24 Notable alumni of
Hiram College
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Hiram College is 2231st in the world, 781st in North America, and 737th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 24 notable alumni from Hiram College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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James A. Garfield
- Enrolled in Hiram College
- Studied in 1851-1854
- Occupations
- writerlawyerpoliticianmilitary officerstatesperson
- Biography
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James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death the following September after being shot by an assassin in July. A lawyer and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before his candidacy for the presidency, he had been elected to the U.S. Senate by the Ohio General Assembly—a position he declined when he became president-elect.
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Lucretia Garfield
- Occupations
- presidentpolitician
- Biography
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Lucretia Garfield was the first lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States.
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Michael Stanley
- Years
- 1948-2021 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Michael Stanley was an American singer-songwriter, musician, radio and television personality. As a solo artist and with the Michael Stanley Band (MSB), and Michael Stanley and the Resonators (MS&R) his brand of heartland rock was popular in Cleveland, Ohio, and around the American Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Vachel Lindsay
- Occupations
- painterwriterpoet
- Biography
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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.
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Sharon Creech
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerwriter
- Biography
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Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.
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Claude Steele
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Claude Mason Steele is a social psychologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, where he is the I. James Quillen Endowed Dean, Emeritus at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, and Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus.
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Harold Bell Wright
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Harold Bell Wright was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and nonfiction. Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, he had a very successful career; he is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction. Between 1902 and 1942 Wright wrote 19 books, several stage plays, and many magazine articles. More than 15 movies were made or claimed to be made from Wright's stories, including Gary Cooper's first major movie, The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) and the John Wayne film The Shepherd of the Hills (1941).
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Carol Z. Perez
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Carol Zelis Perez is a career Foreign Service Officer, who previously served as the Director General of the Foreign Service. Perez served as the U.S. Ambassador to Chile from October 2016 to January 2019.
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Benjamin D. Pritchard
- Years
- 1835-1907 (aged 72)
- Biography
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Benjamin Dudley Pritchard was a United States Army officer, most known for leading the Union cavalry regiment which captured the fugitive Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, in the weeks surrounding the close of the American Civil War.
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Allyn Abbott Young
- Occupations
- university teacherstatisticianeconomist
- Biography
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Allyn Abbott Young was an American economist. He was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio. He died aged 52 in London, his life cut short by pneumonia during an influenza epidemic. He was then at the height of his intellectual powers and current president of Section F of the British Association. Uniquely, Young had also been president of the American Statistical Association (1917) and the American Economic Association (1925).
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Miner Searle Bates
- Occupations
- missionaryhistorian
- Biography
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Miner Searle Bates was an American scholar.
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Pam Helming
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pamela A. Helming is an American politician from the state of New York. A Republican, Helming has represented Senate District 54 in the New York State Senate since 2017. Prior to her election to the State Senate, Helming served as the town supervisor for Canandaigua, New York. She was elected to that post in 2014.
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Andrew J. Stofan
- Enrolled in Hiram College
- In 1957 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Andrew John Stofan is an American engineer. He worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center). In the 1960s he played an important role in the development of the Centaur upper stage rocket, which pioneered the use of liquid hydrogen as a propellant. In the 1970s he managed the Atlas-Centaur and Titan-Centaur Project Offices, and oversaw the launch of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 probes to Jupiter and Saturn, the Viking missions to Mars, Helios probes to the Sun, and the Voyager probes to Jupiter and the outer planets. He was director of the Lewis Research Center from 1982 to 1986.
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Mark W. Spong
- Occupations
- roboticist
- Biography
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Mark W. Spong is an American roboticist. He is a professor of systems engineering and electrical and computer engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He served as dean of the Jonsson School and the Lars Magnus Ericsson Chair in Electrical Engineering from 2008 to 2017. Before he joined UTD, he was the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, professor of electrical engineering, research professor of Coordinated Science Laboratory and Information Trust Institute, and director of Center for Autonomous Engineering Systems and Robotics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Laurin D. Woodworth
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Laurin Dewey Woodworth was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1873 to 1877. He was member of the Woodworth political family.
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John J. Whitacre
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Jefferson Whitacre was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1911 to 1915.
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Osee M. Hall
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Osee Matson Hall was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.
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Allen R. Bushnell
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Allen Ralph Bushnell was an American attorney, politician, and Democratic member of Congress from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He was the first mayor of Lancaster, Wisconsin, and represented that area in the Wisconsin State Assembly in the 1872 session. He also served as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War with the famous Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac.
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Horace Ladd Moore
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Horace Ladd Moore was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
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Ottley Russell Coulter
- Occupations
- police officercircus performer
- Biography
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Ottley Russell Coulter was an American strongman, circus performer, weightlifter and police officer. He was a co-founder of the American Continental Weightlifting Association, and the author of a book about strength athletics.
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Franklin L. Gilson
- Occupations
- politicianjudge
- Biography
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Franklin Leander Gilson was an American politician and jurist. He was the 32nd Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, and for the last two years of his life, he was judge of the Milwaukee Superior Court. Earlier in his career, he served as district attorney for Pierce County for six years.
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Clayton E. Crafts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Clayton Edward Crafts was an American lawyer and politician.
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Georgia T. Robertson
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Georgianna "Georgia" Marcia Trowbridge Robertson was an educator and author.
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Clara Worst Miller
- Years
- 1876-1970 (aged 94)
- Enrolled in Hiram College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Literature
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Clara Worst Miller was an American college professor and writer.