consul General in Montreal (1920-1928); U.S. Consul General in London (1928-1932)
Post Wheeler (A.B. 1891) U.S. Minister to Paraguay (1930-1933); U.S. Minister to Albania (1933-1934)
John W. Garrett (B.S. 1895) U.S. Ambassador to Fascist Italy (1929-1933); U.S. Minister to the Netherlands (1917-1919); U.S.
Minister to Luxembourg (1917-1919); U.S. Minister to Venezuela (1911); U.S. Minister to Argentina (1912-1913)
Roland S. Morris (A.B. 1896) U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1917-1920)
Joshua Butler Wright (B.S. 1899) U.S. Minister to Hungary (1927-1930); U.S. Minister to Uruguay (1931-1934); U.S. Minister to
Czechoslovakia (1934-1937); U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1937-1939)
John Van A. MacMurray (A.B. 1902, M.A. 1907) U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1936-1941); U.S. Minister to China (1925-1929); U.S.
Minister to Estonia (1934-1936); U.S. Minister to Latvia (1933-1936); U.S. Minister to Lithuania (1933-1936)
Breckinridge Long (A.B. 1904) U.S. Ambassador to Fascist Italy (1933-1936)
Joseph C. Green (A.B. 1908) U.S. Ambassador to Jordan (1952-1953)
Ferdinand L. Mayer (A.B.1909) U.S. Minister to Haiti (1937-1940)
Norman Armour (A.B. 1909) U.S. Minister to Haiti (1932-1935); U.S. Minister to Canada (1935-1938); U.S. Ambassador to Chile
(1938-1939); U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (1939-1944); U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1945); U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela (19501951); U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala (1954-1955)
James Bruce (Litt.B. 1914) U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (1947-1949)
Gilchrist B. Stockton (Litt.B. 1914) U.S. Minister to Austria (1930-1933)
Nathaniel P. Davis (A.B. 1916) U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (1948-1949); U.S. Minister to Hungary (1949-1951)
William A. Eddy (Litt.B. 1917, Ph.D. 1922) U.S. Minister to Saudi Arabia (1944-1946)
Maxwell M. Hamilton (Litt.B. 1918) U.S. Minister to Finland (1946-1947)
Edward S. Crocker (A.B. 1918) U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (1949-1952)
H. Freeman Matthews (A.B. 1921) U.S. Ambassador to Sweden (1947-1950); U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands (1953-1957);
U.S. Ambassador to Austria (1957-1962)
William E. Stevenson (A.B. 1922) U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1962-1964)
Bernard A. Gufler (A.B. 1925) U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka (1959-1961); U.S. Ambassador to Finland (1961-1963)
George F. Kennan (A.B. 1925) U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1952); U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1961-1963)
W. Walton Butterworth (A.B. 1925) U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1962-1968); U.S. Ambassador to Sweden (1950-1953)
Edward T. Wailes (B.S. 1925) U.S. Ambassador to South Africa (1954-1956); U.S. Minister to Hungary (1956-1957); U.S.
Ambassador to Iran (1958-1961); U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1961-1962)
Henry R. Labouisse (A.B. 1926) U.S. Ambassador to Greece (1962-1965)
Livingston T. Merchant (A.B. 1926) U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1956-1958, 1961-1962)
Adolph W. Schmidt (A.B. 1926) U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1969-1974)
Whiting Willauer (B.S. 1928) U.S. Ambassador to Honduras (1954-1958); U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (1958-1961)
Charles W. Yost (A.B. 1928) U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1954-1956); U.S. Ambassador to Syria (1958); U.S. Ambassador to
Morocco (1958-1961)
Jacob D. Beam (A.B. 1929) U.S. Ambassador to Poland (1957-1961); U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1966-1969); U.S.
Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1969-1973)
Shelby Cullom Davis (A.B. 1930) U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland (1969-1975)
Edwin Allan Lightner Jr. (A.B. 1930) U.S. Ambassador to Libya (1963-1965); U.S. Consul General in Munich, Germany (1953-1956)
Tyler Thompson (A.B. 1930) U.S. Ambassador to Iceland (1960-1961); U.S. Ambassador to Finland (1964-1969)
William C. Trimble (A.B. 1930) U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia (1959-1962)
Howard Trivers (A.B. 1930; Ph.D. Harvard 1941) U.S. Consul General in Zurich, Switzerland (1966-1969)
George W. Renchard (B.S. 1930) U.S. Ambassador to Burundi (1968-1969)
Howard Elting Jr. (B.S. 1930) Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam (1957-1959)
G. Mennen Williams (A.B. 1933) U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1968-1969)
Aaron S. Brown (A.B. 1935) U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua (1961-1967)
Richard Hallock Davis (A.B. 1935, M.B.A. Harvard 1937) U.S. Ambassador to Romania (1965-1969)
Edmund A. Gullion (A.B. 1935) U.S. Ambassador to Congo [Kinshasa] (1961-1964)
John N. Irwin II (A.B. 1937) U.S. Ambassador to France (1973-1974)
Robert Gaylord Barnes (A.B. 1937) U.S. Ambassador to Jordan (1964-1966)

Nicholas G. Thacher (A.B. 1937) U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1970-1973)

Findley Burns, Jr. (A.B. 1939) U.S. Ambassador to Jordan (1966-1967); U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (1970-1973)
Richard Funkhouser (A.B. 1939) U.S. Ambassador to Gabon (1969-1970)
Robert F. Goheen (A.B. 1940; Ph.D. 1948) U.S. Ambassador to India (1977-1980)
Robert H. McBride (A.B. 1940) U.S. Ambassador to Zaire (1967-1969); U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (1969-1974)
John F. Root (A.B. 1940) U.S. Ambassador to Ivory Coast (1969-1974)
William H. Attwood (A.B. 1941) U.S. Ambassador to Guinea (1961-1963); U.S. Ambassador to Kenya (1964-1966)
John P. Humes (A.B. 1943) U.S. Ambassador to Austria (1969-1975)
Andrew L. Steigman (A.B. 1947) U.S. Ambassador to Gabon (1975-1977); U.S. Ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe (1976-1977)
Arthur T. Tienken (A.B. 1947) U.S. Ambassador to Gabon (1978-1981); U.S. Ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe (1978-1981)
Raymond L. Garthoff (A.B. 1948) U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria (1977-1979)
Owen W. Roberts (A.B. 1948) U.S. Ambassador to Togo (1984-1986)
John C. Pritzlaff, Jr. (A.B. 1949) U.S. Ambassador to Malta (1969-1972)
William A. Stoltzfus Jr. (A.B. 1949) U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait (1972-1976); U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain (1972-1974); U.S.
Ambassador to Qatar (1972-1974); U.S. Ambassador to Oman (1972-1974); U.S. Ambassador to United Arab Emirates (1972-1974)
Leon Jerome Weil (A.B. 1949) U.S. Ambassador to Nepal (1984-1987)
Robert V. Keeley (A.B. 1951) U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius (1976-1978); U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe (1980-1984); U.S.
Ambassador to Greece (1985-1989); Deputy Chief of Mission in Cambodia [Khmer Republic] (1974-1975)
Roger Kirk (A.B. 1952) U.S. Ambassador to Somalia (1973-1975); U.S. Ambassador to Romania (1985-1989)
Frank C. Carlucci (A.B. 1952) U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1975-1978)
George Roberts Andrews (A.B. 1953) U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius (1983-1986); U.S. Consul General in Strasbourg, France (1970-1971)
H. Allen Holmes (A.B. 1954) U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1982-1985); Deputy Chief of Mission in Rome, Italy (1977-1979)
Thomas David Boyatt (A.B. 1955) U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso (1978-1980); U.S. Ambassador to Colombia (1980-1983)
Charles W. Bray III (A.B. 1955) U.S. Ambassador to Senegal (1981-1985)
Anthony C.E. Quainton (A.B. 1955) U.S. Ambassador to the Central African Republic (1976-1978); U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua
(1982-1984); U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait (1984-1987); U.S. Ambassador to Peru (1989-1992)
J. Stapleton Roy (A.B. 1956) U.S. Ambassador to Singapore (1984-1986); U.S. Ambassador to Communist China (1991-1995);
U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia (1996-1999)
Peter Jon De Vos (A.B. 1960) U.S. Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau (1980-1983); U.S. Ambassador to Mozambique (1983-1987); U.S.
Ambassador to Liberia (1990-1992); U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania (1993-1994); U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (1994-1997)
Frank G. Wisner II (A.B. 1961) U.S. Ambassador to Zambia (1979-1982); U.S. Ambassador to Egypt (1986-1991); U.S.
Ambassador to the Philippines (1991-1992); U.S. Ambassador to India (1994-1997)
Cameron R. Hume (A.B. 1968) U.S. Ambassador to Algeria (1997-2000); U.S. Ambassador to South Africa (2001-2004); U.S. Ambassador
to Indonesia (2007-2010)
Lewis Lukens (A.B.) U.S. Ambassador to Senegal (2011-present); U.S. Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau (2011-present); U.S. Consul
General in Vancouver, Canada (2005-2008)
David Huebner (A.B. 1982) U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand (2009-2014)
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (A.B. 1922) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1961-1965)
Charles W. Yost (A.B. 1928) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1969-1971)
John C. Danforth (A.B. 1958) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (2004-2005)
George W. Perkins Jr. (Litt.B. 1917) U.S. Representative to NATO (1955-1957)
Harlan Cleveland (A.B. 1938) U.S. Representative to NATO (1965-1969)
W. Walton Butterworth (A.B. 1925) U.S. Representative to the European Communities (1961-1962)
Members of the Continental Congress:
Richard Stockton (A.B. 1748) Member of the Continental Congress (1776); Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Rush (A.B. 1760) Member of the Continental Congress (1776-1777); Signer of the Declaration of Independence; Treasurer of the
United States Mint at Philadelphia (1799-1813)
Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (A.B. 1762) Member of the Continental Congress (February 14, 1776-June 22, 1776, November 30, 1776September 6, 1777)
Jonathan Bayard Smith (A.B. 1760) Member of the Continental Congress (1777-1778)
Joseph Reed (A.B. 1757) Member of the Continental Congress (1778)
Nathaniel Scudder (A.B. 1751) Member of the Continental Congress (1778-1779)
Jesse Root (A.B. 1756) Member of the Continental Congress (1778-1782)
Richard Hutson (A.B. 1765) Member of the Continental Congress (1778-1779); Signer of the Articles of Confederation; Lieutenant Governor
of South Carolina (1782-1783)
Oliver Ellsworth (A.B. 1766) Member of the Continental Congress (1778-1783); Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787
John Henry (A.B. 1769) Member of the Continental Congress (1778-1780, 1785-1786)
Frederick Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1770) Member of the Continental Congress (1779)
William Churchill Houston (A.B. 1768) Member of the Continental Congress (1779-1781, 1784-1785); Delegate to the Constitutional
Convention in Philadelphia in 1787
William Burnet (A.B. 1749) Member of the Continental Congress (December 11, 1780-April 1, 1781); surgeon general of the eastern district
of the United States (1776-1783)
Joseph Montgomery (A.B. 1755) Member of the Continental Congress (1780-1782)
Samuel Livermore (A.B. 1752) Member of the Continental Congress (1780-1782, 1785-1786)
James Madison Jr. (A.B. 1771) Member of the Continental Congress (1780-1783, 1787-1788); Delegate to the Constitutional Convention
David Ramsay (A.B. 1765) Member of the Continental Congress (1782-1783, 1785-1786)
David Howell (A.B. 1776) Member of the Continental Congress (1782-1785)
John Beatty (A.B. 1769) Member of the Continental Congress (1784-1785)
James Manning (A.B. 1762) Member of the Continental Congress (1786); President of Brown University (1765-1791)
Henry Light Horse Harry Lee (A.B. 1773) Member of the Continental Congress (1786-1788)
Nathaniel Ramsey (A.B. 1767) Member of the Continental Congress (1786-1787); United States Marshal for Maryland (1790-1798)

James Randolph Reid (A.B.) Member of the Continental Congress (1787-1788)

Pierpont Edwards (A.B. 1768) Member of the Continental Congress (1788)
William Paterson (A.B. 1763) Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787; Signer of the Constitution
Jonathan Dayton (A.B. 1776) Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787; Signer of the Constitution; Delegate to the Continental
Congress (1787-1788)
Supreme Court Justices:
William Paterson (A.B. 1763) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1793-1806)
Oliver Ellsworth (A.B. 1766) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1796-1800)
William Johnson Jr. (A.B. 1790) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1804-1834)
Henry Brockholst Livingston (A.B. 1774) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1806-1823)
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1823-1843)
James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1835-1867)
Mahlon Pitney (A.B. 1879) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1912-1922)
John Marshall Harlan II (A.B. 1920) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1955-1971)
Samuel A. Alito Jr. (A.B. 1972) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2006-present)
Sonia Sotomayor (A.B. 1976) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2009-present)
Elena Kagan (A.B. 1981) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2010-present)
Judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals:
Harold Raymond Medina (A.B. 1909) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1951-1958)
John Marshall Harlan II (A.B. 1920) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1954-1955)
Jon Ormond Newman (A.B. 1953) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1979-1997)
Sonia Sotomayor (A.B. 1976) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1998-2009)
Debra Ann Livingston (A.B. 1980) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2007-present)
Denny Chin (A.B. 1975) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2010-present)
George Gray (A.B. 1859) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1899-1914)
John Bayard McPherson (A.B. 1866) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1912-1919)
John Biggs Jr. (Lit.B. 1918) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1937-1965)
Francis L. Van Dusen (A.B. 1934) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1967-1977)
Walter King Stapleton (A.B. 1956) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1985-1999)
Samuel A. Alito Jr. (A.B. 1972) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1990-2006)
Richard Wilde Walker (A.B. 1877) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1914-1930)
William Lockhart Garwood (A.B. 1952) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1981-1997)
Shackelford Miller Jr. (A.B. 1914) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1945-1965)
Steven M. Colloton (A.B. 1985) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (2003-present)
William Albert Norris (A.B. 1951) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1980-1994)
Richard R. Clifton (A.B. 1972) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2002-present)
Andrew David Hurwitz (A.B. 1968) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2012-present)
Thurman Wesley Arnold (A.B. 1911) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (1943-1945)
Alvin Anthony Schall (A.B. 1966) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1992-2009)
James Dunlop (A.B. 1811) Chief Justice of the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia (1857-1863)
Shackelford Miller Jr. (A.B. 1914) Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1961-1962)
John Biggs Jr. (Lit.B. 1918) Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1948-1965)
Jon Ormond Newman (A.B. 1953) Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1993-1997)
Chief Judges of the U.S. District Courts:
Robert Alexander Inch (A.B. 1895) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1948-1958)
James Levin Latchum (A.B. 1940) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1973-1983)
John Francis Gerry (A.B. 1950) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1987-1994)
Maurice Blanchard Cohill Jr. (A.B. 1951) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1985-1992)
Walter King Stapleton (A.B. 1956) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1983-1985)
Alan Cooke Kay (A.B. 1957) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii (1991-1999)
D. Brook Bartlett (A.B. 1959) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1995-2000)
John Winslow Bissell (A.B. 1962) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (2001-2005)
Harvey Bartle III (A.B. 1962) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2006-2011)
William Henry Barbour Jr. (A.B. 1963) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (1989-1996)
Robert H. Whaley (A.B. 1965) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (2005-2009)
Benson Everett Legg (A.B. 1970) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2003-2010)
Jerome B. Simandle (B.S.E. 1971) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (2012-present)

Judges of the U.S. District Courts:

Harold Raymond Medina (A.B. 1909) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1947-1951)
Harold R. Tyler Jr. (A.B. 1943) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1962-1975)
Vincent Lyons Broderick (A.B. 1941) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1976-1988)
Sonia Sotomayor (A.B. 1976) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1992-1998)
Denny Chin (A.B. 1975) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994-2010)
Sidney H. Stein (A.B. 1967) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1995-2010)
Cathy Seibel (A.B. 1982) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (2008-present)
John Bayard McPherson (A.B. 1866) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1899-1912)
Francis L. Van Dusen (A.B. 1934) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1955-1967)
William Hendricks Yohn (A.B. 1957) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1991-2003)
Harvey Bartle III (A.B. 1962) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1991-2011)
Legrome D. Davis (A.B. 1973) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2002-present)
Richard Stockton Field (A.B. 1821) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1863-1870)
John Thompson Nixon (A.B. 1841) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1870-1889)
Edward T. Green (A.B. 1854) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1890-1896)
Joseph Cross (A.B. 1865) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1905-1913)
Joseph Lamb Bodine (A.B. 1905) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1920-1929)
Richard Hartshorne (Litt.B. 1909) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1951-1961)
Reynier Jacob Wortendyke Jr. (A.B. 1916) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1955-1970)
Arthur Stephen Lane (A.B. 1934) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1960-1967)
John Francis Gerry (A.B. 1950) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1974-1994)
John Winslow Bissell (A.B. 1962) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1982-2005)
Joseph Eron Irenas (A.B. 1962) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1992-2002)
Jerome B. Simandle (B.S.E. 1971) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1992-present)
David Howell (A.B. 1766) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1812-1824)
Pierpont Edwards (A.B. 1768) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1806-1826)
Gunning Bedford Jr. (A.B. 1771) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1789-1812)
Joseph Clay Jr. (A.B. 1784) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Georgia (1797-1801)
Henry Kent McCay (A.B. 1839) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (1882-1886)
John Jay Jackson, Jr. (A.B. 1845) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia (1861-1864); Judge of the U.S. District
Court for West Virginia (1864-1901); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia (1901-1905)
John McDowell McKinney (A.B. 1848) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1871)
Nathaniel Ewing (A.B. 1869) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1906-1908)
Robert Alexander Inch (A.B. 1895) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1924-1958)
Shackelford Miller Jr. (A.B. 1914) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky (1939-1945)
Edward Dumbauld (A.B. 1926) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1961-1976)
Howard Francis Corcoran (A.B. 1928) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1965-1977)
Caleb Rodney Layton III (A.B. 1930) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1957-1968)
Thomas Roberts McMillen (A.B. 1938) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1971-1984)
James Levin Latchum (A.B. 1940) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1968-1983)
Lunsford Richardson Preyer (A.B. 1941) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (1962-1963)
Maurice Blanchard Cohill Jr. (A.B. 1951) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1976-1994)
Charles Byron Renfrew (A.B. 1952) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (1971-1980)
Jon Ormond Newman (A.B. 1953) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1971-1979)
Howard David Hermansdorfer (A.B. 1953) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (1972-1981)
Rudi M. Brewster (A.B. 1954) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1984-1998)
Walter King Stapleton (A.B. 1956) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1970-1985)
Alan Cooke Kay (A.B. 1957) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii (1986-2000)
D. Brook Bartlett (A.B. 1959) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1981-2000)
Thomas Selby Ellis III (B.S.E. 1961) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (1987-2007)
Lynn S. Adelman (A.B. 1961) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (1997-present)
David C. Bramlette (A.B. 1962) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (1991-2006)
William Henry Barbour Jr. (A.B. 1963) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (1983-2006)
Robert H. Whaley (A.B. 1965) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (1995-2009)
Benson Everett Legg (A.B. 1970) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (1991-present)
Anthony John Trenga (A.B. 1971) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (2008-present)
Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (A.B. 1987) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (2011-present)
Brian Jordan Davis (A.B. 1974) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (December 26, 2013-present)

U.S. Senators:
Samuel Livermore (A.B. 1752) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Hampshire, 1793-1801); President of the U.S. Senate (1799-1800)
Alexander Martin (A.B. 1756) U.S. Senator (Republican-North Carolina, 1793-1799)
William Paterson (A.B. 1763) U.S. Senator (Pro-Administration-New Jersey, 1789-1790)
Oliver Ellsworth (A.B. 1766) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Connecticut, 1789-1796)
John Henry (A.B. 1769) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Maryland, 1789-1797)
Frederick Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1770) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1793-1796)
Aaron Burr Jr. (A.B. 1772) U.S. Senator (Republican-New York, 1791-1797)
Aaron Ogden (A.B. 1773) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1801-1803)
John Ewing Colhoun (A.B. 1774) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-South Carolina, 1801-1802)
Jonathan Mason Jr. (A.B. 1774) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Massachusetts, 1800-1803)
Isaac Tichenor (A.B. 1775) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Vermont, 1796-1797, 1815-1821)
Jonathan Dayton (A.B. 1776) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1799-1805)
John Rutherfurd (A.B. 1776) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1791-1798)
Richard Stockton (A.B. 1779) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1796-1799)
Abraham B. Venable (A.B. 1780) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Virginia, 1803-1804)
William Branch Giles (A.B. 1781) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Virginia, 1804-1815)
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Louisiana, 1829-1831)
James A. Bayard Sr. (A.B. 1784) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Delaware, 1804-1813)
Robert G. Harper (A.B. 1785) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Maryland, 1816)
David Stone (A.B. 1788) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-North Carolina, 1801-1807, 1813-1814)
Nicholas Van Dyke Jr. (A.B. 1788) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Delaware, 1817-1826)
Mahlon Dickerson (A.B. 1789) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-New Jersey, 1817-1833)
John Taylor (A.B. 1790) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-South Carolina, 1810-1816)
Jacob Burnet (A.B. 1791) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Ohio, 1828-1831)
George M. Bibb (A.B. 1792) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Kentucky, 1811-1814, 1829-1835)
George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Tennessee, 1811-1814, 1815-1818)
John Macpherson Berrien (A.B. 1796) U.S. Senator (Whig-Georgia, 1825-1829, 1841-1852)
Henry W. Edwards (A.B. 1797) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Connecticut, 1823-1827)
George M. Troup (A.B. 1797) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1816-1818, 1829-1833)
Daniel Elliott Huger (A.B. 1798) U.S. Senator (Democrat-South Carolina, 1843-1845)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1818-1819, 1829-1834)
Alfred Cuthbert (A.B. 1803) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Georgia, 1835-1843)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-New Jersey, 1829-1835)
Samuel L. Southard (A.B. 1804) U.S. Senator (Whig-New Jersey, 1821-1823, 1833-1842); President of the U.S. Senate (1841-1842)
James Iredell (A.B. 1806) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-North Carolina, 1828-1831)
John Williams Walker (A.B. 1806) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Alabama, 1819-1822)
Arnold Naudain (A.B. 1806) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Delaware, 1830-1836)
George M. Dallas (A.B. 1810) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Pennsylvania, 1831-1833)
John Henderson (A.B. 1812) U.S. Senator (Whig-Mississippi, 1839-1845)
Richard H. Bayard (A.B. 1814) U.S. Senator (Whig-Delaware, 1836-1839, 1841-1845)
Alfred Iverson (A.B. 1820) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Georgia, 1855-1861)
Richard Stockton Field (A.B. 1821) U.S. Senator (Republican-New Jersey, 1862-1863)
James Alfred Pearce (A.B. 1822) U.S. Senator (Whig/Democrat-Maryland, 1843-1862)
William Lewis Dayton (A.B. 1825) U.S. Senator (Whig-New Jersey, 1842-1851)
James Chesnut Jr. (A.B. 1835) U.S. Senator (Democrat-South Carolina, 1858-1860)
John Sharpenstein Hager (A.B. 1836) U.S. Senator (Democrat-California, 1873-1875)
James Walter Wall (A.B. 1838) U.S. Senator (Democrat-New Jersey, 1863)
James K. Kelly (A.B. 1839) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Oregon, 1871-1877)
Francis P. Blair Jr. (A.B. 1841) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Missouri, 1871-1873)
John Potter Stockton (A.B. 1843) U.S. Senator (Democrat-New Jersey, 1865-1866, 1869-1875)
Alfred H. Colquitt (A.B. 1844) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Georgia, 1883-1894)
James D. Cameron (A.B. 1852) U.S. Senator (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1877-1897)
George Gray (A.B. 1859) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Delaware, 1885-1899)
Blair Lee (A.B. 1880) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Maryland, 1914-1917)
Atlee Pomerene (A.B. 1884) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Ohio, 1911-1923)
George Howard Williams (A.B. 1894) U.S. Senator (Republican-Missouri, 1925-1926)
David Aiken Reed (A.B. 1900) U.S. Senator (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1922-1935)
Howard Alexander Smith (A.B. 1901) U.S. Senator (Republican-New Jersey, 1944-1959)
David Baird Jr. (A.B. 1903) U.S. Senator (Republican-New Jersey, 1929-1930)
James H. Duff (A.B. 1904) U.S. Senator (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1951-1957)
John Foster Dulles (A.B. 1908) U.S. Senator (Republican-New York, 1949)
Claiborne Pell (A.B. 1940) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Rhode Island, 1961-1997)
Dewey F. Bartlett (A.B. 1942) U.S. Senator (Republican-Oklahoma, 1973-1979)
Paul Sarbanes (A.B. 1954) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Maryland, 1977-2007)
John C. Danforth (A.B. 1958) U.S. Senator (Republican-Missouri, 1976-1995)
Kaneaster Hodges Jr. (A.B. 1960) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Arkansas, 1977-1979)
Christopher S. Kit Bond (A.B. 1960) U.S. Senator (Republican-Missouri, 1987-2011)
Bill Bradley (A.B. 1965) U.S. Senator (Democrat-New Jersey, 1979-1997)
William H. Bill Frist (A.B. 1974) U.S. Senator (Republican-Tennessee, 1995-2007); Senate Majority Leader (2003-2007)
Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz (A.B. 1992) U.S. Senator (Republican-Texas, 2013-present)

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives:

Samuel Livermore (A.B. 1752) U.S. Congressman (Pro-Administration, New Hampshire, 1789-1793)
Isaac Smith (A.B. 1755) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New Jersey, 1795-1797)
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (A.B. 1758) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1789-1791)
John Archer (B.A. 1760) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1801-1807)
Thomas Henderson (A.B. 1761) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New Jersey, 1795-1797)
Thomas Tredwell (A.B. 1764) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1791-1795)
John Bacon (A.B. 1765) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Massachusetts, 1801-1803)
Nathaniel Niles (A.B. 1766) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Administration-Vermont, 1791-1795)
John Beatty (A.B. 1769) U.S. Congressman (Pro-Administration-New Jersey, 1793-1795)
James Linn (A.B. 1769) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1799-1801)
James Madison (A.B. 1771) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Virginia, 1789-1797)
David Bard (A.B. 1773) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1795-1799, 1803-1815)
Henry Light Horse Harry Lee III (A.B. 1773) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Virginia, 1799-1801)
Jonathan Mason Jr. (A.B. 1774) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Massachusetts, 1817-1820)
William Stephens Smith (A.B. 1774) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1813-1815, 1815-1816)
John Anderson Scudder (A.B. 1775) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1810-1811)
Nathaniel Alexander (A.B. 1776) U.S. Congressman (Republican-North Carolina, 1803-1805)
Jonathan Dayton (A.B. 1776) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New Jersey, 1791-1799); Speaker of the U.S. House (1795-1799)
John W. Kittera (A.B. 1776) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Pennsylvania, 1791-1801)
Richard Stockton (A.B. 1779) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New Jersey, 1813-1815)
William Crawford (A.B. 1781?) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1809-1817)
John Rhea (A.B. 1780) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Tennessee, 1803-1815, 1817-1823)
Abraham B. Venable (A.B. 1780) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Virginia, 1791-1799)
William Branch Giles (A.B. 1781) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Virginia, 1790-1798, 1801-1803)
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1794-1802); U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Louisiana, 1823-1829)
Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (A.B. 1782) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1797-1803)
John A. Hanna (A.B. 1782) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1797-1805)
James A. Bayard Sr. (A.B. 1784) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Delaware, 1797-1803)
Robert G. Harper (A.B. 1785) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-South Carolina, 1795-1801)
James W. Wilkin (A.B. 1785) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1815-1819)
James Henderson Imlay (A.B. 1786) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New Jersey, 1797-1801)
Evan Shelby Alexander (A.B. 1787) U.S. Congressman (Republican-North Carolina, 1806-1809)
Nathaniel W. Howell (A.B. 1788) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1813-1815)
William Kirkpatrick (A.B. 1788) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1807-1809)
David Stone (A.B. 1788) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-North Carolina, 1799-1801)
Nicholas Van Dyke Jr. (A.B. 1788) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Delaware, 1807-1811)
Isaac Pierson (A.B. 1789) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New Jersey, 1827-1831)
Silas Wood (A.B. 1789) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1819-1829)
John Taylor (A.B. 1790) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-South Carolina, 1807-1810, 1817-1821)
Ephraim King Wilson (A.B. 1790) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Maryland, 1827-1831)
William Chetwood (A.B. 1792) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1836-1837)
Peter Early (A.B. 1792) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1803-1807)
George Clifford Maxwell (A.B. 1792) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1811-1813)
Thomas M. Bayly (A.B. 1794) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Virginia, 1813-1815)
James M. Broom (A.B. 1794) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Delaware, 1805-1807)
George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Tennessee, 1803-1809)
John Sergeant (A.B. 1795) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Pennsylvania, 1815-1823, 1827-1829, 1837-1841)
Silas Condit (A.B. 1795) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New Jersey, 1831-1833)
William Gaston (A.B. 1796) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-North Carolina, 1813-1817)
Thomas Bayly (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Maryland, 1817-1823)
James W. Clark (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Republican-North Carolina, 1815-1817)
Henry W. Edwards (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Connecticut, 1819-1823)
Charles Fenton Mercer (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Virginia, 1817-1839)
George M. Troup (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1807-1815)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1813-1818, 1823-1827)
Alfred Cuthbert (A.B. 1803) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1813-1816, 1821-1827)
Thomas Ward (A.B. 1803?) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1813-1817)
George Chambers (A.B. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Masonic-Pennsylvania, 1833-1837)
Thomas Hartley Crawford (A.B. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Pennsylvania, 1829-1833)
Joseph R. Ingersoll (A.B. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian/Whig-Pennsylvania, 1835-1837, 1841-1849)
Stevenson Archer (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1811-1817, 1819-1821)
George William Crump (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Virginia, 1826-1827)
John A. Cuthbert (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1819-1821)
Richard W. Habersham (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Georgia, 1839-1842)
George Holcombe (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-New Jersey (1821-1828)
John Scott (A.B. 1805) U.S. Delegate (Territory of Missouri, 1816-1817, 1817-1821); U.S. Congressman (Adams-Clay Republican-Missouri,
1821-1827)
Thomas Telfair (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1813-1817)
Edward Colston (A.B. 1806) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Virginia, 1817-1819)
Alem Marr (A.B. 1807) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Pennsylvania, 1829-1831)
William H. Hayward Jr. (A.B. 1808) U.S. Congressman (Crawford Republican-Maryland, 1823-1825)

William Montgomery (A.B. 1808?) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1835-1841)

James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Georgia, 1829-1835)
Samuel Watkins Eager (A.B. 1809) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New York, 1830-1831)
Benjamin C. Howard (A.B. 1809) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian/Democrat-Maryland, 1829-1833, 1835-1839)
Andrew DeWitt Bruyn (A.B. 1810) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1837-1838)
Kensey Johns Jr. (A.B. 1810) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-Delaware, 1827-1831)
John T. Stoddert (A.B. 1810) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Maryland, 1833-1835)
William Halstead (A.B. 1812) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1837-1839, 1841-1843)
Samuel J. Wilkin (A.B. 1812) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New York, 1831-1833)
William Pennington (A.B. 1813) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1859-1861); Speaker of the U.S. House (1860-1861)
John Wurts (A.B. 1813) U.S. Congressman (Pennsylvania, 1825-1827)
John J. Milligan (A.B. 1814 [honorary]) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian/Whig-Delaware, 1831-1839)
Littleton Kirkpatrick (A.B. 1815) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Jersey, 1843-1845)
James McDowell (A.B. 1816) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Virginia, 1846-1851)
George Washington Toland (A.B. 1816) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1837-1843)
Chester P. Butler (A.B. 1817) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1847-1850)
Abraham W. Venable (A.B. 1819) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1847-1853)
George W. Crawford (A.B. 1820) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Georgia, 1843)
James H. Gholson (A.B. 1820) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-Virginia, 1833-1835)
Alfred Iverson (A.B. 1820) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Georgia, 1847-1849)
George Brydges Rodney (A.B. 1820) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Delaware, 1841-1845)
William Seymour (A.B. 1821?) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-New York, 1835-1837)
John Inskeep Vanmeter (A.B. 1821) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Ohio, 1843-1845)
James Alfred Pearce (A.B. 1822) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Maryland, 1835-1839, 1841-1843)
John P.B. Maxwell (A.B. 1823) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1837-1839, 1841-1843)
Thomas Robinson, Jr. (A.B. 1823?) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Delaware, 1839-1841)
Thomas Ross (A.B. 1825) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1849-1853)
George H. Brown (A.B. 1828) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1851-1853)
Richard B. Carmichael (A.B. 1828) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Maryland, 1833-1835)
James Pollock (A.B. 1831) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1844-1849)
David S. Kaufman (A.B. 1833) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Texas, 1846-1851)
Alexander Robinson Boteler (A.B. 1835) U.S. Congressman (Opposition Party-Virginia, 1859-1861)
James G. Hampton (A.B. 1835) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1845-1849)
John Thomson Mason (A.B. 1836) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Maryland, 1841-1843)
John L.N. Stratton (A.B. 1836) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1859-1863)
Alexander Hamilton Bailey (A.B. 1837) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1867-1871)
Charles John Biddle (A.B. 1837) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1861-1863)
Lawrence O. Branch (A.B. 1838) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1855-1861)
William G. Whiteley (A.B. 1838) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Delaware, 1857-1861)
William Lewis Dewart (A.B. 1839) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1857-1859)
Henry M. Fuller (A.B. 1839) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1851-1853, 1855-1857)
Robert McKnight (A.B. 1839) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1859-1863)
Isaiah Dunn Clawson (A.B. 1840) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1855-1859)
Thomas Laurens Jones (A.B. 1840) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Kentucky, 1867-1871, 1875-1877)
Nathaniel G. Taylor (A.B. 1840) U.S. Congressman (Whig/Unionist-Tennessee, 1854-1855, 1866-1867)
Francis P. Blair Jr. (A.B. 1841) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Missouri, 1857-1859, 1860, 1861-1862, 1863-1864)
John Thompson Nixon (A.B. 1841) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1859-1863)
James B. Everhart (A.B. 1842) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1883-1887)
Frederick H. Teese (A.B. 1843) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Jersey, 1875-1877)
Alfred H. Colquitt (A.B. 1844) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Georgia, 1853-1855)
James D. Strawbridge (A.B. 1844) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1873-1875)
Addison White (A.B. 1844) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Kentucky, 1851-1853)
James Monroe Jackson (A.B. 1845) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-West Virginia, 1889-1890)
Stevenson Archer (A.B. 1846) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Maryland, 1867-1875)
William H. Armstrong (A.B. 1847) U.S. Congressman (Republican Pennsylvania, 1869-1871)
Hiester Clymer (A.B. 1847) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1873-1881)
George M. Robeson (A.B. 1847) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1879-1883)
John Augustus Swope (A.B. 1847) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1884-1885, 1885-1887)
Robert Stockton Green (A.B. 1850) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Jersey, 1885-1887)
Barnes Compton (A.B. 1851) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Maryland, 1885-1890, 1891-1894)
James Taylor Jones (A.B. 1852) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Alabama, 1877-1879, 1883-1889)
Charles Edward Phelps (A.B. 1852) U.S. Congressman (Conservative-Maryland, 1865-1869)
Harry White (A.B. 1854) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1877-1881)
Edward Overton Jr. (A.B. 1856) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1877-1881)
Charles Haight (A.B. 1857) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Jersey, 1867-1871)
John Van Lear Findlay (A.B. 1858) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Maryland, 1883-1887)
Christopher A. Bergen (A.B. 1863) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1889-1893)
John K. Cowen (A.B. 1866) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Maryland, 1895-1897)
Richard Wayne Parker (A.B. 1867) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1895-1911, 1914-1919, 1921-1923)
Henry S. Harris (A.B. 1870) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Jersey, 1881-1883)
Welty McCullogh (A.B. 1870) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1887-1889)
Richmond Pearson (A.B. 1872) U.S. Congressman (Republican-North Carolina, 1895-1899, 1900-1901)

Dudley Goodall Wooten (A.B. 1875) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Texas, 1901-1903)

Ira Wells Wood (A.B. 1877) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1904-1913)
Mahlon Pitney (A.B. 1879) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1895-1899)
Charles Andrew Talcott (A.B. 1879) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1911-1915)
George B. McClellan Jr. (A.B. 1886) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1895-1903)
Joseph Holt Gaines (A.B. 1886) U.S. Congressman (Republican-West Virginia, 1901-1911)
Abram Piatt Andrew, Jr. (A.B. 1893) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Massachusetts, 1921-1936)
Thomas Spencer Crago (A.B. 1893) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1911-1913, 1915-1921, 1921-1923)
George White (A.B. 1895) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Ohio, 1911-1915, 1917-1919)
Charles Browne (A.B. 1896) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Jersey, 1923-1925)
Elmer Hendrickson Geran (A.B. 1899) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Jersey, 1923-1925)
Franklin William Fort (A.B. 1901) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1925-1931)
Laurence Hawley Watres (A.B. 1904) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1923-1931)
Ralph Abernethy Gamble (A.B. 1909) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1937-1957)
William Emanuel Richardson (A.B. 1910) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1933-1937)
Joseph Weldon Bailey Jr. (A.B. 1915) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Texas, 1933-1935)
John Carl Williams Hinshaw (A.B. 1916) U.S. Congressman (Republican-California, 1939-1956)
Michael Aloysius Feighan (A.B. 1927) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Ohio, 1943-1971)
Roger Caldwell Slaughter (A.B. 1928) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Missouri, 1943-1947)
Arthur Glenn Andrews (A.B. 1931) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Alabama, 1965-1967)
Alfred Dennis Sieminski (A.B. 1934) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Jersey, 1951-1959)
Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Jr. (A.B. 1938) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1953-1975)
James McClure Clarke (A.B. 1939) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1983-1985, 1987-1991)
Bruce Reynolds Alger (A.B. 1940) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Texas, 1955-1965)
Lunsford Richardson Preyer (A.B. 1941) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1969-1981)
Otis Grey Pike (A.B. 1946) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1961-1979)
William Fitts Ryan (A.B. 1947) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1961-1972)
Donald H. Rumsfeld (A.B. 1954) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Illinois, 1963-1969)
Paul Sarbanes (A.B. 1954) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Maryland, 1971-1977)
William Herbert Hudnut III (A.B. 1954) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Indiana, 1973-1975)
Michael Lathrop Strang (A.B. 1956) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Colorado, 1985-1987)
Cleveland Keith Benedict (A.B. 1959) U.S. Congressman (Republican-West Virginia, 1981-1983)
Edwin Van Wyck Zschau (A.B. 1961) U.S. Congressman (Republican-California, 1983-1987)
James A.S. Leach (A.B. 1964) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Iowa, 1977-2007)
Peter P. Smith (A.B. 1968) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Vermont, 1989-1991)
Jim Marshall (A.B. 1972) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Georgia, 2003-2011)
Nan Hayworth (A.B. 1981) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 2011-2013)
John Sarbanes (A.B. 1984) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Maryland, 2007-present)
Terri Sewell (A.B. 1986) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Alabama, 2011-present)
Jared Polis (A.B. 1996) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Colorado, 2009-present)
Derek Kilmer (A.B. 1996) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Washington, 2013-present)
U.S. Attorneys:
William Halstead (A.B. 1812) U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (1849-1853)
Joseph Lamb Bodine (A.B. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (1919-1920)
Elmer Hendrickson Geran (A.B. 1899) U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (1920-1921)
Robert J. Del Tufo (A.B. 1955) U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (1977-1980)
Samuel A. Alito Jr. (A.B. 1972) U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (1987-1990)
Paul J. Fishman (A.B. 1978) U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (2009-present)
Titus Hutchinson (A.B. 1794) U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont (1813-1823)
John Wurts (A.B. 1813) U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1827-1831)
Philip Richard Fendall (A.B. 1815) U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1841-1845, 1849-1853)
Andrew Todd McKinney (A.B. 1858) U.S. Attorney for the District of Texas (1871-1873)
Joseph Wilberforce Martin (A.B. 1855) U.S. Attorney for the District of Arkansas (1874-1876)
Charles Henry Luzenberg (A.B. 1857) U.S. Attorney for the First District of Louisiana (1866-1872)
Furman Sheppard (A.B. 1845) U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1868-1871)
Francis Fisher Kane (A.B. 1886) U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1913-1920)
Whitney North Seymour Jr. (A.B. 1947) U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1970-1973)
W. Laird Stabler Jr. (A.B. 1952) U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware (1975-1977)
Jon Ormond Newman (A.B. 1953) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1964-1969)
Robert S. Mueller III (A.B. 1966) U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts (October 10, 1986-April 6, 1987); U.S. Attorney for the
Northern District of California (1998-2001)

Governors:
William Paterson (A.B. 1763) Governor of New Jersey (1790-1793)
Aaron Ogden (A.B. 1773) Governor of New Jersey (1812-1813)
Mahlon Dickerson (A.B. 1789) Governor of New Jersey (1815-1817)
Samuel Lewis Southard (A.B. 1804) Governor of New Jersey (1832-1833)
William Pennington (A.B. 1813) Governor of New Jersey (1837-1843)
Daniel Haines (A.B. 1820) Governor of New Jersey (1843-1845, 1848-1851)
Joel Parker (A.B. 1839) Governor of New Jersey (1863-1866, 1872-1875)
Robert Stockton Green (A.B. 1850) Governor of New Jersey (1887-1890)
Woodrow Wilson (A.B. 1879) Governor of New Jersey (1911-1913)
Brendan Byrne (A.B. 1949) Governor of New Jersey (1974-1982)
Thomas Kean (A.B. 1957) Governor of New Jersey (1982-1990)
John Henry (A.B. 1769) Governor of Maryland (1797-1798)
Samuel Sprigg (A.B. 1806) Governor of Maryland (1819-1822)
Blair Lee III (A.B. 1938) Governor of Maryland (1977-1979)
Robert L. Bob Ehrlich (A.B. 1979) Governor of Maryland (2003-2007)
Henry Light Horse Harry Lee III (A.B. 1773) Governor of Virginia (1791-1794)
William Branch Giles (A.B. 1781) Governor of Virginia (1827-1830)
John Rutherfoord (A.B. 1810) Governor of Virginia (1841-1842)
James McDowell (A.B. 1816) Governor of Virginia (1843-1846)
Alexander Martin (A.B. 1756) Governor of North Carolina (1781-1785, 1789-1792)
William Richardson Davie (A.B. 1776) Governor of North Carolina (1798-1799)
Nathaniel Alexander (A.B. 1776) Governor of North Carolina (1805-1807)
David Stone (A.B. 1788) Governor of North Carolina (1808-1810)
James Iredell (A.B. 1806) Governor of North Carolina (1827-1828)
Daniel G. Fowle (A.B. 1851) Governor of North Carolina (1888-1891)
John Taylor (A.B. 1790) Governor of South Carolina (1826-1828)
Patrick Noble (A.B. 1806) Governor of South Carolina (1838-1840)
Benjamin W. Seabrook (A.B. 1812) Governor of South Carolina (1848-1850)
Peter Early (A.B. 1792) Governor of Georgia (1814-1815)
George M. Troup (A.B. 1797) Governor of Georgia (1823-1827)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) Governor of Georgia (1827-1829)
George W. Crawford (A.B. 1820) Governor of Georgia (1843-1847)
Alfred H. Colquitt (A.B. 1844) Governor of Georgia (1877-1882)
Morgan Lewis (A.B. 1773) Governor of New York (1804-1807)
Isaac Tichenor (A.B. 1775) Governor of Vermont (1797-1809)
Henry W. Edwards (A.B. 1797) Governor of Connecticut (1833-1834, 1835-1838)
James Pollock (A.B. 1831) Governor of Pennsylvania (1855-1858)
George White (A.B. 1895) Governor of Ohio (1931-1935)
James H. Duff (A.B. 1904) Governor of Pennsylvania (1947-1951)
Ingram M. Stainback (A.B. 1907) Governor of the Territory of Hawaii (1942-1951)
Adlai E. Stevenson (A.B. 1922) Governor of Illinois (1949-1953)
G. Mennen Williams (A.B. 1933) Governor of Michigan (1949-1961)
Dewey F. Bartlett (A.B. 1942) Governor of Oklahoma (1967-1971)
Christopher S. Kit Bond (A.B. 1960) Governor of Missouri (1973-1977, 1981-1985)
Mitch Daniels (A.B. 1971) Governor of Indiana (2005-2013)
Eliot Spitzer (A.B. 1981) Governor of New York (2007-2008)
Other State Government Officials:
Richard Hutson (A.B. 1765) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (1782-1783)
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (A.B. 1758) Lieutenant Governor of New York (1801-1804)
Peter P. Smith (A.B. 1968) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont (1983-1986)
Samuel W. Stockton (A.B. 1767) Secretary of State of New Jersey (1794-1795)
John Beatty (A.B. 1769) Secretary of State of New Jersey (1795-1805)
James Linn (A.B. 1769) Secretary of State of New Jersey (1809-1821)
Micah Townsend (A.B. 1766) Secretary of State of Vermont (1781-1785, 1786-1788)
Richard C. Holliday (A.B. 1829) Secretary of State of Maryland (1848-1849)
William Yates Gholson (A.B. 1825) Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (1859-1863)
Daniel G. Fowle (A.B. 1851) Judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1865-1867)
Thomas Wilkes Coleman (A.B. 1853) Judge of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1890-1900)

Mayors:
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) Mayor of New York City (1801-1803)
Jacob Radcliff (A.B. 1783) Mayor of New York City (1810-1811, 1815-1818)
George B. McClellan Jr. (A.B. 1886) Mayor of New York City (1904-1909)
George M. Dallas (A.B. 1810) Mayor of Philadelphia (1828-1829)
Benjamin W. Richards (A.B. 1815) Mayor of Philadelphia (1830-1831)
John M. Scott (A.B. 1805) Mayor of Philadelphia (1841-1844)
Peter McCall (A.B. 1826) Mayor of Philadelphia (1844-1845)
Alexander Henry (A.B. 1840) Mayor of Philadelphia (1858-1866)
Richard Riordan (A.B. 1952) Mayor of Los Angeles (1993-2001)
Aaron Dickinson Woodruff (A.B. 1779) Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey (1794-1797)
Samuel R. Hamilton (A.B. 1808) Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey (1848-1849)
Frank S. Katzenbach Jr. (A.B. 1889) Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey (1901-1907)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) Mayor of Newark, New Jersey (1837-1838)
Oliver Spencer Halsted (A.B. 1810) Mayor of Newark, New Jersey (1840)
Leroy Hammond Anderson (A.B. 1861) Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey (1873-1874)
Charles Browne (A.B. 1896) Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey (1914-1923)
Richard Dennis Arnold (A.B. 1826) Mayor of Savannah, Georgia (1859-1860, 1863-1865)
Charles C. Jones Jr. (A.B. 1852) Mayor of Savannah, Georgia (1860-1861)
Jim Marshall (A.B. 1972) Mayor of Macon, Georgia (1995-1999)
William G. Whiteley (A.B. 1838) Mayor of Wilmington, Delaware (1875-1878)
William Franklin Henney (A.B. 1874) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1904-1908); Corporation Counsel of Hartford (1890-1895)
John Boyd Thacher II (A.B. 1904) Mayor of Albany, New York (1926-1940)
Neville Miller (A.B. 1916) Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky (1933-1937)
William Herbert Hudnut III (A.B. 1954) Mayor of Indianapolis (1976-1991); Mayor of Chevy Chase, Maryland (2004-present)
State and Local School Board Members:
Samuel Hayes Pennington (A.B. 1825) Member (1845-1862) and President (1855-1862) of the Board of Education of Newark, New Jersey
George Anderson Mercer (A.B. 1856) President of Chatham County (Savannah, Georgia) Board of Education (1883-1907)
Samuel Baird Huey (A.B. 1863) President of Philadelphia Board of Education (1888-1901)
John Woodbridge Patton (A.B. 1863) Member of Philadelphia Board of Education (1904)
William Reed Barricklo (A.B. 1878) Member of New Jersey State Board of Education (1890-?)
John Lee Tildsley (A.B. 1893, Ph.D. Halle [Germany] 1898) Associate (1916-1920) and Assistant (1920-1937) Superintendent of Schools of
New York City
Raymond B. Fosdick (A.B. 1905) Member of New York City Board of Education (1915-1916)
Cyrus Hall Adams III (A.B. 1931) Member of Chicago Board of Education (Dec. 1963-May 1968)
Kriner Cash (A.B. 1977) Superintendent of Schools of Memphis, Tennessee (2008-present)
Chief Justices of State Supreme Courts
Andrew Kirkpatrick (A.B. 1775) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1804-1824)
Charles Ewing (A.B. 1798) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1824-1832)
Henry Woodhull Green (A.B. 1820) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1846-1860)
Edward William Whelpley (A.B. 1834) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1861-1864)
William Jay Magie (A.B. 1852) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1897-1900)
David A. Depue (A.B. 1846) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1900-1901)
William S. Gummere (A.B. 1870) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1901-1933)
Stuart Rabner (A.B. 1982) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (2007-present)
Morgan Lewis (A.B. 1773) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1793)
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1814-1818)
Jesse Root (A.B. 1756) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1796-1807)
Tapping Reeve (A.B. 1763) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1814-1815)
Isaac Tichenor (A.B. 1775) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont (1795-1796)
Titus Hutchinson (A.B. 1794) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont (1830-1833)
Richard Henry Bayard (A.B. 1814) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware (1839-1841)
James Booth Jr. (A.B. 1808) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware (1841-1855)
John Bacon (A.B. 1765) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (1809)
Benjamin Rowlands Jones (A.B. 1927) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1972-1977)
Samuel Livermore (A.B. 1752) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire (1782-1790)
George M. Bibb (A.B. 1792) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky (1808-1809, 1827-1828)
Thomas Ruffin (A.B. 1805) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1833-1859)
Joseph Henry Lumpkin (A.B. 1819) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia (1846-1867)
James Kerr Kelly (A.B. 1839) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon (1878-1880)
John Fleming Main (A.B. 1891) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington (1923-1925)

State Attorney Generals

Aaron Dickinson Woodruff (A.B. 1779) Attorney General of New Jersey (1792-1817)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) Attorney General of New Jersey (1817-1829)
Samuel Lewis Southard (A.B. 1804) Attorney General of New Jersey (1829-1833)
Richard Stockton Field (A.B. 1821) Attorney General of New Jersey (1838-1841)
George P. Molleson (A.B. 1824) Attorney General of New Jersey (1841-1844)
William Lewis Dayton (A.B. 1825) Attorney General of New Jersey (1857-1861)
George M. Robeson (A.B. 1847) Attorney General of New Jersey (1867-1869)
Joel Parker (A.B. 1839) Attorney General of New Jersey (1875)
John Potter Stockton (A.B. 1843) Attorney General of New Jersey (1877-1897)
Thomas N. McCarter (A.B. 1888) Attorney General of New Jersey (1902-1903)
Robert H. McCarter (A.B. 1879) Attorney General of New Jersey (1903-1908)
Edmund Wilson, Sr. (A.B. 1885) Attorney General of New Jersey (1908-1914)
Edward L. Katzenbach (A.B. 1900) Attorney General of New Jersey (1924-1929)
Theodore D. Parsons (A.B. 1915) Attorney General of New Jersey (1949-1954)
Robert J. Del Tufo (A.B. 1955) Attorney General of New Jersey (1990-1993)
Stuart Rabner (A.B. 1982) Attorney General of New Jersey (2006-2007)
Joseph Reed (A.B. 1757) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1778-1780)
William Bradford Jr. (A.B. 1772) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1780-1791)
Mahlon Dickerson (A.B. 1789) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1808-1809)
Joseph Reed Jr. (A.B. 1792) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1810-1811)
Richard Rush (A.B. 1797) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1811)
Amos Ellmaker (A.B. 1805) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1816-1819, 1828-1829)
Thomas Sergeant (A.B. 1798) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1819-1820)
George M. Dallas (A.B. 1810) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1833-1835)
Benjamin H. Brewster (A.B. 1834) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1867-1869)
Luther Martin (A.B. 1766) Attorney General of Maryland (1778-1805, 1818-1822)
George R. Richardson (A.B. 1822) Attorney General of Maryland (1845-1851)
Charles John Morris Gwinn (A.B. 1840) Attorney General of Maryland (1875-1883)
John Prentiss Poe (A.B. 1854) Attorney General of Maryland (1891-1895)
George Riggs Gaither (A.B. 1878) Attorney General of Maryland (1899)
Edgar Allan Poe (A.B. 1891) Attorney General of Maryland (1911-1915)
Aaron Burr Jr. (A.B. 1772) Attorney General of New York (1789-1791)
Morgan Lewis (A.B. 1773) Attorney General of New York (1791-1792)
Nathaniel Lawrence (A.B. 1783) Attorney General of New York (1792-1795)
Samuel Livermore (A.B. 1752) Attorney General of New Hampshire (1776-1780)
Waightstill Avery (A.B. 1766) Attorney General of North Carolina (1777-1781)
David Howell (A.B. 1766) Attorney General of Rhode Island (1789)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) Attorney General of Georgia (1808-1811)
George W. Crawford (A.B. 1820) Attorney General of Georgia (1827-1831)
Gunning Bedford Jr. (A.B. 1771) Attorney General of Delaware (1784-1789)
George Gray (A.B. 1859) Attorney General of Delaware (1879-1884)
Andrew Caldwell Gray (A.B. 1892) Attorney General of Delaware (1909-1913)
W. Laird Stabler Jr. (A.B. 1952) Attorney General of Delaware (1971-1975)
Charles Beatty Moore (A.B. 1857) Attorney General of Arkansas (1881-1885)
Andrew Pickens Miller (A.B. 1954) Attorney General of Virginia (1970-1977)
John C. Danforth (A.B. 1958) Attorney General of Missouri (1969-1977)
Ingram M. Stainback (A.B. 1907) Attorney General of the Territory of Hawaii (1914-1917)
Church Leaders:
Thomas John Clagget (A.B. 1764) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Maryland (1792-1816)
John Henry Hobart (A.B. 1793) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of New York (1816-1830)
William Meade (A.B. 1808) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia (1841-1862)
John Johns (A.B. 1815) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia (1862-1876)
Charles P. McIlvaine (A.B. 1816) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio (1832-1873)
Franklin Spencer Spalding (A.B. 1887) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Utah (1904-1914)
Paul Matthews (A.B. 1887) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey (1915-1937)
Edward Randolph Welles (A.B. 1928) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri (1950-1972)

Federal Reserve:
Paul A. Volcker (A.B. 1949) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987); President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1975-1979)
Alan S. Blinder (A.B. 1967) Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1994-1996)
Jerome H. Powell (A.B. 1975) Member of the Federal Reserve Board (2012-present)
Jeremy C. Stein (A.B. 1983; Ph.D. MIT 1986) Member of the Federal Reserve Board (2012-2014)
Everett N. Case (A.B. 1922) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1966-1968)
William H. Franklin (A.B. 1931) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1973-1974)
Henry Burling Thompson (B.S. 1877) Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (1916-1924)
James M. Hester (A.B. 1945) Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1969-1970)
Bruce K. MacLaury (A.B. 1953) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (1971-1977)
Narayana R. Kocherlakota (A.B. 1983) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (2009-present)
Bankers:
Nicholas Biddle (A.B. 1801) President of the Second Bank of the United States (1823-1836)
John L. Weinberg (A.B. 1947) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1956-1990); Senior Chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1990-2001)
Frank C. Carlucci (A.B. 1952) Chairman of The Carlyle Group (1993-2003)
John P. Birkelund (A.B. 1952) Chairman and CEO of Dillon, Read & Co. (1988-1993)
John F. McGillicuddy (A.B. 1952) Chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. (1979-1991)
Gordon S. Rentschler (A.B. 1907) Chairman of the board of National City Bank of New York (1940-1948)
Harold H. Helm (A.B. 1920) Chairman of the board of Chemical Bank (1955-1966)
Frederick H. Kingsbury Jr. (A.B. 1929) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1949-1989)
Perry E. Hall (Litt.B. 1917) Founding Partner of Morgan Stanley & Co.; Vice President of Morgan Stanley & Co. (1935-1951)
Harold Charles Richard (A.B. 1906) President of State Bank & Trust Co. [bank in New York City] (1919-1929)
Businessmen:
John K. Cowen (A.B. 1866) General Counsel (1876-1896) and President (1896-1901) of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
Julian Esselstyn McGiffert (A.B. 1906) President of Dixie Cup Co. (1943-1947)
Henry Earle Muzzy (A.B. 1912) President of Quaker Oats Co. (1953)
James H. McGraw Jr. (A.B. 1915) Chairman of the board of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. (1935-1950)
Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (A.B. 1920) Chairman and CEO of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1948-1963)
Donald Bradford Lourie (A.B. 1922) Chairman (1962-1970) and CEO (1956-1966) of Quaker Oats Co.
Ralph Gwin Follis (B.S. 1924) Chairman of the board of Standard Oil Co. of California [Chevron] (1950-1966)
Gilbert W. Fitzhugh (B.S. 1930) Chairman and CEO of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (1966-1973)
William H. Franklin (A.B. 1931) President of Caterpillar Tractor Co. (1966-1972); Chairman of Caterpillar Tractor Co. (1972-1975)
Laurence S. Rockefeller (A.B. 1932) Chairman of Rockefeller Center, Inc. (1953-1956, 1958-1966)
James C. Donnell II (A.B. 1932) President of Marathon Oil Co. (1948-1972); Chairman of Marathon Oil Co. (1972-1975)
Frank Pace Jr. (A.B. 1933, M.A. 1950) Chairman of the board of General Dynamics Corp. (1959-1962)
Alfred J. Stokely (A.B. 1938) Chairman (1978-1981), Pres. (1960-1978), and CEO (1965-1981) of Stokely Van Camp, Inc. [food company]
James T. Aubrey, Jr. (A.B. 1941) President of CBS (1959-1965); President of MGM studios (1969-1973)
John T. Dorrance Jr. (A.B. 1941) Chairman of the board of Campbell Soup Co. (1962-1984)
Rawleigh Warner Jr. (A.B. 1943) Chairman and CEO of Mobil Oil Corp. (1969-1986)
Ralph D. Denunzio (A.B. 1953) CEO of Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. (1980-1987)
Donald Rumsfeld (A.B. 1954) Chairman and CEO of Gilead Sciences, Inc. (1997-2001)
James A. Henderson (A.B. 1956) Chairman and CEO of Cummins Engine (1995-1999)
Norman R. Augustine (B.S. 1957) Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin (1995-1997)
John F. McDonnell (B.S. 1960) Chairman and CEO of McDonnell-Douglas (1988-1994)
Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. (A.B. 1958) President and CEO of Hallmark Cards, Inc. (1986-2001)
Frank J. Biondi Jr. (A.B. 1966) President and CEO of Viacom Inc. (1987-1996); Chairman and CEO of Universal Studios, Inc. (1996-1998);
Chairman and CEO of Home Box Office (1984)
Eric Schmidt (B.S. 1976) Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. (2001-present)
Meg Whitman (A.B. 1977) President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard (2011-present); President and CEO of eBay (1998-2008)
Jeffrey P. Bezos (B.S. 1986) Founder and Chairman of Amazon.com, Inc. (1994-present)
Christy Payne (A.B. 1895) Vice President and Treasurer of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey [later Exxon] (1933-1935)
Journalists:
Hamilton Fish Armstrong (A.B. 1916) Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1928-1972)
C.D. Jackson (A.B. 1924) Publisher of Life magazine (1960-1964)
John B. Oakes (A.B. 1934) Editorial Page Editor of The New York Times (1961-1977)
Charles D. (Charlie) Gibson (A.B. 1965) Anchor of ABC World News Tonight (2006-2009)
Steve Forbes (A.B. 1970) Publisher of Forbes magazine
David Lawrence (A.B. 1910) President and Editor of United States News [newspaper in Washington, D.C.] (1933-1948); Founder and
President of The U.S. Daily [Washington, D.C.] (1926-1933); Founder and President of World Report (1946-1948); President and Editor of
U.S. News & World Report [magazine] (1948-1959); Chairman of the board and Editor of U.S. News & World Report (1959-1973)
Organization Executives:
Raymond B. Fosdick (A.B. 1905; M.A. 1906) President of The Rockefeller Foundation (1936-1948)
Charles S. Hamilton Jr. (A.B. Princeton 1932; LL.B. Yale 1935) President of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1961-1971)
Everett N. Case (A.B. 1922) President of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1962-1968)
John D. Rockefeller III (B.S. 1929) President of Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1940-1956)
Brooks Emeny (A.B. 1924) President of Council on World Affairs (1943-1947); President of Foreign Policy Association (1947-1953)
William Church Osborn (A.B. 1883) Chairman of The Economic Club of New York (1922-1924)
George White (A.B. 1895) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1920-1921)

College Presidents:
Samuel Stanhope Smith (A.B. 1769, salutatorian) President of Princeton University (1795-1812); inaugural President [Rector] of HampdenSydney College (1775-1779)
Ashbel Green (A.B. 1783, valedictorian) President of Princeton University (1812-1822)
James Carnahan (A.B. 1800) President of Princeton University (1823-1854)
John Maclean, Jr. (A.B. 1816) President of Princeton University (1854-1868)
Woodrow Wilson (A.B. 1879) President of Princeton University (1902-1910)
John G. Hibben (A.B. 1882, valedictorian) President of Princeton University (1912-1932)
Robert F. Goheen (A.B. 1940; Ph.D. 1948) President of Princeton University (1957-1972)
Christopher L. Eisgruber (A.B. 1983) President of Princeton University (2013-present); Provost of Princeton University (2004-2013)
John Ewing (A.B. 1754) Provost of the University of Pennsylvania (1779-1802)
James Manning (A.B. 1762) inaugural President of Brown University (1765-1791)
Jonathan Edwards Jr. (A.B. 1765) President of Union College (1799-1801)
William Linn (A.B. 1772) President of Rutgers College (1791-1794)
James Dunlap (A.B. 1773) President of Washington and Jefferson College (1803-1812)
William Graham (A.B. 1773) President of Washington and Lee University (1782-1796)
John McKnight (A.B. 1773) President of Dickinson College (1815-1816)
John Blair Smith (A.B. 1773, valedictorian) President of Hampden Sydney College (1779-1789); inaugural President of Union College (17951799); brother of Samuel Stanhope Smith
Robert H. Chapman (A.B. 1789) President of University of North Carolina (1813-1816)
Joseph Caldwell (A.B. 1791) President of University of North Carolina (1804-1812, 1816-1835)
Jacob Lindley (A.B. 1800) inaugural President of Ohio University (1809-1822)
William Neill (A.B. 1803) President of Dickinson College (1824-1829)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) President of Rutgers College (1850-1862); Chancellor of New York University (1839-1850)
Daniel Baker (A.B. 1815) President of Austin College [Texas] (1853-1857)
John Johns (A.B. 1815) President of College of William & Mary (1849-1854)
Charles P. McIlvaine (A.B. 1816) President of Kenyon College (1832-1840)
George Burrowes (A.B. 1832) inaugural President of University City College in San Francisco, California (1859-1865)
James Clarke Welling (A.B. 1844) President of George Washington University (1871-1894); President of St. Johns College [Annapolis,
Maryland] (1867-1870)
Charles Alexander Richmond (A.B. 1883) President of Union College (1909-1928)
Livingston Farrand (A.B. 1888) President of Cornell University (1921-1937); President of University of Colorado (1914-1919)
William Hallock Johnson (A.B. 1888) President of Lincoln University [Pennsylvania] (1926-1936)
Everett N. Case (A.B. 1922) President of Colgate University (1942-1962)
William E. Stevenson (A.B. 1922) President of Oberlin College (1946-1959)
Caleb Frank Gates Jr. (A.B. 1926) Chancellor of the University of Denver (1941-1943, 1946-1947)
James Isbell Armstrong (A.B. 1941, Ph.D. 1949) President of Middlebury College (1963-1975)
James M. Hester (A.B. 1945) President of New York University (1962-1975)
John George Kemeny (A.B. 1947; Ph.D. 1949) President of Dartmouth College (1970-1981)
Howard R. Swearer (A.B. 1954) President of Brown University (1977-1988)
Neil L. Rudenstine (A.B. 1956) President of Harvard University (1991-2001)
John C. Sawhill (A.B. 1958) President of New York University (1975-1979)
Stephen J. Friedman (A.B. 1959) President of Pace University (2007-present)
Don Michael Randel (A.B. 1962; Ph.D. 1967) President of University of Chicago (2000-2006)
George E. Rupp (A.B. 1964) President of Columbia University (1993-2002)
W. Taylor Reveley III (A.B. 1965) President of The College of William & Mary (2008-present)
Mitch Daniels (A.B. 1971) President of Purdue University (2013-present)
Steven G. Poskanzer (A.B. 1980) President of Carleton College (2010-present); President of State University of New York (SUNY) at New
Paltz (2001-2010)
Jeffrey I. Herbst (A.B. 1983, Ph.D. Yale 1987) President of Colgate University (2010-present); Provost of Miami College [Ohio] (2005-2010)
College Deans:
James M. Landis (A.B. 1921) Dean of Harvard Law School (1937-1946)
Edward W. Barrett (A.B. 1932) Dean of Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University (1956-1968)
Edmund A. Gullion (A.B. 1935) Dean of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1965-1979)
George P. Shultz (A.B. 1942) Dean of Graduate School of Business at University of Chicago (1962-1968)
Harrison Shull (A.B. 1943) Dean of the Graduate School at Indiana University (1965-1972)
Robert Bernard Yegge (A.B. 1956) Dean of University of Denver College of Law (1965-1977)
Joseph S. Nye Jr. (A.B. 1958) Dean of John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1995-2004)
A. Michael Spence (A.B. 1966) Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University (1984-1990); Dean of Stanford Business School
(1990-1999)
W. Taylor Reveley III (A.B. 1965) Dean of the William & Mary Law School (1998-2008)
Davison M. Douglas (A.B. 1978) Dean of the William & Mary Law School (2009-Present)
Anne-Marie Slaughter (A.B. 1980) Dean of Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University (2002-2009)
Michael H. Schill (A.B. 1980) Dean of University of Chicago Law School (2010-present)
Elena Kagan (A.B. 1981) Dean of Harvard Law School (2003-2009)

Prominent Princeton University Undergraduates and Graduates

Aaron Burr Jr.
Nicholas Biddle
Woodrow Wilson
William Church Osborn
Livingston Farrand
Abram Piatt Andrew Jr.
Nelson Burr Gaskill
Roland S. Morris
Albert G. Milbank
John Van A. MacMurray
Breckinridge Long
Raymond B. Fosdick
Norman M. Thomas
Gordon S. Rentschler
John Foster Dulles
Norman Armour
Allen W. Dulles
James H. McGraw Jr.
Hamilton Fish Armstrong
John Marshall Harlan
Harold H. Helm
Harvey S. Firestone Jr.
James H. Douglas Jr.
James M. Landis
Everett N. Case
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
William E. Stevenson
Ralph Gwin Follis
Charles Douglas Jackson
George F. Kennan
W. Walton Butterworth
Henry R. Labouisse
Jacob D. Beam
Frederick H. Kingsbury Jr.
John D. Rockefeller III
Gilbert W. Fitzhugh
Charles S. Hamilton Jr.
Laurence S. Rockefeller
Edward W. Barrett
James C. Donnell II
Frank Pace Jr.
John B. Oakes
Ralph Manning Brown Jr.
George Pollock Jenkins
Harlan Cleveland
William E. Colby
Robert F. Goheen
Robert H. McBride
Harold W. McGraw Jr.
Claiborne Pell
Donald C. Platten
James T. Aubrey, Jr.
John T. Dorrance Jr.
Malcolm S. Forbes
George P. Shultz
Rawleigh Warner Jr.
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
James M. Hester
John George Kemeny
John L. Weinberg
Raymond L. Garthoff
Paul A. Volcker
James H. Billington
James A. Baker III
Frank C. Carlucci
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Vice President of the United States (1801-1805)

President of the Second Bank of the United States (1823-1836)
President of the United States (1913-1921)
Chairman of The Economic Club of New York (1922-1924)
President of Cornell University (1921-1937)
U.S. Congressman (1921-1936); Director of the U.S. Mint (1909-1910)
Member of the Federal Trade Commission (1920-1925)
U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1917-1920)
Member of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy [law firm in New York City]
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1936-1941); U.S. Minister to China (1925-1929)
U.S. Ambassador to Fascist Italy (1933-1936)
President of The Rockefeller Foundation (1936-1948)
Socialist Party presidential candidate
Chairman of the board of National City Bank of New York (1940-1948)
U.S. Secretary of State (1953-1959)
U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (1939-1944)
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1953-1961)
Chairman of the board of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1955-1971)
Chairman of the board of Chemical Bank (1955-1966)
Chairman and CEO of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1948-1963)
Secretary of the Air Force (1957-1959)
Dean of Harvard Law School (1937-1946)
President of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1962-1968)
U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1961-1965)
President of Oberlin College (1946-1959); U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines
Chairman of the board of Standard Oil Co. of California [Chevron] (1950-1966)
Publisher of Life magazine (1960-1964)
U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1952)
U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1962-1968); U.S. Ambassador to Sweden
Executive Director of UNICEF (1965-1979)
U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1969-1973)
Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1949-1989)
Chairman of The Rockefeller Foundation (1952-1971)
Chairman and CEO of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (1966-1973)
President of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1961-1971)
Chairman of Rockefeller Center, Inc. (1953-1956, 1958-1966)
Dean of Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University (1956-1968)
Chairman of Marathon Oil Co. (1972-1975)
Chairman of the board of General Dynamics Corp. (1959-1962)
Editorial Page Editor of The New York Times (1961-1977)
Chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co. (1972-1981)
Chairman of the board of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (1973-1980)
U.S. Representative to NATO (1965-1969)
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1973-1976)
President of Princeton University (1957-1972)
U.S. Ambassador to Zaire (1967-1969); U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (1969-1974)
Chairman of the board of McGraw-Hill, Inc. (1976-1988)
U.S. Senator (1961-1997)
Chairman of the board of Chemical Bank (1974-1983)
President of CBS (1959-1965); President of MGM studios (1969-1973)
Chairman of the board of Campbell Soup Co. (1962-1984)
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine (1957-1990)
U.S. Secretary of State (1982-1989); Secretary of the Treasury (1972-1974)
Chairman and CEO of Mobil Oil (1969-1986)
U.S. Attorney General (1964-1966)
President of New York University (1962-1975)
President of Dartmouth College (1970-1981)
Senior Chairman of Goldman Sachs
U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria (1977-1979)
Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987)
Librarian of Congress (1987-present)
U.S. Secretary of State (1989-1992); Secretary of the Treasury (1985-1988)
U.S. Secretary of Defense (1987-1989)
Chairman and CEO of Dillon, Read & Co. (1988-1993)

John F. McGillicuddy
Richard Riordan
Charles Herbert Barrow
William Herbert Hudnut III
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Martin Richard Hoffmann
Paul Sarbanes
Howard R. Swearer
Ralph Nader
Neil L. Rudenstine
Charles Fried
J. Stapleton Roy
James A. Henderson
Norman R. Augustine
Thomas Kean
William D. Ruckelshaus
Edward W. Said
John C. Danforth
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
John C. Sawhill
Stephen J. Friedman
John F. McDonnell
Frank G. Wisner II
Don Michael Randel
George E. Rupp
James A.S. Leach
Bill Bradley
W. Taylor Reveley III
Charlie Gibson
Robert S. Mueller III
Frank J. Biondi Jr.
A. Michael Spence
Alan S. Blinder
Steve Forbes
Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Queen Noor [Lisa Halaby]
William H. (Bill) Frist
Jerome H. Powell
Sonia Sotomayor
Eric Schmidt
Meg Whitman
Scott G. Alvarez
Davison M. Douglas
Andres V. Gil
Jeffrey C. Fuhrer
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Elena Kagan
Eliot Spitzer
Brad Smith
David Huebner
Jeremy C. Stein
Christopher L. Eisgruber
Michelle Robinson Obama
Syngman Rhee
James A. Perkins
Donald B. Easum
W. Michael Blumenthal
William G. Bowen
Harold T. Shapiro
Hunter R. Rawlings III
Jessica P. Einhorn
Gen. David H. Petraeus

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Chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. (1979-1991)

Mayor of Los Angeles (1993-2001)
President of Planned Parenthood Association of Chicago (1972-1973)
Mayor of Indianapolis (1976-1991)
U.S. Secretary of Defense (1975-1977, 2001-2006)
Secretary of the Army (1975-1977)
U.S. Senator (1977-2007)
President of Brown University (1977-1988)
Green Party presidential candidate
President of Harvard University (1991-2001)
Solicitor General of the United States (1985-1989)
U.S. Ambassador to Communist China (1991-1995)
Chairman and CEO of Cummins Engine (1995-1999)
Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin (1995-1997)
Chairman of 9/11 Commission; Governor of New Jersey (1982-1990)
Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency (1970-1973, 1983-1985)
Professor of English and Humanities at Columbia University (1970-2003)
U.S. Representative to the United Nations (2004-2005)
Dean of John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Univ. (1995-2004)
President of New York University (1975-1979)
Commissioner of Securities and Exchange Commission (1980-1981)
Chairman and CEO of McDonnell-Douglas (1988-1994)
U.S. Ambassador to Egypt (1986-1991); U.S. Ambassador to India (1994-1997)
President of University of Chicago (2000-2006)
President of Columbia University (1993-2002)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1977-2007)
U.S. Senator (1979-1997)
President of The College of William & Mary (2008-present)
Anchor of ABC World News Tonight (2006-2009)
Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation (2001-2013)
President and CEO of Viacom Inc. (1987-1996)
Dean of Stanford Business School (1990-1999)
Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1994-1996)
Publisher of Forbes magazine
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2006-present)
Queen of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
U.S. Senator (1995-2007); U.S. Senate Majority Leader (2003-2007)
Member of the Federal Reserve Board (2012-present)
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2009-present)
Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. (2001-present)
President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard (2011-present)
General Counsel of the Federal Reserve (2004-present)
Dean of the William & Mary Law School (2009-Present)
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell [law firm] (1990-present)
Executive Vice President of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2006-present)
Dean of Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University (2002-2009)
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (2010-pres.); Dean, Harvard Law School (2003-09)
Governor of New York (2007-2008)
General Counsel of Microsoft Corp. (2002-present)
U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand (2009-2014)
Member of the Federal Reserve Board (2012-2014)
President of Princeton University (2013-present)
First Lady of the United States (2009-present)
President of the Republic of Korea [South Korea] (1948-1960)
President of Cornell University (1963-1969)
U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria (1975-1979)
Secretary of the Treasury (1977-1979)
President of Princeton University (1972-1988)
President of Princeton University (1988-2001)
President of Cornell University (1995-2003)
Dean of SAIS at Johns Hopkins University (2002-2012)
Commander of U.S. Central Command (2008-2010)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupations during Major Events in American and World History
Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Revolutionary War (1775-1781)
Government Officials:
Alexander Martin (A.B. 1756) Governor of North Carolina (1781-1785, 1789-1792)
Joseph Reed (A.B. 1757) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1778-1780)
William Bradford Jr. (A.B. 1772) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1780-1791)
Waightstill Avery (A.B. 1766) Attorney General of North Carolina (1777-1781)
Luther Martin (A.B. 1766) Attorney General of Maryland (1778-1805, 1818-1822)
Samuel Livermore (A.B. 1752) Attorney General of New Hampshire (1776-1780)
Nathaniel Niles (A.B. 1766) Member of Connecticut State Legislature (1779-1781); Judge of the Vermont Supreme Court (1784-1788)
David Ramsay (A.B. 1765) Member of the South Carolina State Legislature (1776-1780, 1781-1782, 1784-1790); President of the South
Carolina State Senate (1791-1797)
College Presidents and Church Officials:
John Ewing (A.B. 1754) Provost of the University of Pennsylvania (1779-1802)
James Manning (A.B. 1762) inaugural President of Brown University [Rhode Island] (1765-1791)
Samuel Stanhope Smith (A.B. 1769, salutatorian) inaugural President [Rector] of Hampden-Sydney College [Virginia] (1775-1779)
John Blair Smith (A.B. 1773, valedictorian) President of Hampden-Sydney College (1779-1789)
Isaac Skillman (A.B. 1766) Pastor of Second Baptist Church of Boston (1773-1787)
Nathaniel Whitaker (A.B. 1752) Minister of the Third Church in Salem, Massachusetts (1769-1784)
Samuel Spring (A.B. 1771) Pastor of North Congregational Church in Newburyport, Massachusetts (1777-1819)
Members of the Continental Congress:
Richard Stockton (A.B. 1748) Member of the Continental Congress (1776); Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Rush (A.B. 1760) Member of the Continental Congress (1776-1777); Signer of the Declaration of Independence; Treasurer of the
United States Mint at Philadelphia (1799-1813)
Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (A.B. 1762) Member of the Continental Congress (February 14, 1776-June 22, 1776, November 30, 1776September 6, 1777)
Jonathan Bayard Smith (A.B. 1760) Member of the Continental Congress (1777-1778)
Joseph Reed (A.B. 1757) Member of the Continental Congress (1778)
Nathaniel Scudder (A.B. 1751) Member of the Continental Congress (1778-1779)
Jesse Root (A.B. 1756) Member of the Continental Congress (1778-1782)
Richard Hutson (A.B. 1765) Member of the Continental Congress (1778-1779); Signer of the Articles of Confederation; Lieutenant Governor
of South Carolina (1782-1783)
Oliver Ellsworth (A.B. 1766) Member of the Continental Congress (1778-1783); Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787
John Henry (A.B. 1769) Member of the Continental Congress (1778-1780, 1785-1786)
Frederick Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1770) Member of the Continental Congress (1779)
William Churchill Houston (A.B. 1768) Member of the Continental Congress (1779-1781, 1784-1785); Delegate to the Constitutional
Convention in Philadelphia in 1787
William Burnet (A.B. 1749) Member of the Continental Congress (December 11, 1780-April 1, 1781); surgeon general of the eastern district
of the United States (1776-1783)
Joseph Montgomery (A.B. 1755) Member of the Continental Congress (1780-1782)
Samuel Livermore (A.B. 1752) Member of the Continental Congress (1780-1782, 1785-1786)
James Madison Jr. (A.B. 1771) Member of the Continental Congress (1780-1783, 1787-1788); Delegate to the Constitutional Convention
David Ramsay (A.B. 1765) Member of the Continental Congress (1782-1783, 1785-1786)
David Howell (A.B. 1776) Member of the Continental Congress (1782-1785)
John Beatty (A.B. 1769) Member of the Continental Congress (1784-1785)
James Manning (A.B. 1762) Member of the Continental Congress (1786); President of Brown University (1765-1791)
Henry Light Horse Harry Lee (A.B. 1773) Member of the Continental Congress (1786-1788)
Nathaniel Ramsey (A.B. 1767) Member of the Continental Congress (1786-1787); United States Marshal for Maryland (1790-1798)
James Randolph Reid (A.B.) Member of the Continental Congress (1787-1788)
Pierpont Edwards (A.B. 1768) Member of the Continental Congress (1788)
William Paterson (A.B. 1763) Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787; Signer of the Constitution
Jonathan Dayton (A.B. 1776) Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787; Signer of the Constitution; Delegate to the Continental
Congress (1787-1788)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the First Barbary War (1801-1805)
Government Officials:
James Madison (A.B. 1771) U.S. Secretary of State (1801-1809)
James Linn (A.B. 1769) U.S. Supervisor of Revenue (1801-1809)
William Paterson (A.B. 1763) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1793-1806)
William Johnson Jr. (A.B. 1790) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1804-1834)
Gunning Bedford Jr. (A.B. 1771) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1789-1812)
Aaron Ogden (A.B. 1773) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1801-1803)
John Ewing Colhoun (A.B. 1774) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-South Carolina, 1801-1802)
Jonathan Mason Jr. (A.B. 1774) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Massachusetts, 1800-1803)
Jonathan Dayton (A.B. 1776) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1799-1805)
Abraham B. Venable (A.B. 1780) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Virginia, 1803-1804)
William Branch Giles (A.B. 1781) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Virginia, 1804-1815); U.S. Congressman (Democratic RepublicanVirginia, 1790-1798, 1801-1803)
James A. Bayard Sr. (A.B. 1784) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Delaware, 1804-1813); U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Delaware, 1797-1803)
David Stone (A.B. 1788) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-North Carolina, 1801-1807, 1813-1814)
John Archer (B.A. 1760) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1801-1807)
John Bacon (A.B. 1765) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Massachusetts, 1801-1803)
David Bard (A.B. 1773) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1795-1799, 1803-1815)
Nathaniel Alexander (A.B. 1776) U.S. Congressman (Republican-North Carolina, 1803-1805)
John Rhea (A.B. 1780) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Tennessee, 1803-1815, 1817-1823)
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1794-1802)
Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (A.B. 1782) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1797-1803)
John A. Hanna (A.B. 1782) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1797-1805)
Peter Early (A.B. 1792) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1803-1807)
George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Tennessee, 1803-1809)
Morgan Lewis (A.B. 1773) Governor of New York (1804-1807)
Isaac Tichenor (A.B. 1775) Governor of Vermont (1797-1809)
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (A.B. 1758) Lieutenant Governor of New York (1801-1804)
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) Mayor of New York City (1801-1803)
Aaron Dickinson Woodruff (A.B. 1779) Attorney General of New Jersey (1792-1817)
Luther Martin (A.B. 1766) Attorney General of Maryland (1778-1805, 1818-1822)
John Beatty (A.B. 1769) Secretary of State of New Jersey (1795-1805)
Andrew Kirkpatrick (A.B. 1775) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1804-1824)
Henry Brockholst Livingston (A.B. 1774) Justice of the New York Supreme Court (1802-1807)
Jacob Radcliff (A.B. 1783) Justice of the New York Supreme Court (1798-1804)
Oliver Ellsworth (A.B. 1766) Member of Connecticut Governors Council (1801-1807)
Nathaniel Niles (A.B. 1766) Member of Vermont State House of Representatives (1784, 1800-1803, 1812-1815); Trustee of Dartmouth
College (1793-1820)
College Presidents:
Samuel Stanhope Smith (A.B. 1769, salutatorian) President of Princeton University (1795-1812)
John Ewing (A.B. 1754) Provost of the University of Pennsylvania (1779-1802)
James Dunlap (A.B. 1773) President of Washington and Jefferson College (1803-1812)
Joseph Caldwell (A.B. 1791) President of University of North Carolina (1804-1812, 1816-1835)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the War of 1812 (1812-1815) and Second Barbary War (1815)
James Madison (A.B. 1771) President of the United States (1809-1817)
William Branch Giles (A.B. 1781) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Virginia, 1804-1815)
James A. Bayard Sr. (A.B. 1784) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Delaware, 1804-1813)
David Stone (A.B. 1788) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-North Carolina, 1801-1807, 1813-1814)
John Taylor (A.B. 1790) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-South Carolina, 1810-1816)
George M. Bibb (A.B. 1792) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Kentucky, 1811-1814, 1829-1835)
George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Tennessee, 1811-1814, 1815-1818)
David Bard (A.B. 1773) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1795-1799, 1803-1815)
William Stephens Smith (A.B. 1774) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1813-1815, 1815-1816)
Richard Stockton (A.B. 1779) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New Jersey, 1813-1815)
William Crawford (A.B. 1781?) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1809-1817)
John Rhea (A.B. 1780) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Tennessee, 1803-1815, 1817-1823)
Nathaniel W. Howell (A.B. 1788) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1813-1815)
George Clifford Maxwell (A.B. 1792) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1811-1813)
Thomas M. Bayly (A.B. 1794) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Virginia, 1813-1815)
William Gaston (A.B. 1796) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-North Carolina, 1813-1817)
George M. Troup (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1807-1815)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1813-1818, 1823-1827)
Alfred Cuthbert (A.B. 1803) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1813-1816, 1821-1827)
Thomas Ward (A.B. 1803?) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1813-1817)
Stevenson Archer (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1811-1817, 1819-1821)
Thomas Telfair (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1813-1817)
William Johnson Jr. (A.B. 1790) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1804-1834)
Henry Brockholst Livingston (A.B. 1774) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1806-1823)
Pierpont Edwards (A.B. 1768) Judge of the U.S. District Court of Connecticut (1806-1826)
Gunning Bedford Jr. (A.B. 1771) Judge of the U.S. District Court of Delaware (1789-1812)
David Howell (A.B. 1766) Judge of the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island (1812-1824)
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) Judge of the Supreme Court of New York (1801-1814)
Peter Early (A.B. 1792) Judge of the Supreme Court of Georgia (1807-1813)
Aaron Ogden (A.B. 1773) Governor of New Jersey (1812-1813)
Aaron Dickinson Woodruff (A.B. 1779) Attorney General of New Jersey (1792-1817)
James Linn (A.B. 1769) Secretary of State of New Jersey (1809-1821)
Andrew Kirkpatrick (A.B. 1775) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1804-1824)
Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (A.B. 1782) New York State Senator (1814-1817)
Thomas John Clagget (A.B. 1764) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Maryland (1792-1816)
John Henry Hobart (A.B. 1793) Assistant Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of New York (1811-1816)
Ashbel Green (A.B. 1783, valedictorian) President of Princeton University (1812-1822)
Samuel Bayard (A.B. 1784) Treasurer of Princeton University (1810-1828)
Jacob Lindley (A.B. 1800) inaugural President of Ohio University (1809-1822)
Benjamin Rush (A.B. 1760) Treasurer of the United States Mint at Philadelphia (1799-1813)
Charles Ewing (A.B. 1798) Recorder of the City of Trenton, New Jersey (1812-1815)
Jacob Radcliff (A.B. 1783) Mayor of New York City (1810-1811, 1815-1818); Trustee of Columbia University (1805-1817)
John Read (A.B. 1787) Member of the Philadelphia City Council (1809-1815); Member of Pennsylvania State Senate (1817-1818)
Nathaniel Niles (A.B. 1766) Member of Vermont State House of Representatives (1784, 1800-1803, 1812-1815); Trustee of Dartmouth
College (1793-1820)
Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the 1815-1817 Session of Congress
James Madison (A.B. 1771) President of the United States (1809-1817)
Richard Rush (A.B. 1797) U.S. Attorney General (1814-1817)
Isaac Tichenor (A.B. 1775) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Vermont, 1796-1797, 1815-1821)
Robert G. Harper (A.B. 1785) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Maryland, 1816)
John Taylor (A.B. 1790) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-South Carolina, 1810-1816)
George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Tennessee, 1811-1814, 1815-1818)
George M. Troup (A.B. 1797) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1816-1818, 1829-1833)
William Stephens Smith (A.B. 1774) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1813-1815, 1815-1816)
William Crawford (A.B. 1781?) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1809-1817)
James W. Wilkin (A.B. 1785) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1815-1819)
John Sergeant (A.B. 1795) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Pennsylvania, 1815-1823, 1827-1829, 1837-1841)
William Gaston (A.B. 1796) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-North Carolina, 1813-1817)
James W. Clark (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Republican-North Carolina, 1815-1817)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1813-1818, 1823-1827)
Alfred Cuthbert (A.B. 1803) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1813-1816, 1821-1827)
Thomas Ward (A.B. 1803?) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1813-1817)
Stevenson Archer (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1811-1817, 1819-1821)
Thomas Telfair (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1813-1817)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Panic of 1819
Federal Government Officials:
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) Secretary of the Navy (1818-1823)
Richard Rush (A.B. 1797) U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1817-1825)
George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) U.S. Minister to Russia (1818-1821)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Minister to Spain (1819-1823)
Christopher Hughes (A.B. 1805) U.S. Charge daffaires to Sweden (1818-1825, 1830-1841)
Isaac Tichenor (A.B. 1775) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Vermont, 1796-1797, 1815-1821)
Nicholas Van Dyke Jr. (A.B. 1788) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Delaware, 1817-1826)
Mahlon Dickerson (A.B. 1789) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-New Jersey, 1817-1833)
John Williams Walker (A.B. 1806) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Alabama, 1819-1822)
Jonathan Mason Jr. (A.B. 1774) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Massachusetts, 1817-1820)
John Rhea (A.B. 1780) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Tennessee, 1803-1815, 1817-1823)
Silas Wood (A.B. 1789) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1819-1829)
John Taylor (A.B. 1790) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-South Carolina, 1807-1810, 1817-1821)
John Sergeant (A.B. 1795) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Pennsylvania, 1815-1823, 1827-1829, 1837-1841)
Thomas Bayly (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Maryland, 1817-1823)
Henry W. Edwards (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Connecticut, 1819-1823)
Charles Fenton Mercer (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Virginia, 1817-1839)
Stevenson Archer (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1811-1817, 1819-1821)
John A. Cuthbert (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1819-1821)
William Johnson Jr. (A.B. 1790) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1804-1834)
Henry Brockholst Livingston (A.B. 1774) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1806-1823)
Pierpont Edwards (A.B. 1768) Judge of the U.S. District Court of Connecticut (1806-1826)
Others:
Samuel Sprigg (A.B. 1806) Governor of Maryland (1819-1822)
Thomas Sergeant (A.B. 1798) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1819-1820)
Luther Martin (A.B. 1766) Attorney General of Maryland (1778, 1818-1820)
Andrew Kirkpatrick (A.B. 1775) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1804-1824)
James Linn (A.B. 1769) Secretary of State of New Jersey (1809-1821)
John Taylor (A.B. 1790) South Carolina State Senator (1818-1826)
Ashbel Green (A.B. 1783, valedictorian) President of Princeton University (1812-1822)
Samuel Bayard (A.B. 1784) Treasurer of Princeton University (1810-1828)
Joseph Caldwell (A.B. 1791) President of University of North Carolina (1804-1812, 1816-1835)
Jacob Lindley (A.B. 1800) inaugural President of Ohio University (1809-1822)
John Henry Hobart (A.B. 1793) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York (1816-1830)
William Neill (A.B. 1803) Pastor of 6th Church in Philadelphia (1816-1824)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Greek War of Independence (1821-1832)
Federal Government Officials:
Richard Rush (A.B. 1797) Secretary of the Treasury (1825-1828); U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1817-1825)
John M. Berrien (A.B. 1796) U.S. Attorney General (1829-1831); U.S. Senator (Whig-Georgia, 1825-1829, 1841-1852)
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) Secretary of the Navy (1818-1823)
Samuel L. Southard (A.B. 1804) Secretary of the Navy (1823-1829)
Christopher Hughes (A.B. 1805) U.S. Charge daffaires to Sweden (1818-1825, 1830-1841); U.S. Charge daffaires to the Netherlands
(1826-1830, 1842-1845)
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Louisiana, 1829-1831); U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Louisiana, 1823-1829)
Nicholas Van Dyke Jr. (A.B. 1788) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Delaware, 1817-1826)
Mahlon Dickerson (A.B. 1789) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-New Jersey, 1817-1833)
Jacob Burnet (A.B. 1791) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Ohio, 1828-1831)
George M. Bibb (A.B. 1792) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Kentucky, 1811-1814, 1829-1835)
Henry W. Edwards (A.B. 1797) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Connecticut, 1823-1827)
George M. Troup (A.B. 1797) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1816-1818, 1829-1833); Governor of Georgia (1823-1827)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Senator (DR-Georgia, 1818-19, 1829-1834); U.S. Minister to Spain (1819-1823); Gov. of Georgia (1827-1829)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-New Jersey, 1829-1835); Attorney General of New Jersey (1817-1829)
Samuel L. Southard (A.B. 1804) U.S. Senator (Whig-New Jersey, 1821-1823, 1833-1842)
James Iredell (A.B. 1806) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-North Carolina, 1828-1831)
John Williams Walker (A.B. 1806) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Alabama, 1819-1822)
Arnold Naudain (A.B. 1806) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Delaware, 1830-1836); Member, Delaware State House of Rep. (1823-1827)
George M. Dallas (A.B. 1810) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Pennsylvania, 1831-1833); Mayor of Philadelphia (1828-1829)
Isaac Pierson (A.B. 1789) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New Jersey, 1827-1831)
Silas Wood (A.B. 1789) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1819-1829)
Ephraim King Wilson (A.B. 1790) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Maryland, 1827-1831)
Silas Condit (A.B. 1795) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New Jersey, 1831-1833)
John Sergeant (A.B. 1795) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Pennsylvania, 1815-1823, 1827-1829, 1837-1841)
Thomas Bayly (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Maryland, 1817-1823)
Henry W. Edwards (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Connecticut, 1819-1823)
Charles Fenton Mercer (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Virginia, 1817-1839)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1813-1818, 1823-1827)
Alfred Cuthbert (A.B. 1803) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1813-1816, 1821-1827)
Thomas Hartley Crawford (A.B. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Pennsylvania, 1829-1833)
George William Crump (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Virginia, 1826-1827)
George Holcombe (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-New Jersey (1821-1828)
John Scott (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Adams-Clay Republican-Missouri, 1821-1827)
Alem Marr (A.B. 1807) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Pennsylvania, 1829-1831)
William H. Hayward Jr. (A.B. 1808) U.S. Congressman (Crawford Republican-Maryland, 1823-1825)
James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Georgia, 1829-1835)
Samuel Watkins Eager (A.B. 1809) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New York, 1830-1831)
Benjamin C. Howard (A.B. 1809) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian/Democrat-Maryland, 1829-1833, 1835-1839)
Kensey Johns Jr. (A.B. 1810) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-Delaware, 1827-1831)
Samuel J. Wilkin (A.B. 1812) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New York, 1831-1833)
John Wurts (A.B. 1813) U.S. Congressman (Pennsylvania, 1825-1827); U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1827-1831)
Henry Brockholst Livingston (A.B. 1774) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1806-1823)
William Johnson Jr. (A.B. 1790) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1804-1834)
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1823-1843)
David Howell (A.B. 1766) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1812-1824)
Pierpont Edwards (A.B. 1768) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1806-1826)
State and Local Government Officials:
William Branch Giles (A.B. 1781) Governor of Virginia (1827-1830)
James Iredell (A.B. 1806) Governor of North Carolina (1827-1828); Speaker of the North Carolina State House of Commons (1817-1828)
John Taylor (A.B. 1790) Governor of South Carolina (1826-1828); South Carolina State Senator (1818-1826)
Samuel Lewis Southard (A.B. 1804) Attorney General of New Jersey (1829-1833)
Amos Ellmaker (A.B. 1805) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1816-1819, 1828-1829)
George W. Crawford (A.B. 1820) Attorney General of Georgia (1827-1831)
Charles Ewing (A.B. 1798) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1824-1832)
Benjamin W. Richards (A.B. 1815) Mayor of Philadelphia (1829-1832)
Others:
Nicholas Biddle (A.B. 1801) President of the Second Bank of the United States (1823-1836)
William McIlvaine (A.B. 1802) Chief Cashier of the Bank of the United States (1826-1832)
James Carnahan (A.B. 1800) President of Princeton University (1823-1854)
William Neill (A.B. 1803) President of Dickinson College [Pennsylvania] (1824-1829); Pastor of 6th Church in Philadelphia (1816-1824)
Joseph Caldwell (A.B. 1791) President of University of North Carolina (1804-1812, 1816-1835)
Samuel Bayard (A.B. 1784) Treasurer of Princeton University (1810-1828)
John Henry Hobart (A.B. 1793) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York (1816-1830)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the 1831-1833 Session of Congress
Nicholas Biddle (A.B. 1801) President of the Second Bank of the United States (1823-1836)
William McIlvaine (A.B. 1802) Chief Cashier of the Bank of the United States (1826-1832)
Benjamin W. Richards (A.B. 1815) Mayor of Philadelphia (1829-1832)
Mahlon Dickerson (A.B. 1789) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-New Jersey, 1817-1833)
George M. Bibb (A.B. 1792) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Kentucky, 1811-1814, 1829-1835)
George M. Troup (A.B. 1797) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1816-1818, 1829-1833)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1818-1819, 1829-1834)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-New Jersey, 1829-1835)
Arnold Naudain (A.B. 1806) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Delaware, 1830-1836)
George M. Dallas (A.B. 1810) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Pennsylvania, 1831-1833)
Silas Condit (A.B. 1795) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New Jersey, 1831-1833)
Charles Fenton Mercer (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Virginia, 1817-1839)
Thomas Hartley Crawford (A.B. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Pennsylvania, 1829-1833)
James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Georgia, 1829-1835)
Benjamin C. Howard (A.B. 1809) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian/Democrat-Maryland, 1829-1833, 1835-1839)
Samuel J. Wilkin (A.B. 1812) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New York, 1831-1833)
John J. Milligan (A.B. 1814 [honorary]) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian/Whig-Delaware, 1831-1839)
Note: A bill extending the charter of the [Second] Bank of the United States was passed by Congress in 1832; President Andrew Jackson
vetoed the bill in July 1832.
Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Panic of 1837
Federal Government Officials:
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Secretary of State (1834-1841)
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1823-1843)
James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1835-1867)
Alfred Cuthbert (A.B. 1803) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Georgia, 1835-1843)
Samuel L. Southard (A.B. 1804) U.S. Senator (Whig-New Jersey, 1821-1823, 1833-1842); President of the U.S. Senate (1841-1842)
Richard H. Bayard (A.B. 1814) U.S. Senator (Whig-Delaware, 1836-1839, 1841-1845)
John Sergeant (A.B. 1795) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Pennsylvania, 1815-1823, 1827-1829, 1837-1841)
Charles Fenton Mercer (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Virginia, 1817-1839)
William Montgomery (A.B. 1808?) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1835-1841)
Benjamin C. Howard (A.B. 1809) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian/Democrat-Maryland, 1829-1833, 1835-1839)
Andrew DeWitt Bruyn (A.B. 1810) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1837-1838)
William Halstead (A.B. 1812) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1837-1839, 1841-1843)
John J. Milligan (A.B. 1814 [honorary]) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian/Whig-Delaware, 1831-1839)
George Washington Toland (A.B. 1816) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1837-1843)
James Alfred Pearce (A.B. 1822) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Maryland, 1835-1839, 1841-1843)
John P.B. Maxwell (A.B. 1823) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1837-1839, 1841-1843)
Others:
Nicholas Biddle (A.B. 1801) President of the Second Bank of the United States (1823-1836)
James Carnahan (A.B. 1800) President of Princeton University (1823-1854)
Thomas Ruffin (A.B. 1805) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1833-1859)
Charles P. McIlvaine (A.B. 1816) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Ohio (1832-1873); President of Kenyon College (1832-1840)
Henry W. Edwards (A.B. 1797) Governor of Connecticut (1833-1834, 1835-1838)
William Pennington (A.B. 1813) Governor of New Jersey (1837-1843)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) Mayor of Newark, New Jersey (1837-1838)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Opium War (1839-1842) and Second Seminole War (1835-1842)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Secretary of State (1834-1841)
Thomas Hartley Crawford (A.B. 1804) Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1838-1845)
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1823-1843)
James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1835-1867)
Alfred Cuthbert (A.B. 1803) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Georgia, 1835-1843)
Samuel L. Southard (A.B. 1804) U.S. Senator (Whig-New Jersey, 1821-1823, 1833-1842); President of the U.S. Senate (1841-1842)
John Henderson (A.B. 1812) U.S. Senator (Whig-Mississippi, 1839-1845)
John Sergeant (A.B. 1795) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Pennsylvania, 1815-1823, 1827-1829, 1837-1841)
Richard W. Habersham (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Georgia, 1839-1842)
William Montgomery (A.B. 1808?) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1835-1841)
George Washington Toland (A.B. 1816) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1837-1843)
Thomas Robinson, Jr. (A.B. 1823?) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Delaware, 1839-1841)
William Pennington (A.B. 1813) Governor of New Jersey (1837-1843)
Patrick Noble (A.B. 1806) Governor of South Carolina (1838-1840)
John Rutherfoord (A.B. 1810) Governor of Virginia (1841-1842)
John M. Scott (A.B. 1805) Mayor of Philadelphia (1841-1843)
Oliver Spencer Halsted (A.B. 1810) Mayor of Newark, New Jersey (1840)
Richard Stockton Field (A.B. 1821) Attorney General of New Jersey (1838-1841)
George P. Molleson (A.B. 1824) Attorney General of New Jersey (1841-1844)
Richard Henry Bayard (A.B. 1814) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware (1839-1841)
James Booth Jr. (A.B. 1808) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware (1841-1855)
Thomas Ruffin (A.B. 1805) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1833-1859)
Kensey Johns Jr. (A.B. 1810) Chancellor of Delaware [head of equity court] (1832-1857)
James Carnahan (A.B. 1800) President of Princeton University (1823-1854)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) Chancellor of New York University (1839-1850)
Charles P. McIlvaine (A.B. 1816) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Ohio (1832-1873); President of Kenyon College (1832-1840)
Arnold Naudain (A.B. 1806) Collector of the Port of Wilmington, Delaware (1841-1845); Delaware State Senator (1836-1839)
John Read (A.B. 1787) President of Philadelphia Bank (1819-1841)
Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Mexican War (1846-1848)
John Macpherson Berrien (A.B. 1796) U.S. Senator (Whig-Georgia, 1825-1829, 1841-1852)
James Alfred Pearce (A.B. 1822) U.S. Senator (Whig/Democrat-Maryland, 1843-1862)
William Lewis Dayton (A.B. 1825) U.S. Senator (Whig-New Jersey, 1842-1851)
Joseph R. Ingersoll (A.B. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian/Whig-Pennsylvania, 1835-1837, 1841-1849)
James McDowell (A.B. 1816) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Virginia, 1846-1851)
Chester P. Butler (A.B. 1817) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1847-1850)
Abraham W. Venable (A.B. 1819) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1847-1853)
Alfred Iverson (A.B. 1820) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Georgia, 1847-1849)
James Pollock (A.B. 1831) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1844-1849)
David S. Kaufman (A.B. 1833) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Texas, 1846-1851)
James G. Hampton (A.B. 1835) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1845-1849)
James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1835-1867)
Thomas Ruffin (A.B. 1805) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1833-1859)
James Booth Jr. (A.B. 1808) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware (1841-1855)
Joseph Henry Lumpkin (A.B. 1819) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia (1846-1867)
Henry Woodhull Green (A.B. 1820) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1846-1860)
Kensey Johns Jr. (A.B. 1810) Chancellor of Delaware [head of equity court] (1832-1857)
James Carnahan (A.B. 1800) President of Princeton University (1823-1854)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) Chancellor of New York University (1839-1850); President of American Bible Society (1846-1862)
Samuel Kennedy Talmage (A.B. 1820) President of Oglethorpe University [Atlanta, Georgia] (1841-1865)
George W. Crawford (A.B. 1820) Governor of Georgia (1843-1847)
William Meade (A.B. 1808) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Virginia (1841-1862)
Charles P. McIlvaine (A.B. 1816) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Ohio (1832-1873)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Confederate:
John I. Middleton (A.B. 1819) Signer of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860)
William P. Finley (A.B. 1820) Signer of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860)
Alexander Mazyck (A.B. 1820) Signer of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860)
Abraham W. Venable (A.B. 1819) Member of the Confederate Congress (North Carolina, 1862-1864)
Alexander R. Boteler (A.B. 1835) Member of the Confederate Congress (Virginia, 1862-1864); U.S. Congressman (Virginia, 1859-1861)
David Funsten (A.B. 1838) Member of the Confederate Congress (Virginia, 1864-1865)
Walter Preston (A.B. 1839) Member of the Confederate Congress (Virginia, 1862-1864)
Henry Cousins Chambers (A.B. 1844) Member of the Confederate Congress (Mississippi, 1862-1865)
Richard Wilde Walker (A.B. 1841) Confederate Senator (Alabama, 1864-1865)
Alfred H. Colquitt (A.B. 1844) Member of the Georgia Secession Convention (1861); Major General of the Confederate Army (1861-1865)
Walter L. Keirn (A.B. 1848) Member of the Mississippi Secession Convention (1861)
Robert Craig Kent (A.B. 1849) Member of the Virginia Secession Convention (1861)
James Chesnut Jr. (A.B. 1835) Signer of the Confederate Constitution
James Jay Archer (A.B. 1835) Brigadier General of the Confederate Army (1862-1864)
Bradley Tyler Johnson (A.B. 1849) Brigadier General of the Confederate Army (1864-1865)
Allen Thomas (A.B. 1850) Brigadier General of the Confederate Army (1863-1865)
Williams Stevenson Walker (A.B. 1851) Brigadier General of the Confederate Army (1862-1865)
Union:
William Lewis Dayton (A.B. 1825) U.S. Ambassador to France (1861-1864)
James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1835-1867); Mayor of Savannah, Georgia (1817-1819)
John Jay Jackson, Jr. (A.B. 1845) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia (1861-1864)
James Dunlop (A.B. 1811) Chief Justice of the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia (1857-1863)
Richard Stockton Field (A.B. 1821) U.S. Senator (R-New Jersey, 1862-1863); Judge of the U.S. District Court for New Jersey (1863-1870)
James Alfred Pearce (A.B. 1822) U.S. Senator (Whig/Democrat-Maryland, 1843-1862)
James Walter Wall (A.B. 1838) U.S. Senator (Democrat-New Jersey, 1863)
William Pennington (A.B. 1813) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1859-1861); Speaker of the U.S. House (1860-1861)
John L.N. Stratton (A.B. 1836) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1859-1863)
Charles John Biddle (A.B. 1837) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1861-1863)
Robert McKnight (A.B. 1839) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1859-1863)
John Thompson Nixon (A.B. 1841) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1859-1863)
Francis P. Blair Jr. (A.B. 1841) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Missouri, 1857-1859, 1860, 1861-1862, 1863-1864); Major General of the
United States Volunteers (1862-1865)
Alexander Henry (A.B. 1840) Mayor of Philadelphia (1858-1866)
Edward William Whelpley (A.B. 1834) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1861-1864)
William W. Belknap (A.B. 1848) Brigadier General of the United States Volunteers (1864-1865)
William Mumford Baker (A.B. 1846) Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas (1850-1865); Unionist during the Civil War
John Maclean, Jr. (A.B. 1816) President of Princeton University (1854-1868)
Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during Reconstruction (1865-1877)
William W. Belknap (A.B. 1848) Secretary of War (1869-1876)
James D. Cameron (A.B. 1852) Secretary of War (1876-1877)
George M. Robeson (A.B. 1847) Secretary of the Navy (1869-1877); Attorney General of New Jersey (1867-1869)
Nathaniel G. Taylor (A.B. 1840) Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1867-1869)
James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1835-1867)
George H. Boker (A.B. 1842) U.S. Minister to Turkey [Ottoman Empire] (1871-1875); U.S. Minister to Russia (1875-1877)
John Sharpenstein Hager (A.B. 1836) U.S. Senator (Democrat-California, 1873-1875)
James K. Kelly (A.B. 1839) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Oregon, 1871-1877)
Francis P. Blair Jr. (A.B. 1841) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Missouri, 1871-1873)
John Potter Stockton (A.B. 1843) U.S. Senator (Democrat-New Jersey, 1865-1866, 1869-1875)
Alexander Hamilton Bailey (A.B. 1837) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1867-1871)
Thomas Laurens Jones (A.B. 1840) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Kentucky, 1867-1871, 1875-1877)
Nathaniel G. Taylor (A.B. 1840) U.S. Congressman (Whig/Unionist-Tennessee, 1854-1855, 1866-1867)
Frederick H. Teese (A.B. 1843) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Jersey, 1875-1877)
James D. Strawbridge (A.B. 1844) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1873-1875)
Stevenson Archer (A.B. 1846) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Maryland, 1867-1875)
William H. Armstrong (A.B. 1847) U.S. Congressman (Republican Pennsylvania, 1869-1871)
Hiester Clymer (A.B. 1847) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1873-1881)
Charles Edward Phelps (A.B. 1852) U.S. Congressman (Conservative-Maryland, 1865-1869)
Charles Haight (A.B. 1857) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Jersey, 1867-1871)
John Jay Jackson, Jr. (A.B. 1845) Judge of the U.S. District Court for West Virginia (1864-1901)
Andrew Todd McKinney (A.B. 1858) U.S. Attorney for Texas (1871-1873)
Joseph Wilberforce Martin (A.B. 1855) U.S. Attorney for Arkansas (1874-1876)
Charles Henry Luzenberg (A.B. 1857) U.S. Attorney for the First District of Louisiana (1866-1872)
Furman Sheppard (A.B. 1845) U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1868-1871)
John Calvin Reed (A.B. 1854) Grand Giant of the Ku Klux Klan in Oglethorpe County, Georgia (1868-1871)
John Maclean, Jr. (A.B. 1816) President of Princeton University (1854-1868)
James Clarke Welling (A.B. 1844) President of George Washington University (1871-1894); President of St. Johns College [Annapolis,
Maryland] (1867-1870)
Elihu Spencer Miller (A.B. 1836) Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania (1852-1872)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Crimean War (1853-1856) and Panic of 1857
Government Officials:
George M. Dallas (A.B. 1810) U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1856-1861)
John Forsyth Jr. (A.B. 1832) U.S. Minister to Mexico (1856-1858)
James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1835-1867)
Alfred Iverson (A.B. 1820) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Georgia, 1855-1861)
James Alfred Pearce (A.B. 1822) U.S. Senator (Whig/Democrat-Maryland, 1843-1862)
Lawrence O. Branch (A.B. 1838) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1855-1861)
William G. Whiteley (A.B. 1838) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Delaware, 1857-1861)
William Lewis Dewart (A.B. 1839) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1857-1859)
Henry M. Fuller (A.B. 1839) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1851-1853, 1855-1857)
Isaiah Dunn Clawson (A.B. 1840) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1855-1859)
Nathaniel G. Taylor (A.B. 1840) U.S. Congressman (Whig/Unionist-Tennessee, 1854-1855, 1866-1867)
Alfred H. Colquitt (A.B. 1844) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Georgia, 1853-1855)
James Pollock (A.B. 1831) Governor of Pennsylvania (1855-1858)
James Booth Jr. (A.B. 1808) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware (1841-1855)
Joseph Henry Lumpkin (A.B. 1819) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia (1846-1867)
Thomas Ruffin (A.B. 1805) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1833-1859)
William Barclay Napton (A.B. 1826) Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri (1839-1857)
Kensey Johns Jr. (A.B. 1810) Chancellor of Delaware [head of equity court] (1832-1857)
Francis P. Blair Jr. (A.B. 1841) Member of Missouri State House of Representatives (1852-1856)
John I. Middleton (A.B. 1819) Member of South Carolina Assembly (1839-1857); Member of South Carolina Senate (1857-1858)
Alexander Mazyck (A.B. 1820) Member of the South Carolina Senate (1848-1865)
James Chesnut Jr. (A.B. 1835) Member of South Carolina Senate (1852-1858)
Others:
James Carnahan (A.B. 1800) President of Princeton University (1823-1854)
John Maclean, Jr. (A.B. 1816) President of Princeton University (1854-1868)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) President of Rutgers College (1850-1862)
Samuel Kennedy Talmage (A.B. 1820) President of Oglethorpe University [Atlanta, Georgia] (1841-1865)
William P. Finley (A.B. 1820) President of Charleston College (1845-1857)
Daniel Baker (A.B. 1815) President of Austin College [Texas] (1853-1857)
John Johns (A.B. 1815) President of College of William & Mary (1849-1854)
William Meade (A.B. 1808) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Virginia (1841-1862)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the

Spanish-American War (1898), Chinese Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), and Boer War (1899-1902)
Government Officials:
George Gray (A.B. 1859) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Delaware, 1885-1899)
Richard Wayne Parker (A.B. 1867) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1895-1911, 1914-1919, 1921-1923)
Richmond Pearson (A.B. 1872) U.S. Congressman (Republican-North Carolina, 1895-1899, 1900-1901)
Mahlon Pitney (A.B. 1879) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1895-1899)
George B. McClellan Jr. (A.B. 1886) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1895-1903)
Samuel R. Gummere (A.B. 1870) U.S. Consul General at Tangier [Morocco] (1898-1905)
John Jay Jackson, Jr. (A.B. 1845) Judge of the U.S. District Court for West Virginia (1864-1901)
William Jay Magie (A.B. 1852) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1897-1900)
Thomas Wilkes Coleman (A.B. 1853) Judge of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1890-1900)
Others:
John K. Cowen (A.B. 1866) President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. (1896-1901)
Woodrow Wilson (A.B. 1879) Professor of Jurisprudence and Politics at Princeton University (1897-1910)
George Anderson Mercer (A.B. 1856) President of Savannah (Georgia) Board of Education (1883-1907)
William James McKittrick (A.B. 1876) Pastor of Calvary Church in Buffalo, New York (1895-1899)
Wilton Merle-Smith (A.B. 1877) Pastor of Central Church in New York City (1889-1920)
Samuel Baird Huey (A.B. 1863) President of Philadelphia Board of Education (1888-1901)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Government Officials:
Richard Wayne Parker (A.B. 1867) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1895-1911, 1914-1919, 1921-1923)
Ira Wells Wood (A.B. 1877) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1904-1913)
Joseph Holt Gaines (A.B. 1886) U.S. Congressman (Republican-West Virginia, 1901-1911)
Richmond Pearson (A.B. 1872) U.S. Minister to Persia (1903-1907)
Samuel R. Gummere (A.B. 1870) U.S. Consul General at Tangier [Morocco] (1898-1905)
George Gray (A.B. 1859) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [Philadelphia] (1899-1914)
John Bayard McPherson (A.B. 1866) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1899-1912)
John Jay Jackson, Jr. (A.B. 1845) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia (1901-1905)
Joseph Cross (A.B. 1865) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (March 17, 1905-October 29, 1913); Member of New
Jersey State Senate (1899-1905)
George B. McClellan Jr. (A.B. 1886) Mayor of New York City (January 1, 1904-December 31, 1909)
Frank S. Katzenbach Jr. (A.B. 1889) Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey (1901-1907)
William Franklin Henney (A.B. 1874) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1904-1908)
Charles Andrew Talcott (A.B. 1879) Mayor of Utica, New York (1902-1906)
William S. Gummere (A.B. 1870) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1901-1933)
Mahlon Pitney (A.B. 1879) Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1901-1908)
Robert H. McCarter (A.B. 1879) Attorney General of New Jersey (1903-1908)
Others:
Woodrow Wilson (A.B. 1879) President of Princeton University (1902-1910)
Winthrop More Daniels (A.B. 1888) Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University (1892-1911); Professor of Transportation at Yale
University (1923-1940)
William McKibbin (A.B. 1869) President of Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio (1904-1925)
Franklin Spencer Spalding (A.B. 1887) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Utah (1904-1914)
William James McKittrick (A.B. 1876) Pastor of First Church in St. Louis, Missouri (1899-1916)
William James Reid Jr. (A.B. 1893) Pastor of First Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1902-1943)
Wilton Merle-Smith (A.B. 1877) Pastor of Central Church in New York City (1889-1920)
Graham Lee (A.B. 1889) Christian Missionary in Pyongyang, Korea (1892-1912)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during World War I (1914-1918) and Bolshevik Revolution (1917-1919)
Government Officials:
Woodrow Wilson (A.B. 1879) President of the United States (1913-1921)
Mahlon Pitney (A.B. 1879) Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1912-1922)
Charles Andrew Talcott (A.B. 1879) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Party-New York, 1911-1915)
Peter Joseph Hamilton (A.B. 1879) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (1913-1921)
Alfred Salem Niles (A.B. 1879) Member of the Board of Police Commissioners of Baltimore (1912-1916)
Cleveland H. Dodge (A.B. 1879) Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1910-1919)
George Gray (A.B. 1859) Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1915-1925)
Henry Burling Thompson (B.S. 1877) Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (1916-1924)
Edward Elliott (A.B. 1897) Class C Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (1917-1920)
Roland S. Morris (A.B. 1896) U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1917-1920)
Post Wheeler (A.B. 1891) Secretary (1914-1916) and Counselor (1916-1917) of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan
John W. Garrett (B.S. 1895) U.S. Minister to the Netherlands (1917-1919); U.S. Minister to Luxembourg (1917-1919)
Charles Denby Jr. (A.B. 1882) U.S. Consul General in Vienna (1909-1915); Director, Bureau of Foreign Agents, War Trade Board (1917)
Albert Halstead (A.B. 1889) U.S. Consul General in Vienna (1915-1917); U.S. Consul General in Stockholm, Sweden (Jan. 1918-May 1919)
Blair Lee (A.B. 1880) U.S. Senator (Democratic Party-Maryland, 1914-1917)
Atlee Pomerene (A.B. 1884) U.S. Senator (Democratic Party-Ohio, 1911-1923)
Richard Wayne Parker (A.B. 1867) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-New Jersey, 1895-1911, 1914-1919, 1921-1923)
Thomas Spencer Crago (A.B. 1893) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-Pennsylvania, 1911-1913, 1915-1921, 1921-1923)
George White (A.B. 1895) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Party-Ohio, 1911-1915, 1917-1919)
John Bayard McPherson (A.B. 1866) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [Philadelphia] (1912-1919)
Richard Wilde Walker (A.B. 1877) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [New Orleans] (1914-1930)
Francis Fisher Kane (A.B. 1886) U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1913-1920)
William S. Gummere (A.B. 1870) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1901-1933)
Charles Wolcott Parker (A.B. 1882) Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1907-1947)
John Fleming Main (A.B. 1891) Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington (1912-1942)
Ingram M. Stainback (A.B. 1907) Attorney General of the Territory of Hawaii (1914-1917)
Charles Browne (A.B. 1896) Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey (1914-1923)
William Franklin Henney (A.B. 1874) Member of the Board of Connecticut State Police Commissioners (1912-1921)
Winthrop More Daniels (A.B. 1888) Member of Interstate Commerce Commission (1914-1923)
College Professors:
Charles Alexander Richmond (A.B. 1883) President of Union College (1909-1928)
Livingston Farrand (A.B. 1888) President of University of Colorado (1914-1919)
Max Farrand (A.B. 1892, Ph.D. 1896) Professor of History at Yale University (1908-1925)
Howard Crosby Warren (A.B. 1889, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1917) Professor of Psychology at Princeton University (1902-1934); Stuart
Professor of Psychology at Princeton University (1914-1934)
James Lee Kauffman (A.B. 1908) Professor of English and American Law at Imperial University in Tokyo, Japan (1913-1919)
John Preston Hoskins (A.B. 1891) Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature at Princeton University (1912-1935); Director of
Propaganda Division, Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice (Sept. 1918-Sept. 1919)
Others:
Paul Matthews (A.B. 1887) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey (1915-1937)
Wilton Merle-Smith (A.B. 1877) Pastor of Central Church in New York City (1889-1920)
Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. (A.B. 1893) Soldier in the French Army and U.S. Army, Western Front [France] (December 1914-May 1919)
Raymond B. Fosdick (A.B. 1905) Member, Bureau of Social Hygiene (1913-1915); Member, New York City Board of Education (1915-1916)
Timothy Newell Pfeiffer (A.B. 1908) Counsel of American Social Hygiene Association (1915-1917)
John Foster Dulles (A.B. 1908) Member of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1911-1949)
Stacy Barcroft Lloyd (A.B. 1898) Assistant General Counsel of Pennsylvania Railroad (1906-1921)
John Lee Tildsley (A.B. 1893, Ph.D. Halle [Germany] 1898) Associate (1916-1920) and Assistant (1920-1937) Superintendent of Schools of
New York City

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during World War II (1939-1945)
Government Officials:
John W. Garrett (B.S. 1895) U.S. Ambassador to Fascist Italy (1929-1933)
Breckinridge Long (A.B. 1904) U.S. Ambassador to Fascist Italy (1933-1936)
John Van A. MacMurray (A.B. 1902, M.A. 1907) U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1936-1941); U.S. Minister to China (1925-1929)
Norman Armour (A.B. 1909) U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (1939-1944)
William A. Eddy (Litt.B. 1917, Ph.D. 1922) U.S. Minister to Saudi Arabia (1944-1946)
James Orr Denby (A.B. 1919) U.S. Consul in Cape Town, South Africa (1936-1943)
Howard Alexander Smith (A.B. 1901) U.S. Senator (Republican-New Jersey, 1944-1959)
Ralph Abernethy Gamble (A.B. 1909) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1937-1957)
John Carl Williams Hinshaw (A.B. 1916) U.S. Congressman (Republican-California, 1939-1956)
Michael Aloysius Feighan (A.B. 1927; LL.B. Harvard 1931) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Ohio, 1943-1971)
Roger Caldwell Slaughter (A.B. 1928) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Missouri, 1943-1947)
Ingram M. Stainback (A.B. 1907) Governor of the Territory of Hawaii (1942-1951)
Thurman Wesley Arnold (A.B. 1911) Assistant U.S. Attorney General (1938-1943); Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit (1943-1945)
Robert Alexander Inch (A.B. 1895) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1924-1958)
Shackelford Miller Jr. (A.B. 1914) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky (1939-1945)
Charles Wolcott Parker (A.B. 1882) Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1907-1947)
Bankers:
Gordon S. Rentschler (A.B. 1907) Chairman of the board of National City Bank of New York (1940-1948)
Harold H. Helm (A.B. 1920) Vice President of Chemical Bank (1929-1946)
Perry E. Hall (Litt.B. 1917) Founding Partner of Morgan Stanley & Co.; Vice President of Morgan Stanley & Co. (1935-1951)
Maurice Meyer Jr. (A.B. 1931) Partner of Hirsch & Co. [investment bank in New York City] (1938-1969)
Businessmen:
Frederick B. Rentschler (B.S. 1909) former Chairman of United Aircraft Corp.; brother of Gordon S. Rentschler
Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (A.B. 1920) President of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1941-1948)
Ralph Gwin Follis (B.S. 1924) Vice President of Standard Oil Co. of California [Chevron] (1942-1945)
James C. Donnell II (A.B. 1932) Vice President of Marathon Oil Co. (1937-1948)
Walter Lathrop Johnson (A.B. 1897) Governor of New York Stock Exchange (1921-1938); Partner of Shearson, Hammill & Co., brokers
(1907-1966)
George W. Perkins Jr. (Litt.B. 1917) Executive Vice President and Treasurer of Merck & Co. (1927-1948)
Roger Williams Straus (Litt.B. 1913) President of American Smelting & Refining Co. (1941-1947)
Lawyers:
Allen W. Dulles (A.B. 1914) Member of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1926-1951, 1962-1969); Director of the Council on
Foreign Relations (1927-1969); OSS agent during World War II
John Foster Dulles (A.B. 1908) Member of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1911-1949)
David R. Hawkins (Litt.B. 1914; LL.B. Harvard 1921) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1927-1964)
Albert G. Milbank (A.B. 1896) Member of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy [law firm in New York City] during World War II
William Dawson Gaillard Jr. (A.B. 1926, LL.B. Harvard 1929) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1938-1975)
Donald C. Swatland (A.B. 1916) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore [law firm in New York City] (1926-1942, 1945-1962)
Augustine Leftwich Humes (A.B. 1896; LL.B. Harvard 1899) Member of Humes, Smith & Andrews [law firm in New York City] (1919-1952)
John Marshall Harlan II (A.B. 1920) Member of Root, Ballantine, Harlan, Bushby & Palmer [law firm in New York City] (1931-1954)
William Cochran Fitts Jr. (A.B. 1927; LL.B. Yale 1929) Solicitor of Tennessee Valley Authority (1937-1939); General Counsel and Secretary
of Tennessee Valley Authority (1939-1944)
Journalists:
David Lawrence (A.B. 1910) President and Editor of United States News [newspaper in Washington, D.C.] (1933-1948)
James H. McGraw Jr. (A.B. 1915) Chairman of the board of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. (1935-1950)
Hamilton Fish Armstrong (A.B. 1916) Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1928-1972)
Charles Douglas Jackson (A.B. 1924) General Manager, Life magazine (1937-?); Deputy Chief of Psychological Warfare, SHAEF (1944-45)
Professors and Organization Executives:
Everett N. Case (A.B. 1922) President of Colgate University (1942-1962)
James M. Landis (A.B. 1921) Dean of Harvard Law School (1937-1946)
Joseph R. Strayer (A.B. 1925, Ph.D. Harvard 1930) Professor of History at Princeton University (1942-1973)
Raymond B. Fosdick (A.B. 1905; M.A. 1906) President of The Rockefeller Foundation (1936-1948)
John D. Rockefeller III (B.S. 1929) President of Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1940-1956)
Brooks Emeny (A.B. 1924) President of Council on World Affairs (1943-1947)
Robertson Dwight Ward (B.S. 1926) Treasurer of Carnegie Corporation of New York (1935-1942); Assistant to the President of FreeportSulphur Co. (1942-1947)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Israeli War of Independence (1948-1949),
Korean War (1950-1953), Second Chinese Civil War (1945-1949), and French Indochina War (1945-1954)
Government Officials:
Dr. Syngman Rhee (Ph.D. 1910) President of the Republic of Korea [South Korea] (1948-1960)
John Foster Dulles (A.B. 1908) U.S. Secretary of State (1953-1959); Chairman of The Rockefeller Foundation (1950-1952)
Allen W. Dulles (A.B. 1914) Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Agency (1951-1953); Director of Central Intelligence Agency (1953-1961)
Lyman Bickford Kirkpatrick Jr. (A.B. 1938) Division Chief of Central Intelligence Agency (1947-1950); Assistant Director of Central
Intelligence Agency (1950-1953)
Frank Pace Jr. (A.B. 1933, M.A. 1950) Secretary of the Army (1950-1953)
George F. Kennan (A.B. 1925) U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (May 14, 1952-September 19, 1952)
W. Walton Butterworth (A.B. 1925) U.S. Ambassador to Sweden (1950-1953)
Joseph C. Green (A.B. 1908) U.S. Ambassador to Jordan (1952-1953)
Edward S. Crocker (A.B. 1918) U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (1949-1952)
Edwin Allan Lightner Jr. (A.B. 1930) Deputy Chief of Mission and Counselor of American Embassy in South Korea (1951-1953)
Charles Douglas [C.D.] Jackson (A.B. 1924) Special Assistant to the President of the United States (1952-1953)
H. Freeman Matthews (A.B. 1921) Deputy Under U.S. Secretary of State (1950-1953)
George W. Perkins Jr. (Litt.B. 1917) Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European Affairs (1949-1953)
Edward W. Barrett (A.B. 1932) Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1950-1952)
Howard Alexander Smith (A.B. 1901) U.S. Senator (Republican-New Jersey, 1944-1959)
Ralph Abernethy Gamble (A.B. 1909) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1937-1957)
John Carl Williams Hinshaw (A.B. 1916) U.S. Congressman (Republican-California, 1939-1956)
Michael Aloysius Feighan (A.B. 1927; LL.B. Harvard 1931) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Ohio, 1943-1971)
Bankers and Businessmen:
Frederick H. Kingsbury Jr. (A.B. 1929) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. [bank in New York City] (1949-1989)
Harold H. Helm (A.B. 1920) President of Chemical Bank [bank in New York City] (1947-1955)
Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (A.B. 1920) Chairman and CEO of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1948-1963)
Ralph Gwin Follis (B.S. 1924) Chairman of the board of Standard Oil Co. of California [Chevron] (1950-1966)
James C. Donnell II (A.B. 1932) President of Marathon Oil Co. (1948-1972)
Robertson Dwight Ward (B.S. 1926) Treasurer of J.H. Whitney & Co. [New York City] (1947-1952); Partner of J.H. Whitney & Co. [New York
City] (1953-1967)
Oscar S. Straus II (A.B. 1936) Director of American Smelting & Refining Co. (1945-1959)
Roger Williams Straus (Litt.B. 1913) Chairman of the board of American Smelting & Refining Co. (1947-1957)
Walter Lathrop Johnson (A.B. 1897) Partner of Shearson, Hammill & Co., brokers (1907-1966)
Lawyers:
David R. Hawkins (Litt.B. 1914; LL.B. Harvard 1921) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1927-1964)
William Piel Jr. (A.B. 1932; LL.B. Harvard 1935) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1945-1980)
Douglas B. Steimle (A.B. 1924) Partner of Shearman & Sterling [law firm in New York City] (1945-c.1980)
William Dawson Gaillard Jr. (A.B. 1926, LL.B. Harvard 1929) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy [law firm] (1938-1975)
Donald C. Swatland (A.B. 1916) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore [law firm in New York City] (1926-1942, 1945-1962)
John Marshall Harlan II (A.B. 1920) Member of Root, Ballantine, Harlan, Bushby & Palmer [law firm in New York City] (1931-1954)
Augustine Leftwich Humes (A.B. 1896; LL.B. Harvard 1899) Member of Humes, Smith & Andrews [law firm in New York City] (1919-1952)
Others:
William E. Stevenson (A.B. 1922) President of Oberlin College (1946-1959)
Joseph R. Strayer (A.B. 1925, Ph.D. Harvard 1930) Professor of History at Princeton University (1942-1973)
David Lawrence (A.B. 1910) President and Editor of U.S. News & World Report [magazine] (1948-1959)
Hamilton Fish Armstrong (A.B. 1916) Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1928-1972)
Brooks Emeny (A.B. 1924) President of Foreign Policy Association (1947-1953)
John D. Rockefeller III (B.S. 1929) President of Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1940-1956)
Edward Randolph Welles (A.B. 1928) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri (1950-1972)
Frederic G. Weir (A.B. 1928) Member of Pittsburgh City Council (1947-1959); Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1935-1938)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Vietnam War (1964-1973)
Government Officials:
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach (A.B. 1945) U.S. Attorney General (1964-1966); Under U.S. Secretary of State (1966-1969)
William E. Colby (A.B. 1940) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Chief of Far East Division (1962-1967)
Lyman Bickford Kirkpatrick Jr. (A.B. 1938) Inspector General of Central Intelligence Agency (1953-1961); Executive Director of Central
Intelligence Agency (1962-1965); Professor of Political Science at Brown University (1965-c.1980)
George P. Shultz (A.B. 1942) U.S. Secretary of Labor (1969-1970); Secretary of the Treasury (1972-1974); Director of Office of Management
and Budget (1970-1972); Dean of the Graduate School of Business at University of Chicago (1962-1968)
Paul A. Volcker (A.B. 1949) Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs (1969-1974); Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank
(1965-1968)
Fred Burton Smith (A.B. 1937) Assistant General Counsel of the Treasury Department (1959-1962); Deputy General Counsel of the Treasury
Department (1962-1966); General Counsel of the Treasury Department (1966-1969)
Martin Richard Hoffmann (A.B. 1954) General Counsel of Atomic Energy Commission (1971-1973); General Counsel of U.S. Department of
Defense (1974-1975)
Arthur E. Hess (A.B. 1938) Deputy Commissioner of Social Security Administration (1967-1975)
Arthur Sylvester (A.B. 1923) Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (1961-1967)
Harlan Cleveland (A.B. 1938) U.S. Representative to NATO (1965-1969)
Jacob D. Beam (A.B. 1929) U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1966-1969); U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1969-1973)
W. Walton Butterworth (A.B. 1925) U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1962-1968)
Adolph W. Schmidt (A.B. 1926) U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1969-1974)
Shelby Cullom Davis (A.B. 1930) U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland (1969-1975)
Tyler Thompson (A.B. 1930) U.S. Ambassador to Finland (1964-1969)
G. Mennen Williams (A.B. 1933) U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1968-1969)
Aaron S. Brown (A.B. 1935) U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua (1961-1967)
Richard Hallock Davis (A.B. 1935, M.B.A. Harvard 1937) U.S. Ambassador to Romania (1965-1969)
Nicholas G. Thacher (A.B. 1937) U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1970-1973)
Findley Burns, Jr. (A.B. 1939) U.S. Ambassador to Jordan (1966-1967); U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (1970-1973)
Robert H. McBride (A.B. 1940) U.S. Ambassador to Zaire (1967-1969); U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (1969-1974)
Howard Trivers (A.B. 1930; Ph.D. Harvard 1941) U.S. Consul General in Zurich, Switzerland (1966-1969)
Claiborne Pell (A.B. 1940) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Rhode Island, 1961-1997)
Michael Aloysius Feighan (A.B. 1927) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-Ohio, 1943-1971)
Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Jr. (A.B. 1938) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican-New Jersey, 1953-1975)
Otis Grey Pike (A.B. 1946) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-New York, 1961-1979)
William Fitts Ryan (A.B. 1947) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-New York, 1961-1972)
Donald H. Rumsfeld (A.B. 1954) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican-Illinois, 1963-1969)
Lunsford Richardson Preyer (A.B. 1941) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-North Carolina, 1969-1981)
Paul Sarbanes (A.B. 1954) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-Maryland, 1971-1977)
Arthur Glenn Andrews (A.B. 1931) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican-Alabama, 1965-1967)
John Marshall Harlan (A.B. 1920) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1955-1971)
Francis L. Van Dusen (A.B. 1934) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [Philadelphia] (1967-1977)
Harold R. Tyler Jr. (A.B. 1943) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York [New York City] (1962-1975)
Whitney North Seymour Jr. (A.B. 1947) U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1970-1973)
Jon Ormond Newman (A.B. 1953) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1964-1969)
Dewey F. Bartlett (A.B. 1942) Governor of Oklahoma (1967-1971)
Benjamin Rowlands Jones (A.B. 1927) Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1957-1972)
Bankers:
John L. Weinberg (A.B. 1947) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1956-1990)
Frederick H. Kingsbury Jr. (A.B. 1929) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1949-1989)
Oscar S. Straus II (A.B. 1936) Partner of Guggenheim Brothers (1959-1983)
Donald C. Platten (A.B. 1940) Executive Vice President of Chemical Bank (1967-1970)
Richard Knight LeBlond II (A.B. 1944) Executive Vice President (1968-1973) and Vice Chairman (1973-1985) of Chemical Bank
Gilbert W. Fitzhugh (B.S. 1930) Chairman and CEO of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (1966-1973)
W. Rankin Furey (A.B. 1922) President of Berkshire Life Insurance Co. [Massachusetts] (1954-1967)
Edgar George Gordon (A.B. 1947, J.D. Harvard 1950) Vice President of City National Bank in Detroit (1969-c.1982)
William Green Foulke (A.B. 1934) Chairman (1969-1974) and President (1964-1969) of Provident National Bank [Philadelphia]
Henry Charles Barkhorn (A.B. 1936) Treasurer of Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (1963-1973); Vice President for securities
investment at Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (1963-1973); Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank (1974-1979)
Maurice Meyer Jr. (A.B. 1931) Partner of Hirsch & Co. [investment bank in New York City] (1938-1969)
Kenneth Chadbourne Hewitt (A.B. 1935) Senior Vice President of Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. (1965-1972)
Businessmen:
Ralph Manning Brown Jr. (A.B. 1936) Chairman of the board and CEO of New York Life Insurance Co. (1972-1981); President of New York
Life Insurance Co. (1969-1972); Executive Vice President of New York Life Insurance Co. (1962-1969)
George Pollock Jenkins (A.B. 1936, M.B.A. Harvard 1938) Chairman of the board of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. [New York City] (19731980); Vice Chairman of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. [New York City] (1969-1973)
Rawleigh Warner Jr. (A.B. 1943) President (1965-1969) and Chairman and CEO (1969-1986) of Mobil Oil Corp.
Ralph Gwin Follis (B.S. 1924) Chairman of the board of Standard Oil Co. of California [Chevron] (1950-1966)

James C. Donnell II (A.B. 1932) President of Marathon Oil Co. (1948-1972)

Frank Pace Jr. (A.B. 1933, M.A. 1950) Chairman of the Public Broadcasting Corporation (1968-1972)
John T. Dorrance Jr. (A.B. 1941) Chairman of the board of Campbell Soup Co. (1962-1984)
Alfred J. Stokely (A.B. 1938) President (1960-1978) and CEO (1965-1981) of Stokely Van Camp, Inc. [food company]
Benjamin Hudson Milner (A.B. 1938) President of Louisville Gas & Electric Co. [Louisville, Kentucky] (1963-1978)
William H. Franklin (A.B. 1931) President of Caterpillar Tractor Co. (1966-1972); Chairman of the board of Caterpillar Tractor Co. (19721975); Deputy Chairman (1970-1972) and Chairman (1973-1974) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Farish Alston Jenkins (A.B. 1938) Vice President of Communications at Nabisco, Inc. (1964-1969)
Willard Robert Wigley (A.B. 1942) Partner of E.F. Hutton & Co., Inc. [Dallas, Texas] (1953-c.1986)
Henry Clay Moses (A.B. 1938; LL.B. Harvard 1941) General Counsel of Mobil Oil Co. (1959-1962); Vice President of Socony Mobil Oil Co.
(1963-1973)
Sylvanus Arnold Zimmerman (A.B. 1942; LL.B. Harvard 1948) Vice President and Secretary of Avon Products, Inc. [cosmetic company in
New York City] (1957-1973); Vice President and General Counsel of Avon Products, Inc. (1973-c.1982)
Ronald L. Marsching (A.B. 1950) General Counsel of Timex Corp. (1967-1986)
Roger Carlyle Smith (A.B. 1950; M.B.A. Harvard 1952) Treasurer of Motorola Inc. (1965-1971)
Lawyers:
Allen W. Dulles (A.B. 1914) Member of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1926-1951, 1962-1969); Director of the Council on
Foreign Relations (1927-1969)
John R. Stevenson (A.B. 1942) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1956-1969, 1975-1987)
William Piel Jr. (A.B. 1932; LL.B. Harvard 1935) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1945-1980)
Stuart Wilson Walker Thayer (A.B. 1947; LL.B. Yale 1951) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1960-1992)
Douglas B. Steimle (A.B. 1924) Partner of Shearman & Sterling [law firm in New York City] (1945-c.1980)
William Dawson Gaillard Jr. (A.B. 1926, LL.B. Harvard 1929) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy [law firm in NYC] (1938-1975)
John N. Irwin II (A.B. 1937) Partner of Patterson, Belknap & Webb [law firm in New York City] (1950-1957, 1961-1970, 1974-1977); Deputy
U.S. Secretary of State (1972-1973)
Richard G. McClung (A.B. 1935; LL.B. Yale 1939) Partner of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn [law firm in New York City] (1948-c. 1980)
Marshall Simonds (A.B. 1952) Partner of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar [law firm in Boston] (1965-c.1999)
College Presidents and Professors:
Robert F. Goheen (A.B. 1940; Ph.D. 1948) President of Princeton University (1957-1972)
James Isbell Armstrong (A.B. 1941, Ph.D. 1949) President of Middlebury College (1963-1975)
James M. Hester (A.B. 1945) President of New York Univ. (1962-1975); Class C Director, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1965-1970)
Joseph Alexander Kershaw (A.B. 1935; Ph.D. Columbia 1947) Provost of Williams College (1963-1968)
Edward W. Barrett (A.B. 1932) Dean of Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University (1956-1968)
Edmund A. Gullion (A.B. 1935) Dean of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1965-1979)
Harrison Shull (A.B. 1943) Dean of the Graduate School at Indiana University (1965-1972)
Robert Bernard Yegge (A.B. 1956) Dean of University of Denver College of Law (1965-1977)
Joseph R. Strayer (A.B. 1925, Ph.D. Harvard 1930) Professor of History at Princeton University (1942-1973)
Edward Dudley Hume Johnson (A.B. 1934) Professor of English at Princeton University (1961-1977)
James Ward Smith (A.B. 1938; Ph.D. 1942) Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University (1963-c.1976)
Otto Eckstein (A.B. 1951, Ph.D. Harvard 1955) Professor of Economics at Harvard University (1963-1984); Member of the Council of
Economic Advisers (1964-1966)
Organization Executives:
Hamilton Fish Armstrong (A.B. 1916) Director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1928-1972)
George F. Kennan (A.B. 1925) Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; Elder statesman
Everett N. Case (A.B. 1922) President of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1962-1968)
William E. Stevenson (A.B. 1922) President of Aspen Institute [of Humanistic Studies] (1967-1970)
Henry R. Labouisse (A.B. 1926) Executive Director of UNICEF (1965-1979)
John D. Rockefeller III (B.S. 1929) Chairman of The Rockefeller Foundation (1952-1971)
Laurence S. Rockefeller (A.B. 1932) Chairman of Rockefeller Center, Inc. (1953-1956, 1958-1966)
Joseph Mayone Stycos (A.B. 1947, Ph.D. Columbia 1954) Member of the executive committee of International Planned Parenthood
Federation [Western Hemisphere] (1965-1971); Professor of Sociology at Cornell University (1963-c.1992)
Charles Herbert Barrow (A.B. 1952) Treasurer (1968-1971) and President (1972-1973) of Planned Parenthood Association of Chicago;
Senior Vice President of Northern Trust Co. [banking firm in Chicago] (1968-?)
Others:
John B. Oakes (A.B. 1934) Editorial Page Editor of The New York Times (1961-1977)
William Allen Rusher (A.B. 1943) Publisher of National Review magazine (1957-1988)
David Lawrence (A.B. 1910) Chairman of the board and Editor of U.S. News & World Report (1959-1973)
Frank C. Norris (A.B. 1929) Senior Editor of Newsweek magazine (1955-1967)
Ricardo Angelo Mestres (A.B. 1931) Treasurer of Princeton University (1953-1972)
Cyrus Hall Adams III (A.B. 1931) Member of Chicago Board of Education (Dec. 1963-May 1968)
Edward Randolph Welles (A.B. 1928) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri (1950-1972)
Henry Weeks Trimble Jr. (A.B. 1942) General Counsel and Secretary of International Business Machines (IBM) (1956-1970)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the

Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989), Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), and Nicaraguan Civil War (1979-1990)
Government Officials:
George P. Shultz (A.B. 1942) U.S. Secretary of State (1982-1989)
James A. Baker III (A.B. 1952) Secretary of the Treasury (1985-1988); White House Chief of Staff (1981-1985, 1992-1993)
Frank C. Carlucci (A.B. 1952) Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Agency (1978-1981); Deputy Secretary of Defense (1981-1983); National
Security Advisor (1986-1987); U.S. Secretary of Defense (1987-1989)
Charles Fried (A.B. 1956) Solicitor General of the United States (1985-1989)
William D. Ruckelshaus (A.B. 1957) Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency (1970-1973, 1983-1985)
Bevis Longstreth (B.S. 1956) Commissioner of Securities and Exchange Commission (1981-1984)
Owen W. Roberts (A.B. 1948) U.S. Ambassador to Togo (1984-1986)
Leon Jerome Weil (A.B. 1949) U.S. Ambassador to Nepal (1984-1987)
Robert V. Keeley (A.B. 1951) U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe (1980-1984); U.S. Ambassador to Greece (1985-1989)
Roger Kirk (A.B. 1952) U.S. Ambassador to Somalia (1973-1975); U.S. Ambassador to Romania (1985-1989)
H. Allen Holmes (A.B. 1954) U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1982-1985); Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs (1985-1989)
Thomas David Boyatt (A.B. 1955) U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso (1978-1980); U.S. Ambassador to Colombia (1980-1983)
Charles W. Bray III (A.B. 1955) U.S. Ambassador to Senegal (1981-1985)
Anthony C.E. Quainton (A.B. 1955) U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua (1982-1984); U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait (1984-1987)
J. Stapleton Roy (A.B. 1956) U.S. Ambassador to Singapore (1984-1986)
Peter Jon De Vos (A.B. 1960) U.S. Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau (1980-1983); U.S. Ambassador to Mozambique (1983-1987)
Frank G. Wisner II (A.B. 1961) U.S. Ambassador to Zambia (1979-1982); U.S. Ambassador to Egypt (1986-1991)
Claiborne Pell (A.B. 1940) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Rhode Island, 1961-1997)
Paul Sarbanes (A.B. 1954) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Maryland, 1977-2007)
John C. Danforth (A.B. 1958) U.S. Senator (Republican-Missouri, 1976-1995)
Christopher S. Kit Bond (A.B. 1960) U.S. Senator (Republican-Missouri, 1987-2011); Governor of Missouri (1973-1977, 1981-1985)
Bill Bradley (A.B. 1965) U.S. Senator (Democrat-New Jersey, 1979-1997)
James McClure Clarke (A.B. 1939) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1983-1985, 1987-1991)
Michael Lathrop Strang (A.B. 1956) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Colorado, 1985-1987)
Cleveland Keith Benedict (A.B. 1959) U.S. Congressman (Republican-West Virginia, 1981-1983)
Edwin Van Wyck Zschau (A.B. 1961) U.S. Congressman (Republican-California, 1983-1987)
James A.S. Leach (A.B. 1964) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Iowa, 1977-2007)
Thomas Kean (A.B. 1957) Governor of New Jersey (1982-1990)
Peter P. Smith (A.B. 1968) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont (1983-1986)
William Herbert Hudnut III (A.B. 1954) Mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana (1976-1991)
Queen Noor of Jordan [Lisa Halaby] (A.B. 1974) Queen of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
William Albert Norris (A.B. 1951) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1980-1994)
William Lockhart Garwood (A.B. 1952) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1981-1997)
Jon Ormond Newman (A.B. 1953) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (1979-1997)
Walter King Stapleton (A.B. 1956) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [Philadelphia] (1985-1999); Chief Judge of the U.S. District
Court for the District of Delaware (1983-1985)
Thomas Roberts McMillen (A.B. 1938) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois [Chicago] (1971-1984)
James Levin Latchum (A.B. 1940) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1968-1983)
Vincent Lyons Broderick (A.B. 1941) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1976-1988)
John Francis Gerry (A.B. 1950) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1974-1994); Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for
the District of New Jersey (1987-1994)
Maurice Blanchard Cohill Jr. (A.B. 1951) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1976-1994); Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1985-1992)
Rudi M. Brewster (A.B. 1954) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1984-1998)
Alan Cooke Kay (A.B. 1957) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii (1986-2000)
D. Brook Bartlett (A.B. 1959) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1981-2000)
Thomas Selby Ellis III (B.S.E. 1961) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (1987-2007)
John Winslow Bissell (A.B. 1962) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1982-2005)
William Henry Barbour Jr. (A.B. 1963) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (1983-2006)
Bankers and Businessmen, and Professors:
Paul A. Volcker (A.B. 1949) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987)
John L. Weinberg (A.B. 1947) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. [bank in New York City] (1956-1990)
Frederick H. Kingsbury Jr. (A.B. 1929) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. [bank in New York City] (1949-1989)
Donald C. Platten (A.B. 1940) Chairman of the board of Chemical Bank [bank in New York City] (1974-1983)
John F. McGillicuddy (A.B. 1952) Chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. [bank in New York City] (1979-1991)
John Francis Curley Jr. (A.B. 1960) President of Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis Inc. [bank in New York City] (1977-1980)
Rawleigh Warner Jr. (A.B. 1943) Chairman and CEO of Mobil Oil Corp. (1969-1986)
Ralph D. Denunzio (A.B. 1953) CEO of Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. (1980-1987)
Harold W. McGraw Jr. (A.B. 1940) Chairman of the board of McGraw-Hill, Inc. (1976-1988)
John F. McDonnell (B.S. 1960) Chairman and CEO of McDonnell-Douglas (1988-1994)
Malcolm S. Forbes (A.B. 1941) Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine (1957-1990)
William Allen Rusher (A.B. 1943) Publisher of National Review magazine (1957-1988)
Donald H. Rumsfeld (A.B. 1954) businessman and envoy; met with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Iraq in 1983
Howard R. Swearer (A.B. 1954) President of Brown University (1977-1988)
Neil L. Rudenstine (A.B. 1956) Provost of Princeton University (1977-1987)
A. Michael Spence (A.B. 1966) Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University (1984-1990)
Edward W. Said (A.B. 1957) Professor of English and Humanities at Columbia University (1970-2003); Arab-American political activist
John R. Stevenson (A.B. 1942) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1956-1969, 1975-1987)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the

Persian Gulf War (1991), Bosnian War (1992-1995) and Kosovo War (1998-1999)
Government Officials:
James A. Baker III (A.B. 1952) U.S. Secretary of State (1989-1992); White House Chief of Staff (1981-1985, 1992-1993)
Anthony C.E. Quainton (A.B. 1955) U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait (1984-1987); U.S. Ambassador to Peru (1989-1992); Assistant Secretary of
State for Diplomatic Security (1992-1995)
J. Stapleton Roy (A.B. 1956) U.S. Ambassador to Communist China (1991-1995); U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia (1996-1999)
Peter Jon De Vos (A.B. 1960) U.S. Ambassador to Liberia (1990-1992); U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania (1993-1994)
Frank G. Wisner II (A.B. 1961) U.S. Ambassador to Egypt (1986-1991); U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1991-1992); U.S. Ambassador
to India (1994-1997)
Cameron R. Hume (A.B. 1968) U.S. Ambassador to Algeria (1997-2000)
Frederick P. Hitz (A.B. 1961) Inspector General of Central Intelligence Agency (1990-1998)
Claiborne Pell (A.B. 1940) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Rhode Island, 1961-1997)
Paul Sarbanes (A.B. 1954) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Maryland, 1977-2007)
John C. Danforth (A.B. 1958) U.S. Senator (Republican-Missouri, 1976-1995)
Christopher S. Kit Bond (A.B. 1960) U.S. Senator (Republican-Missouri, 1987-2011)
Bill Bradley (A.B. 1965) U.S. Senator (Democrat-New Jersey, 1979-1997)
William H. Bill Frist (A.B. 1974) U.S. Senator (Republican-Tennessee, 1995-2007); Senate Majority Leader (2003-2007)
James A.S. Leach (A.B. 1964) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican-Iowa, 1977-2007)
Jon Ormond Newman (A.B. 1953) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (1979-1997)
Sonia Sotomayor (A.B. 1976) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (1998-2009); Judge of the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York (1992-1998)
Walter King Stapleton (A.B. 1956) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [Philadelphia] (1985-1999)
Samuel A. Alito Jr. (A.B. 1972) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [Philadelphia] (1990-2006)
William Lockhart Garwood (A.B. 1952) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1981-1997)
William Albert Norris (A.B. 1951) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1980-1994)
Alvin Anthony Schall (A.B. 1966) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1992-2009)
Denny Chin (A.B. 1975) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994-2010)
Sidney H. Stein (A.B. 1967) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1995-2010)
William Hendricks Yohn (A.B. 1957) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1991-2003)
Harvey Bartle III (A.B. 1962) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1991-2011)
Richard Riordan (A.B. 1952) Mayor of Los Angeles, California (1993-2001)
Queen Noor of Jordan [Lisa Halaby] (A.B. 1974) Queen of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Bankers:
John L. Weinberg (A.B. 1947) Senior Chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1990-2001)
John P. Birkelund (A.B. 1952) Chairman and CEO of Dillon, Read & Co. (1988-1993)
John F. McGillicuddy (A.B. 1952) Chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. (1979-1991)
Alan S. Blinder (A.B. 1967) Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1994-1996)
Businessmen:
Frank C. Carlucci (A.B. 1952) Chairman of The Carlyle Group (1993-2003)
Donald Rumsfeld (A.B. 1954) Chairman and CEO of Gilead Sciences, Inc. (1997-2001)
James A. Henderson (A.B. 1956) Chairman and CEO of Cummins Engine (1995-1999)
Norman R. Augustine (B.S. 1957) Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin (1995-1997)
John F. McDonnell (B.S. 1960) Chairman and CEO of McDonnell-Douglas (1988-1994)
Lawyers:
Bevis Longstreth (B.S. 1956) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton [law firm in New York City] (1970-1981, 1984-1997)
Donald S. Bernstein (A.B. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1986-present)
Jeffrey M. Oakes (A.B. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1998-present)
Andres V. Gil (A.B. 1978) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1990-present)
Marshall Simonds (A.B. 1952) Partner of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar [law firm in Boston] (1965-c.1999)
Barry Philip Simon (A.B. 1964; LL.B. Yale 1967) General Counsel of Continental Airlines (1982-1986, 1990-1992)
College Administrators:
Neil L. Rudenstine (A.B. 1956) President of Harvard University (1991-2001)
George E. Rupp (A.B. 1964) President of Columbia University (1993-2002)
Harold T. Shapiro Ph.D. 1964) President of Princeton University (1988-2001)
Hunter R. Rawlings III (Ph.D. 1970) President of Cornell University (1995-2003)
Joseph S. Nye Jr. (A.B. 1958) Dean of John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1995-2004)

Princeton University Graduates and Their Occupation during the

Global War on Terrorism (2001-present) and Second Persian Gulf War (2003-2011)
Government Officials:
Donald H. Rumsfeld (A.B. 1954) U.S. Secretary of Defense (1975-1977, 2001-2006)
Robert S. Mueller III (A.B. 1966) Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation (September 4, 2001-2013)
John C. Danforth (A.B. 1958) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (2004-2005)
Cameron R. Hume (A.B. 1968) U.S. Ambassador to South Africa (2001-2004); U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia (2007-2010)
David Huebner (A.B. 1982) U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand (2009-2014)
Lewis Lukens (A.B.) U.S. Ambassador to Senegal (2011-present); U.S. Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau (2011-present); U.S. Consul General
in Vancouver, Canada (2005-2008)
Paul Sarbanes (A.B. 1954) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Maryland, 1977-2007)
Christopher S. Kit Bond (A.B. 1960) U.S. Senator (Republican-Missouri, 1987-2011)
Bill Frist (A.B. 1974) U.S. Senator (Republican-Tennessee, 1995-2007); U.S. Senate Majority Leader (2003-2007)
James A.S. Leach (A.B. 1964) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Iowa, 1977-2007)
Jim Marshall (A.B. 1972) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Georgia, 2003-2011)
Nan Hayworth (A.B. 1981) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 2011-2013)
John Sarbanes (A.B. 1984) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Maryland, 2007-present)
Terri Sewell (A.B. 1986) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Alabama, 2011-present)
Jared Polis (A.B. 1996) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Colorado, 2009-present)
Samuel A. Alito Jr. (A.B. 1972) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2006-present); Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
[Philadelphia] (1990-2006)
Sonia Sotomayor (A.B. 1976) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2009-present); Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
[New York City] (1998-2009)
Elena Kagan (A.B. 1981) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2010-present); U.S. Solicitor General (2009-2010); Dean of Harvard Law
School (2003-2009)
Debra Ann Livingston (A.B. 1980) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (2007-present)
Denny Chin (A.B. 1975) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (2010-present)
Steven M. Colloton (A.B. 1985) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (2003-present)
Richard R. Clifton (A.B. 1972) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2002-present)
Andrew David Hurwitz (A.B. 1968) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2012-present)
Alvin Anthony Schall (A.B. 1966) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1992-2009)
Denny Chin (A.B. 1975) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994-2010)
Sidney H. Stein (A.B. 1967) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1995-2010)
Cathy Seibel (A.B. 1982) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (2008-present)
Harvey Bartle III (A.B. 1962) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1991-2011)
Legrome D. Davis (A.B. 1973) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2002-present)
Thomas Selby Ellis III (B.S.E. 1961) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (1987-2007)
Lynn S. Adelman (A.B. 1961) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (1997-present)
David C. Bramlette (A.B. 1962) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (1991-2006)
William Henry Barbour Jr. (A.B. 1963) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (1983-2006)
Robert H. Whaley (A.B. 1965) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (1995-2009)
Benson Everett Legg (A.B. 1970) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (1991-present)
Anthony John Trenga (A.B. 1971) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (2008-present)
Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (A.B. 1987) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (2011-present)
Paul J. Fishman (A.B. 1978) U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (2009-present)
Mitch Daniels (A.B. 1971) Governor of Indiana (2005-2013); Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2001-2003)
Robert L. Bob Ehrlich (A.B. 1979) Governor of Maryland (2003-2007)
Eliot Spitzer (A.B. 1981) Governor of New York (2007-2008)
Stuart Rabner (A.B. 1982) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (2007-present); Attorney General of New Jersey (2006-2007)
William Herbert Hudnut III (A.B. 1954) Mayor of Chevy Chase, Maryland (2004-present)
Lawyers:
Brad Smith (A.B. 1981, J.D. Columbia 1985) General Counsel of Microsoft Corp. (2002-present)
Stephen Massad (A.B. 1972, J.D. Harvard 1975) Partner of Baker Botts [law firm in Houston, Texas] (?-present)
John E. Baumgardner, Jr. (A.B. 1973, J.D. Columbia 1975) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (?-present)
Frederic C. Rich (A.B. 1977) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (?-present)
Robert J. Giuffra, Jr. (A.B. 1983, J.D. Yale 1987) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (?-present)
Marc Trevino (A.B. 1990, J.D. Yale 1993) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (?-present)
Darrell S. Cafasso (A.B. 1999, J.D. Columbia 2002) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (?-present)
Krishna Veeraraghavan (A.B. 1999, J.D. Columbia 2002) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (?-present)
Donald S. Bernstein (A.B. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1986-present)
Jeffrey M. Oakes (A.B. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1998-present)
Andres V. Gil (A.B. 1978) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1990-present)

Bankers and Businessmen:

Eric Schmidt (B.S. 1976) Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. (2001-present)
Jeffrey C. Fuhrer (A.B. 1979) Executive Vice President of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2006-present)
Narayana R. Kocherlakota (A.B. 1983) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (2009-present)
College Administrators and Others:
Christopher L. Eisgruber (A.B. 1983) President of Princeton University (2013-present); Provost of Princeton University (2004-2013)
W. Taylor Reveley III (A.B. 1965) President of The College of William & Mary (2008-present); Dean, William & Mary Law School (1998-2008)
Don Michael Randel (A.B. 1962; Ph.D. 1967) President of University of Chicago (2000-2006)
Stephen J. Friedman (A.B. 1959) President of Pace University (2007-present)
Steven G. Poskanzer (A.B. 1980) President of Carleton College (2010-present)
Jeffrey I. Herbst (A.B. 1983, Ph.D. Yale 1987) President of Colgate University (2010-present); Provost of Miami College [Ohio] (2005-2010)
Joseph S. Nye Jr. (A.B. 1958) Dean of John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1995-2004)
Anne-Marie Slaughter (A.B. 1980) Dean of Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University (2002-2009)
Michael H. Schill (A.B. 1980) Dean of University of Chicago Law School (2010-present)
Davison M. Douglas (A.B. 1978; J.D. Yale 1983; Ph.D. Yale 1992) Dean of the William & Mary Law School [at the College of William & Mary]
(2009-present); Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at the William & Mary Law School (2001-present)
Jessica P. Einhorn (Ph.D. 1974) Dean of School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (2002-2012)
Others:
Ralph Nader (A.B. 1955) Green Party presidential candidate
Thomas Kean (A.B. 1957) Chairman of 9/11 Commission; Governor of New Jersey (1982-1990)
Charles D. (Charlie) Gibson (A.B. 1965) Anchor of ABC World News Tonight (2006-2009)
Steve Forbes (A.B. 1970) Publisher of Forbes magazine
Gen. David H. Petraeus (Ph.D. 1987) Commander of U.S. Central Command (October 31, 2008June 30, 2010); Commander, U.S. Forces
Afghanistan (June 23, 2010July 18, 2011); Director of Central Intelligence Agency (Sept. 6, 2011November 9, 2012)

Princeton University Graduates and Antebellum South

John Taylor (A.B. 1790) Governor of South Carolina (1826-1828)
Patrick Noble (A.B. 1806) Governor of South Carolina (1838-1840); Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (1830-1832)
Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook (A.B. 1812) Governor of South Carolina (1848-1850); Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (1834-1836)
Henry Light Horse Harry Lee III (A.B. 1773) Governor of Virginia (1791-1794)
William Branch Giles (A.B. 1781) Governor of Virginia (1826-1829)
John Rutherfoord (A.B. 1810) Governor of Virginia (1841-1842)
James McDowell (A.B. 1816) Governor of Virginia (1843-1846)
Peter Early (A.B. 1792) Governor of Georgia (1814-1815)
George M. Troup (A.B. 1797) Governor of Georgia (1823-1827)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) Governor of Georgia (1827-1829); Secretary of State (1834-1841)
George W. Crawford (A.B. 1820) Governor of Georgia (1843-1847); Secretary of War (1849-1850)
Alexander Martin (A.B. 1756) Governor of North Carolina (1781-1785, 1789-1792)
William Richardson Davie (A.B. 1776) Governor of North Carolina (1798-1799)
Nathaniel Alexander (A.B. 1776) Governor of North Carolina (1805-1807)
David Stone (A.B. 1788) Governor of North Carolina (1808-1810)
James Iredell (A.B. 1806) Governor of North Carolina (1827-1828)
John Henry (A.B. 1769) Governor of Maryland (1797-1798)
Samuel Sprigg (A.B. 1806) Governor of Maryland (1819-1822)
John Taylor (A.B. 1790) Member of the South Carolina Senate (1818-1826)
Daniel Elliott Huger (A.B. 1798) Member of the South Carolina Assembly (1804-1809, 1818-1819, 1830-1832)
John Middleton (A.B. 1802) Member of the South Carolina Assembly (1825-1826)
Patrick Noble (A.B. 1806) Member of the South Carolina Assembly (1814-1824, 1832-1836); Member of South Carolina Senate (1836-1838)
Whitemarsh B. Seabrook (A.B. 1812) Member of South Carolina Assembly (1814-1829); Member of South Carolina Senate (1826-1834)
John I. Middleton (A.B. 1819) Member of South Carolina Assembly (1839-1857); Member of South Carolina Senate (1857-1858)
William P. Finley (A.B. 1820) Member of the South Carolina Assembly (1832-1836); President of Charleston College (1845-1857)
Alexander Mazyck (A.B. 1820) Member of the South Carolina Senate (1848-1865)
James Chesnut Jr. (A.B. 1835) Member of South Carolina Senate (1852-1858); Member of South Carolina Assembly (1840-1846, 1850-52)
John Avery Benbury (A.B. 1847) Member of the South Carolina Assembly (1859-1861)
Thomas Ruffin (A.B. 1805) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1833-1859)
Joseph Henry Lumpkin (A.B. 1819) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia (1846-1867)
William Gaston (A.B. 1796) Judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1834-1844)
Frederick Nash (A.B. 1799) Judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1844-1858)
Richard Wilde Walker (A.B. 1841) Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1858-1863)
William Barclay Napton (A.B. 1826) Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri (1839-1857)
Daniel Elliott Huger (A.B. 1798) Judge of the Supreme Court of South Carolina (1819-1828)
George Strawbridge (A.B. 1802) Judge of the Supreme Court of Louisiana (1839)
Charles C. Jones Jr. (A.B. 1852) Mayor of Savannah, Georgia (1860-1861)
Richard Dennis Arnold (A.B. 1826) Mayor of Savannah, Georgia (1859-1860, 1863-1865)
George R. Richardson (A.B. 1822) Attorney General of Maryland (1845-1851)
Joseph Branch (A.B. 1837) Attorney General of Florida (1845-1846)
William Meade (A.B. 1808) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Virginia (1841-1862)
John Johns (A.B. 1815) President of College of William & Mary (1849-1854); Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Virginia (1862-1876)
Joseph Caldwell (A.B. 1791) President of University of North Carolina (1804-1812, 1816-1835)
Samuel Kennedy Talmage (A.B. 1820) President of Oglethorpe University [Atlanta, Georgia] (1841-1865)
Alexander Martin (A.B. 1756) U.S. Senator (Republican-North Carolina, 1793-1799)
John Henry (A.B. 1769) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Maryland, 1789-1797)
John Ewing Colhoun (A.B. 1774) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-South Carolina, 1801-1802)
Abraham B. Venable (A.B. 1780) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Virginia, 1803-1804)
William Branch Giles (A.B. 1781) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Virginia, 1804-1815)
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Louisiana, 1829-1831)
James A. Bayard Sr. (A.B. 1784) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Delaware, 1804-1813)
Robert G. Harper (A.B. 1785) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Maryland, 1816)
David Stone (A.B. 1788) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-North Carolina, 1801-1807, 1813-1814)
Nicholas Van Dyke Jr. (A.B. 1788) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Delaware, 1817-1826)
John Taylor (A.B. 1790) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-South Carolina, 1810-1816)
George M. Bibb (A.B. 1792) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Kentucky, 1811-1814, 1829-1835)
George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) U.S. Senator (Dem. Republican-Tennessee, 1811-1814, 1815-1818); U.S. Minister to Russia (1818-1821)
John Macpherson Berrien (A.B. 1796) U.S. Senator (Whig-Georgia, 1825-1829, 1841-1852); U.S. Attorney General (1829-1831)
George M. Troup (A.B. 1797) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1816-1818, 1829-1833)
Daniel Elliott Huger (A.B. 1798) U.S. Senator (Democrat-South Carolina, 1843-1845)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1818-1819, 1829-1834)
Alfred Cuthbert (A.B. 1803) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Georgia, 1835-1843)
James Iredell (A.B. 1806) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-North Carolina, 1828-1831)
John Williams Walker (A.B. 1806) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Alabama, 1819-1822)
Arnold Naudain (A.B. 1806) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Delaware, 1830-1836)
John Henderson (A.B. 1812) U.S. Senator (Whig-Mississippi, 1839-1845)
Richard H. Bayard (A.B. 1814) U.S. Senator (Whig-Delaware, 1836-1839, 1841-1845)
Alfred Iverson (A.B. 1820) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Georgia, 1855-1861)

James Alfred Pearce (A.B. 1822) U.S. Senator (Whig/Democrat-Maryland, 1843-1862)

James Chesnut Jr. (A.B. 1835) U.S. Senator (Democrat-South Carolina, 1858-1860)
John Archer (B.A. 1760) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1801-1807)
James Madison (A.B. 1771) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Virginia, 1789-1797); President of the United States (1809-1817)
Henry Light Horse Harry Lee III (A.B. 1773) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Virginia, 1799-1801)
Nathaniel Alexander (A.B. 1776) U.S. Congressman (Republican-North Carolina, 1803-1805)
John Rhea (A.B. 1780) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Tennessee, 1803-1815, 1817-1823)
Abraham B. Venable (A.B. 1780) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Virginia, 1791-1799)
William Branch Giles (A.B. 1781) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Virginia, 1790-1798, 1801-1803)
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1794-1802); U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Louisiana, 1823-1829)
James A. Bayard Sr. (A.B. 1784) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Delaware, 1797-1803)
Robert G. Harper (A.B. 1785) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-South Carolina, 1795-1801)
Evan Shelby Alexander (A.B. 1787) U.S. Congressman (Republican-North Carolina, 1806-1809)
David Stone (A.B. 1788) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-North Carolina, 1799-1801)
Nicholas Van Dyke Jr. (A.B. 1788) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Delaware, 1807-1811)
John Taylor (A.B. 1790) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-South Carolina, 1807-1810, 1817-1821)
Ephraim King Wilson (A.B. 1790) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Maryland, 1827-1831)
Peter Early (A.B. 1792) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1803-1807)
Thomas M. Bayly (A.B. 1794) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Virginia, 1813-1815)
James M. Broom (A.B. 1794) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Delaware, 1805-1807)
George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Tennessee, 1803-1809)
William Gaston (A.B. 1796) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-North Carolina, 1813-1817)
Thomas Bayly (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Maryland, 1817-1823)
James W. Clark (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Republican-North Carolina, 1815-1817)
Charles Fenton Mercer (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Virginia, 1817-1839)
George M. Troup (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1807-1815)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1813-1818, 1823-1827)
Alfred Cuthbert (A.B. 1803) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1813-1816, 1821-1827)
Stevenson Archer (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1811-1817, 1819-1821)
George William Crump (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Virginia, 1826-1827)
John A. Cuthbert (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1819-1821)
Richard W. Habersham (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Georgia, 1839-1842)
John Scott (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Adams-Clay Republican-Missouri, 1821-1827)
Thomas Telfair (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Georgia, 1813-1817)
Edward Colston (A.B. 1806) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Virginia, 1817-1819)
William H. Hayward Jr. (A.B. 1808) U.S. Congressman (Crawford Republican-Maryland, 1823-1825)
William Montgomery (A.B. 1808?) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1835-1841)
James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Georgia, 1829-1835); Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1835-1867)
Benjamin C. Howard (A.B. 1809) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian/Democrat-Maryland, 1829-1833, 1835-1839)
Kensey Johns Jr. (A.B. 1810) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-Delaware, 1827-1831)
John T. Stoddert (A.B. 1810) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Maryland, 1833-1835)
John J. Milligan (A.B. 1814 [honorary]) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian/Whig-Delaware, 1831-1839)
James McDowell (A.B. 1816) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Virginia, 1846-1851)
Abraham W. Venable (A.B. 1819) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1847-1853)
George W. Crawford (A.B. 1820) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Georgia, 1843)
James H. Gholson (A.B. 1820) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-Virginia, 1833-1835)
Alfred Iverson (A.B. 1820) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Georgia, 1847-1849)
George Brydges Rodney (A.B. 1820) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Delaware, 1841-1845)
James Alfred Pearce (A.B. 1822) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Maryland, 1835-1839, 1841-1843)
Thomas Robinson, Jr. (A.B. 1823?) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Delaware, 1839-1841)
Richard B. Carmichael (A.B. 1828) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Maryland, 1833-1835)
David S. Kaufman (A.B. 1833) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Texas, 1846-1851)
Alexander Robinson Boteler (A.B. 1835) U.S. Congressman (Opposition Party-Virginia, 1859-1861)
John Thomson Mason (A.B. 1836) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Maryland, 1841-1843)
Lawrence O. Branch (A.B. 1838) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-North Carolina, 1855-1861)
William G. Whiteley (A.B. 1838) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Delaware, 1857-1861)
Nathaniel G. Taylor (A.B. 1840) U.S. Congressman (Whig/Unionist-Tennessee, 1854-1855, 1866-1867)
Francis P. Blair Jr. (A.B. 1841) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Missouri, 1857-1859, 1860, 1861-1862, 1863-1864)
Alfred H. Colquitt (A.B. 1844) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Georgia, 1853-1855)
Addison White (A.B. 1844) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Kentucky, 1851-1853)
Gunning Bedford Jr. (A.B. 1771) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1789-1812)
Joseph Clay Jr. (A.B. 1784) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Georgia (1797-1801)

Princeton University Graduates and the Antebellum North (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York)
William Paterson (A.B. 1763) U.S. Senator (Pro-Administration-New Jersey, 1789-1790)
Frederick Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1770) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1793-1796)
Aaron Ogden (A.B. 1773) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1801-1803)
Jonathan Dayton (A.B. 1776) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1799-1805)
John Rutherfurd (A.B. 1776) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1791-1798)
Richard Stockton (A.B. 1779) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1796-1799)
Mahlon Dickerson (A.B. 1789) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-New Jersey, 1817-1833); Secretary of the Navy (1834-1838)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-New Jersey, 1829-1835)
Samuel L. Southard (A.B. 1804) U.S. Senator (Whig-New Jersey, 1821-1823, 1833-1842); President of the U.S. Senate (1841-1842)
Richard Stockton Field (A.B. 1821) U.S. Senator (Republican-New Jersey, 1862-1863)
William Lewis Dayton (A.B. 1825) U.S. Senator (Whig-New Jersey, 1842-1851)
Isaac Smith (A.B. 1755) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New Jersey, 1795-1797)
Thomas Henderson (A.B. 1761) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New Jersey, 1795-1797)
John Beatty (A.B. 1769) U.S. Congressman (Pro-Administration-New Jersey, 1793-1795)
James Linn (A.B. 1769) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1799-1801)
John Anderson Scudder (A.B. 1775) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1810-1811)
Jonathan Dayton (A.B. 1776) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New Jersey, 1791-1799); Speaker of the U.S. House (1795-1799)
Richard Stockton (A.B. 1779) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New Jersey, 1813-1815)
James Henderson Imlay (A.B. 1786) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New Jersey, 1797-1801)
Isaac Pierson (A.B. 1789) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New Jersey, 1827-1831)
William Chetwood (A.B. 1792) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1836-1837)
George Clifford Maxwell (A.B. 1792) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1811-1813)
Silas Condit (A.B. 1795) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New Jersey, 1831-1833)
Thomas Ward (A.B. 1803?) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1813-1817)
George Holcombe (A.B. 1805) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-New Jersey (1821-1828)
William Halstead (A.B. 1812) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1837-1839, 1841-1843)
William Pennington (A.B. 1813) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1859-1861); Speaker of the U.S. House (1860-1861)
Littleton Kirkpatrick (A.B. 1815) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Jersey, 1843-1845)
John P.B. Maxwell (A.B. 1823) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1837-1839, 1841-1843)
George H. Brown (A.B. 1828) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1851-1853)
James G. Hampton (A.B. 1835) U.S. Congressman (Whig-New Jersey, 1845-1849)
John L.N. Stratton (A.B. 1836) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1859-1863)
Isaiah Dunn Clawson (A.B. 1840) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1855-1859)
John Thompson Nixon (A.B. 1841) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1859-1863)
David Bard (A.B. 1773) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1795-1799, 1803-1815)
John W. Kittera (A.B. 1776) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Pennsylvania, 1791-1801)
William Crawford (A.B. 1781?) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1809-1817)
John A. Hanna (A.B. 1782) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1797-1805)
John Sergeant (A.B. 1795) U.S. Congressman (Federalist/Whig-Pennsylvania, 1815-1823, 1827-1829, 1837-1841)
George Chambers (A.B. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Masonic-Pennsylvania, 1833-1837)
Thomas Hartley Crawford (A.B. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Pennsylvania, 1829-1833)
Joseph R. Ingersoll (A.B. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian/Whig-Pennsylvania, 1835-1837, 1841-1849)
Alem Marr (A.B. 1807) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-Pennsylvania, 1829-1831)
John Wurts (A.B. 1813) U.S. Congressman (Pennsylvania, 1825-1827)
George Washington Toland (A.B. 1816) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1837-1843)
Chester P. Butler (A.B. 1817) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1847-1850)
Thomas Ross (A.B. 1825) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1849-1853)
James Pollock (A.B. 1831) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1844-1849)
William Lewis Dewart (A.B. 1839) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1857-1859)
Henry M. Fuller (A.B. 1839) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1851-1853, 1855-1857)
Robert McKnight (A.B. 1839) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1859-1863)
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (A.B. 1758) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1789-1791)
Thomas Tredwell (A.B. 1764) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1791-1795)
William Stephens Smith (A.B. 1774) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1813-1815, 1815-1816)
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1794-1802); Mayor of New York City (1801-1803)
Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (A.B. 1782) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1797-1803)
James W. Wilkin (A.B. 1785) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1815-1819)
Nathaniel W. Howell (A.B. 1788) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1813-1815)
William Kirkpatrick (A.B. 1788) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1807-1809)
Silas Wood (A.B. 1789) U.S. Congressman (New York, 1819-1829)
Samuel Watkins Eager (A.B. 1809) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New York, 1830-1831)
Andrew DeWitt Bruyn (A.B. 1810) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1837-1838)
Samuel J. Wilkin (A.B. 1812) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-New York, 1831-1833)
William Seymour (A.B. 1821?) U.S. Congressman (Jacksonian-New York, 1835-1837)
Samuel Livermore (A.B. 1752) U.S. Congressman (Pro-Administration, New Hampshire, 1789-1793)
John Bacon (A.B. 1765) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Massachusetts, 1801-1803)
Nathaniel Niles (A.B. 1766) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Administration-Vermont, 1791-1795)

Jonathan Mason Jr. (A.B. 1774) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Massachusetts, 1817-1820)

Henry W. Edwards (A.B. 1797) U.S. Congressman (Connecticut, 1819-1823)
John Inskeep Vanmeter (A.B. 1821) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Ohio, 1843-1845)
Samuel Livermore (A.B. 1752) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Hampshire, 1793-1801); President of the U.S. Senate (1799-1800)
Oliver Ellsworth (A.B. 1766) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Connecticut, 1789-1796)
Jonathan Mason Jr. (A.B. 1774) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Massachusetts, 1800-1803)
Isaac Tichenor (A.B. 1775) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Vermont, 1796-1797, 1815-1821); Governor of Vermont (1797-1809)
Jacob Burnet (A.B. 1791) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Ohio, 1828-1831)
Henry W. Edwards (A.B. 1797) U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Connecticut, 1823-1827); Governor of Connecticut (1833-1834, 1835-1838)
Edward Livingston (A.B. 1781) U.S. Secretary of State (1831-1833); U.S. Minister to France (1833-1835)
Richard Rush (A.B. 1797) U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1817-1825); Sec. of the Treasury (1825-1828); U.S. Minister to France (1847-1851)
George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) U.S. Minister to Russia (1818-1821)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) U.S. Minister to Spain (1819-1823); U.S. Secretary of State (1834-1841)
Joseph R. Ingersoll (A.B. 1804) U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1852-1853)
John Forsyth Jr. (A.B. 1832) U.S. Minister to Mexico (1856-1858)
George M. Dallas (A.B. 1810) Vice President of the United States (1845-1849); U.S. Minister to Russia (1837-1839); U.S. Minister to Great
Britain (1856-1861); U.S. Senator (Jacksonian-Pennsylvania, 1831-1833)
William Johnson Jr. (A.B. 1790) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1804-1834)
Henry Brockholst Livingston (A.B. 1774) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1806-1823)
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1823-1843); Secretary of the Navy (1818-1823)
James Moore Wayne (A.B. 1808) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1835-1867)
William Paterson (A.B. 1763) Governor of New Jersey (1790-1793)
Aaron Ogden (A.B. 1773) Governor of New Jersey (1812-1813)
Mahlon Dickerson (A.B. 1789) Governor of New Jersey (1815-1817)
Samuel Lewis Southard (A.B. 1804) Governor of New Jersey (1832-1833); Secretary of the Navy (1823-1829)
William Pennington (A.B. 1813) Governor of New Jersey (1837-1843)
Daniel Haines (A.B. 1820) Governor of New Jersey (1843-1845, 1848-1851)
James Pollock (A.B. 1831) Governor of Pennsylvania (1855-1858)
Morgan Lewis (A.B. 1773) Governor of New York (1804-1807); Grand Master, Freemasons of the U.S. (1821)
Jacob Radcliff (A.B. 1783) Mayor of New York City (1810-1811, 1815-1818)
George M. Dallas (A.B. 1810) Mayor of Philadelphia (1828-1829); Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1833-1835)
Benjamin W. Richards (A.B. 1815) Mayor of Philadelphia (1829-1832)
John M. Scott (A.B. 1805) Mayor of Philadelphia (1841-1843)
Peter McCall (A.B. 1826) Mayor of Philadelphia (1844-1845)
Alexander Henry (A.B. 1840) Mayor of Philadelphia (1858-1866)
Samuel R. Hamilton (A.B. 1808) Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey (1848-1849)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (A.B. 1804) Mayor of Newark, New Jersey (1837-1838)
Oliver Spencer Halsted (A.B. 1810) Mayor of Newark, New Jersey (1840)
Andrew Kirkpatrick (A.B. 1775) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1804-1824)
Charles Ewing (A.B. 1798) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1824-1832)
Henry Woodhull Green (A.B. 1820) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1846-1860)
Tapping Reeve (A.B. 1763) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1814-1815)
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1814-1818)
Titus Hutchinson (A.B. 1794) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont (1830-1833)
Richard Henry Bayard (A.B. 1814) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware (1839-1841)
James Booth Jr. (A.B. 1808) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware (1841-1855)
Aaron Dickinson Woodruff (A.B. 1779) Attorney General of New Jersey (1792-1817)
Samuel Lewis Southard (A.B. 1804) Attorney General of New Jersey (1829-1833)
Richard Stockton Field (A.B. 1821) Attorney General of New Jersey (1838-1841)
George P. Molleson (A.B. 1824) Attorney General of New Jersey (1841-1844)
William Lewis Dayton (A.B. 1825) Attorney General of New Jersey (1857-1861)
Amos S. Ellmaker (A.B. 1805) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1816-1819, 1828-1829)
Thomas Sergeant (A.B. 1798) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1819-1820)
James Linn (A.B. 1769) Secretary of State of New Jersey (1809-1821)
John Henry Hobart (A.B. 1793) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York (1816-1830)
Charles P. McIlvaine (A.B. 1816) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Ohio (1832-1873); President of Kenyon College (1832-1840)
Pierpont Edwards (A.B. 1768) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1806-1826)
David Howell (A.B. 1766) Judge of the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island (1812-1824)
Nicholas Biddle (A.B. 1801) President of the Second Bank of the United States (1823-1836)
William McIlvaine (A.B. 1802) Chief Cashier of the Bank of the United States (1826-1832)
Aaron Burr Jr. (A.B. 1772) Vice President of the United States (1801-1805); U.S. Senator (Republican-New York, 1791-1797); killed
Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804; died in 1836

Presidents of Princeton University

Name
Jonathan Dickinson
Aaron Burr, Sr.
Jonathan Edwards
Samuel Davies
Samuel Finley
John Witherspoon
Samuel S. Smith
Ashbel Green
James Carnahan
John Maclean, Jr.
James McCosh
Francis L. Patton
Woodrow Wilson
John G. Hibben
Harold W. Dodds
Robert F. Goheen
William G. Bowen
Harold T. Shapiro
Shirley M. Tilghman
Christopher L. Eisgruber

Year
1747
1748-1757
1758
1759-1761
1761-1766
1768-1794
1795-1812
1812-1822
1823-1854
1854-1868
1868-1888
1888-1902
1902-1910
1912-1932
1933-1957
1957-1972
1972-1988
1988-2001
2001-2013
2013-present

Degree
B.A. Yale 1706
B.A. Yale 1735
B.A. Yale 1720
D.D. University of Glasgow
University of Edinburgh
A.B. Princeton 1769 (salutatorian)
A.B. Princeton 1783 (valedictorian)
A.B. Princeton 1800
A.B. Princeton 1816
University of Glasgow
University of Toronto
A.B. Princeton 1879; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University 1886
A.B. Princeton 1882 (valedictorian)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 1917
A.B. Princeton 1940; Ph.D. Princeton 1948
Ph.D. Princeton 1958
Ph.D. Princeton 1964
Ph.D. Temple University 1975
A.B. Princeton 1983; J.D. University of Chicago 1988

Princeton Extra:

President of the U.S.

James Madison (A.B. 1771) (1809-1817)
Woodrow Wilson (A.B. 1879) (1913-1921)

Vice President of the U.S.

Aaron Burr (A.B. 1772) (1801-1805)
George M. Dallas (A.B. 1810) (1845-1849)

Secretary of State
James Madison (1801-1809)
Robert Smith (1809-1811)
Edward Livingston (1831-1833)
John Forsyth (A.B. 1799) (1834-1841)
John Foster Dulles (1953-1959)
George P. Shultz (1982-1989)
James A. Baker III (1989-1992)

Secretary of the Treasury

George W. Campbell (A.B. 1794) (1814)
Richard Rush (A.B. 1797) (1825-1828)
George M. Bibb (A.B. 1792) (1844-1845)
George P. Shultz (1972-1974)
James A. Baker III (1985-1988)

Secretary of War
Lucius H. Stockton (A.B. 1787) (1801)
George W. Crawford (A.B. 1820) (18491850)
William W. Belknap (A.B. 1848) (18691876)
James D. Cameron (A.B. 1852) (1876-1877)
U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain
Richard Rush (1817-1825)
Joseph R. Ingersoll (A.B. 1804) (1852-1853)
George M. Dallas (1856-1861)

Secretary of the Navy

Robert Smith (1801-1809)
Smith Thompson (A.B. 1788) (1818-1823)
Samuel L. Southard (A.B. 1804)(1823-1829)
Mahlon Dickerson (1834-1838)
George M. Robeson (1869-1877)
U.S. Ambassador to France
Edward Livingston (1833-1835)
Richard Rush (1847-1851)
William L. Dayton (A.B. 1825) (1861-1864)

Secretary of Defense
Frank C. Carlucci (1987-1989)
Donald H. Rumsfeld (1975-1977, 20012006)
U.S. Attorney General
William Bradford Jr. (A.B. 1772) (17941795)
Charles Lee (A.B. 1775) (1795-1801)
Robert Smith A.B. 1781 (1805)
Richard Rush (A.B. 1797) (1814-1817)
John M. Berrien (A.B. 1796) (1829-1831)
Benjamin H. Brewster (A.B. 1834) (18811885)
Nicholas Katzenbach (A.B. 1945) (19641966)

U.S. Ambassador to Russia

George W. Campbell (1818-1821)
George M. Dallas (1837-1839)
George H. Boker (A.B. 1842) (1875-1877)

Extra:
John Calvin Reed (A.B. 1854) Grand Giant of the Ku Klux Klan in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 1868-1871); Member of the
City Council of Atlanta, Georgia (1901-1902)
Joseph Alston (attended Princeton, 1794) Governor of South Carolina (1812-1814); married Aaron Burr Jr.s daughter
Theodosia Burr in 1801
John Renshaw Thomson (attended Princeton) U.S. Consul at Canton, China (1823-1825); U.S. Senator (Democrat-New Jersey,
1853-1862)