100 Notable alumni of
Kenyon College
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Kenyon College is 678th in the world, 249th in North America, and 229th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Kenyon 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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Paul Newman
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- screenwriterfilm produceractorfilm directorstage actor
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Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, racing driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
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Allison Janney
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- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
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Allison Brooks Janney is an American actress. Known for her performances across the screen and stage, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards.
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Josh Radnor
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- television actoractorstage actorvoice actorfilm director
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Joshua Thomas Radnor is an American actor, filmmaker, author, and musician. He is best known for portraying Ted Mosby on the Emmy Award–winning CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014). He made his writing and directorial debut with the 2010 comedy drama film Happythankyoumoreplease, for which he won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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- lawyerstatespersonpoliticianmilitary officer
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an American military officer and politician from the state of Ohio. A Republican, Hayes served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.
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Olof Palme
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- politician
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Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986.
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John Green
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- video bloggerbusinesspersonliterary criticsingercritic
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John Michael Green is an American author, YouTuber, podcaster, and philanthropist. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market. Green is also well known for his work in online video, most notably his YouTube ventures with his brother Hank Green.
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William Rehnquist
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- lawyerhistorianpoliticianjudge
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William Hubbs Rehnquist was an American attorney and jurist who served on the U.S. Supreme Court for 33 years. Rehnquist was an associate justice from 1972 to 1986 and the 16th chief justice from 1986 until his death in 2005. Considered a staunch conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states. Under this view of federalism, the Court, for the first time since the 1930s, struck down an act of Congress as exceeding its power under the Commerce Clause.
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Jonathan Winters
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- writertelevision actorcomedianactorfilm editor
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Jonathan Harshman Winters III was an American comedian, actor, author, television host, and artist. He started performing as a stand up comedian before transitioning his career to acting in film and television. Winters received numerous accolades including two Grammy Awards, and Primetime Emmy Award as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the American Academy of Achievement in 1973, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1999.
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Shaka Smart
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- basketball coachbasketball player
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Shaka Dingani Smart is an American men's college basketball coach and former college basketball player. He is the current head men's basketball coach at Marquette University.
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Leopoldo López
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- politiciansociologisteconomist
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Leopoldo Eduardo López Mendoza is a Venezuelan opposition leader. He co-founded the political party Primero Justicia in 2000 with Julio Borges. López was elected mayor of the Chacao Municipality of Caracas in the regional elections held in July 2000. He is the National Coordinator of another political party, Voluntad Popular, which he founded in 2009.
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Ransom Riggs
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- writerdirectorchildren's writerjournalistphotographer
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Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
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Chris Eigeman
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- television actorfilm directorscreenwriterfilm actorfilm producer
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Christopher Eigeman is an American actor and film director.
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E. L. Doctorow
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- writerprofessorauthoruniversity teacherfaculty member
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Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction.
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Nick Bakay
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- film producerscreenwritervoice actorsports commentatoractor
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Nicholas Bakay is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and sports commentator. He is known as the voice of Salem Saberhagen on ABC/The WB's Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sabrina: The Animated Series, and Norbert Beaver on The Angry Beavers. He played Karl on the Fox sitcom 'Til Death as well as serving as a producer of the show until it was cancelled by Fox. He is also one of the executive producers of the CBS sitcom Mom.
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Edwin M. Stanton
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- lawyerjuristpoliticianjudge
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Edwin McMasters Stanton was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War. Stanton's management helped organize the massive military resources of the North and guide the Union to victory. However, he was criticized by many Union generals, who perceived him as overcautious and micromanaging. He also organized the manhunt for Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
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Tommy Vietor
- Enrolled in Kenyon College
- 1998-2002 graduated with bachelor's degree in philosophy
- Occupations
- press secretarypodcaster
- Biography
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Thomas Frederick Vietor IV is an American political commentator and podcaster. He was a spokesperson for President Barack Obama and the United States National Security Council from 2011 to 2012. He is a co-founder of Crooked Media with fellow former Obama staffers Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett, and co-hosts the podcasts Pod Save America and Pod Save the World.
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Robert Lowell
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- poetpeace activisttranslatorwriter
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Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His family, past and present, were important subjects in his poetry. Growing up in Boston also informed his poems, which were frequently set in Boston and the New England region. The literary scholar Paula Hayes believes that Lowell mythologized New England, particularly in his early work.
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Laura Hillenbrand
- Occupations
- writer
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Laura Hillenbrand is an American author of books and magazine articles. Her two bestselling nonfiction books, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001) and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010), have sold over 13 million copies, and each was adapted for film. Her writing style is distinct from New Journalism, dropping "verbal pyrotechnics" in favor of a stronger focus on the story itself.
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John Sherman
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- diplomatlawyerwriterpoliticianengineer
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John Sherman was an American politician from Ohio who served in federal office throughout the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. He was the younger brother of Union general William Tecumseh Sherman, with whom he had a close relationship.
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Bill Veeck
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- baseball playerbusinessperson
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William Louis Veeck Jr., also known as "Sport Shirt Bill" and "Wild Bill", was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox. As owner and team president of the Indians in 1947, Veeck signed Larry Doby, thus beginning the integration of the American League, and the following year won a World Series title.
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Carl Djerassi
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- university teacherscience fiction writerchemistscientistplaywright
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Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is best known for his contribution to the development of oral contraceptive pills, nicknamed the "father of the pill".
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John W. Snow
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- politicianbusinessperson
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John William Snow is an American economist, attorney, and businessman who is the former CEO of CSX Corporation and served as the 73rd United States secretary of the treasury under U.S. President George W. Bush. He replaced Secretary Paul H. O'Neill on February 3, 2003 and was succeeded by Henry Paulson on July 3, 2006. Snow submitted a letter of resignation on May 30, 2006, effective "after an orderly transition period for my successor." Snow announced on June 29, 2006 that he had completed his last day on the job; Robert M. Kimmitt served as acting secretary until Paulson was sworn in. Snow has since worked as chairman of Cerberus Capital Management.
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James Gamble
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- entrepreneur
- Biography
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James Gamble was an Irish-American soap industrialist. He was the co-founder of Procter & Gamble Company in 1837, along with William Procter.
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William H. Gass
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- writercriticuniversity teachermilitary officernovelist
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William Howard Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award. His 2013 novel Middle C won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal.
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Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
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- politician
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Elizabeth Ann Fletcher is an American attorney and politician from Texas. A Democrat, she has represented Texas's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2018. The district includes much of western Houston.
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Emily Gould
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- writernovelistessayistchildren's writerblogger
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Emily Gould is an American author, novelist and blogger who worked as an editor at Gawker. She has written several short stories and novels and is the co-owner, with fellow writer Ruth Curry, of the independent e-bookstore Emily Books.
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James Monsees
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- entrepreneur
- Biography
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James Monsees is an American businessman, and the co-founder and former chief product officer of Juul Labs, an electronic cigarette company.
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William Goebel
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- politicianlawyer
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William Justus Goebel was an American Democratic politician who served as the 34th governor of Kentucky for four days, having been sworn in on his deathbed a day after being shot by an assassin. Goebel remains the only state governor in the United States to be assassinated while in office.
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Karl Edward Wagner
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- science fiction writernovelistwriter
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Karl Edward Wagner was an American writer, poet, editor, and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. He wrote numerous dark fantasy and horror stories. As an editor, he created a three-volume set of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian fiction restored to its original form as written, and edited the long-running and genre-defining The Year's Best Horror Stories series for DAW Books. His Carcosa publishing company issued four volumes of the best stories by some of the major authors of the so-called Golden Age pulp magazines. He is possibly best known for his creation of a series of stories featuring the character Kane, the Mystic Swordsman.
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David Davis
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- politicianlawyernational supreme court judge
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David Davis was an American politician and jurist who was a U.S. senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention, engineering Lincoln's successful nomination for president by that party.
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Bridget Brink
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- politiciandiplomat
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Bridget Ann Brink is an American diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine. In April 2022, she was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the United States ambassador to Ukraine, and presented her credentials in May 2022. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Slovakia from August 20, 2019, until May 18, 2022.
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Junzo Shono
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- novelistwriter
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Junzō Shōno was a Japanese novelist. A native of Osaka, he began writing novels after World War II. He won the 1954 Akutagawa Prize for his book Purusaido Shokei (Poolside Scene). Shōno's other award-winning books include Seibutsu (Still Life), for which he won the Shinchosha literary prize, Yube no Kumo (Evening Clouds), which was awarded the 1965 Yomiuri Prize, and Eawase (Picture Cards) which took the Noma literary prize.
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Chris Creighton
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- head coach
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Christopher William Creighton is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach at Eastern Michigan University, a position he has held since the 2014 season. Creighton has served as the head coach at three other schools: Ottawa University (1997–2000), Wabash College (2001–2007), and Drake University (2008–2013).
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Michael Green
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- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Michael Jonathan Green is an American Japanologist currently serving as CEO of the United States Studies Centre and senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is also a member of Radio Free Asia's board of directors and Center for a New American Security's board of advisors.
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Jonathan Rothschild
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- politicianlawyer
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Jonathan Rothschild is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st mayor of Tucson, Arizona from 2011 to 2019. From 2001 to 2011, Rothschild was managing partner at the law firm Mesch Clark Rothschild.
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Sarah Longwell
- Born in
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United States - Enrolled in Kenyon College
- In 2002 studied political science
- Occupations
- publisherpolitical adviser
- Biography
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Sarah Longwell is an American political strategist and publisher of the centrist news and opinion website The Bulwark. A member of the Republican Party, she is the founder of Republican Voters Against Trump, which spent millions of dollars to defeat President Trump in 2020. According to The New Yorker, Longwell has "dedicated her career to fighting Trump’s takeover of her party."
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Joe Hagin
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- politician
- Biography
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Joseph Whitehouse Hagin II is an American political aide who served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2018, a role he also served in for President George W. Bush from 2001 until July 2008. In September 2008, he was interim CEO of Jet Support Services Inc. Joe Hagin co-founded Command Consulting Group in April 2009.
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Matt Winkler
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- international forum participantjournalist
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Matthew Winkler is an American journalist who is a co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, part of Bloomberg L.P. He is also co-author of Bloomberg by Bloomberg and the author of The Bloomberg Way: A Guide for Reporters and Editors.
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Zack Space
- Enrolled in Kenyon College
- In 1983 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Zachary Thompson Space is an American lawyer and politician and the former U.S. Representative for Ohio's 18th congressional district, serving from 2007 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. After serving in Congress, Space became a lobbyist and was a principal for Vorys Advisors LLC, a subsidiary of the law firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease. He ran unsuccessfully for Ohio State Auditor in 2018, significantly outperforming other members of the ticket in Appalachian Ohio counties. He is currently serving as President of Sunday Creek Horizons, a lobbying and advocacy firm founded in 2019 that serves clients in eastern and southern Ohio.
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Anthony Hecht
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- writerpoet
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Anthony Evan Hecht was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work.
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Paul V. Niemeyer
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- judgelawyer
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Paul Victor Niemeyer is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
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Stephen M. Young
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Stephen Marvin Young was an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Ohio from 1959 until 1971.
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Charles Griffin
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- military officer
- Biography
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Charles Griffin was a career officer in the United States Army and a Union general in the American Civil War. He rose to command a corps in the Army of the Potomac and fought in many of the key campaigns in the Eastern Theater.
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Harvey Lodish
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- biologist
- Biography
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Harvey Franklin Lodish is a molecular and cell biologist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and lead author of the textbook Molecular Cell Biology. Lodish's research focused on cell surface proteins and other important areas at the interface between molecular cell biology and medicine.
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David Meerman Scott
- Occupations
- economistwriter
- Biography
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David Meerman Scott is an American online marketing strategist and author of several books on marketing, including The New Rules of Marketing and PR.
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Kathleen M. O'Malley
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- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Kathleen Patricia McDonald O'Malley is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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Coles Phillips
- Years
- 1880-1927 (aged 47)
- Occupations
- designerartist
- Biography
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Clarence Coles Phillips was an American artist and illustrator who signed his early works C. Coles Phillips, but after 1911 worked under the abbreviated name, Coles Phillips. He is known for his stylish images of women and a signature use of negative space in the paintings he created for advertisements and the covers of popular magazines.
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James Brown Clay
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- lawyerpoliticianjudgediplomat
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James Brown Clay was an American politician and diplomat who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Kentucky's 8th congressional district from 1857 to 1859.
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Jeff Bell
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Jeff Bell is an American executive. He is the CEO of PPLSI, an Ada, Oklahoma-based corporation that markets legal and privacy management services in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. He also serves as chairman of the board of DOMedia LLC and as a venture partner of NCT Ventures LLC.
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Saskia Hamilton
- Enrolled in Kenyon College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- literary scholarwriterpoet
- Biography
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Maria Saskia Hamilton was an American poet, editor, and professor and university administrator at Barnard College. She published four collections of poetry, with a fifth collection, All Souls, set to be posthumously published in September 2023. Her academic focus was largely on the American poet Robert Lowell; she edited several collections of the writings and personal correspondence of Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Elizabeth Bishop. Additionally, she served as the director of literary programs at the Lannan Foundation, as the Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Curriculum at Barnard College, and as an editor at The Paris Review and Literary Imagination.
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Jonathan Mannion
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- film directorphotographer
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Jonathan Mannion is a photographer and film director. He has shot album covers for hip hop and R&B performers including Dr. Dre, Jay Z, Aaliyah, Outkast, Nas, Nicki Minaj, Brandy Norwood and Kendrick Lamar.
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Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor
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- novelistuniversity teacherwriter
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Matthew Hillsman Taylor Jr., known professionally as Peter Taylor, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Born and raised in Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri, he wrote frequently about the urban South in his stories and novels.
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David Turpie
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- lawyerwriterpoliticianjudge
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David Battle Turpie was an American politician who served as a Senator from Indiana from 1887 until 1899; he also served as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus from 1898 to 1899 during the last year of his tenure in the Senate.
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Justin Roberts
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Justin Roberts is an American singer-songwriter of children's music. He performs with the Not Ready for Naptime Players. In 2010, his album Jungle Gym was nominated in the "Best Musical Album for Children" category for the 53rd Grammy Awards, Recess was nominated in the same Grammy category in 2013, for the 56th Grammy Awards, and "Lemonade" was nominated in 2017 for the 60th Grammy Awards. Justin Roberts released a Greatest Hits album in August 2016, and his new album of acoustic original songs, featuring guest Robbie Fulks, was released in October 2016.
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Henry Winter Davis
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- politicianwriterlawyer
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Henry Winter Davis was a United States Representative from the 4th and 3rd congressional districts of Maryland, well known as one of the Radical Republicans during the Civil War. He was the driving force behind the abolition of slavery in Maryland in 1864, and it was largely because of him that Maryland did not secede.
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Matthew Segal
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Matthew Segal is the co-founder of ATTN:, a Los Angeles–based media company that makes entertainment that informs, and an American social entrepreneur and media commentator. He previously co-founded Our Time, a nationwide non-profit network of young Americans promoting economic and voter empowerment.
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Jenna Blum
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Jenna Blum is an American writer who has written three novels, Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family. In 2013, she was selected by the Modern Scholar series to teach an audio lecture course entitled The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction. Blum leads novelists as part of the Grub Street writing center, a Boston-based workshop for writers.
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P. B. Van Trump
- Years
- 1839-1916 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- environmentalistmountaineer
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Philemon Beecher Van Trump was an American pioneering mountaineer and writer who lived in the state of Washington. He is best known for the first documented ascent of Mount Rainier in 1870.
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Don McNeill
- Occupations
- tennis playermilitary officer
- Biography
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William Donald McNeill was an American tennis player. He was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and died in Vero Beach, Florida.
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Lucy Vinis
- Years
- 1950s
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lucy Vinis is an American politician. She was elected mayor of Eugene, Oregon, in 2016, and started her term in January 2017.
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Murray Horwitz
- Occupations
- playwrightlyricistradio personality
- Biography
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Murray Horwitz is an American playwright, lyricist, NPR broadcaster, and arts administrator.
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Stanley Matthews
- Occupations
- judgelawyerpoliticianeditorjournalist
- Biography
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Thomas Stanley Matthews, known as Stanley Matthews in adulthood, was an American attorney, soldier, judge and Republican senator from Ohio who became an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from May 1881 to his death in 1889. A progressive justice, he was the author of the landmark ruling in Yick Wo v. Hopkins.
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James S. Gwin
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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James S. Gwin is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
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Beshara Doumani
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Beshara Doumani is a Palestinian-American academic currently serving as the president of Birzeit University. Prior to that, he was the Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies at Brown University. His research focuses on groups, places, and time periods marginalized by mainstream scholarship on the early modern and modern Middle East. He is also a public intellectual who writes on the topics of displacement, academic freedom, politics of knowledge production, and the Palestinian condition.
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Daniel Mark Epstein
- Occupations
- biographer
- Biography
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Daniel Mark Epstein is an American poet, dramatist, and biographer. His poetry has been noted for its erotic and spiritual lyricism, as well as its power—in several dramatic monologues—in capturing crucial moments of American history. While he has continued to publish poetry he is more widely known for his biographies of Nat King Cole, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bob Dylan and Abraham Lincoln, and his radio plays, "Star of Wonder," and "The Two Menorahs," which have become holiday mainstays on National Public Radio.
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Amos N. Guiora
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- legal scholar
- Biography
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Amos Neuser Guiora is an Israeli-American professor of law at S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, specializing in institutional complicity, enabling culture, and sexual assaults. Guiora’s scholarship explores institutional complicity in relation to the victimization of young people by college sports coaches, trainers, doctors, and Catholic priests. As a result of this work, Guiora has become not just an academic but also an advocate for sexual assault victims.
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Guy D. Goff
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Guy Despard Goff was an American lawyer and politician - who served as a United States senator from West Virginia. Earlier in his career, he was United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and served in various roles in the United States Department of Justice.
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William I. Hitchcock
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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William I. Hitchcock is the William W. Corcoran Professor of History at the University of Virginia. His work focuses on the history of the 20th century.
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Brenda Burman
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Brenda Wren Burman is an American attorney and government official who served as commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation from 2017 to 2021. Prior to assuming that position, she served as director of water strategy at the Salt River Project. Burman served in the George W. Bush administration as Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science. She has previously held positions with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, The Nature Conservancy, and U.S. Senator Jon Kyl.
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John Celivergos Zachos
- Years
- 1820-1898 (aged 78)
- Enrolled in Kenyon College
- 1837-1840 graduated with bachelor's degree
- 1840-1842 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- oratoreducatormathematiciansuffragistastronomer
- Biography
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John Celivergos Zachos was a Greek-American physician, literary scholar, elocutionist, author, lecturer, inventor, and educational pioneer. He was an early proponent of equal education rights for African Americans and women. During the American Civil War, he was the superintendent at Port Royal and a main figure in the Port Royal Experiment. In his book, Phonic Primer and Reader he developed a special system to educate freed slaves. He advocated and expanded the oratory systems of François Delsarte and James Rush.
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Preston B. Plumb
- Occupations
- journalistlawyerpoliticianeditor
- Biography
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Preston Bierce Plumb was a United States senator from Kansas, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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Bill Harsha
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Howard Harsha Jr. was an American politician who represented Ohio as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1961, to January 3, 1981.
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Albert Taylor Bledsoe
- Occupations
- writermilitary officermathematician
- Biography
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Albert Taylor Bledsoe was an American Episcopal priest, attorney, professor of mathematics, and officer in the Confederate army and was best known as a staunch defender of slavery and, after the South lost the American Civil War, an architect of the Lost Cause. He was the author of Liberty and Slavery (1856), "the most extensive philosophical treatment of slavery ever produced by a Southern academic", which defended slavery laws as ensuring proper societal order.
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John Rinka
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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John Rinka is an American former college basketball player best known for his high-scoring offensive ability and accurate jump shot while at Kenyon College from 1966 to 1970. A 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) shooting guard, Rinka is in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) top ten in all-time scoring despite playing before the advent of the three–point line and the shot clock. He once scored 69 points in a game, which is tied for the 21st-highest single game output in NCAA history; his 41.0 points per game average in 1969–70 as well as his 3,251 career points are also the eighth-highest average and total, respectively.
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John Hattendorf
- Occupations
- historianmilitary historianuniversity teachernaval officernon-fiction writer
- Biography
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John Brewster Hattendorf, FRHistS, FSNR, is an American naval historian. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than fifty books, mainly on British and American maritime history and naval warfare. In 2005, the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings described him as "one of the most widely known and well-respected naval historians in the world." In reference to his work on the history of naval strategy, an academic in Britain termed him the "doyen of US naval educators." A Dutch scholar went further to say that Hattendorf "may rightly be called one of the most influential maritime historians in the world." From 1984 to 2016, he was the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He has called maritime history "a subject that touches on both the greatest moments of the human spirit as well as on the worst, including war." In 2011, the Naval War College announced the establishment of the Hattendorf Prize for Distinguished Original Research in Maritime History, named for him. The 2014 Oxford Naval Conference - "Strategy and the Sea" - celebrated his distinguished career on April 10–12, 2014. The proceedings of the conference were published as a festschrift. In March 2016, Hattendorf received the higher doctorate of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of Oxford. Among the few Americans to have received such designation, Hattendorf remained actively engaged on the Naval War College campus after his formal retirement in 2016.
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Alexa O'Brien
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Alexa O'Brien is an American investigative researcher, journalist, analyst, and activist who focuses on intelligence and national security. She extensively documented Chelsea Manning's court-martial, and has researched and reported on topics including WikiLeaks' leak of United States diplomatic cables and Guantanamo Bay files, the war on terror, and the Arab Spring.
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Wendy Sue Swanson
- Occupations
- pediatricianmedical writerphysician
- Biography
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Wendy Sue Swanson is an American pediatrician, educator and author, known for her Seattle Mama Doc blog.
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James G. Carr
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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James Gray Carr is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
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Allison Joseph
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Allison Joseph is an American poet, editor and professor. She is author of eight full-length poetry collections, most recently, Confessions of a Bare-Faced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018).
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John G. Mitchell
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
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John Grant Mitchell was an Ohio lawyer and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was active in several important campaigns and battles in the Western Theater, including the Chickamauga, Atlanta, and Franklin-Nashville and Carolinas campaigns. He commanded a brigade of veteran infantry in many of these operations.
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Herbert T. Perrin
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Brigadier General Herbert Towle Perrin was a United States Army officer, with the rank of brigadier general. He served during World War II and received the second highest military award, the Distinguished Service Cross, for his leadership as the acting commander of the 106th Infantry Division.
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John James McCook
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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John James McCook was an American corporate attorney, business director, and soldier, serving as a Union Army officer during the American Civil War. He was the youngest member of the famed "Fighting McCooks," a prominent Ohio military family which contributed fifteen members to the war effort.
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Henry B. Banning
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Henry Blackstone Banning was a lawyer and three-term U.S. Representative from Ohio, as well as an infantry officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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Robert Crosser
- Enrolled in Kenyon College
- Studied in 1897
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerteacher
- Biography
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Robert Crosser was an American lawyer and politician who served 19 terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio. He remains the longest-serving member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Ohio, serving from 1911 to 1919, then again from 1923 until 1955.
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Rolla Dyer
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Rolla Eugene Dyer was an American physician born in Delaware County, Ohio. Dyer received his B.A. in 1907 from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and his M.D. in 1914 from the University of Texas. He joined the U.S. Public Health Service in 1916.
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David Goodwillie
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Biography
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David Goodwillie is an American novelist, memoirist and journalist. He has published three books: the novels Kings County and American Subversive, and the memoir Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time.
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Katherine Simonds Dhanani
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Katherine Simonds Dhanani is an American diplomat. She was nominated as the Ambassador of the United States to Somalia, having been nominated for the position on 25 February 2015 by U.S. President Barack Obama. Dhanani is the first official U.S. envoy to the country in over two decades. On May 11, 2015, it was reported that Dhanani had withdrawn her nomination to the post of Ambassador to Somalia for personal reasons.
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Harry Wolverton
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Harry Sterling Wolverton, nicknamed "Fighting Harry", was an American professional baseball player. He played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball from 1898 through 1905 and 1912. He played for the Chicago Orphans, Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators, Boston Beaneaters, and New York Highlanders, primarily as a third baseman. He also managed the Highlanders in 1912.
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Guy M. Bryan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Guy Morrison Bryan was a U.S. Representative from Texas.
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John B. Minor
- Years
- 1813-1895 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- jurist
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John Barbee Minor was an American jurist and slaveowner. He practiced law in Virginia and then taught at the University of Virginia School of Law for fifty years. His students achieved eminence in professional or public lives. Some referred to his teaching career as not only the longest but the ablest known to Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, and one declared that "he has exerted, and still indirectly exerts, a wider influence for good upon society in the United States than any man who has lived in this generation."
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Sylvester Horton Rosecrans
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Sylvester Horton Rosecrans was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Columbus in Ohio from 1868 until his death in 1878. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in Ohio from 1862 to 1868.
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John L. Cable
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Levi Cable was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and a great-grandson of Joseph Cable.
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Jackson Edward Betts
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
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Jackson Edward Betts was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1951 to 1973. He also served as Speaker of the House in the Ohio Legislature.
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Kevin O'Donnell
- Years
- 1925-2012 (aged 87)
- Biography
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Kevin O'Donnell was the fourth director of Peace Corps, serving from July 1, 1971 to September 30, 1972.
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John Cradlebaugh
- Occupations
- lawyerlegislatorpoliticianjudge
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John Cradlebaugh was the first delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Nevada Territory.
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Rowland Ebenezer Trowbridge
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rowland Ebenezer Trowbridge was an American politician from Michigan. A United States congressman from Michigan's 4th congressional district from 1861 to 1863 and again from 1865 to 1869, he worked on agricultural policy and was chairman of the Committee on Agriculture during the 40th United States Congress.
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Geoffrey Kloske
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- editor
- Biography
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Geoffrey Kloske is the vice president and publisher of Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Group. He served as vice president and executive editor of Simon & Schuster from 1998 to 2006. Previously, he was an editor at Little, Brown and Company from 1992 to 1996. Authors he has edited include David Sedaris, Dave Eggers, Bob Dylan, Sarah Vowell, Jon Ronson, Nick Hornby, James McBride (writer), and Mark Kurlansky.
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Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda
- Occupations
- presbyter
- Biography
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Rt. Rev. Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda D.D. was the first Japanese born Bishop of Tokyo in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan.
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Ralph Pomeroy Buckland
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Ralph Pomeroy Buckland was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, as well as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and an executive of the Union Pacific Railroad following the war.
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Suzanne Seggerman
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Suzanne Seggerman is the co-founder of Games for Change and is a public speaker and adviser on new media and social impact. At the 2015 Annual Game Developers Conference she was given an award by the Higher Education Video Game Alliance along with Dr. Mary Flanagan, Professor of Film and Media at Dartmouth College and Dr. James Paul Gee, Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University.
