92 Notable alumni of
Carleton College
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Carleton College is 684th in the world, 255th in North America, and 235th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 92 notable alumni from Carleton 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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Zach McGowan
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in American studies
- Occupations
- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Zachary Brendan McGowan is an American film, television and voice actor. He is known for his roles in television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Anton Ivanov / The Superior, Shameless, Black Sails, and The 100. Other highlights include parts in the films Terminator Salvation, The Hunt for Eagle One, and the sequel The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point. He guest-starred in the television series Numbers, CSI: Miami, and Cold Case, with voice-over work for the Scream Awards, Animal Planet and the video games Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, and Iron Man.
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Peter Tork
- Occupations
- songwritermusicianfilm actorbassistguitarist
- Biography
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Peter Halsten Thorkelson, better known by his stage name Peter Tork, was an American musician and actor. He was best known as the bass guitarist and keyboardist of the Monkees and co-star of the NBC television series of the same name (1966–68).
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Jimmy Chin
- Occupations
- film directormountaineerphotographerfilm producer
- Biography
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Jimmy Chin is an American professional mountain athlete, photographer, skier, film director, and author.
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Jack Lew
- Occupations
- lawyerinternational forum participantpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jacob Joseph Lew is an American attorney and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Israel. He was the seventy-sixth United States secretary of the treasury from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the twenty-fifth White House chief of staff from 2012 to 2013 and as director of the Office of Management and Budget in both the Clinton administration and Obama administration.
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Thorstein Veblen
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- In 1880 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- economistwritersociologistprofessor
- Biography
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Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.
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Chris Kratt
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in biology
- Occupations
- television actorbiologistdocumentary filmmakerscreenwritervoice actor
- Biography
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Christopher Frederick James Kratt is an American zoologist, educational nature show host and YouTuber. A grandson of musical-instrument manufacturer William Jacob "Bill" Kratt, he and his older brother Martin grew up in Warren Township, New Jersey, and together created children's television series Kratts' Creatures, Zoboomafoo, and Be the Creature (which aired on the National Geographic Channel and CBC), as well as Wild Kratts (which airs on PBS Kids and TVOKids). He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Carleton College. Chris co-hosts all of his educational childhood programs with his older brother Martin Kratt.
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Jack Carson
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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John Elmer Carson, known as Jack Carson, was a Canadian-born American film actor. Carson often played the role of comedic friend in films of the 1940s and 1950s, including The Strawberry Blonde (1941) with James Cagney and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) with Cary Grant. He appeared in such dramas as Mildred Pierce (1945), A Star is Born (1954), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). He worked for RKO and MGM (where he was cast opposite Myrna Loy and William Powell in Love Crazy, 1941), but most of his notable work was for Warner Bros.
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Max Baucus
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Studied in 1959-1960
- Occupations
- lawyerathletics competitorpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Maxwell Sieben Baucus is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Montana from 1978 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a U.S. senator for over 35 years, making him the longest-serving U.S. senator in Montana history. President Barack Obama appointed Baucus to replace Gary Locke as the 11th U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, a position he held from 2014 until 2017.
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Jonathan Capehart
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in political science
- Occupations
- international forum participantjournalist
- Biography
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Jonathan T. Capehart is an American journalist and television commentator. He writes for The Washington Post's PostPartisan blog and is host of The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC.
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Melvin Laird
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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Melvin Robert Laird Jr. was an American politician, writer and statesman. He was a U.S. congressman from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon. Laird was instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam War; he coined the expression "Vietnamization," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces. First elected in 1952, Laird was the last living Representative elected to the 83rd Congress at the time of his death.
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Laura Veirs
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Studied geology
- Occupations
- children's writersinger-songwritertranslatorcomposerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Laura Pauline Veirs is an American singer-songwriter based in Portland, Oregon. She is known for her folk/alternative country records and live performances as well as her collaboration with Neko Case and k.d. lang on the case/lang/veirs project. Veirs has written a children's book and hosts a podcast about parenting and performing.
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Dennis Meadows
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in chemistry
- Occupations
- economistwriterecologist
- Biography
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Dennis Lynn Meadows is an American scientist and Emeritus Professor of Systems Management, and former director of the Institute for Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire. He is President of the Laboratory for Interactive Learning and widely known as a coauthor of The Limits to Growth.
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Walter Alvarez
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in geology
- Occupations
- archaeologistphysicistuniversity teacherpaleontologistgeologist
- Biography
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Walter Alvarez is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most widely known for the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact, developed in collaboration with his father, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Luis Alvarez.
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Kai Bird
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in history
- Occupations
- journalisthistoriandocumentary participantbiographer
- Biography
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Kai Bird is an American author and columnist, best known for his works on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, United States-Middle East political relations, and his biographies of political figures. He won a Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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Barrie M. Osborne
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in sociology
- Occupations
- film producerfilm directorexecutive producer
- Biography
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Barrie Mitchell Osborne is an American film producer, production manager and director.
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Mary-Claire King
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- 1963-1966 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- biologistgeneticisthuman rights activistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Mary-Claire King is an American geneticist. She was the first to show that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the gene she called BRCA1. She studies human genetics and is particularly interested in genetic heterogeneity and complex traits. She studies the interaction of genetics and environmental influences and their effects on human conditions such as breast and ovarian cancer, inherited deafness, schizophrenia, HIV, systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. She has been the American Cancer Society Professor of the Department of Genome Sciences and of Medical Genetics in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington since 1995.
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Arnold W. Donald
- Occupations
- chief executive officerentrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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Arnold W. Donald is an American businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Carnival Corporation & plc from July 2013 to August 2022, when he became vice-chairman.
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Betsy Johnson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elizabeth Katharine Johnson is an American aviator, entrepreneur, and politician who served in the Oregon House of Representatives from the 1st and 31st House districts from 2001 to 2005, and in the Oregon Senate from the 16th district from 2005 to 2021, as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to her tenure in the state legislature she served on the Port of St. Helens board and worked in the Oregon Department of Transportation.
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Parker Palmer
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in philosophy
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Parker J. Palmer is an American author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He has published ten books and numerous essays and poems, and is founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage and Renewal. His work has been recognized with major foundation grants, several national awards, and thirteen honorary doctorates.
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Andrij Parekh
- Occupations
- film directorcinematographer
- Biography
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Andrij Parekh is an American cinematographer and television director.
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Barbara Fredrickson
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in psychology
- Occupations
- psychologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Barbara Lee Fredrickson is an American professor in the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab (PEPLab) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Lila Abu-Lughod
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and sociology
- Occupations
- anthropologist
- Biography
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Lila Abu-Lughod is a Palestinian-American anthropologist. She is the Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City. She specializes in ethnographic research in the Arab world, and her seven books cover topics including sentiment and poetry, nationalism and media, gender politics and the politics of memory.
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Garrick Utley
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Clifton Garrick Utley was an American television journalist. He established his career reporting about the Vietnam War and has the distinction of being the first full-time television correspondent covering the war on-site.
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Ernest Lundeen
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ernest Lundeen was an American lawyer and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives from 1917 to 1919 and 1933 to 1937 and the United States Senate from 1937 until his death in 1940. Lundeen was a member of the Republican Party before joining the Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party.
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Peter Schjeldahl
- Occupations
- journalistpoetuniversity teacherart critic
- Biography
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Peter Charles Schjeldahl was an American art critic, poet, and educator. He was noted for being the head art critic at The New Yorker, having earlier written for The Village Voice, ARTnews, and The New York Times.
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Gail Omvedt
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Gail Omvedt was an American-born Indian sociologist and human rights activist. She was a prolific writer and published numerous books on the anti-caste movement, Dalit politics, and women's struggles in India. Omvedt was involved in Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental, farmers' and women's movements, especially with rural women.
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Patricia Wrede
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in biology
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerscience fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Patricia Collins Wrede is an American author of fantasy literature. She is known for her Enchanted Forest Chronicles series for young adults, which was voted number 84 in NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels list.
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Tom Nelson
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in government
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas M. Nelson is an American public administrator and politician serving as the county executive of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, Nelson previously served in the Wisconsin State Assembly for six years, and was the Democratic majority leader for the 2009–2010 session. He was a candidate in the 2022 Democratic primary election for the United States Senate, he withdrew from the race in late July and endorsed Mandela Barnes.
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Rush D. Holt, Jr
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- In 1970 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in physics
- Occupations
- astrophysicistPrinceton Plasma Physics Laboratoryuniversity teacherphysicistfellow
- Biography
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Rush Dew Holt Jr. is an American scientist and politician who served as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1999 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party and son of former West Virginia U.S. Senator Rush D. Holt Sr. He worked as a professor of public policy and physics, and during his tenure in Congress he was one of two physicists and the only Quaker there.
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Michael Armacost
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in government
- Occupations
- university teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Michael Hayden Armacost is a retired American diplomat and a fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute. He was acting United States Secretary of State during the early days of the administration of President George H. W. Bush, before Secretary James Baker was confirmed by the Senate. Armacost also served as United States Ambassador to Japan and the president of the Brookings Institution from 1995 to 2002.
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Bill Fleckenstein
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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William Peter Fleckenstein was an American professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons with the Chicago Bears, the Portsmouth Spartans, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the Frankford Yellow Jackets.
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John F. Harris
- Occupations
- journalistpolitical journalistinternational forum participanteditor
- Biography
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John F. Harris is an American political journalist and the co-founder of Politico, an Arlington, Virginia-based political news organization. With former partner Jim VandeHei, Harris founded Politico on January 23, 2007, and served as editor-in-chief until 2019. Harris is the author of a book on Bill Clinton called The Survivor, and the co-author of The Way to Win: Clinton, Bush, Rove and How to Take the White House in 2008, with Mark Halperin.
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Clara Jeffery
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Clara Jeffery is an American journalist who is the editor in chief of Mother Jones.
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Hal Higdon
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in English literature and studio art
- Occupations
- athletics competitorcoachwritersportswriter
- Biography
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Hal Higdon is an American writer and runner known for his training plans. He is the author of 34 books, including the best-selling Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1959, and has written a variety of subjects including a children's book that was made into an animated feature. He has contributed to Runner's World magazine longer than any other writer. He ran eight times in the United States Olympic Trials and won four World Masters Championships. He is one of the founders of the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA).
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Katherine Rowe
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in English
- Occupations
- academic administratorteacher
- Biography
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Katherine Anandi Rowe is an American scholar of Renaissance literature and media history. She was named the twenty-eighth president of the College of William & Mary on February 20, 2018. She began her service on July 2, 2018 succeeding W. Taylor Reveley III, who had served as president since 2008 and is the first woman to be named president. After seven months in office, Rowe was formally inaugurated on February 8, 2019 as part of the university's annual Charter Day ceremony.
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Jane Hamilton
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English
- Occupations
- novelistwritervisiting scholar
- Biography
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Jane Hamilton is an American novelist.
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Robert C. Allen
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teachereconomic historianhistorian of technologyagrarian historian
- Biography
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Robert Carson Allen is Professor of Economic History at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research interests are economic history, technological change and public policy and he has written extensively on English agricultural history. He has also studied international competition in the steel industry, the extinction of Bowhead Whales in the Eastern Arctic, and contemporary policies on education.
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Robert Kastenmeier
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Robert William Kastenmeier was an American Democratic politician who represented central Wisconsin in the United States House of Representatives for 32 years, from 1959 until 1991. He was a key sponsor of the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.
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Richard E. Stearns
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- In 1958 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in mathematics
- Occupations
- computer scientisteditoruniversity teacherengineermathematician
- Biography
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Richard Edwin Stearns is an American computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory". In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Jessica Abel
- Occupations
- comics artistcomics writer
- Biography
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Jessica Abel is an American comic book writer and artist, known as the creator of such works as Life Sucks, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, Soundtrack, La Perdida, Mirror, Window, Radio: An Illustrated Guide (with collaborator Ira Glass), and the omnibus series Artbabe.
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Dale Ahlquist
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in history
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Dale Ahlquist is an American author and advocate of the thought of G. K. Chesterton. Ahlquist is the president and co-founder of the American Chesterton Society and the publisher of its magazine, Gilbert. He is also the co-founder of Chesterton Academy, a Catholic high school in Minneapolis.
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Jerry Relph
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jerry O. Relph was an American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. A Republican, he represented District 14 in central Minnesota from 2017 until his death from COVID-19 complications in 2020. Six weeks before his death, he attended a superspreader event, along with several other Minnesota Republicans, where attendees did not comply with public health recommendations, such as wearing protective face masks.
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Warren P. Knowles
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Warren Perley Knowles III was an American lawyer and politician, and was the 36th Governor of Wisconsin. Prior to that, he was the 32nd and 34th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, and represented St. Croix, Buffalo, Pepin, and Pierce Counties in the Wisconsin Senate for fourteen years.
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T. J. Stiles
- Occupations
- biographer
- Biography
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T. J. Stiles is an American biographer who lives in Berkeley, California. His book The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) won a National Book Award and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His book Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History.
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Fred Risser
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Fred A. Risser is a retired American Democratic politician from Madison, Wisconsin. He holds the record as the longest-serving state legislator in American history, having served 58 years in the Wisconsin State Senate and six years in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Risser represented most of the city of Madison, including the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was president of the Senate for 26 years and never lost an election. By 2019 Risser was the last World War II veteran serving as a state legislator in the United States. Risser was the fourth generation of his family to serve in the state legislature. His father, Fred E. Risser, had represented the same state senate district.
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Karl Mundt
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Studied in 1923
- Occupations
- politicianteacherschool superintendentreal estate agentfarmer
- Biography
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Karl Earl Mundt was an American educator and a Republican member of the United States Congress, representing South Dakota in the United States House of Representatives (1939–1948) and in the United States Senate (1948–1973).
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Susan Golding
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in government
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Susan G. Golding is an American Republican politician from California, best known as the former two-term mayor of San Diego. She is currently president and CEO of the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation in San Diego. and formerly president and CEO of the Golding Group, a strategy consulting firm and a Senior Fellow of Public Policy at the University of California at Los Angeles. She also serves on the boards and advisory committees of several organizations, including the Pacific Council on International Policy and the International Republican Institute.
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Paul Tewes
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in political science
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Paul Tewes is a Democratic strategist specializing in national political organizing in the United States.
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Pamela Dean
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in English
- Occupations
- novelistscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Pamela Collins Dean Dyer-Bennet, better known as Pamela Dean, is an American fantasy author whose best-known book is Tam Lin, based on the Child Ballad of the same name, in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern college campus loosely based on her alma mater, Carleton College in Minnesota.
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David Wright
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- docentwriter
- Biography
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David Wright is an American writer.
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William Benton
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Studied in 1917-1918
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpoliticianchancellordiplomat
- Biography
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William Burnett Benton was an American senator from Connecticut (1949–1953) and publisher of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1943–1973).
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Brenda K. Sannes
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Brenda Kay Sannes is an American lawyer who serves as the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. She is a former assistant United States attorney who served from 1988 to 2014.
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Stub Allison
- Occupations
- player of American footballbasketball coach
- Biography
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Leonard Blaine "Stub" Allison was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Washington (1920), the University of South Dakota (1922–1926), at the University of California, Berkeley (1935–1944), compiling a career college football record of 80–66–5. At California, Allison amassed a 58–42–2 record. In 1937 and 1938, he guided the Bears to back-to-back ten-win seasons, which was at the time the only such occurrence in school history. His 1937 squad, dubbed the "Thunder Team", won the 1938 Rose Bowl, was named the national champions by a number of selectors, and is considered by some sportswriters to have been the best team in school history. While at Washington, Allison also coached the baseball team, in 1920 and 1921, and the basketball team, in 1920.
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Joe Bach
- Occupations
- player of American footballAmerican football coach
- Biography
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Joseph Anthony Bach was one of Notre Dame's famed "Seven Mules" and later the head coach for the NFL's Pittsburgh Pirates (1935–36) and later the renamed Pittsburgh Steelers (1952–53).
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Kalamu ya Salaam
- Occupations
- science fiction writernovelistpoet
- Biography
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Kalamu ya Salaam is an American poet, author, filmmaker, and teacher from the 9th Ward of New Orleans. A well-known activist and social critic, Salaam has spoken out on a number of racial and human rights issues. For years he did radio shows on WWOZ. Salaam is the co-founder of the NOMMO Literary Society, a weekly workshop for Black writers.
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Jane Elizabeth Hodgson
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in chemistry
- Occupations
- physiciangynaecologistobstetrician
- Biography
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Jane Elizabeth Hodgson was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. Hodgson received a bachelor's degree from Carleton College and her M.D. from the University of Minnesota. She trained at the Jersey City Medical Center and at the Mayo Clinic.
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Joseph A. A. Burnquist
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist was an American attorney and Republican politician in Minnesota. He served in the Minnesota State Legislature from 1909 to 1911, was elected the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota in 1912, and then served as the 19th Governor of Minnesota from December 30, 1915, to January 5, 1921. He became governor after the death of Governor Winfield Scott Hammond (1863–1915).
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Audrey G. Fleissig
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Audrey Goldstein Fleissig is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. She also is a former United States Attorney.
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Jamie Long
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jamie Long is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2019. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Long represents District 61B, which includes parts of southern Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
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Robert Keith Gray
- Occupations
- lobbyist
- Biography
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Robert Keith Gray was a Republican activist and public relations executive who founded Gray and Company in 1981 after working with Hill & Knowlton. He was President Dwight D. Eisenhower's White House Cabinet Secretary.
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Pierce Butler
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Pierce Butler was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1939. He was a staunch conservative and was regarded as a part of the Four Horsemen, the conservative bloc that dominated the Supreme Court during the 1930s. A devout Catholic, he was also the sole dissenter in the later case Buck v. Bell, though he did not write an opinion.
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Osborne Cowles
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- Occupations
- player of American footballbasketball coachbaseball player
- Biography
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Osborne Bryan "Ozzie" Cowles was an American basketball player and coach. He was the head men's basketball coach at Carleton College (1924–1930), River Falls State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin–River Falls) (1932–1936), Dartmouth College (1936–1946), University of Michigan (1946–1948), and University of Minnesota (1948–1959). He was also the head baseball coach and assistant basketball and football coach at Iowa State Teachers College, now the University of Northern Iowa during 1923–24. In 30 seasons as a collegiate head basketball coach, Cowles compiled a record of 416–189 (.688). His teams competed in the NCAA basketball tournament six times. At the time of his retirement in 1959, Cowles ranked among the top 15 college basketball coaches of all time by number of games won. He has been inducted into the Helms Foundation Hall of Fame, the Dartmouth "Wearers of the Green," the University of Minnesota "M" Club Hall of Fame, the Carleton College Hall of Fame, and the University of Wisconsin-River Falls Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Bonnie Nadzam
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Bonnie Nadzam is an American writer. She is a native of Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
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Evelyn M. Anderson
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in chemistry
- Occupations
- biochemistuniversity teacherphysiologist
- Biography
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Evelyn M. Anderson was an American physiologist and biochemist, most known for her co-discovery of adrenocorticotropic hormone (adreno-cortical thyroid hormone or ACTH) in 1934.
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Ken Christianson
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposergraphic designerviolinistsongwriter
- Biography
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Ken Christianson is an American musician and artist living in Los Angeles, California, U.S, and co-founder of Père Music. He is the composer of the score to the short film Better Left Alone, resident composer for the Samantha Giron Dance Project, bass player for the Los Angeles funk-jam band The Three Trees, violinist for The Jimmy Lifton Group, and former keyboard player for the indie rock band, Rogue Wave.
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Fue Lee
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fue Lee is an Hmong-American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2016. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), Lee represents District 59A, which includes parts of northern Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
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Robert H. Wiebe
- Years
- 1930-2000 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Robert Huddleston Wiebe was an American historian and bestselling author. He specialized in American business history.
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Eleanor Kinnaird
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eleanor Gates 'Ellie' Kinnaird is a North Carolina politician who served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's 23rd Senate district from January 1997 until her resignation in 2013. Her district included constituents in Orange and Chatham counties.
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Peter B. Davidson
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Peter B. Davidson is an American lawyer and government official who served as the General Counsel of the United States Department of Commerce from 2017 to 2019. From 2003 to 2017, he was the senior vice president for federal government relations at Verizon Communications. Before that he held positions as general counsel to the United States Trade Representative, vice president for congressional relations at US West and Qwest, general counsel and policy director to the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice, director of congressional and media relations at the United States Information Agency, staffer to Representatives Dick Armey and Bill Frenzel, and law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
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Aisha Sabatini Sloan
- Occupations
- essayistnovelist
- Biography
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Aisha Sabatini Sloan is an American writer who was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her writing about race and current events is often coupled with analysis of art, film, and pop culture. She studied English literature at Carleton College and went on to earn an MA in Cultural Studies and Studio Art from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona. Her essay collection, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. Her essay collection, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, was published in 2017 and chosen by Maggie Nelson as the winner of the 1913 Open Prose Contest. Her 2021 essay, Borealis, received the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction.
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Jeffrey Bergner
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Jeffrey Thomas Bergner is an American foreign policy expert. He is a visiting lecturer at the Batten School of Public Policy and Leadership at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Origin of Formalism in Social Science, The New Superpowers, Against Modern Humanism, The Vanishing Congress, and Turning Point: Judaism, Christianity and Islam Confront Greek Philosophy. He is also co-author (with Lisa Spiller) of Branding the Candidate and several other books concerning American politics and foreign affairs.
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John J. Hicks
- Years
- Died in 1997
- Occupations
- intelligence officer
- Biography
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John J. Hicks was second director of National Photographic Interpretation Center. Hicks was appointed as the Director of NPIC in July 1973, after retirement of Arthur C. Lundahl, first director of NPIC. He served as the Director of NPIC from July 1973 to May 1978.
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Anne Sewell Young
- Occupations
- astronomeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Anne Sewell Young was an American astronomer. She was an astronomy professor at Mount Holyoke College for 37 years.
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John Hanson
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwritercinematographer
- Biography
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John Hanson is an American movie director and cinematographer.
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John J. Stuhr
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- pedagogue
- Biography
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John Jeremy Stuhr is an American philosopher who teaches at Emory University. He has written extensively about a wide assortment of philosophical figures and movements as well as a broad array of cultural problems and issues. His work is known for its lively, engaged, and direct style. He draws critically on thinkers from often separated philosophical traditions (such as Pragmatism, Neopragmatism, Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory, Postmodernism, and Deconstruction). Revealing his impatience with narrow and academic conceptions of philosophy, his writings make deep and consistent use of poetry, painting, photography, and the lyrics of contemporary music, and they exhibit a broad interdisciplinary reach across fields such as rhetoric, media studies, relativity theory, political and legal theory, cultural geography, and economics.
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Joy Crisp
- Occupations
- geologistresearcherastronomer
- Biography
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Joy A. Crisp is a planetary geologist specializing in Mars geology. She is noted for her work on NASA missions to Mars, including the Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Science Laboratory.
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Henry H. Riggs
- Occupations
- translatormissionary
- Biography
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Henry H. Riggs was a Christian missionary stationed in Kharpert during the Armenian genocide. In his book Days of Tragedy in Armenia: Personal Experiences in Harpoot, 1915-1917, Riggs provides an important eyewitness account of the genocide and concluded that the deportation of Armenians was part of an extermination program organized by the Ottoman government. The book is considered to be one of the most detailed accounts of the Armenian genocide in the English language.
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John Lavine
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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John Lavine is a United States journalist and educator and currently the chief executive officer of StrategicMediaGroup.com. Previously, he was a media company publisher and editor, and then professor and Dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, as well as a professor of media management and strategy at the Kellogg School of Management.
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John Nephew
- Occupations
- designerrole-playing game designer
- Biography
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John A. Nephew is an American game designer, who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
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Christine Siddoway
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- geologistacademic
- Biography
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Christine Siddoway is an American Antarctic researcher, best known for her work on the geology and tectonics of the Ford Ranges in western Marie Byrd Land. Other discoveries relate to preserved records of continental-interior sedimentation during the Sturtian glaciation, Cryogenian Period, in Rodinia, and evidence of a reduced Pliocene extent of the West Antarctic ice sheet, based upon investigation of clasts transported to/deposited in deep water by Ice rafting in the Amundsen Sea.
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Rene Alphonse Higonnet
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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René Alphonse Higonnet was a French engineer and inventor who co-developed the phototypesetting process with Louis Moyroud, which allows text and images to be printed on paper using a photoengraving process, a method that made the traditional publishing method of hot metal typesetting obsolete.
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Cordenio Severance
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Cordenio Arnold Severance was an American lawyer from Minnesota. He co-founded the American Law Institute and served as president of the American Bar Association. His wife, known as Mrs. Cordenio A. Severance published the book Indian Legends of Minnesota and survived the sinking of the RMS Republic in 1909.
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Kathy Peiss
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in American studies
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Kathy Lee Peiss is an American historian. She is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at The University of Pennsylvania. She is a fellow of the Society of American Historians.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Years
- 1902-1981 (aged 79)
- Occupations
- archivist
- Biography
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Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American archivist and historian, who served as executive director of the National Historical Publications Commission from 1961 to 1971.
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Kenneth Poss
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Kenneth D. Poss is an American biologist and currently James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology and director of the Regeneration Next Initiative at the Duke University School of Medicine (Durham, North Carolina).
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Kathy Hudson
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in biology
- Occupations
- international forum participantmicrobiologist
- Biography
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Kathy Lynn Hudson is an American microbiologist specializing in science policy. She was the deputy director for science, outreach, and policy at the National Institutes of Health from October 2010 to January 2017. Hudson assisted in the creation and launch of All of Us, the BRAIN initiative, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. She founded the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University in 2002. Hudson is an advocate for women in science.
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David Duax
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Leo Francis "Dave" Duax was a Wisconsin politician who served in the cabinet of Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson as the State Administrator of the Division for Youth Services. He previously served as director of the State Office of Health Care. Duax was the chairman of the Eau Claire County Board of Supervisors, and served as vice president of the Eau Claire City Council.
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Donald Redfern
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Donald B. Redfern is an American politician in the state of Iowa.
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Mary Rogeness
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mary S. Rogeness is an American politician who represented the 2nd Hampden district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1991 to 2009 and was a member of the Longmeadow School Committee from 1982 to 1988. She was first elected by defeating Mary Gail Cokkineas.
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Michael J. Dowling
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael John "M.J." Dowling was a Minnesota Republican politician and Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
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Tsune Watanabe
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Tsune Watanabe was a Japanese educator. She was president of the Congregational Woman's Missionary Society of Japan and head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Kobe.
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Fern P. Rathe
- Enrolled in Carleton College
- Studied in 1952
- Occupations
- organic chemist
- Biography
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Fern Pfafflin Rathe was an American organic chemist who helped discover cathomycin, an antibiotic used to treat strains of the bacteria Staphylococcus, while working at pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.
