27 Notable alumni of
Cornell College
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Cornell College is 2395th in the world, 839th in North America, and 793rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 27 notable alumni from Cornell 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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James Daly
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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James Firman Daly was an American theater, film, and television actor, who is perhaps best known for his role as Paul Lochner in the hospital drama series Medical Center, in which he played Chad Everett's superior.
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Leo Beranek
- Occupations
- university teacherelectrical engineerphysicistengineermathematician
- Biography
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Leo Leroy Beranek was an American acoustics expert, former MIT professor, and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (now BBN Technologies). He authored Acoustics, considered a classic textbook in this field, and its updated and extended version published in 2012 under the title Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers. He was also an expert in the design and evaluation of concert halls and opera houses, and authored the classic textbook Music, Acoustics, and Architecture, revised and extended in 2004 under the title Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture.
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Chris Carney
- Enrolled in Cornell College
- In 1981 graduated with Bachelor of Social Science
- Occupations
- intelligence analystpoliticianmilitary officerteacher
- Biography
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Christopher Paul Carney is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district from 2007 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Deb Mell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Deborah L. "Deb" Mell is an American politician from Chicago. She is a Democrat and was formerly a member of the Chicago City Council, representing the 33rd ward. She previously served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 2009 to 2013.
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Harper Reed
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Harper Reed is an American entrepreneur and former Head of Commerce at Braintree, a subsidiary of PayPal. In 2011, he served as Chief Technology Officer for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. According to The Guardian, Reed's "background in crowd-sourcing and cloud-computing... gives a significant clue to what the Obama team hoped to achieve in 2012".
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David C. Hilmers
- Occupations
- astronautengineerphysicianmilitary officer
- Biography
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David Carl Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut who flew four Space Shuttle missions. He was born in Clinton, Iowa, but considers DeWitt, Iowa, to be his hometown. He has two grown sons. His recreational interests include playing the piano, gardening, electronics, spending time with his family, and all types of sports. His parents are deceased. With five academic degrees, he is the second most formally educated U.S. astronaut, behind Story Musgrave with six.
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L. M. Shaw
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Leslie Mortier Shaw was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician. He served as the 17th Governor of Iowa and was a Republican candidate in the 1908 United States presidential election.
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Lee Alvin DuBridge
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistwriter
- Biography
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Lee Alvin DuBridge was an American educator and physicist, best known as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1946–1969.
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Michael W. Allen
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- pedagoguebusiness executiveprogrammer
- Biography
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Michael W. Allen is an American software developer, educator, and author. He is known for his work on e-learning, and led the development of the Authorware software.
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Don Edward Fehrenbacher
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- historianuniversity teacherhistorian of Modern Age
- Biography
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Don Edward Fehrenbacher was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, his book about the Dred Scott Decision. In 1977 David M. Potter's The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, which he edited and completed, won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1997 he won the Lincoln Prize.
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George Keister
- Years
- 1859-1945 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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George W. Keister was an American architect. His work includes the Hotel Gerard (1893), the Astor Theatre (1906), the Belasco Theatre (1907), the Bronx Opera House (1913), the Apollo Theater in Harlem (1914), the Selwyn Theatre (now American Airlines Theatre, 1918), and the First Baptist Church in the City of New York. He also designed Woodbridge Hall at 431 Riverside Drive (1901), which faced demolition in 1996, and the Sigma Chi Fraternity at 565 W. 113th St. (1903).
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Maryann Mahaffey
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maryann Mahaffey was an American politician and activist.
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Jeremiah Frank Armstrong
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Frank Jeremiah Armstrong was an American physician who was the first African-American graduate of Cornell College. He was the assistant of Booker T. Washington and later became a physician. He was murdered in his office in 1946, possibly by a burglar after a hospital's narcotics.
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John Q. Tufts
- Years
- 1840-1902 (aged 62)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Quincy Adams Tufts was an American Republican politician from Iowa and California. He was founder of a sporting goods company in Los Angeles.
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Cato Sells
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Cato Sells was a commissioner at the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1913 to 1921.
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Robert G. Cousins
- Years
- 1859-1933 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Robert Gordon Cousins was an eight-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 5th congressional district. He represented the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, area for the last eight years of the 19th century and the first eight years of the 20th century.
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Edward Thomas Devine
- Years
- 1867-1948 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- university teachersocial workereconomist
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Edward Thomas Devine was a professor at Columbia University and American University who advocated for social welfare.
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Burton E. Sweet
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- politicianlawyer
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Burton Erwin Sweet was a four-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district, then a wide but short chain of counties in north-central and northeastern Iowa, in the shape of a monkey wrench.
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Frank Hole
- Years
- 1931-.. (age 93)
- Occupations
- prehistoriananthropologistuniversity teacherarchaeologist
- Biography
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Frank Hole is an American Near Eastern archaeologist known for his work on the prehistory of Iran, the origins of food production, and the archaeology of pastoral nomadism. He is C. J. MacCurdy Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University.
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Matthew J. Brouillette
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Matthew J. Brouillette is an American businessman and entrepreneur who is the founder and president of Commonwealth Partners Chamber of Entrepreneurs, a 501(c)(6) membership organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is the former president and CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, a free-market think tank in Pennsylvania. He served in that position from February 2002 through June 2016.
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Roger Stewart
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Roger Tabor Stewart is an American politician in the state of Iowa. A Democrat, he served in the Iowa Senate for the 13th district between 2003 and 2011.
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William Wallace McCredie
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
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William Wallace "W. W." McCredie was a U.S. Representative from Washington.
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L. J. Dickinson
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Lester Jesse Dickinson (October 29, 1873 – June 4, 1968) was a Republican United States Representative and Senator from Iowa. He was, in the words of Time magazine, "a big, friendly, white-thatched Iowa lawyer." In early 1936, he dreamed of winning the presidency. However, the only race he would enter that year would be for his own seat in the Senate which he lost.
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Joanna Baker
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Joanna Baker was an American linguist and child prodigy, holding her first college teaching job at the age of 16 and publishing her first book of translations from the Greek at the age of 18. For more than a quarter of a century, she was professor of ancient languages at Simpson College in Iowa, and she also taught at Lake Erie College in Ohio.
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Kathryn H. Stone
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathryn Haesler Stone was an American teacher, housewife, writer, civic activist and Democratic politician who represented Arlington, Virginia part-time in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1954 to 1966.
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John C. Chapple
- Occupations
- politicianeditor
- Biography
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John Crockett Chapple was an American newspaper editor and politician.
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Emma A. Cranmer
- Occupations
- suffragistsocial reformerwriter
- Biography
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Emma A. Cranmer was an American temperance reformer, woman suffragist, and author. A talented suffrage speaker and prohibition representative, she served as president of the South Dakota Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association. Some of her epigrams were published by the press. Cranmer died in 1937.
