100 Notable alumni of
Bates College
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Bates College is 794th in the world, 296th in North America, and 275th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Bates 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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Robert F. Kennedy
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpoliticianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and is an icon of modern American liberalism.
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David Hasselhoff
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- screenwriterwritersingerfilm produceractor
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David Michael Hasselhoff, nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor, singer, and television personality. He has set a Guinness World Record as the most watched man on TV. Hasselhoff first gained recognition on The Young and the Restless (1975–1982), playing the role of Dr. Snapper Foster. His career continued with his leading role as Michael Knight on Knight Rider (1982–1986) and as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in Baywatch (1989–2000). He also produced Baywatch from the 1990s until 2001 when the series ended with Baywatch Hawaii.
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Desmond Tutu
- Occupations
- theologianarchbishopnon-fiction writerpolitical activistevangelical theologian
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Desmond Tutu was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from black theology with African theology.
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Buckminster Fuller
- Occupations
- scientistinventorarchitectmathematicianvisual artist
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Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity".
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Leo Ryan
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- politicianmilitary officerteacher
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Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. was an American teacher and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. representative from California's 11th congressional district from 1973 until his assassination during the Jonestown massacre in 1978. Before that, he served in the California State Assembly, representing the state's 27th district.
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Seamus Heaney
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- authortranslatorwriteruniversity teacheractor
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Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".
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Bryant Gumbel
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- sports commentatorjournalisttelevision personality
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Bryant Charles Gumbel is an American television journalist and sportscaster, best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's Today. He is the younger brother of sportscaster Greg Gumbel. Since 1995, he has hosted HBO's acclaimed investigative series Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, which has been rated as "flat out TV's best sports program" by the Los Angeles Times. It won a Peabody Award in 2012.
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Maria Bamford
- Enrolled in Bates College
- Studied in 1992
- Occupations
- television actorscreenwriterfilm actorvoice actorcomedian
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Maria Bamford is an American actress and stand-up comedian. Her work often uses self-deprecating and dark topics, including her dysfunctional family, depression, anxiety, suicide, and mental illness.
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Minoru Yamasaki
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- architect
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Minoru Yamasaki was a Japanese-American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century. He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally considered to be the two master practitioners of "New Formalism".
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Jan Masaryk
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- diplomatpoliticianopinion journalisttranslatorClerical Officer
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Jan Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech diplomat and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948. American journalist John Gunther described Masaryk as "a brave, honest, turbulent, and impulsive man".
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Elizabeth Strout
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- novelistwriter
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Elizabeth Strout is an American novelist and author. She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine, and her experiences in her youth served as inspiration for her novels–the fictional "Shirley Falls, Maine" is the setting of four of her nine novels.
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Edmund Muskie
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- lawyerpoliticianmilitary officerdiplomat
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Edmund Sixtus Muskie was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981, a United States senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, and a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 1968 presidential election.
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John Shea
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- voice actorfilm directorstage actortelevision actorscreenwriter
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John Victor Shea III is an American actor, film producer, and stage director. His career began on Broadway where he starred in Yentl, subsequently winning his first major award, the 1975 Theatre World Award. Shortly after his Off-Broadway career began, Lee Strasberg invited Shea to join the Actors Studio where he spent several years studying method acting.
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Michael Brooks
- Years
- 1983-2020 (aged 37)
- Enrolled in Bates College
- In 2009 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- writertalk show hostpolitical pundittelevision producerpodcaster
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Michael Jamal Brooks was an American talk show host, writer, political commentator, and comedian. While co-hosting The Majority Report with Sam Seder, he launched The Michael Brooks Show in August 2017 and provided commentary for media outlets, making regular appearances on shows such as The Young Turks. Brooks contributed to various publications, including HuffPost, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, openDemocracy, and Jacobin. His book Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right was published by Zero Books in April 2020.
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Olympia Snowe
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- politicianbusinessperson
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Olympia Jean Snowe is an American businesswoman and politician who was a United States Senator from Maine from 1995 to 2013. Snowe, a member of the Republican Party, became known for her ability to influence the outcome of close votes, including whether to end filibusters. In 2006, she was named one of America's Best Senators by Time magazine. Throughout her Senate career, she was considered one of the most moderate members of the chamber.
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David Chokachi
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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David Chokachi is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles in the TV series Witchblade, Baywatch, and Beyond The Break.
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Joyce White Vance
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- lawyer
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Joyce Alene White Vance is an American lawyer who served as the United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017. She was one of the first five U.S. attorneys, and the first female U.S. attorney, nominated by President Barack Obama.
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Jared Golden
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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Jared Forrest Golden is an American politician and a Marine Corps veteran serving as the U.S. representative for Maine's 2nd congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, his district, the largest east of the Mississippi River by area, covers the northern four-fifths of the state, including Lewiston, Bangor, and Auburn. Golden, along with Angus King and Chellie Pingree, are the first members of Congress to be elected by ranked-choice voting. Golden is the only member of Congress elected after finishing second in the first round of tabulation. He was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as a United States Marine.
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Bob Goodlatte
- Enrolled in Bates College
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert William Goodlatte is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist who served in the United States House of Representatives representing Virginia's 6th congressional district for 13 terms. A Republican, he was also the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over legislation affecting the federal courts, administrative agencies, and federal law enforcement entities. Goodlatte's district covered Roanoke and also included Lexington, Lynchburg, Harrisonburg, and Staunton.
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Lewis Millett
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Lewis Lee Millett Sr. was a United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading the last major American bayonet charge.
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Jeffrey Lynn
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actorteacher
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Jeffrey Lynn was an American stage-screen actor and film producer who worked primarily through the Golden Age of Hollywood establishing himself as one of the premier talents of his time. Throughout his acting career, both on stage and in film, he was typecast as "the attractive, reliable love interest of the heroine," or "the tall, stalwart hero."
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Donald Hall
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- poetchildren's writerwritercritic
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Donald Andrew Hall Jr. was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse. Hall was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard, and Oxford. Early in his career, he became the first poetry editor of The Paris Review (1953–1961), the quarterly literary journal, and was noted for interviewing poets and other authors on their craft.
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Benjamin Mays
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- pastorwriter
- Biography
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Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister and American rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the American civil rights movement. Mays taught and mentored many influential activists, including Martin Luther King Jr, Julian Bond, Maynard Jackson, and Donn Clendenon, among others. His rhetoric and intellectual pursuits focused on Black self-determination. Mays' commitment to social justice through nonviolence and civil resistance were cultivated from his youth through the lessons imbibed from his parents and eldest sister. The peak of his public influence coincided with his nearly three-decade tenure as the sixth president of Morehouse College, a historically black institution of higher learning, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Ben Cline
- Enrolled in Bates College
- In 1994 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Benjamin Lee Cline is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 6th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the 24th district in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2018.
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Amory Lovins
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- writerphysicistcar designerbusinesspersonenvironmentalist
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Amory Bloch Lovins is an American writer, physicist, and former chairman/chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has written on energy policy and related areas for four decades, and served on the US National Petroleum Council, an oil industry lobbying group, from 2011 to 2018.
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William Henry Vanderbilt III
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- naval officerpoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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William Henry Vanderbilt III was an American politician who served as Governor of Rhode Island from 1939 to 1941, and a member of the wealthy and socially prominent Vanderbilt family.
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Art Agnos
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- politiciansocial worker
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Arthur Christ Agnos is an American politician. He served as the 39th mayor of San Francisco, California from 1988 to 1992 and as the Regional Head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 2001.
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David S. Rohde
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- writerjournalist
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David Stephenson Rohde is an American author and investigative journalist, he is the former online news director for The New Yorker and now serves as Senior Executive Editor, National Security, for NBC News. While a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre. From 2002 until 2005, he was co-chief of The New York Times' South Asia bureau, based in New Delhi, India. He later contributed to the newspaper's team coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan that received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and was a finalist in his own right in the category in 2010. He is also a global affairs analyst for CNN.
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George Putnam
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- radio personalityjournalist
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George Putnam was an American television news reporter and talk show host based in Los Angeles. He was known for his catchy phrase "and that’s the up-to-the-minute news, up to the minute, that’s all the news" at the end of his broadcast. He concluded the 5:00 PM news with a teaser, inviting viewers back to get the full story at the station's late evening news program, smiling his signature close, "back at 10, see you then!"
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Corey Harris
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- musicianrecording artistguitarist
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Corey Harris is an American blues and reggae musician, currently residing in Charlottesville, Virginia. Along with Keb' Mo' and Alvin Youngblood Hart, he raised the flag of acoustic guitar blues in the mid-1990s. He was featured on the 2003 PBS television mini-series, The Blues, in an episode directed by Martin Scorsese.
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William Cameron Forbes
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- bankerwriterpoliticiandiplomat
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William Cameron Forbes was an American investment banker and diplomat. He served as governor-general of the Philippines from 1909 to 1913 and ambassador of the United States to Japan from 1930 to 1932.
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Kenneth M. Curtis
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- diplomatlawyermilitary officer
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Kenneth Merwin Curtis is an American attorney, Democratic politician, and diplomat. He was the Maine Secretary of State from 1965-1966, the Governor of Maine from 1966-1974, and the United States Ambassador to Canada from 1979 to 1981. Curtis is a member of the Democratic Party and is currently Of Counsel at the Curtis Thaxter law firm in Portland, Maine, which he founded in 1975.
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Warren H. Carroll
- Enrolled in Bates College
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Warren H. Carroll was the founder and first president of Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. He authored multiple works of Roman Catholic church history.
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William H. Gray
- Enrolled in Bates College
- Graduated with Doctor of Humane Letters
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersonlobbyist
- Biography
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William Herbert Gray III was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1979 to 1991. He also served as chairman of the House Committee on the Budget from 1985 to 1989 and House Majority Whip from 1989 to 1991. He resigned from Congress in September of that year to become president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund, a position he held until 2004.
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William P. Frye
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- politicianlawyer
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William Pierce Frye was an American politician from Maine. A member of the Republican Party, Frye spent most of his political career as a legislator, serving in the Maine House of Representatives and then U.S. House of Representatives, before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served for 30 years before dying in office. Frye was a member of the Frye political family, and was the grandfather of Wallace H. White Jr., and the son of John March Frye. He was also a prominent member of the Peucinian Society tradition.
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Andrew Gruel
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- chef
- Biography
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Andrew Gruel is an American chef and television personality, based in Orange County, California. He appeared as a judge on Food Network's Food Truck Face Off and as a host of FYI's Say It to My Face!, and is the founder of Slapfish, a seafood restaurant franchise that he launched in 2012 and sold to Mac Haik Enterprises in 2022. He is the founder, CEO and executive chef of Big Parm, a pizza restaurant in Tustin, California; Two Birds, a chicken restaurant in Irvine, California; Butterleaf, a plant-based restaurant in Irvine, California; and Calico Fish House, a casual seafood restaurant in Huntington Beach, California.
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Frank Sandford
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- clergymanpreacher
- Biography
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Frank Weston Sandford was a charismatic Christian religious leader in the United States who attained notoriety as the founder and leader of an apocalyptic sect known as "The Kingdom".
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George S. Hammond
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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George Simms Hammond was an American scientist and theoretical chemist who developed "Hammond's postulate", and fathered organic photochemistry,–the general theory of the geometric structure of the transition state in an organic chemical reaction. Hammond's research is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. His research garnered him the Norris Award in 1968, the Priestley Medal in 1976, the National Medal of Science in 1994, and the Othmer Gold Medal in 2003. He served as the executive chairman of the Allied Chemical Corporation from 1979 to 1989.
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Aaron S. Daggett
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- military officer
- Biography
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Aaron Simon Daggett was a career United States Army officer. He was the last surviving brevet Union general of the American Civil War, and the last surviving general of any grade from the war, when he died one month shy of his 101st birthday in 1938. Daggett was nominated for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general, to rank from March 13, 1865, by President Andrew Johnson on February 21, 1866 and was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 10, 1866. During the war, Daggett fought at West Point, Gaines' Mill, Golding's Farm, White Oak Swamp, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Rappahannock Station, Fredericksburg, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Mine Run, Battle of the Wilderness and Battle of Cold Harbor. Daggett was a brigadier general of volunteers in the Spanish–American War. He was appointed to the brigadier general grade to rank from September 1, 1898 and was mustered out of the volunteers on November 30, 1898. He was promoted to brigadier general in the Regular Army (United States) ten days before his retirement from the army on March 2, 1901.
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Dorothy Clarke Wilson
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- novelist
- Biography
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Dorothy Clarke Wilson was an American writer, perhaps best known for her novel Prince of Egypt (1949), which was a primary source for the Cecil B. DeMille film, The Ten Commandments (1956).
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Rennie Harris
- Enrolled in Bates College
- Studied in 2010
- Occupations
- choreographeruniversity teacheracademic
- Biography
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Lorenzo Harris is a dancer, choreographer, artistic director and professor of hip-hop dance. Harris formed the first and longest running hip-hop dance touring company, Rennie Harris Puremovement in 1992. In 2007, he conceived another touring company, RHAW or Rennie Harris Awe-Inspiring Works.
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Max Kampelman
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- lawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Max Kampelman was an American diplomat.
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James Russell Wiggins
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- editordiplomat
- Biography
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James Russell Wiggins was an American managing editor of The Washington Post and United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Marguerite Zorach
- Occupations
- painterdrawerartisttextile artist
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Marguerite Zorach was an American Fauvist painter, textile artist, and graphic designer, and was an early exponent of modernism in America. She won the 1920 Logan Medal of the Arts.
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Eugene Hale
- Occupations
- prosecutorpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Eugene Hale was a Republican United States Senator from Maine.
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Harold Drew
- Occupations
- player of American footballbasketball coachathletics competitor
- Biography
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Harold Delbert "Red" Drew was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach for over 40 years. He was the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team from 1947 to 1954, compiling a 54–28–7 record and leading the team to appearances in the Sugar, Orange and Cotton Bowls. He also served as an assistant football coach at Alabama from 1931 to 1941, including the undefeated 1934 team that won the national championship and played in the 1935 Rose Bowl. Drew also served as Alabama's track and field coach for 23 seasons continuing into the mid-1960s. He was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1971.
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Mark Erelli
- Occupations
- songwritermusician
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Mark Erelli is an American singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and touring folk musician from Reading, Massachusetts who earned a master's degree in evolutionary biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst before pursuing a career in music. Erelli has released nine solo albums and three collaborative albums. His self-titled debut album was released in 1999, the same year that he won the Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk Award. His first recording for the Signature Sounds label, Compass & Companion, spent ten weeks in the Top Ten on the Americana Chart. Erelli has worked as a side musician for singer songwriters Lori McKenna and Josh Ritter. He has performed at various music festivals and shared the stage with John Hiatt, Dave Alvin, and Gillian Welch. Erelli's song “People Look Around”, which he co-wrote with Catie Curtis, was the Grand Prize winner at the 2005 International Songwriting Competition. His songs have been recorded by Ellis Paul, Vance Gilbert, Antje Duvekot, and Red Molly.
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Sylvia Porter
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerwritereditoreconomistjournalist
- Biography
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Sylvia Field Porter was an American economist, journalist and author. At the height of her career, her readership was greater than 40 million people.
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Evette Rios
- Occupations
- television presenterwriter
- Biography
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Evette Ríos is an American bilingual lifestyle expert, writer, television host, designer and native New Yorker of Puerto Rican heritage.
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William Whipple Warren
- Occupations
- historiantranslatorwriterpolitician
- Biography
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William Whipple Warren was a historian, interpreter, and legislator in the Minnesota Territory. The son of Lyman Marcus Warren, an American fur trader and Mary Cadotte, the Ojibwe-Metis daughter of fur trader Michel Cadotte, he was of Ojibwe and French descent. William lived in two cultures, because his father was white, he was not considered Ojibwe, but an Ojibwe "relative", because in the Ojibwe patrilineal culture, inheritance and property were passed through the paternal line. His mother was Ojibwe and he learned her culture from her family. He is the first historian of the Ojibwe people in the European tradition.
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John Dunjee
- Occupations
- writermissionary
- Biography
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John William Dunjee was an American missionary, educator, Baptist minister, publisher, agent of Storer College and founder of Baptist churches across the United States.
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Nicholas A. Basbanes
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- journalistwritermilitary officer
- Biography
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Nicholas Andrew Basbanes is an American author who writes and lectures about authors, books, and book culture. His subjects include the "eternal passion for books" (A Gentle Madness); the history and future of libraries (Patience & Fortitude); the "willful destruction of books" and the "determined effort to rescue them" (A Splendor of Letters); "the power of the printed word to stir the world" (Every Book Its Reader); the invention of paper and its effect on civilization (On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History) and an exploration of Longfellow's life and art (Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
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Frank M. Coffin
- Occupations
- judgelawyerpoliticianmilitary officerartist
- Biography
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Frank Morey Coffin was an American politician from Maine and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
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Frank Haven Hall
- Occupations
- inventor
- Biography
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Frank Haven Hall was an American inventor and essayist who is credited with inventing the Hall braille writer and the stereographer machine. He also invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking.
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Andrew Baron
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- television directorvideo bloggertelevision producer
- Biography
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Andrew Michael Baron is the founder of Rocketboom, video aggregator Magma and Humanwire, and the co-founder of Know Your Meme. Baron has taught undergraduate and graduate classes at Parsons School of Design and was teaching IDTech at M.I.T. when he came up with the idea for Rocketboom.
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Ralph Lowell
- Occupations
- bankerphilanthropist
- Biography
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Major Ralph Lowell was a World War I veteran, banker, and philanthropist from Boston.
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Constance Berry Newman
- Enrolled in Bates College
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Constance Ernestine Berry Newman is an American attorney and diplomat who served as the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from July 2004 to April 2005.
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Franklin Simmons
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Franklin Bachelder Simmons was a prominent American sculptor of the nineteenth century. Three of his statues are in the National Statuary Hall Collection, three of his busts are in the United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection, and his statue of Ulysses S. Grant is in the United States Capitol Rotunda.
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Nora Demleitner
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Nora V. Demleitner is a German-American jurist and academic administrator. She is the president of St. John's College - Annapolis (2022–present). Prior to this, she served as the dean of Washington and Lee University School of Law from 2012-2015 and dean of Hofstra University School of Law from 2007-2012.
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James A. Murphy III
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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James A. Murphy III is an American politician, a former district attorney, and a jurist. He is currently an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York and the county court judge for Saratoga County, New York.
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Holman S. Melcher
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Holman Staples Melcher was an American military officer, businessman, and politician active during the Reconstruction Era. A faction of historians and soldiers controversially contend that he led the downhill bayonet charge of Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg. Aside from his feats during the American Civil War, he served two one-year terms as the Mayor of Portland, Maine, from 1889 to 1890.
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Jeffrey Roy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jeffrey N. Roy is a State Representative in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts General Court. Roy represents the 10th Norfolk District, which includes the Town of Franklin, Massachusetts in its entirety, and Precincts 2, 3, and 4 of the Town of Medway, Massachusetts. Roy was elected on the 6th of November, 2012.
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Natasha Friend
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerwriter
- Biography
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Natasha Friend is an American author. Her first three books are the award-winning, young adult novels Perfect, Lush, and Bounce.
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Sidney Perham
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sidney Perham was a U.S. Representative and the 33rd Governor of Maine and was an activist in the temperance movement.
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Charles Russell Clason
- Enrolled in Bates College
- In 1911 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- In 1914 graduated with Legum Doctor
- Occupations
- politiciandeanlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Russell Clason was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts and an attorney. Clason was born in Gardiner, Maine. He attended Bates College, and received his law degree from Georgetown University. Clason went on to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Ru Freeman
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan born writer and activist whose creative and political work has appeared internationally, including in the UK Guardian, The Boston Globe, and the New York Times. She is the author of the novels A Disobedient Girl, and On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf Press), a NYT Editor’s Choice Book. Both novels have been translated into multiple languages including Italian, French, Turkish, Dutch, and Chinese. She is editor of the anthology, Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine (OR Books, 2015 and Interlink, 2016), a collection of the voices of 65 American poets and writers speaking about America’s dis/engagement with Palestine, and co-editor of the anthology, Indivisible: Global Leaders on Shared Security (Interlink, 2019). She holds a graduate degree in labor studies, researching female migrant labor in the countries of Kuwait, the U.A.E, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and has worked at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, in the South Asia office of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL/CIO), and the American Friends Service Committee in their humanitarian and disaster relief programs. She is a contributing editorial board member of the Asian American Literary Review, and a fellow of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Lannan Foundation. She is the 2014 winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman. She writes for the Huffington Post on books and politics.
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Nelson Dingley
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Nelson Dingley Jr. was a journalist and politician from the U.S. state of Maine.
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Alicia M. Soderberg
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Alicia Margarita Soderberg is an American astrophysicist whose research focused on supernovae. She was an assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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James Porter
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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James Ezekiel Porter was one of General Custer's eleven officers killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand, and Porter was among the first verified casualties of the historic battle alerting the world to the demise of Custer's group. According to several historians, Porter led troops in a defensive action at the Little Bighorn. Porter also served in the American South during the Reconstruction Era, where, according to a comrade, he respectably served "Ku Klux" duty while the 7th Cavalry was charged with eradicating the Ku Klux Klan and illegal distilling.
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Rick Sullivan
- Biography
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Richard K. "Rick" Sullivan, Jr. is an American politician who served as chief of staff to Governor Deval Patrick from 2014 to 2015. Before assuming the office, Sullivan was the former secretary of energy and environmental affairs of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and former mayor of Westfield, Massachusetts.
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Matt Tavares
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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Matthew Manuel Tavares is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books.
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Karen Hastie Williams
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Karen Hastie Williams was an American lawyer and company director.
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Harry Lord
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- baseball player
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Harry Donald Lord was an American professional baseball player who played for the Boston Americans/Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Buffalo Blues from 1907 to 1915.
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Ella Knowles Haskell
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- suffragistpoliticianlawyer
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Ella Knowles Haskell was an American lawyer, suffragist, and politician. Born in New Hampshire, she moved to Montana to improve her health following a bout of tuberculosis and there became the first woman to be licensed as a lawyer, the first female notary public, the first woman to run for Montana State Attorney General, and the 26th woman to be admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court. She served as the President of the Montana Equal Suffrage Association and was widely known in Montana for her advancement of the suffrage movement, political feminism and social equity.
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Albert Spear
- Years
- 1852-1929 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
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Albert Moore Spear was the Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and President of the Maine Senate.
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Jamie P. Merisotis
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- philanthropist
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Jamie Merisotis is the current president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, a private organization in the United States that aims to increase the number of Americans holding high-quality degrees, certificates, and credentials to 60% by 2025. With an endowment of $1.6 billion, Merisotis leads the foundation's efforts towards this goal.
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Harlan Holden
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- athletics competitorbaseball player
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Harlan Ware Holden was an American athlete who competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics in the track and field 800-meter run and in the exhibition baseball tournament. Holden was one of four Americans who played for the Swedish team. Harlan attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
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Jeff Cook
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United States - Occupations
- association football playerhead coach
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Jeff Cook is an American soccer coach. He is currently the head men's soccer coach at Pennsylvania State University.
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Lillian M. N. Stevens
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- activisttemperance worker
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Lillian M. N. Stevens was an American temperance worker and social reformer, born at Dover, Maine. She helped launch the Maine chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), served as its president, and was elected president of the National W.C.T.U. after the death of Frances Willard. Stevens also served as Editor-in-chief of the W.C.T.U.'s organ, The Union Signal.
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Daniel J. McGillicuddy
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- politicianlawyer
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Daniel J. McGillicuddy was a United States representative from Maine.
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Enoch Foster
- Years
- 1839-1913 (aged 74)
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- judgelawyer
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Enoch Foster was a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.
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Carroll L. Beedy
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- politicianlawyer
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Carroll Lynwood Beedy was a U.S. Representative from Maine from 1921 to 1935.
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E. Robert Kinney
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- businessperson
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Robert Kinney was an American businessman, fishery entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He served as the chief executive officer of General Mills from 1973 to 1981, previously serving as chief financial officer. He was appointed Trustee Chair Emeritus of his alma mater, Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine and served for 27 years.
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Nathan Cook Brackett
- Years
- 1836-..
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Nathan Cook Brackett was an abolitionist, Free Will Baptist pastor, first president of Storer College, and chairman and co-founder of Bluefield State College.
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Erwin Dain Canham
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- journalistwritereditor
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Erwin Dain Canham was an American journalist and author. He was best known for his work as the longest-serving editor of The Christian Science Monitor. He also was the first, and last, Resident Commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands as it was in the process of becoming a commonwealth of the United States; and he was very active in various civic, political, and journalistic activities.
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John T. Abbott
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- diplomat
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John True Abbott was an American diplomat and lawyer who served as the United States Ambassador to Colombia from 1889 to 1893.
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Scott Wilson
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Scott Wilson was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
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George C. Chase
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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George Colby Chase was an American intellectual and professor of English who served as the second President of Bates College succeeding its founder, Oren Burbank Cheney, from March 1894 to November 1919.
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Donald B. Partridge
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- politicianlawyer
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Donald Barrows Partridge was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Partridge served in the United States House of Representatives for a single term in the 1930s and was a Republican Party leader in Oxford County during the 1920s and 30s.
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Morton A. Brody
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- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Morton Aaron Brody was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine from 1991 to 2000.
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Grenville C. Emery
- Years
- 1843-1927 (aged 84)
- Occupations
- educator
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Grenville C. Emery was an educator, author, head master and founder of what is now the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California.
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Albert A. Newman
- Occupations
- banker
- Biography
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Albert Augustus Newman was an American businessman, merchant and banker who is most known as the founder and president of Newman Dry Goods Company.
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William Prendergast
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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William J. Prendergast IV is a United States Army major general who served as Commander, Joint Task Force – Civil Support. He previously served as Commander, Contingency Command Post 1 and Task Force 51 of United States Army North. He also served as the Deputy Commanding General of U.S. Army Africa as well as the Army Reserve Component Integration Advisor for the unit.
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Vaughn Blanchard
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- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Vaughn Seavey Blanchard was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 110 m hurdles and in the exhibition baseball tournament at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He attended Bates College in Lewiston Maine and later became a well known physical education proponent in Michigan.
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Frederick Hayes
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Frederick Hayes was an American military officer, Union Army engineer, and early manager of Pfizer who served in the American Civil War and was awarded a Medal of Honor.
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Robert Witt
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 84)
- Biography
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Robert E. Witt is an American businessman, and academic administrator. He is the former Chancellor of the University of Alabama System, concurrently serving as the Chairman of the Council of Presidents of Alabama’s public colleges and universities.
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Stella James Sims
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- biologist
- Biography
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Stella James Sims was an African-American science professor who held positions at Storer College, Virginia University of Lynchburg, and Bluefield Colored Institute.
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Mary Mitchell Birchall
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- teacher
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Mary Mitchell Birchall, born Mary Wheelwright Mitchell, was the first woman in New England to earn a bachelor's degree when she graduated from Bates College in 1869. She later served as a professor at Vassar College and founded a girls' school in Boston.
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Henry Wilkins Chandler
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- politician
- Biography
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Henry Wilkins Chandler was an American lawyer, newspaperman, politician, and federal official. Born a freeman, he was the first African American graduate from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He served two terms in the Florida State Senate.
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George Edwin Smith
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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George Edwin Smith was a Massachusetts lawyer, legal writer, and politician. He served three terms as the President of the Massachusetts Senate. Previous to his assumption of the Senate Presidency, he served as a member of the Massachusetts Senate, elected from the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
