12 Notable alumni of
Carthage College
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Carthage College is 3239th in the world, 1118th in North America, and 1062nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from Carthage 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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John Hay
- Occupations
- historianwritersecretarypoliticianbiographer
- Biography
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John Milton Hay was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and an assistant for Abraham Lincoln, he became a diplomat. He served as United States Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Hay was also a biographer of Lincoln, and wrote poetry and other literature throughout his life.
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Laura Kaeppeler
- Enrolled in Carthage College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in music
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantmodel
- Biography
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Laura Marie Kaeppeler is an American beauty pageant titleholder crowned Miss America 2012 on January 14, 2012, representing the state of Wisconsin. Kaeppeler was the first woman representing Wisconsin to win Miss America since Terry Meeuwsen won Miss America 1973. She was briefly on the board of directors for the Miss America Organization.
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Tony D'Souza
- Occupations
- novelistjournalist
- Biography
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Tony D'Souza is an American novelist, journalist, essayist, reviewer, travel, and short story writer. He has published three novels with the publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt including: Whiteman, The Konkans (2008), and Mule (2011).
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Kina Collins
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kina Isis Collins is an American community organizer and activist, whose work has focused on issues of gun control, criminal justice reform, and universal healthcare. Collins is a candidate in the 2024 U.S. House election for Illinois' 7th congressional district Democratic primary, and was previously a primary candidate for the same seat in the 2020 and 2022 elections, winning 13.8% and 45.6% of the vote respectively.
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Marie Sarantakis
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- modelwriterlawyer
- Biography
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Marie Sarantakis is an American attorney, best-selling author, and former model.
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John Lehman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John W. Lehman is an American educator and politician from Racine, Wisconsin. Lehman represented the 21st District in the Wisconsin Senate from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2012 to 2015, and was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin in 2014. Previously, Lehman was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1997 through 2007. Elected as a state senator in 2006 but unseated in 2010, Lehman retook his old seat in the 2012 Wisconsin recall elections, defeating the incumbent, Van Wanggaard, who won the seat back in the 2014 general election.
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Caroline Bartlett Crane
- Occupations
- Christian ministersuffragist
- Biography
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Caroline Bartlett Crane was an American Unitarian minister, suffragist, civic reformer, educator and journalist. She was known as "America's housekeeper" for her efforts to improve urban sanitation.
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Ross H. Trower
- Enrolled in Carthage College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- Lutheran pastormilitary personnel
- Biography
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Ross Henry Trower was a rear admiral and Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy.
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Jon Kukla
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Jon Kukla is an American historian and author. He attended Carthage College and the University of Toronto, and in 1973 began working with the Library of Virginia, through which he published multiple works and directed historical research. He left the facility in 1990 and two years later began serving as the curator for the Historic New Orleans Collection, of which he later served as its director. Kukla has also served as the director of Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial in Charlotte County, Virginia, a position he held until 2007.
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J. Arthur Baird
- Occupations
- judgelawyerbasketball coachplayer of American footballbaseball player
- Biography
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James Arthur Baird was an American football and baseball player, track athlete, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, college athletics administrator, lawyer, and Hancock County, Illinois, judge.
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James L. Jelinek
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- Anglican priestpriest
- Biography
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James "Jim" Louis Jelinek was the eighth Bishop of Minnesota in the Episcopal Church (United States) until his retirement on 13 February 2010.
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Scott M. Ladd
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Scott M. Ladd was a jurist in the state of Iowa. Born in Sharon, Wisconsin to John Ladd and Sarah Willmarth, Ladd graduated from Carthage College then located in Illinois where he met his wife Emma. He then studied at the University of Iowa, where he also graduated from, and was admitted to the Iowa bar. Ladd was a judge in the circuit court from 1887 to 1896. He was a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court from 1897 to 1920. He is the father of Scott Mason Ladd Jr. who acted as Dean of both the University of Iowa College of Law and the Florida State University College of Law. He died in Des Moines, Iowa.
