29 Notable alumni of
Monmouth College
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Monmouth College is 2509th in the world, 879th in North America, and 832nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from Monmouth 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 Stockdale
- Occupations
- politicianaircraft pilotmilitary officer
- Biography
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James Bond "Jim" Stockdale was a United States Navy vice admiral and aviator who was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, during which he was a prisoner of war for over seven years.
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Ilo Wallace
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ilo Wallace was the wife of Henry A. Wallace, the 33rd vice president of the United States. She was the second lady of the United States from 1941 until 1945. She was the sponsor of the battleship USS Iowa.
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Joe Tait
- Occupations
- sports journalist
- Biography
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Joseph Tait was an American sports broadcaster who was the play-by-play announcer on radio for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and both TV and radio for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. With the exception of two seasons in the early 1980s and illness during his final season, he was the Cavaliers' radio announcer from the team's inception in 1970 through the 2010–11 season. He won the Basketball Hall of Fame 2010 Curt Gowdy Media Award.
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Robert Hugo Dunlap
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Robert Hugo Dunlap was a United States Marine Corps major who received the Medal of Honor for heroism above and beyond the call of duty as a captain of a rifle company during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
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John Findley Wallace
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- engineer
- Biography
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John Findley Wallace was an American engineer and administrator, best known for serving as Chief Engineer for construction of the Panama Canal between 1904 and 1905. He had previously gained experience in railroad construction in the American Midwest.
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Harold Arthur Poling
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- engineer
- Biography
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Harold Arthur "Red" Poling was a U.S. automobile businessman.
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Charles A. Sprague
- Occupations
- politicianeditorpublisher
- Biography
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Charles Arthur Sprague was the 22nd Governor of the US state of Oregon from 1939 to 1943. He was also the editor and publisher of the Oregon Statesman from 1929 to 1969. Sprague High School in Salem, Oregon is named after him.
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Richard Elihu Sloan
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Richard Elihu Sloan was an American jurist and politician, who served as associate justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and as the 17th and final Governor of Arizona Territory. As an Associate Justice he served for 16 years, the longest service of any member of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, and wrote over 150 legal opinions. As Governor he oversaw Arizona's transition from territory to statehood.
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Danielle Nierenberg
- Occupations
- international forum participantjournalist
- Biography
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Danielle J. Nierenberg is an American activist, author and journalist.
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Mattie Hunter
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- politician
- Biography
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Mattie Hunter is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 3rd district since 2003. She is the Senate secretary for the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus and the Senate majority caucus whip. Hunter is also the 20th Ward Democratic Committeewoman.
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Lena Morrow Lewis
- Occupations
- newspaper editoreditorsuffragette
- Biography
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Martha Lena Morrow Lewis was an American orator, political organizer, journalist, and newspaper editor. An activist in the prohibition, women's suffrage, and socialist movements, Lewis is best remembered as a top female leader of the Socialist Party of America during that organization's heyday in the first two decades of the 20th century and as the first woman to serve on that organization's governing National Executive Committee.
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Philip G. Killey
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- military officer
- Biography
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Philip G. Killey is a retired United States Air Force officer. He attained the rank of major general, and served as Adjutant General of the South Dakota National Guard, Director of the Air National Guard and Commander of First Air Force.
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Earl W. Vincent
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Earl W. Vincent was a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 9th congressional district in 1928–29, a delegate to the Republican State convention in 1930, and was appointed judge of the fifth judicial district of Iowa in February 1945.
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Robert H. Brink
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Hendricks "Bob" Brink is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1998 to 2014, representing the 48th district in the Arlington and Fairfax County suburbs of Washington, D.C. He resigned to become deputy commissioner for aging services in the administration of Governor Terry McAuliffe.
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Charles F. Wishart
- Occupations
- Christian minister
- Biography
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Charles Frederick Wishart was a United States Presbyterian churchman who was President of the College of Wooster from 1919 to 1944. In 1923 he defeated William Jennings Bryan to become Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America at the height of the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy.
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Robert T. McLoskey
- Occupations
- funeral directorpolitician
- Biography
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Robert Thaddeus McLoskey was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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H. L. Carnahan
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Herschel L. Carnahan was the 30th Lieutenant Governor of California, 1928–1931, serving under Governor C. C. Young. He was a Republican.
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Dan Everett Waid
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- architect
- Biography
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Dan Everett Waid was a prominent 20th-century architect operating primarily in Illinois and New York. As chief architect for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (New York City), he and his partner designed the Home Office Building at 11 Madison Avenue along with dozens of other commercial, religious, residential and academic structures. He was appointed architect for the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. He was also president of the American Institute of Architects (1924–1926).
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Enoch Albert Bryan
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- school superintendentwriterteacher
- Biography
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Enoch Albert Bryan was president of Vincennes University in Indiana from 1883 to 1893 and of Washington's land-grant institution, today called Washington State University, from 1893 to 1915. At the latter institution he was the third president but the first with a long tenure, following George Lilly, 1891-1892, and John W. Heston, 1892-1893.
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Ellen Diggs
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- anthropologist
- Biography
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Ellen Irene Diggs was an American anthropologist. She was the writer of a major contribution to African American history, Black Chronology: From 4,000 B.C. to the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
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Adelbert H. Roberts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adelbert H. Roberts was an American politician who in 1924 became the first African American to serve in the Illinois Senate.
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Karen Bush
- Enrolled in Monmouth College
- 1961-1965 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Karen Bush is an American biochemist. She is a professor of Practice in Biology at Indiana University and the interim director of the Biotechnology program. Bush conducts research focusing on bacterial resistance mechanisms to beta-lactam antibiotics.
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Mary G. Charlton Edholm
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Mary G. Charlton Edholm was an American reformer and journalist. She worked as a journalist for twenty years.
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Reid K. Beveridge
- Enrolled in Monmouth College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in liberal arts
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Reid Kyle Beveridge is a retired brigadier general in the National Guard of the United States.
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Maurice H. Rees
- Biography
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Maurice Holmes Rees was American medical educator who served as Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Superintendent of the University of Colorado Hospital from 1920 to 1945.
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James Montgomery Rice
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
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James Montgomery Rice was an American soldier (Colonel), lawyer, and member of the Illinois House of Representatives who contributed to the establishment of the United States National Guard.
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William Medcalf Kinsey
- Years
- 1846-1931 (aged 85)
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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William Medcalf Kinsey was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
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James R. Carpenter
- Occupations
- politicianinventor
- Biography
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James Ross Carpenter was a Wyoming politician and inventor who served in the Wyoming Senate as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his political career he helped in the founding and advertisement of multiple towns in Wyoming.
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Clarence F. Buck
- Occupations
- newspaper editorbusinesspersonpolitician
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Clarence Frank Buck was an American politician, newspaper editor, businessman, and farmer.
