100 Notable alumni of
DePauw University
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DePauw University is 623rd in the world, 230th in North America, and 212th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from DePauw University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Dan Quayle
- Occupations
- lawyerVice President of the United Statespoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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James Danforth Quayle is an American retired politician who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, Quayle represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981 and in the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 1989.
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Brad Stevens
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- 1995-1999 graduated with Bachelor of Science in economics
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Bradley Kent Stevens is an American basketball executive and former coach who is currently the president of basketball operations for the Boston Celtics.
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Margaret Mead
- Occupations
- film directoranthropologistwritercurator
- Biography
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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s.
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Bret Baier
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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William Bret Baier is an American journalist and the host of Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel and the chief political anchor for Fox. He previously worked as the network's Chief White House Correspondent and Pentagon correspondent.
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Scott Adsit
- Occupations
- screenwriterwritersingerfilm producercomedian
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Robert Scott Adsit is an American actor, comedian, and writer. Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Adsit joined the mainstage cast of Chicago's The Second City in 1994 after attending Columbia College Chicago. He appeared in several revues, including Paradigm Lost for which he won The Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Comedy.
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Barbara Kingsolver
- Occupations
- novelistpoetwriteressayist
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Barbara Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments.
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Vernon Jordan
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- businesspersonlawyer
- Biography
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Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. was an American business executive and civil rights attorney who worked for various civil rights movement organizations before becoming a close advisor to President Bill Clinton.
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Bill Hayes
- Occupations
- singerfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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William Foster Hayes III was an American actor and recording artist. His song "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" hit the top of the Billboard charts between March and May of 1955.
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Percy Lavon Julian
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in chemistry
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Percy Lavon Julian was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine and was a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.
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Ferid Murad
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- In 1958 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- biologistphysicianuniversity teacherpharmacologist
- Biography
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Ferid Murad was an American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Eli Lilly
- Occupations
- military personnelpharmacistchemistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Eli Lilly was an American soldier, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman who founded the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical corporation. Lilly enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War and recruited a company of men to serve with him in the 18th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery. He was later promoted to major and then colonel, and was given command of the 9th Regiment Indiana Cavalry. Lilly was captured in September 1864 and held as a prisoner of war until January 1865. After the war, he attempted to run a plantation in Mississippi, but it failed and he returned to his pharmacy profession after the death of his first wife.
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Alice Ripley
- Occupations
- stage actorsinger-songwritersingeractor
- Biography
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Alice Ripley is an American actress, singer, songwriter and mixed media artist. She is known, in particular, for her various roles on Broadway in musicals, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal (2009 Tony Award, Best Actress in a Musical) and Side Show. She most recently played three roles in the short-lived Broadway musical, American Psycho. Alice Ripley has released albums with her band, RIPLEY, including the single, "Beautiful Eyes", released in February 2012. She also performs as a solo artist, while in February 2011 she released Alice Ripley Daily Practice, Volume 1, a stripped-down collection of acoustic rock covers.
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David Cryer
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorsingerfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Donald David Cryer is an American stage, television and film actor and singer and one of the founders of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater which began in Pittsburgh and New York's Mirror Repertory Theatre. He may be best known for the role of Firmin in The Phantom of the Opera, which he has played for nearly 19 years on the road and on Broadway. He has also played more performances of the Bernstein Mass, as The Celebrant (including at the Metropolitan Opera and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) and more performances as Juan Peron in Evita than any other actor. He is the father of actor Jon Cryer.
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Jeri Kehn Thompson
- Occupations
- columnist
- Biography
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Jeri Kehn Thompson is an American radio talk show host, columnist for The American Spectator, political commentator, and former political consultant for the Washington, D.C. law firm of Verner Liipfert. She has also worked for the Senate Republican Conference and the Republican National Committee. She was also employed with the public relations and lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller.
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Charles A. Beard
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- In 1898 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- historianpeace activistwriterhistorian of Modern Ageuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Charles Austin Beard was an American historian and professor, who wrote primarily during the first half of the 20th century. A history professor at Columbia University, Beard's influence is primarily due to his publications in the fields of history and political science. His works included a radical re-evaluation of the Founding Fathers of the United States, whom he believed to be more motivated by economics than by philosophical principles. Beard's most influential book, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913), has been the subject of great controversy ever since its publication. While it has been frequently criticized for its methodology and conclusions, it was responsible for a wide-ranging reinterpretation of early American history.
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John Gardner
- Occupations
- writerbiographerchildren's writernovelistjournalist
- Biography
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John Champlin Gardner Jr. was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.
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Stephen F. Hayes
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Stephen Forester Hayes is an American journalist and author. In October 2019 Hayes co-founded the online opinion and news publication The Dispatch. Previously, he was a senior writer for National Journal and Editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard. He was a staunch proponent of the Iraq War and an influential figure in promoting the claim that the Saddam Hussein regime and Al Qaeda had an operational relationship.
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Mary Meeker
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in psychology
- Occupations
- stockbrokerventure capitalist
- Biography
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Mary Meeker is an American venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst. Her primary work is on Internet and new technologies. She is the founder and general partner at BOND, a San Francisco–based venture capital firm. She previously served as partner at Kleiner Perkins.
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Scott Rasmussen
- Occupations
- pollsterbusinessperson
- Biography
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Scott William Rasmussen /ˈræsˌmʌsən/ is an American public opinion pollster and political analyst. He previously produced the ScottRasmussen.com Daily Tracking Poll, a gauge of American voters' political sentiment. He is editor-at-large for Ballotpedia, where he writes the Number of the Day Feature, and is a host for the podcast entitled "Just the Polls," a podcast series from Just the News.
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Ford Christopher Frick
- Occupations
- baseball playerwriter
- Biography
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Ford Christopher Frick was an American sportswriter and baseball executive. After working as a teacher and as a sportswriter for the New York American, he served as public relations director of the National League (NL) and then as the league's president from 1934 to 1951. He was the third Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1951 to 1965.
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Jane Randolph
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Jane Randolph, was an American film actress. She is best known for her portrayals of Alice Moore in the 1942 horror film Cat People, and its sequel, The Curse of the Cat People (1944). She was born in Youngstown, Ohio and died in Gstaad, Switzerland, in 2009.
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Phil Crane
- Occupations
- employeepoliticianuniversity teacherdirector
- Biography
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Philip Miller Crane was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 2005, representing the 8th District of Illinois in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. At the time of his defeat in the 2004 election, Crane was the longest-serving Republican member of the House.
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David M. Shoup
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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David Monroe Shoup was a general of the United States Marine Corps who was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, served as the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps, and, after retiring, became one of the most prominent critics of the Vietnam War.
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Alexander Vraciu
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Alexander Vraciu was a United States Navy fighter ace, Navy Cross recipient, and Medal of Honor nominee during World War II. At the end of the war, Vraciu ranked fourth among the U.S. Navy's flying aces, with 19 enemy planes downed during flight and 21 destroyed on the ground. After the war, he served as a test pilot and was instrumental in forming the post-war Naval and Marine Air Reserve program. From 1956 to 1958 Vraciu led his own fighter squadron, VF-51, for twenty-two months. He retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of commander on December 31, 1963. Vraciu later moved to Danville, California, and worked for Wells Fargo.
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Drew Powell
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Andrew Powell is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Hoss Cartwright on the PAX series Ponderosa, Cadet Drew on Malcolm in the Middle, and Butch Gilzean/Cyrus Gold/Solomon Grundy, a series regular, on FOX's Gotham.
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Chinonye Chukwu
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Chinonye Chukwu is a Nigerian-American film director best known for the drama films Clemency and Till. She is the first African-American woman to win the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
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Albert J. Beveridge
- Occupations
- historianlawyerwriterpoliticianbiographer
- Biography
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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge was an American historian and United States Senator from Indiana. He was an intellectual leader of the Progressive Era and a biographer of Chief Justice John Marshall and President Abraham Lincoln.
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Al Ries
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Alfred Paul Ries was an American marketing professional and author. He was the cofounder and chairman of the Atlanta-based consulting firm Ries & Ries with his partner and daughter, Laura Ries. Along with Jack Trout, Ries is credited with resurrecting the idea of "positioning" in the field of marketing.
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Richard Peck
- Occupations
- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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Richard Wayne Peck was an American novelist known for his contributions to modern young adult literature. He was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel A Year Down Yonder (the sequel to A Long Way From Chicago). He received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1990.
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Dick Tomey
- Occupations
- head coach
- Biography
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Richard Hastings Tomey was an American football coach and player. Tomey served as the head football coach at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1977–1986), University of Arizona (1987–2000), and San Jose State University (2005–2009), compiling a career college football record of 183–145–7. His last full-time coaching position was as the special teams coach at Hawaii in 2011 under head coach Greg McMackin, who resigned after the season. Tomey was not retained by McMackin's successor, Norm Chow. Tomey served as a head coach of the victorious West team in the Casino Del Sol College All-Star Game on January 11, 2013 at Kino Stadium in Arizona.
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Joseph P. Allen
- Occupations
- physicistastronaut
- Biography
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Joseph Percival "Joe" Allen IV is an American former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft.
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Mary Ritter Beard
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Studied in 1897
- Occupations
- historianwriterarchivistsuffragistwomen's rights activist
- Biography
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Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian, author, women's suffrage activist, and women's history archivist who was also a lifelong advocate of social justice. As a Progressive Era reformer, Beard was active in both the labor and women's rights movements. She also authored several books on women's role in history including On Understanding Women (1931), America Through Women's Eyes (editor, 1933), and Woman as Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities (1946), her major work. In addition, she collaborated with her husband, historian Charles Austin Beard, as coauthor of seven textbooks, most notably The Rise of American Civilization (1927), two volumes, and America in Midpassage: A Study of the Idea of Civilization (1939) and The American Spirit (1942), the third and fourth volume of The Rise of American Civilization series. A standalone book, Basic History of the United States, was their best-selling work.
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David E. Lilienthal
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- writerlawyerjurist
- Biography
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David Eli Lilienthal was an American attorney and public administrator, best known for his Presidential Appointment to head Tennessee Valley Authority and later the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He had practiced public utility law and led the Wisconsin Public Utilities Commission.
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Chinda Sutemi
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianpastor
- Biography
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Count Chinda Sutemi was a Japanese diplomat.
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Tim Collins
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Timothy C. Collins is the founder, senior managing director, and chief executive officer of Ripplewood Holdings LLC. He is also a member of the board of directors of Citigroup. Collins is a director of several public companies as well as some of Ripplewood's private portfolio companies.
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Dave Jones
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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David Evan Jones is an American politician who served as California's Insurance Commissioner from 2011 to 2019. He previously represented California's 9th assembly district from 2004 to 2010 as a member of the Democratic Party.
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David Graham Phillips
- Occupations
- novelistjournalistwriter
- Biography
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David Graham Phillips was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition.
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Joseph W. Barr
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- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Joseph Walker Barr was an American businessman and politician from Indiana. He served one term in the United States House of Representatives. He was also the United States Secretary of the Treasury from December 21, 1968 until January 20, 1969, in President Lyndon B. Johnson's cabinet. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
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Josh Pitcock
- Biography
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Joshua Matthew Pitcock is an American political operative who served as chief of staff to Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States, from January 2017 to July 2017. Pitcock has also been Assistant to the President. He was a member of Donald Trump's presidential transition team.
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Steven Rales
- Occupations
- film producerbusinesspersonart collector
- Biography
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Steven M. Rales is an American businessman and film producer. He founded Danaher Corporation in 1984 with his brother Mitchell Rales and is chairman of the board. Rales also founded the film production company Indian Paintbrush in 2006, which works closely with filmmaker Wes Anderson. Rales' net worth was estimated by Forbes in July 2023 to be over $7.3 billion.
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Adam Kennedy
- Occupations
- film actorfilm screenwriterwriterscreenwriteractor
- Biography
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Jack Kennedy was an American actor and screenwriter. He was known for playing Dion Patrick in the American western television series The Californians.
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Joseph E. McDonald
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Ewing McDonald was an American politician who served as a United States representative and Senator from Indiana. He also served as Indiana's 2nd Attorney General and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for President in 1884.
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Newton Booth
- Occupations
- politicianwriterlawyer
- Biography
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Newton Booth was an American entrepreneur and politician.
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Brenda Laurel
- Occupations
- researchercomputer scientistvideo game designer
- Biography
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Brenda Laurel is an American interaction designer, video game designer, and researcher. She is an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games, a "pioneer in developing virtual reality", a public speaker, and an academic.
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Philip Sharp
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Philip Riley Sharp is an American politician and nonprofit executive who served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Indiana from 1975 to 1995.
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Lee H. Hamilton
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Studied in 1952
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Lee Herbert Hamilton is an American politician and lawyer from Indiana. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives and a former member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council. A member of the Democratic Party, Hamilton represented the 9th congressional district of Indiana from 1965 to 1999. Following his departure from Congress, he has served on a number of governmental advisory boards, most notably as the vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission.
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Elmer Thomas
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Studied in 1900
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John William Elmer Thomas was a native of Indiana who moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1901, where he practiced law in Lawton. After statehood, he was elected to the first state senate, representing the Lawton area. In 1922, he ran successfully on the Democratic Party ticket for the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma. He was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1926; he won this race and held the seat until 1950, when he lost the party nomination to A.S. (Mike) Monroney. Thomas returned to a private law practice in Washington, D.C., and in 1957 moved his practice back to Lawton, where he died in 1965.
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Ben Roller
- Occupations
- physicianprofessional wrestlerplayer of American football
- Biography
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Benjamin Franklin Roller was an American physician, a professional wrestler and a football player.
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Patricia Ireland
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Patricia Ireland is an American administrator and feminist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women from 1991 to 2001 and published an autobiography, What Women Want, in 1996.
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Daniel W. Voorhees
- Occupations
- lawyerpeace activistwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Daniel Wolsey Voorhees was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897. He was the leader of the Democratic Party and an anti-war Copperhead during the American Civil War.
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Bob Franks
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- In 1973 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- campaign managerpoliticiannewspaper proprietor
- Biography
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Robert Douglas Franks was an American Republican politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey.
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Mark Hampton
- Occupations
- interior designer
- Biography
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Mark Hampton was an American interior designer, writer, and illustrator, known primarily for his residential interior design work for clients such as Brooke Astor, Estee Lauder, Mike Wallace, Saul Steinberg, H. John Heinz III, and Lincoln Kirstein, as well as for three U.S. presidents. In 1986, he was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame, and in 2010, Architectural Digest named him one of the world's top 20 designers of all time.
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Charles T. Hinde
- Occupations
- entrepreneurrestaurateur
- Biography
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Charles T. Hinde was an American industrialist, tycoon, riverboat captain, businessman, and entrepreneur. He managed many businesses and invested in numerous business ventures over the course of his life. Hinde served in executive leadership positions in the river navigation, shipping, railroad, and hotel businesses. By his late forties, Hinde had already amassed a great fortune from his work in the steamboat and railroad industries.
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Jeffrey T. Mezger
- Occupations
- chief executive officerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Jeffrey T. Mezger is an American businessman. He serves as the president and chief executive officer of KB Home.
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Nathan Kimball
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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Nathan Kimball was a physician, politician, postmaster, and military officer, serving as a general in the Union army during the American Civil War. He was the first statewide commander of the Grand Army of the Republic veterans organization in Indiana.
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Arthur Burks
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Arthur Walter Burks was an American mathematician who worked in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project that contributed to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Decades later, Burks and his wife Alice Burks outlined their case for the subject matter of the ENIAC having been derived from John Vincent Atanasoff. Burks was also for several decades a faculty member at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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John T. McNaughton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Theodore McNaughton born in Bicknell, Indiana, was United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Robert S. McNamara's closest advisor. He died in a plane crash at age 45, just before he was to become Secretary of the Navy.
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Jon Fortt
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- international forum participantjournalist
- Biography
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Jon Fortt is an American journalist and the co-anchor of CNBC's Closing Bell Overtime broadcast. He previously co-anchored TechCheck. He is the creator and host of Fortt Knox, a technology, leadership and innovation brand that has existed as a podcast and streaming program since 2016 and now has its primary home on Linkedin.
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James Herbert Wilkerson
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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James Herbert Wilkerson was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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Harvey Weir Cook
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
- Biography
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Harvey Weir Cook was an American fighter ace in World War I and Distinguished Service Cross recipient. He was also a pioneer in civilian commercial aviation and a leading figure in the development of aviation in the United States and in state of Indiana. The Indianapolis International Airport terminal building and entrance road are named in his honor.
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Douglas Frantz
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Douglas Frantz is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning former investigative journalist and author, and served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2015 to 2017.
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David Prosser, Jr
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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David Thomas Prosser Jr. is an American jurist and politician who served as Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1995 to 1996, and as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1998 to 2016. He is currently an advisor to Wisconsin Assembly speaker Robin Vos as Vos seeks a rationale for impeaching current Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Janet Protasiewicz.
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James Harlan
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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James Harlan was an attorney and politician, a member of the United States Senate, a U.S. Cabinet Secretary at the United States Department of Interior under President Andrew Johnson, and a Federal Judge.
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Elisa Villanueva Beard
- Occupations
- manager
- Biography
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Elisa Villanueva Beard is the CEO of Teach For America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for low-income students across America. Villanueva Beard began her education career as a 1998 corps member of TFA, teaching first and second grade bilingual education.
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William Dyke
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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William D. "Bill" Dyke was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. He was a two-term mayor of Madison, Wisconsin from 1969 to 1973 and ran for Vice President of the United States on the American Independent Party ticket with presidential candidate Lester Maddox in 1976. From 1996 until two months before his death, in 2016, he served as a Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge in Iowa County, Wisconsin, he was Chief Judge of the 7th Judicial Administrative District from 2007 to 2013.
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Andrew H. Burke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew Horace Burke was an American politician who was the second Governor of North Dakota from 1891 to 1893.
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Ben C. Solomon
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Ben C. Solomon is an American filmmaker and journalist. He is currently an international correspondent for VICE News. He was the inaugural filmmaker-in-residence at Frontline after spending nine years as a foreign correspondent and video journalist for The New York Times. In 2015, Solomon won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of Times reporters working in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea during the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. He has reported from over 60 countries including numerous war zones, including Syria, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine.
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James Underdown
- Biography
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James "Jim" Underdown has been the executive director of The Center for Inquiry (CFI) West in Los Angeles since 1999. The Center for Inquiry is a non-profit educational organization with headquarters in Amherst, New York, whose primary mission is to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. CFI West is the largest facility in the organization outside Amherst.
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Halsted L. Ritter
- Occupations
- writerlawyerjudge
- Biography
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Halsted Lockwood Ritter was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He was the thirteenth individual to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives and the fourth individual to be convicted and removed from office in an impeachment trial before the United States Senate. He was also the last federal official to be impeached by the House of Representatives until Harry E. Claiborne (not counting on Richard Nixon, who resigned before he was impeached), when he was impeached and removed from office by the Senate for tax evasion in 1986.
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Eugene Allen Gilmore
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Eugene Allen Gilmore was Vice Governor-General of the Philippine Islands from 1922 to 1929, serving twice as acting Governor-General of the Philippines in 1927 and again in 1929. He also held positions as the Dean of the College of Law at the University of Iowa from 1930 to 1934, the twelfth President of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940, and the law dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 1940 to 1942.
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John Clark Ridpath
- Years
- 1841-1900 (aged 59)
- Occupations
- historianwritereditor
- Biography
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John Clark Ridpath was an American educator, historian, and editor. His mother was a descendant of Samuel Matthews, a colonial governor of Virginia. Among his most notable works is a series of volumes on a history of the world, titled Cyclopedia of Universal History.
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John Bartlow Martin
- Occupations
- diplomatjournalistwriter
- Biography
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John Bartlow Martin was an American diplomat, author of 15 books, ambassador, and speechwriter and confidant to many Democratic politicians including Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey.
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Aimaro Satō
- Occupations
- pastor
- Biography
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Aimaro Satō, also known as Yoshimaro Satō and Henry Satoh, was the Japanese Ambassador to the United States from 1916 to 1918.
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William Albert Wirt
- Occupations
- writereducator
- Biography
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William Albert Wirt was a superintendent of schools in Gary, Indiana. Wirt developed the Gary Plan for the more efficient use of school facilities, a reform of the Progressive Movement that was widely adopted in over 200 cities by 1929.
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Wendell H. Furry
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Wendell Hinkle Furry was a professor of physics at Harvard University who made contributions to theoretical and particle physics. The Furry theorem is named after him.
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Rebecca Gernhardt Cox
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rebecca Gernhardt Cox is an American business executive and former Director of the Office of Public Liaison during the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
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Albert G. Porter
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Albert Gallatin Porter was an American politician who served as the 19th governor of Indiana from 1881 to 1885 and as a United States Congressman from 1859 to 1863. Originally a Democrat, he joined the Republican Party in 1856 after being expelled by the pro-slavery faction of the Democratic Party. Only the second person born in Indiana to become the state's governor, he reluctantly accepted his party's nomination to run. His term saw the start of Indiana's industrialization that continued for several decades. During the second half of his term a strong Democratic majority took control of the Indiana General Assembly and revoked all of the governor's appointment powers and other authorities, weakening the governors position to its lowest state in the history of the state.
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Hiram Iddings Bearss
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Hiram Iddings Bearss was an officer of the United States Marine Corps who received the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Philippine–American War and the Distinguished Service Cross for his valor in World War I.
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Roy Owen West
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Roy Owen West was a Chicago politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1928 until 1929 in President Calvin Coolidge's cabinet.
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David L. Carden
- Occupations
- lawyerjuristmediatordiplomat
- Biography
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David Lee Carden is an American lawyer, diplomat, mediator and author who is a former United States Representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He was nominated by President Barack Obama in November 2010 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March, 2011. He resigned his post in December 2013. Carden was a partner at Jones Day, an international law firm, where he was, at various times, the Partner in Charge of the firm's Asian offices and practices, the head of its International Securities practice, and the head of Litigation in its New York office.
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Francis A. Shoup
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- writerlawyer
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Francis Asbury Shoup, a lawyer from Indianapolis, Indiana, became a brigadier general for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
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Pharez Whitted
- Occupations
- university teacherjazz musiciancomposer
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Pharez Whitted is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, band leader and educator from Indianapolis, Indiana. In January 2011, Whitted was nominated for the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards in the Jazz Album category for Transient Journey. In December 2016 he was named one of six "Chicagoans of the Year" by the Chicago Tribune.
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William Weston Patton
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- theologiansongwriter
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William Weston Patton, was an abolitionist, academic administrator, and scholar. He served as the fifth president of Howard University, and one of the contributors to the words of "John Brown's Body". He was the son of Rev. William Patton and the grandson of Anglo-Irish Congregationalist immigrant and Revolutionary War soldier Major Robert Patton.
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Al Orth
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- baseball player
- Biography
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Albert Lewis Orth was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He later served as a major league umpire and college baseball coach.
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James Eli Watson
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- politicianwriterlawyer
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James Eli Watson was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Indiana. He was the Senate's second official majority leader. While an article published by the Senate (see References) gives his year of birth as 1862, this is most probably incorrect.
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Thomas M. Patterson
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- politicianpublisherlawyer
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Thomas MacDonald Patterson was an American politician and newspaper publisher who served as a member of the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives from Colorado.
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Merlin Hull
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- politicianpublisherlawyer
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Merlin Gray Hull was a lawyer, a newspaper publisher, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin.
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Kenneth Prewitt
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Studied in 1955
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- university teachersociologistpolitical scientist
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Kenneth Prewitt an American academic who is the Carnegie Professor of Social Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he is also director of the Scholarly Knowledge Project. He was Director of the United States Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001.
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Foster LaHue
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- military personnel
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Foster Carr LaHue was a lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps. He saw combat in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War, he commanded Task Force X-Ray which was involved in the heaviest fighting at the Battle of Huế.
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John Albert Tiffin Hull
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- politician
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John Albert Tiffin Hull was a ten-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 7th congressional district. He had earlier served two terms as the Lieutenant Governor of Iowa and three terms as Iowa Secretary of State.
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Thomas J. Brady
- Years
- 1839-1904 (aged 65)
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Thomas Jefferson Brady was an American Republican politician and Civil War officer.
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Jay Hosler
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- entomologistcomics artistteacher
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Jay Hosler is the author and illustrator of science-oriented comics. He is best known for his graphic novels Clan Apis, The Sandwalk Adventures, and Optical Allusions. Clan Apis, a Xeric Foundation Award winner, follows the life of a honey bee named Nyuki; the story conveys factual information about honey bees in a humorous fashion as Nyuki learns about each new stage of her life. The Sandwalk Adventures, an Eisner Award nominee, follows a conversation about evolution between Charles Darwin and a follicle mite living in his left eyebrow. Optical Allusions, funded in part by a National Science Foundation grant, explains the evolution of the eye and vision by following the story of Wrinkles the Wonderbrain. Hosler is also an entomologist and associate professor of biology at Juniata College.
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Harry L. Gordon
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- politicianlawyer
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Harry Lincoln Gordon was an American politician who served as the 27th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1902 to 1904.
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William L. Springer
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- lawyerpoliticianjudgemilitary officer
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William Lee Springer was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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Ralph W. Gwinn
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- Studied in 1905
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- lawyerwriterpoliticianfarmer
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Ralph Waldo Gwinn was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
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Winfield K. Denton
- Enrolled in DePauw University
- In 1919 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
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- politicianlawyerplayer of American football
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Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton was an American lawyer, military veteran, and politician who served several terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana in the mid-20th century. He was the son of George Kirkpatrick Denton.
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Joe W. Kelly
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- military officer
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General Joe William Kelly was a U.S. Air Force general and Commander, Military Air Transport Service (MATS). He was the first four-star commander of MATS, and was commander at the time the command was transitioning to jet aircraft. In 1961 he personally piloted the first jet aircraft assigned to MATS on its maiden voyage from the Boeing factory at Renton, Washington to MATS Eastern Transport Air Force at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. During Kelly's time as commander, MATS was involved in Operation Deep Freeze, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Congo airlift. During his tenure, he compiled nearly 1,700 hours in the air from inspecting units, bringing his service total to nearly 9,700 flying hours.
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Mark L. De Motte
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Mark Lindsey De Motte was an American lawyer, Civil War veteran, and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1881 to 1883. He was also a lawyer, law school dean, newspaper editor and postmaster. The town of DeMotte, Indiana was named after him during his term in Congress.
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Reuben Webster Millsaps
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- bankerlawyer
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Reuben Webster Millsaps was an American businessman, financier and philanthropist.
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Bob Steuber
- Occupations
- player of American football
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Robert James Steuber was an American football halfback who played one season in National Football League (NFL) and three seasons in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). He played college football for the Missouri Tigers, where he quickly became one of the country's most productive runners and scoring threats. He was second in the country in 1942 with more than 1,000 yards of rushing. Steuber was drafted by the NFL's Chicago Bears and played one game for the team, appearing as a substitute on September 26, 1943, in the Green Bay Packers' home opener, which ended in a 21–21 tie. The next day, Steuber entered the United States Navy and was transferred to DePauw University for pre-flight training. Despite having gone from amateur status to professional football, Steuber was allowed to return to college football six days later and led the DePauw Tigers to a 50–0 win over Illinois Normal College, rushing for 225 yards and scoring 25 points in the first half. Playing for DePauw's football team in 1943, he led the nation in scoring.
