37 Notable alumni of
Hanover College
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Hanover College is 1830th in the world, 644th in North America, and 606th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from Hanover 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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Woody Harrelson
- Enrolled in Hanover College
- In 1983 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm produceractorenvironmentaliststage actor
- Biography
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Woodrow Tracy Harrelson is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Harrelson first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations. He reprised his role in the acclaimed spinoff series Frasier in 1999 for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.
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Mike Pence
- Enrolled in Hanover College
- In 1981 graduated with bachelor's degree in study of history
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerradio personality
- Biography
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Michael Richard Pence is an American politician who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013.
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Ginnifer Goodwin
- Enrolled in Hanover College
- 1996-1997 studied theatre
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
- Biography
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Jennifer Michelle "Ginnifer" Goodwin is an American actress. She starred as Margene Heffman in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011), Snow White / Mary Margaret Blanchard in the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time (2011–2018), Judy Hopps in Zootopia (2016) and Beth Ann Stanton in Why Women Kill (2019).
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Eric Holcomb
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eric Joseph Holcomb is an American politician who has served since 2017 as the 51st governor of Indiana. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 51st lieutenant governor of Indiana from 2016 to 2017 under Governor Mike Pence, who left the governorship in 2017 to become the vice president of the United States. Holcomb was nominated to fill the remainder of Lieutenant Governor Sue Ellspermann's term after she resigned on March 2, 2016, to become president of Ivy Tech Community College. He won the 2016 election for governor of Indiana over Democratic nominee John R. Gregg. Holcomb was reelected in 2020 over Democratic nominee Woody Myers and Libertarian nominee Donald Rainwater.
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Thomas A. Hendricks
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Thomas Andrews Hendricks was an American politician and lawyer from Indiana who served as the 16th governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877 and the 21st vice president of the United States from March until his death in November 1885. Hendricks represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1851–1855) and the U.S. Senate (1863–1869). He also represented Shelby County, Indiana, in the Indiana General Assembly (1848–1850) and as a delegate to the 1851 Indiana constitutional convention. In addition, Hendricks served as commissioner of the United States General Land Office (1855–1859). Hendricks, a popular member of the Democratic Party, was a fiscal conservative. He defended the Democratic position in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era and voted against the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. He also opposed Radical Reconstruction and President Andrew Johnson's removal from office following Johnson's impeachment in the U.S. House.
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Micah Shrewsberry
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Micah Shrewsberry is an American basketball coach and former college basketball player who is the head coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
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Harvey Washington Wiley
- Occupations
- chemistwriter
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Harvey Washington Wiley was an American chemist who advocated successfully for the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and subsequently worked at the Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories. He was the first commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration.
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William Hayden English
- Occupations
- lawyerhistorianwriterpolitician
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William Hayden English was an American politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1853 to 1861 and was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1880.
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Walter LaFeber
- Enrolled in Hanover College
- In 1955 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- writerhistorian
- Biography
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Walter Fredrick LaFeber was an American academic who served as the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University. Previous to that he served as the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell.
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Algernon Sydney Sullivan
- Years
- 1826-1887 (aged 61)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Algernon Sydney Sullivan was an American lawyer noted for his role in the business law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.
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John Merle Coulter
- Occupations
- mycologistwriterbotanist
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John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. was an American botanist and educator. In his career in education administration, Coulter is notable for serving as the president of Indiana University and Lake Forest College and the head of the Department of Botany at the University of Chicago.
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George Washington Brackenridge
- Occupations
- suffragistbusinessperson
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George Washington Brackenridge was a philanthropist and the longest-serving Regent for the University of Texas. His donations of time, land holdings and wealth expanded the university and provided educational opportunities for women and other minorities. He was an advocate of women's suffrage and women's educational opportunities. He was also a business man who made his initial wealth as a profiteer during the Civil War. Brackenridge organized two banking institutions in San Antonio and served as their president. He was president of the San Antonio Water Works Company. Alamo Heights in Bexar County was once his residence and was named by him. His mansion Fernridge is now part of University of the Incarnate Word campus. Brackenridge Park, San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden and Mahncke Park in San Antonio were made possible through his donations of land holdings.
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Charles Reid Barnes
- Occupations
- writerbryologistuniversity teacherbotanist
- Biography
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Charles Reid Barnes was an American botanist specializing in bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts). He was co-editor of the Botanical Gazette for over 25 years.
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Walter L. Fisher
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Walter Lowrie Fisher was United States Secretary of the Interior under President William Howard Taft from 1911 to 1913.
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Lafe Pence
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
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Lafayette Pence (December 23, 1857 – October 22, 1923) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Colorado from 1893 to 1895.
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Brett Dietz
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Brett Dietz is American football coach and former quarterback. He is the head football coach at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, a position he has held since 2020. Dietz played college football at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana and professionally with several teams including the Turku Trojans in Finland Vaahteraliiga and in Arena Football League (AFL), Af2, and the National Indoor Football League (NIFL) for the Cincinnati Marshals, Louisville Fire, Tampa Bay Storm and California Redwoods.
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Ebenezer Dumont
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Ebenezer Dumont was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, serving two terms from 1863 to 1867. Prior to his service in Congress, he was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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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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William Abbott Oldfather
- Occupations
- classical philologistuniversity teacherclassical scholar
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William Abbott Oldfather was an American classical scholar. He was influential for building strong academic traditions in classical studies at the University of Illinois and for his studies of ancient Locris in Greece.
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William M. Dunn
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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William McKee Dunn was a U.S. Representative from Indiana and the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army.
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James Kennedy Patterson
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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James Kennedy Patterson was an academic who served as the first president of the University of Kentucky. His family immigrated from Scotland to Indiana in 1842 when he was nine years old. He pursued what meager educational opportunities were available in his new home, and eventually attended Hanover College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1856 and a Master of Arts degree in 1859. He briefly taught at Stewart College in Clarksville, Tennessee, but left the area when the Civil War forced the college to suspend operations. He became the principal at Transylvania Academy (part of what is now Transylvania University) in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1861. When Transylvania was merged with Kentucky University and the newly formed Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1865, Patterson became a professor at the new institution, and was eventually given charge of the constituent Agricultural and Mechanical College.
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Judith Moffett
- Occupations
- science fiction writernovelistteacher
- Biography
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Judith Moffett is an American author and academic. She has published poetry, nonfiction, science fiction, and translations of Swedish literature. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and presented a paper on the translation of poetry at a 1998 Nobel Symposium.
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Leslie MacDill
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Colonel Leslie MacDill was a United States Army Air Corps officer. MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa, Florida is named in his honor. Colonel MacDill was one of aviation’s early pioneers.
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George F. Whitworth
- Occupations
- missionaryuniversity president
- Biography
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George Frederick Whitworth was an American Presbyterian missionary, educated at Hanover College in Indiana. Whitworth worked as a minister in the Ohio Valley until 1853, when he and his family moved to the Western frontier.
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Greenleaf Fisk
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Greenleaf Fisk was a pioneer, known as "the Father of Brownwood, Texas". When a land and water dispute necessitated a new site for Brown County's seat of Brownwood, Fisk donated the land for the new location. He was a military veteran of the Texas Revolution and was a member of the Republic of Texas House of Representatives. Fisk was a Chief Justice when he lived in Bastrop, Texas. When he relocated his family to Brown County, he became a substantial land owner and served the people in several positions of local government. In 1968, the home of Greenleaf Fisk was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. February 25, 2004, the home was put on the National Register of Historic Places.
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John Davis Paris
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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John Davis Paris was an American Christian missionary to the island of Hawaii. Coming to the island by accident, he supervised construction of several historic churches, some of which survive today.
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William A. Cullop
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Allen Cullop was an American lawyer, educator, and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1909 to 1917.
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Barclay Henley
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Barclay Henley was an attorney and politician who served two terms as United States Representative from California from 1883 to 1887.
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Samuel Gordon Daily
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Samuel Gordon Daily was an American politician from the Nebraska Territory.
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Robert J. Tracewell
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Robert John Tracewell was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1895 to 1897.
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Arthur B. Rouse
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Arthur Blythe Rouse was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
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Jonathan Edwards
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Jonathan Edwards was the first president of Washington & Jefferson College following the union of Washington College and Jefferson College.
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Edward Porter Humphrey
- Biography
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Edward Porter Humphrey was an American Presbyterian minister, orator, writer, and moderator of the national Presbyterian General Assembly. He was a planner and co-founder of Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.
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John Green
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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John Green was an Indiana lawyer, judge and politician. He was a member of the Whig Party (United States) until its dissolution, at which time he joined the early modern day Republican Party (United States). He served as a member of the Indiana State Senate (1857–59, 1869–71), as a common pleas court judge (1860–64), and as an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention (1868).
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Fred V. Archer
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Fred Van Buren Archer was the head football coach for the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team. He compiled an overall record of 2–4. He was born in Vevay, Indiana in 1888.
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Amos William Butler
- Occupations
- naturalistzoologistwriter
- Biography
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Amos William Butler was an American naturalist.
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W. T. Lopp
- Years
- 1864-1939 (aged 75)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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William Thomas Lopp, known better professionally as W. T. Lopp, and to his family as Tom Lopp, was a member of the Overland Relief Expedition in Alaska, then a U.S. territory. He was a missionary and advocate of turning native hunters into self-sufficient reindeer herders. Lopp Lagoon, an 18 mi (29 km) long bay near where Lopp lived in Alaska, is named after him.
