23 Notable alumni of
Cazenovia College
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Cazenovia College is 3129th in the world, 1080th in North America, and 1025th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from Cazenovia 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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Leland Stanford
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- politicianbusinessperson
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Amasa Leland Stanford was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from California. He served as the 8th Governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1885 until his death in 1893. He and his wife Jane founded Stanford University, named after their late son.
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Carole Cole
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- film actorcomposertelevision actoractorrecord producer
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Carole Cole was an American actress, music producer, and the CEO of King Cole Productions. She was the daughter of singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole and jazz singer Maria Cole, and the older sister of singer Natalie Cole.
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Jimmy Van Heusen
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- pianistsongwritercomposerfilm score composer
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James Van Heusen was an American composer. He wrote songs for films, television and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song.
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Philip Danforth Armour
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- entrepreneur
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Philip Danforth Armour Sr. was an American meatpacking industrialist who founded the Chicago-based firm of Armour & Company. Born on a farm in upstate New York, he initially gained financial success when he made $8,000 during the California gold rush from 1852 to 1856. He later opened a wholesale soap business in Cincinnati, then moved it to Milwaukee.
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Austin Blair
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- politicianlawyer
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Austin Blair, also known as the Civil War Governor, was a politician who served as the 13th governor of Michigan and in Michigan's House of Representatives and Senate as well as the U.S. Senate. He was known as a strong opponent of slavery and secession. He also led efforts to provide women and black citizens the right to vote. He simultaneously sought to ban capital punishment.
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Daniel D. Pratt
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- politicianlawyer
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Daniel Darwin Pratt was a United States senator from Indiana. Born in Palermo, Maine, he moved to New York with his parents, who settled in Fenner. He attended the public schools and Cazenovia Seminary, and graduated from Hamilton College in 1831. He moved to Indiana in 1832 and taught school; in 1834, he settled in Indianapolis and was employed in the office of the Secretary of State. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Logansport in 1836.
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William Calhoun McDonald
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- politicianlawyer
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William Calhoun McDonald was an American politician, and the first governor of the State of New Mexico.
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Willard Fiske
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- chess playerwriterbook collectorlinguisteditor
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Daniel Willard Fiske was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York. He was awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership in 1895.
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John W. North
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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John Wesley North was an American abolitionist, lawyer, and politician. A founder of the Republican Party of Minnesota, North also served in Minnesota's constitutional convention. As a legislator in the Minnesota Territorial Legislature, North was influential in founding the University of Minnesota. He was appointed as Nevada's first surveyor general and as an associate justice on Nevada's territorial Supreme Court.
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Nathan Smith Davis
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- physicianeducator
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Nathan Smith Davis Sr., M.D., LLD was a physician who was instrumental in the establishment of the American Medical Association and was twice elected its president. He became the first editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Bradley Winslow
- Enrolled in Cazenovia College
- Studied in 1850
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- lawyerwriterpoliticiansoldier
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Bradley Winslow was an American soldier, politician and lawyer who served as colonel of the 186th New York Regiment from 1864 to 1865 during the American Civil War. Winslow was also a member of the New York State Senate in 1880, and mayor of Watertown, New York, in 1875.
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Lewis Hartsough
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- composerhymnwriter
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Lewis Hartsough was a Methodist evangelist and gospel song writer.
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James S. T. Stranahan
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- politician
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James Samuel Thomas Stranahan was a United States Representative from New York, and a municipal official of the City of Brooklyn.
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Lucien Lester Ainsworth
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- politicianlawyer
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Lucien Lester Ainsworth was a one-term Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district in northeastern Iowa.
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Charles Andrews
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Charles Andrews was an American lawyer and politician. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1881 to 1882 and from 1892 to 1897.
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John Philip Newman
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- priestwriter
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John Philip Newman was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1888.
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Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper
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- writerabolitionistphilanthropistsuffragistevangelist
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Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper was an American educator, author, evangelist, philanthropist, and civic activist. She is remember as a religious teacher and her efforts to increase the wide interest in kindergarten work. Cooper served as first president of the International Kindergarten Union, president of the National Kindergarten Union, president and vice-president of the Woman's Press Association, president of the Woman's Suffrage Association, and president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
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Erastus Wentworth
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- Christian minister
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Erastus Wentworth was an educator, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and a missionary to Fuzhou, China.
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David F. Wilber
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- politician
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David Forrest Wilber was a United States Representative and consul from New York.
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William E. Lansing
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- politicianlawyer
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William Esselstyne Lansing was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.
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Edward Gayer Andrews
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- priest
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Edward Gayer Andrews was a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872.
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Silas Belden Dutcher
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- politician
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Silas Belden Dutcher was the New York State Superintendent of Public Works.
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James Wilson Seaton
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- politicianbusinesspersoneditor
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James Wilson Seaton was an American lawyer, Democratic politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served in the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly, representing Grant County.
