56 Notable alumni of
Allegheny College
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Allegheny College is 1435th in the world, 503rd in North America, and 471st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 56 notable alumni from Allegheny College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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William McKinley
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- politicianstatespersonlawyer
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William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades. He successfully led the U.S. in the Spanish–American War, overseeing a period of American expansionism, with the annexations of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Hawaii. McKinley also rejected inflationary plans such as free silver in favor of keeping the nation on the gold standard, and raised protective tariffs.
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Trent Reznor
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- record producersingerfilm score composercomposersinger-songwriter
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Michael Trent Reznor is an American musician. He came to prominence as the founder, lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and primary songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The band's line-up has constantly changed, with Reznor being its only official member from its creation in 1988 until 2016, when he added English musician and frequent collaborator Atticus Ross as its second permanent member.
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R. Budd Dwyer
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- teacherpolitician
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Robert Budd Dwyer was an American politician. He served from 1965 to 1971 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the state's 50th district. Dwyer then served as the 70th state treasurer of Pennsylvania from January 20, 1981, until January 22, 1987, when he committed suicide during a press conference.
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Clarence Darrow
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- politicianwriterjuristlawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer who became famous in the 19th century for high profile representations of trade union causes, and in the 20th century for several criminal matters, including the Leopold and Loeb murder trial, the Scopes "monkey" trial, and the Ossian Sweet defense. He was a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. Darrow was also well known as a public speaker, debater, and writer.
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Ida Tarbell
- Enrolled in Allegheny College
- Studied in 1876-1880
- Occupations
- biographerinvestigative journalistwriterhistorianjournalist
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Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism.
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Ben Burtt
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- screenwriteraudio engineerfilm directoractorsound designer
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Benjamin Burtt Jr. is an American sound designer, film director, film editor, screenwriter, and voice actor. As a sound designer, his credits include the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), WALL-E (2008), and Star Trek (2009).
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Marco Arment
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- software developerwriterbloggerpodcaster
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Marco Arment is an American iOS developer, web developer, podcaster, restaurateur, technology writer and former magazine editor. As a developer, he is best known for being chief technology officer for Tumblr and creating Instapaper and Overcast.
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Stan Drayton
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- American football coach
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Stanley Drayton is an American football coach. He was the head coach at Temple University from 2022–2024. He formerly served as the associate head coach, running backs coach, and run game coordinator at The University of Texas at Austin and also coached running backs for the Chicago Bears and Ohio State.
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Glenn Beckert
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- baseball player
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Glenn Alfred Beckert was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs for nine seasons from 1965 to 1973, before ending his career with the San Diego Padres in 1975. He was a four-time All-Star and a Gold Glove Award winner.
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Raymond P. Shafer
- Enrolled in Allegheny College
- 1934-1938 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
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- politicianmilitary officerlawyer
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Raymond Philip Shafer was an American attorney and politician who served as the 39th governor of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1971. Prior to that, he served as the 23rd lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967 and as a Pennsylvania state senator from 1959 to 1962. He was a national leader of the moderate wing of the Republican Party in the late 1960s.
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William B. Allison
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- lawyerpolitician
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William Boyd Allison was an American politician. An early leader of the Iowa Republican Party, he represented northeastern Iowa in the United States House of Representatives before representing his state in the United States Senate. By the 1890s, Allison had become one of the "big four" key Republicans who largely controlled the Senate, along with Orville H. Platt of Connecticut, John Coit Spooner of Wisconsin and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island.
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Brad Will
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- photographerenvironmentalistjournalistdirector
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Bradley Roland Will was an American activist, videographer, and journalist. He was affiliated with Indymedia. On October 27, 2006, during a labor dispute in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, Will was shot twice, possibly by government-aligned paramilitaries, resulting in his death.
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Brooke McEldowney
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- comics artist
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Brooke McEldowney is a writer and musician, known as the creator of the comics 9 Chickweed Lane and Pibgorn.
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Matt Berkey
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- poker player
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Matthew Berkey is an American professional poker player from Leechburg, Pennsylvania who focuses on live no limit hold 'em cash games.
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Al Schmidt
- Enrolled in Allegheny College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
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- election officialpolitician
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Albert Schmidt is an American politician and election official who is the current Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, serving since 2023. He was a Philadelphia City Commissioner from 2012 to 2022.
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Alex Steffen
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- writerenvironmentalist
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Alex Steffen is an American futurist and advocate of 'bright green environmentalism' who writes and speaks about sustainability and the future of the planet. He emphasizes the importance of imagining persuasive, positive possible futures: "It's literally true that we can't build what we can't imagine,... The fact that we haven't compellingly imagined a thriving, dynamic, sustainable world is a major reason we don't already live in one."
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Paul Siple
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- geographerexplorer
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Paul Allman Siple was an American Antarctic explorer and geographer who took part in six Antarctic expeditions, including the two Byrd expeditions of 1928–1930 and 1933–1935, representing the Boy Scouts of America as an Eagle Scout. Siple was also a Sea Scout. His first and third books covered these adventures. With Charles F. Passel he developed the wind chill factor, a term coined by Siple.
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Benjamin F. Martin
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- politicianteacherlawyer
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Benjamin Franklin Martin was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and teacher from Virginia and West Virginia.
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Paul Ssemogerere
- Years
- 1932-2022 (aged 90)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere was a Ugandan politician who was the leader of the Democratic Party for 25 years, and one of the main players in Ugandan politics until his retirement in 2005.
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Victoria Lipnic
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Victoria Ann Lipnic is an American lawyer and public figure. She served in multiple senior United States government positions. She was Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), nominated to two terms by President Barack Obama, 2010 – 2020.) She served as Chair (Acting) of the EEOC under President Donald J. Trump from 2017 – 2019. Prior to her appointments to the EEOC, she was Assistant Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush. The United States Senate confirmed her unanimously to each of these positions.
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Jon M. Davis
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- military personnel
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Jon M. Davis is a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general. His last assignment in the Marine Corps was as the Deputy Commandant for Aviation.
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Henry David Cooke
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- businesspersonjournalistpolitician
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Henry David Cooke was an American financier, journalist, railroad executive, and politician. He was the younger brother of Philadelphia financier Jay Cooke. A member of the Republican political machine in post-Civil War Washington, D.C., Cooke was appointed first territorial governor of the District of Columbia by Ulysses S. Grant.
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Salome Samadashvili
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- politicianuniversity teacherdiplomat
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Salome Samadashvili is a Georgian politician and former diplomat who has served as a United National Movement (UNM) Member of Parliament (MP) since 2020. She previously was an MP from 2004 to 2005 and again from 2016 until 2020.
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Robert J. Corbett
- Enrolled in Allegheny College
- Studied in 1927
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- politicianclerkteacher
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Robert James Corbett was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Afua Osei
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United States - Occupations
- businessperson
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Afua Osei is an entrepreneur, investor and public speaker who co-founded She Leads Africa, a media company for millennial African women.
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W. Scott Hardy
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- lawyerjudge
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William Scott Hardy is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
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James Mills Thoburn
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- priestmissionarybiographer
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James Mills Thoburn was an American bishop and missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church as well as an author. He did missionary work in India and greatly increased the number of Christian practitioners in that country.
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Thomas Tipton
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- lawyerpolitician
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Thomas Weston Tipton was a Senator from Nebraska.
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Jay Luvaas
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- military historianuniversity teacher
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Jay Luvaas was an American military historian who was an expert on the American Civil War and the history of military theory. He was the first civilian to hold a visiting professorship of military history at West Point, and was a professor of military history at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was the founder of the modern military staff ride, and was a two-time recipient of the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal of the Department of the Army.
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Allison White
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Allison White was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Lloyd Lowndes Jr
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Lloyd Lowndes Jr., a member of the United States Republican Party, was an American attorney and politician, the 43rd Governor of Maryland from 1896 to 1900 and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the sixth district of Maryland from 1873 to 1875.
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Aylett R. Cotton
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- judgepoliticianlawyerteacher
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Aylett Rains Cotton was an American politician, lawyer, judge, educator and miner active in Iowa and Northern California.
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William Alfred Quayle
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- poetbiographer
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William Alfred Quayle was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1908.
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Jane Earll
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- politician
- Biography
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Jane M. Earll is an American attorney, politician and former Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate who represented the 49th District from 1997 to 2013.
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Charles N. Crosby
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- politician
- Biography
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Charles Noel Crosby was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and an American football coach in the early years of the sport.
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Frank A. Montgomery
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- politicianautobiographer
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Frank Alexander Montgomery was an American politician best known for his memoir of life as a Confederate cavalry officer in the Western Theater of the American Civil War (1861–1865) called Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War (1901).
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Peter Moore Speer
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- lawyerpolitician
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Peter Moore Speer was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Edward Gay Rohrbough
- Enrolled in Allegheny College
- Studied in 1900
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- politicianbankerteacher
- Biography
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Edward Gay Rohrbough was a Republican United States Representative from West Virginia. He was born in 1874, near Buckhannon, West Virginia, in Upshur County, West Virginia. He served in the Seventy-eighth and Eightieth Congress. He died December 12, 1956.
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George A. Cobham, Jr
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- military officer
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George Ashworth Cobham Jr. commanded the 111th Pennsylvania Infantry in the American Civil War and rose to the rank of brigade commander before being killed in battle.
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Erastus Wentworth
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- Christian minister
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Erastus Wentworth was an educator, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and a missionary to Fuzhou, China.
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Gerald E. McClearn
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- behavior geneticistpsychologist
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Gerald "Jerry" McClearn was an American behavior geneticist and professor emeritus of health and human development and biobehavioral health at the Pennsylvania State University.
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Henry Donnel Foster
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- lawyerpolitician
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Henry Donnel Foster was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1843 to 1847, and from 1871 to 1873.
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John F. Murtaugh
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- 1874-1918 (aged 44)
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- politician
- Biography
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John Francis Murtaugh was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
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W. S. Boreland
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- head coach
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Walter Siverly Borland was an American college football and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Louisiana State University from 1901 to 1903, compiling a record of 15–7. Borland was also the head coach of the LSU baseball team from 1902 to 1903, tallying a mark of 10–11–1. Borland was a graduate of Allegheny College in 1900. While at Allegheny College, he was captain of the baseball team and sophomore class president in 1898. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Allegheny College. He died in 1959 and was buried in Oil City, Pennsylvania.
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Marvin O. Bridges
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- American football player
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Marvin Orestus Bridges was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and football coach. He served in the Spanish-American War, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Milton Barnes
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- lawyerpolitician
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Milton Barnes was a Republican politician who was Ohio Secretary of State from 1877 to 1881.
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Amos Myers
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- lawyerpolitician
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Amos Myers was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Bernadette Geyer
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- 1968-.. (age 57)
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- poetwriter
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Bernadette K. Geyer is a poet, writer, translator, and editor in Berlin, Germany.
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Arthur Laban Bates
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- lawyerpolitician
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Arthur Laban Bates was a Republican politician, lawyer, and businessman from the state of Pennsylvania. Born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, he was the nephew of John Milton Thayer, a U.S. Senator and Governor of Nebraska. Bates received his early education through tutors before graduating from Allegheny College in 1880. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882, later attending Oxford University in England from 1882 to 1883.
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Daniel Brodhead Heiner
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- lawyerpolitician
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Daniel Brodhead Heiner was an American lawyer and politician who served as a two-term Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1897.
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Victor M. Rice
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- 1818-1869 (aged 51)
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- politician
- Biography
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Victor Moreau Rice was an American educator and politician from New York.
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James M. Williams
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- lawyerpolitician
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James M. Williams was a politician from Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio State Senate, and was President of the Senate for two years.
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Samuel Bernard Dick
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- politician
- Biography
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Samuel Bernard Dick was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1881.
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Larry Boylan
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Laurence Charles Boylan was an American educator most notably for serving as an administrator at what is now known as Emporia State University. Before serving as president of the Kansas State Teachers College (KSTC), Boylan was the Dean of Graduate Studies at KSTC and served at a couple of different institutions before coming to Emporia.
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Janette Hill Knox
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- lecturernewspaper editorwritersocial reformertemperance worker
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Janette Hill Knox was an American temperance reformer, suffragist, teacher, author and editor. She served as President of the New Hampshire State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
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John Sherrod
- Enrolled in Allegheny College
- In 1947 graduated with bachelor's degree in mathematics
- Occupations
- meteorologistinformation scientistlibrarian
- Biography
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John Sherrod was an American meteorologist and information scientist.
