85 Notable alumni of
Grinnell College
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Grinnell College is 866th in the world, 318th in North America, and 297th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 85 notable alumni from Grinnell 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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Gary Cooper
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- television actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
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Gary Cooper was an American actor known for his strong, quiet screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, as well as an Academy Honorary Award in 1961 for his career achievements. He was one of the top-10 film personalities for 23 consecutive years and one of the top money-making stars for 18 years. The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Cooper at number 11 on its list of the 25 greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
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Kumail Nanjiani
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- podcasterfilm actorscreenwritervoice actorstand-up comedian
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Kumail Ali Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for his role as Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley (2014–2019) and for co-writing and starring in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick (2017). For co-writing the latter with his wife, Emily V. Gordon, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role in The Twilight Zone executive produced by Jordan Peele in 2019.
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Herbie Hancock
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- singer-songwriterkeyboardistactorpianistbandleader
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Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles, using a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. It was during this period that he released perhaps his best-known and most influential album, Head Hunters.
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Yoweri Museveni
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- writerpoliticianmilitary personnelinternational forum participantdictator
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Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa is a Ugandan politician, military officer and revolutionary who has been the ninth President of Uganda since 1986. His government is considered autocratic. After Museveni lost the election of 1980, he started the Ugandan Bush War which led to the removal of Milton Obote.
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Peter Coyote
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- actorwriter
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Peter Coyote is an American actor, director, screenwriter, author and narrator of films, theatre, television, and audiobooks. He worked on films, such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Cross Creek (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Bitter Moon (1992), Kika (1993), Patch Adams (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), A Walk to Remember (2002) and Femme Fatale (2002).
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Walter Koenig
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- film actorwriterdirectortelevision actoractor
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Walter Marvin Koenig is an American actor and screenwriter. He began acting professionally in the mid-1960s and quickly rose to prominence for his supporting role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in Star Trek: The Original Series (1967–1969). He went on to reprise this role in all six original-cast Star Trek films, and later voiced President Anton Chekov in Star Trek: Picard (2023). He has also acted in several other series and films including Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971), The Questor Tapes (1974), and Babylon 5 (1993). In addition to his acting career, Koenig has made a career in writing as well and is known for working on Land of the Lost (1974), Family (1976), What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (1977) and The Powers of Matthew Star (1982).
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Bernice King
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- chief executive officerlawyeractivist
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Bernice Albertine King is an American lawyer, minister, and the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was five years old when her father was assassinated. In her adolescence, King chose to work towards becoming a minister after having a breakdown from watching a documentary about her father. King was 17 when she was invited to speak at the United Nations. Twenty years after her father was assassinated, she preached her trial sermon, inspired by her parents' activism.
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Emily Bergl
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- television actorfilm actoractorsinger
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Anne Emily Bergl is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Rachel Lang in the supernatural horror film The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999), Francie Jarvis on Gilmore Girls (2001-2003), Annie O'Donnell on the ABC series Men in Trees (2006–08), Tammi Bryant on the TNT drama series Southland (2009–2013), Beth Young on Desperate Housewives (2010–12), Sammi Slott on Shameless (2014–2015), Lilah Tanner on American Crime (2016-2017), and Tessie on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2018-2023). She also performs as a cabaret singer.
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Robert Noyce
- Enrolled in Grinnell College
- In 1949 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- physicistinventorcomputer scientistbusinessperson
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Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was also credited with the realization of the first monolithic integrated circuit or microchip, which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.
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John Garang
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- partisanpolitician
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Dr. John Garang de Mabior was a Sudanese politician and revolutionary leader. From 1983 to 2005, he led the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) during the Second Sudanese Civil War. He briefly served as First Vice President of Sudan for three weeks, from the comprehensive peace agreement of 2005 until his death in a helicopter crash on July 30, 2005. A developmental economist by profession, Garang was a major influence on the movement that led to the foundation of South Sudan.
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Joe Walsh
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- politicianbusiness executiveradio personality
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William Joseph Walsh is an American politician, talk radio host, former social worker, and former 2020 Republican presidential candidate who served one term in the United States House of Representatives representing Illinois's 8th congressional district.
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Harry Hopkins
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- diplomatnon-fiction writerpolitician
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Harold "Harry" Lloyd Hopkins was an American statesman, public administrator, and presidential advisor. A trusted deputy to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hopkins directed New Deal relief programs before serving as the eighth United States secretary of commerce from 1938 to 1940 and as Roosevelt's chief foreign policy advisor and liaison to Allied leaders during World War II. During his career, Hopkins supervised the New York Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civil Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration, which he built into the largest employer in the United States. He later oversaw the $50 billion Lend-Lease program of military aid to the Allies and, as Roosevelt's personal envoy, played a pivotal role in shaping the alliance between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Florin Cîțu
- Enrolled in Grinnell College
- In 1996 graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- Occupations
- economistpoliticianblogger
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Florin Vasile Cîțu is a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania between December 2020 and November 2021 (acting/ad interim between October and November 2021). Sometimes labeled as Romania's first libertarian Prime Minister, he was also the leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL) between September 2021 and April 2022.
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Joseph N. Welch
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- lawyer
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Joseph Nye Welch was an American lawyer and actor who served as the chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for Communist activities by Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, an investigation known as the Army–McCarthy hearings. His confrontation with McCarthy during the hearings, in which he asked McCarthy "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?", is seen as a turning point in the history of McCarthyism.
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Tom Cole
- Enrolled in Grinnell College
- In 1971 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- consultantprofessorscreenwritergraduate assistantpolitician
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Thomas Jeffery Cole is the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party and serves as the chairman of the House Rules Committee. During his tenure as the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) from 2007 to 2009, he was the fourth-ranking Republican in the House.
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Ian Roberts
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- television actorscreenwritercomedianactor
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Ian Michael Roberts is an American actor, comedian, writer, and a founding member of the famed Upright Citizens Brigade improv and sketch comedy troupe.
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Sen Katayama
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- human rights activistfarmerjournalisttrade unionistpolitician
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Sen Katayama, born Yabuki Sugataro (藪木 菅太郎, Yabuki Sugatarō), was an early Japanese Marxist political activist and journalist, one of the original members of the American Communist Party and co-founder, in 1922, of the Japanese Communist Party. After 1884, he spent most of his life abroad, especially in the United States and the Soviet Union, where he was very active in the international socialist community, and after 1920, the communist community. Katayama had a weak base inside Japan, and was little known there. However, in the rest of the world, he was widely hailed as a leading spokesman for the Japanese socialist and communist movements.
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Thomas Cech
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- biochemistacademicuniversity teacherchemist
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Thomas Robert Cech is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Cech discovered that RNA could itself cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA. He found that RNA can not only transmit instructions, but also that it can speed up the necessary reactions.
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Benjamin Barber
- Enrolled in Grinnell College
- In 1960 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- political scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Benjamin R. Barber was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld, and for 2013's If Mayors Ruled the World. His 1984 book of political theory, Strong Democracy, was revised and reissued in 2004. He was an adviser to political leaders including Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, and Muammar Gaddafi. He was a board member of the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation.
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Fred Hersch
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- composeracademic musicianjazz pianist
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Fred Hersch is an American jazz pianist, composer, educator and HIV/AIDS activist, 17-time Grammy nominée. He was the first person to play weeklong engagements as a solo pianist at the Village Vanguard in New York City. He has recorded more than 75 of his jazz compositions.
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Chase Strangio
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- LGBTQI+ rights activistlawyer
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Chase Strangio is an American lawyer and transgender rights activist. He is the Deputy Director for Transgender Justice and staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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Wallace Loh
- Enrolled in Grinnell College
- In 1965 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in psychology
- Occupations
- academic administratoreducatorauthoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Wallace Dao-kui Loh is a Peruvian/American university administrator. He was the president of the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2010 until 2020.
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K. C. Wu
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- 1903-1984 (aged 81)
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- politicianhistorian
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K. C. Wu was a Chinese political figure and historian. Among other offices, he served as Mayor of Shanghai and as Chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government.
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Martha Cooper
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- journalistphotojournalistwriterphotographer
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Martha Cooper is an American photojournalist. She worked as a staff photographer for the New York Post during the 1970s. She is best known for documenting the New York City graffiti scene of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Mary Sue Coleman
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- 1943-.. (age 81)
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- biochemistfaculty memberacademic administrator
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Mary Sue Wilson Coleman is an American chemist and academic administrator who served as the 13th president of the University of Michigan from 2002 to 2014, interim president of the University of Michigan in 2022, and the 18th president of the University of Iowa from 1995 to 2002.
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James Norman Hall
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- novelistautobiographerwriteraircraft pilot
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James Norman Hall was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934) and Pitcairn's Island (1934). During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. His awards include the Croix de Guerre, the Médaille Militaire, the Légion d'Honneur and the Distinguished Service Cross. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film. He was also the father of Conrad L. Hall, regarded as one of the ten most influential cinematographers in film history.
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Roberta Smith
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- journalistart criticwriter
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Roberta Smith is co-chief art critic of The New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art. She is the first woman to hold that position.
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Eleonore Stump
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- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Eleonore Stump is an American philosopher and the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992.
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Theodore E. Burton
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- peace activistpoliticianlawyer
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Theodore Elijah Burton was an American attorney and Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and the Cleveland City Council.
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Kenneth Adelman
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- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- diplomatliterary historianopinion journalist
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Kenneth Lee Adelman is an American diplomat, political writer, policy analyst and William Shakespeare scholar. Adelman has been a member of the board of directors of the global data collection company RIWI Corp. since June 2016.
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Marshall Poe
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- historian
- Biography
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Marshall Tillbrook Poe is an American historian, writer, editor and founder of the New Books Network, an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of non-fiction authors. He has taught Russian, European, Eurasian and World history at various universities including Harvard, Columbia, University of Iowa, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has also taught courses on new media and online collaboration.
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Edward Hirsch
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- poet
- Biography
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Edward M. Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), which brings together thirty-five years of work, and Gabriel: A Poem (2014), a book-length elegy for his son that The New Yorker called "a masterpiece of sorrow." He has also published five prose books about poetry. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City.
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Gary Giddins
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- non-fiction writerfilm directormusic criticbiographerjournalist
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Gary Giddins is an American jazz critic and author. He wrote for The Village Voice from 1973; his "Weather Bird" column ended in 2003. In 1986 Gary Giddins and John Lewis created the American Jazz Orchestra which presented concerts using a jazz repertory with musicians such as Tony Bennett.
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James Wilson
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- university teacherpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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James "Tama Jim" Wilson was a Scottish-born American politician who served as United States secretary of agriculture for sixteen years during three presidencies, from 1897 to 1913. He holds the record as the longest-serving United States Cabinet member.
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Bruce Friedrich
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- animal rights advocate
- Biography
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Bruce Gregory Friedrich is co-founder and president of The Good Food Institute (GFI), a Y Combinator funded non-profit that promotes plant- and cultivated meat alternatives to conventional animal meat. He is also a co-founder of the alternative protein venture capital firm New Crop Capital. Friedrich previously worked for PETA and Farm Sanctuary.
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Hallie Flanagan
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- university teacherdirectorplaywrighteducatortheatrical director
- Biography
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Hallie Flanagan Davis was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
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Michele Weiner-Davis
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Michele Weiner-Davis is a licensed clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist and author in the field of family therapy. She is frequently quoted in the media and has been interviewed significantly on television news programs regarding divorce prevention. Weiner-Davis has often been referred to as The Divorce Buster after coining the term “divorce busting” at an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy conference in 1989. She currently writes a regular column, Divorce Busting: Musings From an Unabashed Marriage Saver in Psychology Today.
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Morgan Taylor
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Frederick Morgan Taylor was an American hurdler and the first athlete to win three Olympic medals in the 400 m hurdles. He was the flag bearer for the United States at his last Olympics in 1932.
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Henry Carter Adams
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- superintendentuniversity teachereconomistlecturerwriter
- Biography
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Henry Carter Adams was a U.S. economist and Professor of Political Economy and finance at the University of Michigan.
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Alan Wheat
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- lobbyistpolitician
- Biography
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Alan Dupree Wheat is an American economist, lobbyist, and politician who served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Missouri from 1983 to 1995.
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John Bell Hatcher
- Occupations
- paleontologist
- Biography
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John Bell Hatcher was an American paleontologist and fossil hunter known as the "king of collectors" and best known for discovering Torosaurus and Triceratops, two genera of dinosaurs described by Othniel Charles Marsh. He was part of a new, professional middle class in American science, having financed his education with his labor while also being more educated than older fossil collectors. As such, he faced unique challenges throughout his long and productive career.
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Cha Liang-Chao
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Cha Liang-chao was an educator and philanthropist of the Republic of China.
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George A. Wilson
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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George Allison Wilson was an American politician and lawyer. He was a United States Senator and 28th Governor of Iowa.
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Zander Cannon
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Alexander Cannon is an American cartoonist, known for his work on books such as Top 10, Smax and Kaijumax.
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Dana Ulery
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Dana Ulery is an American computer scientist and pioneer in scientific computing applications.
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George Moose
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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George Edward Moose is an American diplomat who has served as the chair of the board of directors of the United States Institute of Peace since 2021. He formerly served as assistant secretary of state for african affairs from 1993 to 1997, ambassador to the UN agencies in Geneva from 1997 to 2001, and as Ambassador to the Republics of Benin and Senegal in the 1980s and 1990s. He is primarily known for serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the Clinton Administration during the Rwandan genocide.
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Erastus Milo Cravath
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Erastus Milo Cravath was a pastor and American Missionary Association (AMA) official who after the American Civil War, helped found Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and numerous other historically black colleges in Georgia and Tennessee for the education of freedmen. He also served as president of Fisk University for more than 20 years.
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Ray Hilborn
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- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Ray Hilborn is a marine biologist and fisheries scientist, known for his work on conservation and natural resource management in the context of fisheries. He is currently professor of aquatic and fishery science at the University of Washington. He focuses on conservation, natural resource management, fisheries stock assessment and risk analysis, and advises several international fisheries commissions and agencies.
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Patricia T. O'Conner
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- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Patricia T. O'Conner is the author of five books about the English language. A former staff editor at The New York Times Book Review, she has appeared regularly as a language commentator for WNYC and Iowa Public Radio. She has written extensively for The New York Times, including book reviews, On Language columns, and articles for the op-ed page and the Week in Review section. Her work has also appeared in Smithsonian, The Paris Review, the Literary Review (London), and other publications.
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William A. Noyes
- Years
- 1857-1941 (aged 84)
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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William Albert Noyes was an American analytical and organic chemist. He made pioneering determinations of atomic weights, chaired the chemistry department at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign from 1907 to 1926, was the founder and editor of several important chemical journals, and received the American Chemical Society's highest award, the Priestley Medal, in 1935.
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Heidi Shierholz
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Heidi Shierholz is the president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C. She previously served as Chief Economist of the United States Department of Labor under Secretary Thomas Perez.
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Charles A. Shibell
- Occupations
- cowboy
- Biography
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Charles A. Shibell was a teamster, miner, hotel owner, customs inspector, recorder, and Pima County, Arizona County Sheriff and a contemporary of Wyatt Earp and his brothers. Shibell promised a job as Deputy Sheriff to Earp, but when Earp announced his support for Bob Paul as the next sheriff, Shibell appointed Earp's antagonist Johnny Behan to the position instead.
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Kevin Cannon
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- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- cartoonistillustrator
- Biography
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Kevin Cannon is an American cartoonist and illustrator.
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Roger Koenker
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- statisticianeconomisteconometricianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Roger William Koenker is an American econometrician mostly known for his contributions to quantile regression. He is currently a Honorary Professor of Economics at University College London.
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Harold Jaffe
- Occupations
- novelistuniversity teacherjournalist
- Biography
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Harold Jaffe is an American writer of novels, short fiction, drama, and essays. He is the author of 30 books, including 14 collections of fiction, four novels, and two volumes of essays. He is also the editor of the literary-cultural journal Fiction International. He has won two NEA grants in fiction and two Fulbright fellowships. His works have been translated into 15 languages, including German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian. Jaffe is also a Professor of Creative Writing, English, and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.
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Albert Shaw
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Albert Shaw was an American journalist and academic.
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Oliver Ellsworth Buckley
- Occupations
- inventor
- Biography
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Oliver Ellsworth Buckley was an American electrical engineer known for his contributions to the field of submarine telephony.
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Ezra P. Savage
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ezra Perin Savage was an American politician and the 12th governor of Nebraska from 1901 to 1903. He was the tenth lieutenant governor in 1901 serving under Governor Charles H. Dietrich.
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Otha Wearin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Otha Donner Wearin was an American writer and politician. Elected as the youngest member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "New Deal" Congress, his political career stalled in 1938 when he gave up his seat in the United States House of Representatives at Roosevelt's urging to run for a U.S. Senate seat held by another Democrat, Guy Gillette, but primary voters rallied behind Gillette. He became a prolific writer, which led to his election to the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
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Paul Patterson
- Occupations
- neuroscientistneurobiologist
- Biography
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Paul H. Patterson was a neuroscientist and the Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.
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Louise Noun
- Occupations
- art collector
- Biography
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Louise Frankel Rosenfield Noun was a feminist, social activist, philanthropist, and civil libertarian.
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Chris Hall
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher C. Hall is the Iowa State Representative from the 13th District. A Democrat, he has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2011. Hall was born and lives in Sioux City, Iowa. He has a B.A. in political science from Grinnell College.
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Charles A. Rawson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles Augustus Rawson was an unelected United States Senator from Iowa for nine months in 1922.
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James W. Gilchrist
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Waters Gilchrist is an American politician who served as delegate for Maryland's 17th legislative district from 2007 to 2023, representing Rockville and Gaithersburg.
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Donald Hayworth
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Donald Hayworth was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Erica Lehrer
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- curatoranthropologist
- Biography
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Erica Lehrer is an anthropologist, curator, and academic specializing in post-Holocaust Jewish culture, museum studies, ethnography, and public scholarship. She is Associate Professor of History and Sociology/Anthropology at Concordia University, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies and serves as director of the Curating and Public Scholarship Lab at Concordia University.
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Greg Thielmann
- Enrolled in Grinnell College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- intelligence analyst
- Biography
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A. Gregory Thielmann is a former mid-level official in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research who, after retiring in September 2002, publicly disputed the rationale for the U.S. invasion of Iraq offered by the George W. Bush administration. He is currently a board member of the Arms Control Association and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of expertise and research include threat assessments, nuclear/missile proliferation, and US-Russian strategic arms control.
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Hilary Mason
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- data scientist
- Biography
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Hilary Mason is an American entrepreneur and data scientist. She is the co-founder of the startup Fast Forward Labs.
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Frederic O. MacCartney
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frederic O. MacCartney was an American Unitarian minister and socialist politician. MacCartney is best remembered for having been elected to four terms of office in the state legislature of Massachusetts under the banner of the Social Democratic Party of America and its organizational successor, the Socialist Party of America.
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Scott Raecker
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Scott Raecker is a politician. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from January 1999 to December 2012, representing the 63rd District. He received his BA in Political Science and Religious Studies from Grinnell College.
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Eli P. Clark
- Occupations
- manager
- Biography
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Eli P. Clark was a pioneer railway builder of Southern California and a leader in the civic, philanthropic and social activities of Los Angeles.
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Henry Throop
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Enrolled in Grinnell College
- 1990-1994 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in physics
- Occupations
- researcherplanetary scientist
- Biography
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Henry B. Throop, is an American astronomer and planetary scientist who specializes in the dynamics of rings and dust in the outer solar system. Throop is a member of the science team for NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, and has been involved with NASA missions throughout the solar system. Throop lives in Washington, DC where he runs NASA's science programs in the outer solar system. He has done extensive education and outreach around the world, having spent nearly a decade as an astronomer living in South Africa, India, and Mexico. The asteroid 193736 Henrythroop is named after him.
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John C. Truesdale
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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John Cushman Truesdale Jr. was an American lawyer and civil servant who served two terms as executive secretary of the National Labor Relations Board, four terms as a board member, and one term as board chair.
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Sarah Mirk
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Sarah Shay Mirk is an author, zinester, and journalist based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.
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Jesse Macy
- Occupations
- historianwriterpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Jesse Macy was an American political scientist and historian of the late 19th and early 20th century, specializing in the history of American political parties, party systems, and the Civil War. He spent most of his professional career at his alma mater, Grinnell College.
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Dana W. Bartlett
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Dana Webster Bartlett was an American Congregationalist minister, settlement house director, and writer. He was an early advocate of the City Beautiful movement.
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Adam Sterling
- Enrolled in Grinnell College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Adam H. Sterling is a retired American diplomat. He previously served as the Ambassador to Slovakia from September 2016 to August 2019.
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Aad J. Vinje
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Aad John Vinje was a Norwegian American immigrant, lawyer, and jurist. He was the 12th chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, serving from 1922 until his death in 1929. He previously served 15 years as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in the northwest of the state.
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Frances Harshbarger
- Enrolled in Grinnell College
- Studied in 1923
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Frances Harshbarger was an American mathematician.
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Bernard E. Pedersen
- Years
- 1925-1996 (aged 71)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bernard E. Pedersen was an American businessman and politician.
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Wilfred C. Bleamaster
- Occupations
- basketball coach
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Wilfred Charles Bleamaster was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Carroll College—now Carroll University—in Waukesha, Wisconsin from 1909 to 1911, Alma College from 1912 to 1915, and the University of Idaho from 1916 to 1917, and Albany College—now known as Lewis & Clark College—from 1926 to 1927. Bleamaster was also the head basketball coach at Alma from 1912 to 1916 and at Idaho for the 1918–19 season, tallying a career college basketball mark of 28–29.
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Russell A. Berg
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Russell Allen Berg was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. During World War II he flew Supermarine Spitfires with the British Royal Air Force, earning the British Distinguished Flying Cross and bar. He also flew reconnaissance missions during the Korean War.
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John Capouya
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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John Capouya is an author and professor of journalism and non-fiction writing at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. During his career in journalism he worked at Newsweek, The New York Times, SmartMoney, and New York Newsday. He wrote the books Florida Blues, Gorgeous George, and Real Men Do Yoga. He has also written for various publications, including Sports Illustrated, Life, Tampa Bay Times, and Travel & Leisure. Capouya is married to Suzanne Williamson, an artist and photographer. They split their time between Tampa and New York City and have been contributed together to Panhandler Magazine.
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Beth Holmgren
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- literary criticslavisthistorianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Beth Holmgren is an American literary critic and a cultural historian in Polish and Russian studies. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University. Recognised for her scholarship in Russian women's studies and Polish cultural history (with a special emphasis on theater), she is as of July 2018 working on a multicultural history of fin-de-siecle Warsaw. Before coming to Duke, she taught at the University of California-San Diego (1987-1993) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993-2007). She earned her B.A at Grinnell College, and two master's degrees (Soviet Studies) and (Slavic Languages and Literatures) and her doctoral doctorate at Harvard University (Ph.D. completed in 1987).
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William A. Sloane
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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William Arthur Sloane was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from May 15, 1920, to January 1923.
