100 Notable alumni of
Ohio Wesleyan University
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Ohio Wesleyan University is 769th in the world, 288th in North America, and 267th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Ohio Wesleyan University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Patricia Heaton
- Enrolled in Ohio Wesleyan University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in drama
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Patricia Helen Heaton is an American actress, producer and comedienne. She began her career appearing in a recurring role in the ABC drama series, Thirtysomething (1989–1991), and later appearing in the comedy films Memoirs of an Invisible Man and Beethoven (both 1992). Heaton went to star in the short-lived sitcoms Room for Two (1992–93), Someone Like Me (1994) and Women of the House (1995) before landing the role of Debra Barone in the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005).
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Clark Gregg
- Occupations
- film actorwriterscreenwriterdirectoractor
- Biography
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Robert Clark Gregg Jr. is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing the original character Phil Coulson in films and television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2008 to 2021. Gregg also voiced Coulson in the animated television series Ultimate Spider-Man (2012–2017) and the video games Lego Marvel Super Heroes (2013), Marvel Heroes (2013), and Lego Marvel's Avengers (2016).
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Wendie Malick
- Occupations
- television actormodelfilm actoractorvoice actor
- Biography
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Wendie Malick is an American actress and former fashion model, known for her roles in various television comedies. She starred as Judith Tupper Stone in the HBO sitcom Dream On, and as Nina Van Horn in the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me!, for which she was nominated for two Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe Award.
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Norman Vincent Peale
- Occupations
- psychologistwriter
- Biography
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Norman Vincent Peale was an American Protestant clergyman, and an author best known for popularizing the concept of positive thinking, especially through his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking (1952). He served as the pastor of Marble Collegiate Church, New York, from 1932, leading this Reformed Church in America congregation for more than a half century until his retirement in 1984. Alongside his pulpit ministry, he had an extensive career of writing and editing, and radio and television presentations. Despite arguing at times against involvement of clergy in politics, he nevertheless had some controversial affiliations with politically active organizations in the late 1930s, and engaged with national political candidates and their campaigns, having influence on some, including a personal friendship with President Richard Nixon.
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Patricia Wettig
- Occupations
- film actorwritertelevision actoractorplaywright
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Patricia Anne Wettig is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her role as Nancy Weston in the television series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which she received a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Melvin Van Peebles
- Occupations
- composerscreenwriterwriterfilm produceractor
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Melvin Van Peebles was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. He worked as an active filmmaker into the 2000s. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), was based on his own French-language novel La Permission and was shot in France, as it was difficult for a black American director to get work at the time. The film won an award at the San Francisco International Film Festival which gained him the interest of Hollywood studios, leading to his American feature debut Watermelon Man, in 1970. Eschewing further overtures from Hollywood, he used the successes he had so far to bankroll his work as an independent filmmaker.
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Trish Van Devere
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Trish Van Devere is a retired American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the film One Is a Lonely Number (1972), and won a Genie Award for the film The Changeling (1980). She is the widow of actor George C. Scott, with whom she appeared in multiple films.
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Charles W. Fairbanks
- Occupations
- politicianwriterlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Warren Fairbanks was an American politician who served as a senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 and the 26th vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909. He was also the Republican vice presidential nominee in the 1916 presidential election. Had the Republican ticket been elected, Fairbanks would have become the third (and only non-consecutive) vice president to multiple presidents, after George Clinton and John C. Calhoun.
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Ezra Vogel
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterhistorianjapanologistacademic
- Biography
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Ezra Feivel Vogel was an American sociologist who wrote prolifically on modern Japan, China, and Korea. He was Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.
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Lucy Webb Hayes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lucy Ware Hayes was the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes and served as first lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881.
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Benh Zeitlin
- Occupations
- film editorfilm directorcomposerscreenwriterdirector
- Biography
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Benjamin Harold Zeitlin is an American filmmaker, best known for writing and directing the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild, for which he received two Academy Award nominations.
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William H. Gass
- Occupations
- writercriticuniversity teachermilitary officernovelist
- Biography
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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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Michael van der Veen
- Enrolled in Ohio Wesleyan University
- In 1985 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Michael Thomas van der Veen is an American attorney who specializes in civil litigation and criminal defense. He represented former president Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial in the United States Senate, which resulted in acquittal on February 13, 2021.
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Masa Nakayama
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Masa Nakayama was a Japanese politician and educator who was the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of Japan when she became Minister of Health and Welfare in 1960.
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Byron Pitts
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Byron Pitts is an American journalist and author, working for ABC News as co-anchor for the network's late night news program, Nightline. Until March 2013, he served as a chief national correspondent for The CBS Evening News and contributed regularly to 60 Minutes.
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F. Sherwood Rowland
- Occupations
- authoruniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.
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Kathryn Barger
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathryn Ann Barger-Leibrich is an American politician, serving as a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 5th District since 2016 and is the Chair Pro Tem of Los Angeles County. A member of the Republican Party, Barger served as Chair of Los Angeles County from 2019 to 2020. She previously served as Chief Deputy Supervisor and Chief of Staff to her predecessor Mayor Michael D. Antonovich.
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Joseph B. Foraker
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Benson Foraker was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 37th governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890 and as a United States senator from Ohio from 1897 until 1909.
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Jeff Long
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jeffrey Paul Long is an American athletics director, most recently at the University of Kansas. He is the former Vice Chancellor and director of athletics at the University of Arkansas and joined the University in 2008 after holding the same position at the University of Pittsburgh. Long's career in administration includes positions at the University of Oklahoma, University of Michigan, Virginia Tech, and Eastern Kentucky University.
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Helen Kim
- Occupations
- journalistpoetwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Helen Kim was a South Korean politician, educator, social activist, and feminist. Her art name was Wuwol (우월). Kim is the founder of the daily Korean newspaper, The Korea Times.
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Mary Katherine Campbell
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantmodel
- Biography
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Mary Katherine Campbell was the only person to win the Miss America pageant twice and the second woman in history to win the title.
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Frank H. Murray
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Frank Hardart Murray is an American business executive. He is founder, president and chief executive officer of InterTech Media. In the 1990s, Murray was the chairman and CEO of Goodman Manufacturing Company and engineered Goodman's purchase of Amana Corporation from Raytheon and initiated Amana's successful brand-revitalization campaign. Under Murray, Goodman moved up Forbes' list of 500 Biggest Private Companies from #405 to 66. Murray has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics from Ohio Wesleyan University.
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Horace Newton Allen
- Occupations
- missionarydiplomat
- Biography
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Horace Newton Allen was a missionary, physician, and American ambassador to Korea. Along with Robert Samuel Maclay, Allen was one of the first Western Protestant missionaries in Korea, arriving there on September 15, 1884.
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Buck Rodgers
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Robert Leroy "Buck" Rodgers is an American former professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Los Angeles / California Angels for nine seasons during the 1960s. He later managed three major-league teams: the Milwaukee Brewers, Montreal Expos, and California Angels, compiling a managerial record of 784–774 (.503).
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Jo Ann Emerson
- Enrolled in Ohio Wesleyan University
- In 1972 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jo Ann Emerson is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Missouri's 8th congressional district from 1996 to 2013. The district consists of Southeast and South Central Missouri and includes the Bootheel, the Lead Belt and the Ozarks. Emerson is a member of the Republican Party. On January 22, 2013, Emerson resigned her seat in Congress to become the president and chief executive officer of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. She served as CEO until August 2015.
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James Oberg
- Occupations
- authorjournalistengineer
- Biography
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James Edward Oberg is an American space journalist and historian, regarded as an expert on the Russian and Chinese space programs. He had a 22-year career as a space engineer in NASA specializing in orbital rendezvous. Oberg is an author of ten books and more than a thousand articles on space flight. He gave many explanations of UFO phenomena in the popular press. He is also a consultant in spaceflight operations and safety.
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Frank Stanton
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Frank Nicholas Stanton was an American broadcasting executive who served as the president of CBS between 1946 and 1971 and then as vice chairman until 1973. He also served as the chairman of the Rand Corporation from 1961 until 1967.
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Amos Dolbear
- Occupations
- inventorphysicist
- Biography
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Amos Emerson Dolbear was an American physicist and inventor. Dolbear researched electrical spark conversion into sound waves and electrical impulses. He was a professor at University of Kentucky in Lexington from 1868 until 1874. In 1874 he became the chair of the physics department at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. He is known for his 1882 invention of a system for transmitting telegraph signals without wires. In 1899 his patent for it was purchased in an unsuccessful attempt to interfere with Guglielmo Marconi's wireless telegraphy patents in the United States.
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Dan Dickerson
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Daniel Hill Dickerson is an American sportscaster, best known for his current position as the lead radio play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers on the Detroit Tigers Radio Network.
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Myron Timothy Herrick
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Myron Timothy Herrick was an American banker, diplomat and Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 42nd governor of Ohio and United States Ambassador to France on two occasions.
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Alice M. Batchelder
- Occupations
- judgejurist
- Biography
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Alice M. Moore Batchelder is an American attorney and jurist. She is currently a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She served as chief judge from 2009 until 2014. She also was considered by President George W. Bush as a potential nominee for a United States Supreme Court seat that ultimately went to Justice Samuel Alito. Her husband William G. Batchelder was a former state Court of Appeals judge and a state legislator, who had served more than 30 years in the Ohio House of Representatives and served as Speaker of the House from 2011 until 2014.
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Homer Rodeheaver
- Years
- 1880-1955 (aged 75)
- Occupations
- songwriterwriter
- Biography
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Homer Alvan Rodeheaver was an American evangelist, music director, music publisher, composer of gospel songs, and pioneer in the recording of sacred music.
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Gregor Collins
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Gregor Collins is an American author, speaker, actor and former reality television producer, best known for playing Matt in the mumblecore film Goodbye Promise, and for writing the memoir The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann, as well as its sequel, The Accidental Caregiver Part II: Saying Yes to a World without Maria Altmann.
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Paul Gillmor
- Enrolled in Ohio Wesleyan University
- In 1961 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Paul Eugene Gillmor was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death in 2007.
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Tates Locke
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Taylor "Tates" Locke is an American former basketball coach. He was described by Rick Telander in the March 8, 1982 issue of Sports Illustrated as being "as high-strung, aggressive and gung-ho over college coaching as anyone has ever been."
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Joseph Poindexter
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Boyd Poindexter was the eighth Territorial Governor of Hawaii and served from 1934 to 1942.
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Pete Lee
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Sanford Edmund Lee is an American politician. He served in the Colorado Senate from the 11th district as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his tenure in the state senate he served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 18th district.
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Frank W. Gunsaulus
- Occupations
- writereducatorpastor
- Biography
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Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus was a noted preacher, educator, pastor, author and humanitarian. Famous for his "Million Dollar Sermon" which led Philip Danforth Armour to donate money to found Armour Institute of Technology where Gunsaulus served as president for its first 27 years. Gunsaulus lived in Chicago for 34 years where he was pastor of Plymouth Church (1887–99) and Central Church from 1899 until two years before his death. He was a prominent figure in Chicago's social, educational, and civic improvements. In 1893, he was named first president of Armour Institute of Technology (now Illinois Institute of Technology). His extraordinary energy, masterful oratory skills, and intellectual talents influenced the city's spiritual, educational, cultural, and civic development for decades.
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Dave Hobson
- Enrolled in Ohio Wesleyan University
- In 1958 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Lee Hobson is an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party who served as a U.S. representative from the seventh congressional district of Ohio from 1991 to 2009.
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Edwin Conklin
- Occupations
- biologistuniversity teacherbotanistmarine biologistzoologist
- Biography
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Edwin Grant Conklin was an American biologist and zoologist.
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George Conrades
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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George Conrades is the former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Akamai Technologies. Prior to Akamai, Conrades served as CEO of BBN Technologies. Before joining BBN he spent 31 years at IBM, running its U.S. and Asia-Pacific businesses and heading two manufacturing and development groups. Mr. Conrades currently serves as an Executive Advisor to Akamai Technologies and on the Board of Directors of Oracle Corporation. He has also served on the Boards of Ironwood Pharmaceuticals and Harley-Davidson.
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Orra E. Monnette
- Occupations
- bankerlawyer
- Biography
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Orra Eugene Monnette was an attorney, author and banker. Monnette was also the founder of the Bank of America, L.A.
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William Hung
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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William Hung, was a Chinese historian and sinologist who taught for many years at Yenching University, Peking, which was China's leading Christian university, and at Harvard University. He is known for bringing modern standards of scholarship to the study of Chinese classical writings, for editing the Harvard-Yenching Index Series, and for his biography of Du Fu, Tu Fu: China's Greatest Poet, which is considered a classic in the English world on the studies of Du Fu. He became a Christian while a student at the Anglo-Chinese College in Fuzhou, then went to Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, Columbia University, and Union Theological Seminary. On his return to China, he became Professor and Dean of Yenching University, where he was instrumental in establishing the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He came to Harvard in 1946 and spent the rest of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, teaching and mentoring students.
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William G. Batchelder
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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William G. Batchelder III was an American politician who was the 101st Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, serving from 2011 to 2014. He also represented the 69th District of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2007 to 2014, and served in the House from 1969 to 1998 previously. He was a Republican.
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John M. Pattison
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John M. Pattison was an American Democratic politician from Ohio. Pattison was for five months the 43rd governor of Ohio, serving for a shorter period than any other person elected to the office before his death.
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Anuvab Pal
- Occupations
- novelistscreenwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Anuvab Pal is an Indian stand up comedian, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He is occasionally featured as a rotating co-host on Season 4 of the podcast The Bugle.
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George Washington Steele
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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George Washington Steele was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician who twice served as a Representative for Indiana, from 1881 to 1889 and again from 1895 to 1903. Steele was also the first governor of Oklahoma Territory and was instrumental in developing the state's public education system and its two largest universities.
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Dwight Weist
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Dwight Weist, Jr. was an actor and announcer in the era of old-time radio.
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James E. Robinson
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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James Edgar Robinson was an American lawyer who served as an Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1919 to 1932. He was the maternal grandfather of First Lady Barbara Bush and great-grandfather of President George W. Bush.
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Otho F. Strahl
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Otho French Strahl was an American attorney and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was one of a small number of Southern generals who were born in the North.
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Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli
- Born in
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India - Occupations
- political scientistdiplomat
- Biography
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Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli is an American political scientist who also served in the Department of State. In 2006, she was appointed as the first Ambassador for women's empowerment by the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as well as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on United Nations Reform. She was sworn in as the First American Muslim Ambassador in July 1990. Dr. Tahir-Kheli was the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations at the White House National Security Council, from 2003-2005. She has served three Republican presidential administrations since 1980.
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Clarence Dill
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerteacher
- Biography
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Clarence Cleveland Dill was an American politician from the state of Washington. A Democrat, he was elected to two terms each in both houses of Congress.
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Ram Samudrala
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- bioinformaticianbiologist
- Biography
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Ram Samudrala is a professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo, United States. He researches protein folding, structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution.
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Arthur Sherwood Flemming
- Occupations
- politicianacademic administrator
- Biography
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Arthur Sherwood Flemming was an American government official. He served as the United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1958 until 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Flemming was an important force in the shaping of Social Security policy for more than four decades. He also served as president of the University of Oregon, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Macalester College. In 1966, he was elected to a four-year term as president of the National Council of Churches, the leading Christian ecumenical organization in the United States. From 1974 to 1981, he was the chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
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Wilbur P. Thirkield
- Occupations
- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Wilbur Patterson Thirkield was a Methodist bishop and educator born in Franklin, Ohio. He served as president of Howard University. He was the son of Eden Burrows Thirkield, a prominent merchant of that town. The Thirkield family had long been involved with the Methodist Church. James E. Thirkield, Wilbur's grandfather, had moved from Pennsylvania into the Miami River Valley in 1817. In 1825, James and his wife Jane signed the original charter for a Methodist Church in their new hometown of Franklin.
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Barry Clemens
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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John Barry Clemens is an American former professional basketball player. The 6' 6" Clemens attended Xenia High School and Ohio Wesleyan University before being drafted by the NBA's New York Knicks in the 1965 NBA draft, and he went on to have a productive 11-year career with five teams: the Knicks, the Chicago Bulls, the Seattle SuperSonics, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Portland Trail Blazers. He retired in 1976 with career totals of 5,312 points and 2,532 rebounds.
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Keith Rucker
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Keith Rucker V is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League. He played for the Phoenix Cardinals (1992–1993), the Cincinnati Bengals (1994–1995), Philadelphia Eagles (1996), the Washington Redskins (1996–1997), and the Kansas City Chiefs (1997). He finished his playing career with the San Antonio Matadors of the Spring Football League. He played college football at Eastern Michigan University and Ohio Wesleyan University.
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Cyrus Locher
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Cyrus Locher was a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate.
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Daniel Van Voorhis
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Daniel Van Voorhis was a United States Army lieutenant general and was noteworthy for his assignments as commander of V Corps and the Caribbean Defense Command, as well as his efforts in creating the Army's modern armor branch.
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Daniel H. Reynolds
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Daniel Harris Reynolds was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was born at Centerburg, Ohio, but moved to Iowa, Tennessee, and finally to Arkansas before the Civil War. He was a lawyer in Arkansas before the war. After the war, Reynolds resumed his practice of law and was a member of the Arkansas Senate for one term.
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John Marshall Hamilton
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Marshall Hamilton was the 18th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1883 to 1885. Born in Union County, Ohio, Hamilton became interested in politics at a young age, joining the Wide Awakes when he was thirteen and the Union Army four years later. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University he studied law and was admitted to the bar. A notable attorney in Bloomington, Illinois, Hamilton was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1876. He served there until 1881, when he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois on a ticket with Shelby Moore Cullom. When Cullom resigned after election to the United States Senate, Hamilton became Governor of Illinois. He was not selected as a candidate for re-election, but did serve that year as a delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention. He spent the rest of his life as an attorney in Chicago, where he died in 1905.
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Elizabeth A. Phelps
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychologistneuroscientist
- Biography
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Elizabeth Anya Phelps is the Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience at Harvard University in the Department of Psychology. She is a cognitive neuroscientist known for her research at the intersection of memory, learning, and emotion. She was the recipient of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Distinguished Scholar Award and the 21st Century Scientist Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, as well as other honors and awards in her field. Phelps was honored with the 2018 Thomas William Salmon Lecture and Medal in Psychiatry at the New York Academy of Medicine. She received the 2019 William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science which acknowledged how her "multidisciplinary body of research has probed the influence of emotion across cognitive and behavioral domains using novel imaging techniques and neuropsychological studies grounded in animal models of learning."
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Samuel G. Cosgrove
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove was an American politician who served as the sixth governor of Washington from January to March 1909. He was a U.S. Civil War veteran and a Republican.
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D. Leigh Colvin
- Years
- 1880-1959 (aged 79)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Leigh Colvin was an American politician and member of the Prohibition Party and the Law Preservation Party.
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Kenyon Farrow
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerwriterteacherLGBTQI+ rights activistjournalist
- Biography
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Kenyon Farrow is an American writer, activist, director, and educator focused on progressive racial and economic justice issues related to the LGBTQ community. He served as the executive director of Queers for Economic Justice, policy institute fellow with National LGBTQ Task Force, U.S. & Global Health Policy Director of Treatment Action Group, public education and communications coordinator for the New York State Black Gay Network, senior editor with TheBody.com and TheBodyPro.com, and co-executive director of Partners for Dignity and Rights. In 2021, Farrow joined PrEP4All as managing director of advocacy & organizing.
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James W. Huffman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Wylie Huffman was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Ohio. He represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1945 until 1946.
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Howard Sloane
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Howard G. Sloane (born December, 1950) is an American philanthropist and the Chairman and CEO of The Heckscher Foundation for Children, a New York-based private foundation established in 1921 by German-born industrialist, financier, and philanthropist August Heckscher. In 1997, Sloane took over the affairs of the Heckscher Foundation when its assets consisted largely of encumbered real estate which limited its ability to make meaningful gifts. He restructured and developed the Foundation into a significant funder of innovative education, job training, recreation, and the arts programs with assets of over $300 million. Under Sloane's leadership, the modern day Foundation underwrites projects with potential for catalytic impact when combined with public funds or other donors, and operates its own strategic philanthropy programs to promote the welfare of children and youth in New York City.
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George Meader
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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George Meader, was a Republican politician from the US state of Michigan.
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Edward Junge Hickox
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Edward Junge Hickox was an American basketball coach and administrator. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he coached the basketball team of Springfield College from 1926 to 1941, coached the American International College basketball team from 1944 to 1947, was a chairman of the National Basketball Rules Committee from 1945 to 1948, served on the board of directors of the Basketball Hall of Fame from 1959 to 1966 and was an executive secretary of the Hall of Fame from 1949 to 1963.
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John R. Park
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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John Rockey Park was a prominent educator in the Territory and State of Utah in the late 19th century, and in many ways was the intellectual father of the University of Utah.
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Rachel Littler Bodley
- Enrolled in Ohio Wesleyan University
- Studied in 1860
- Occupations
- teacheruniversity teacherbotanistcuratorbotanical collector
- Biography
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Rachel Littler Bodley was an American professor, botanist, and university leader. She was best known for her term as Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1874–1888). She helped found the American Chemical Society in New York City.
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Washington Gardner
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Washington Gardner was a lawyer, minister, politician and Civil War veteran from the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Max Urick
- Occupations
- player of American footballhead coach
- Biography
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Max Franklin Urick is a former American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana for four seasons, from 1967 until 1970, compiling a record of 11–22–2. Urick was the athletic director at Iowa State University from 1983 to 1993 at Kansas State University from 1993 until his retirement in 2001.
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Francis John McConnell
- Years
- 1871-1953 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- priestautobiographerbiographer
- Biography
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Francis John McConnell was an American social reformer and a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1912.
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Mary Bigelow Ingham
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Mary Bigelow Ingham was an American author, educator, and religious worker. Dedicated to teaching, missionary work, and temperance reform, she served as professor of French and belles-lettres in the Ohio Wesleyan College; presided over and addressed the first public meeting ever held in Cleveland conducted exclusively by religious women; co-founded the Western Reserve School of Design (later, Cleveland Institute of Art); and was a charter member of the order of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Cheryl Heller
- Occupations
- designer
- Biography
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Cheryl Heller is an American business strategist and designer. She is the Founder of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts, President of the design lab "CommonWise", and winner of the AIGA Medal for her contribution to the field of design. She is a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellow Heller has been credited as founding the first design department in a major advertising agency and her work focuses on investigating the contributions design have on human health and its impact on society.
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John Wesley Hoyt
- Enrolled in Ohio Wesleyan University
- Studied in 1849
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- editorpoliticianbusinesspersonpedagoguejournalist
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John Wesley Hoyt was an American politician and educator. Hoyt was the third Governor of Wyoming Territory.
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George S. Howard
- Enrolled in Ohio Wesleyan University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Music Education
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- bandmasterconductorbandleader
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Colonel George Sallade Howard was commander and conductor of The United States Air Force Band between 1947 and 1963.
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Walter Ellsworth Brehm
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- laborerpoliticiandentist
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Walter Ellsworth Brehm was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
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Madison Miner Walden
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- politicianlawyer
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Madison Miner Walden was a Civil War officer, teacher, publisher, farmer, the Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, and a one-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district, then located in southeastern Iowa.
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Pindar Van Arman
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- artist
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Pindar Van Arman is an American artist and roboticist based in Washington, D.C. His art focuses on designing painting robots that explore the differences between human and computational creativity. Since his first system in 2005, he has built multiple artificially creative robots, including CrowdPainter, bitPaintr, and CloudPainter. His robotic systems typically paint with a brush on stretched canvas and have recently begun to concentrate on creative portraiture.
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Charles Caldwell McCabe
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- theologianpriest
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Charles Cardwell McCabe, also known as "Bishop" C. C. McCabe and Chaplain C. C. McCabe, was an American who distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor, an Army chaplain during the American Civil War, a Church executive chiefly in the field of fundraising, as chancellor of American University, and as a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (M.E.), elected in 1896. McCabe was credited by Julia Ward Howe as having popularized her famous piece "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" after his imprisonment by the Confederates in Libby Prison during the Civil War.
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John W. Shenk
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- judge
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John Wesley Shenk was a city attorney in Los Angeles, California, a Superior Court judge and a member of the California Supreme Court.
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William Crittenden Mooney
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- bankerpolitician
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William Crittenden Mooney was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. His parents were Colonel Samuel L. Mooney, a major figure in the development of Monroe County, and Martha Kirkpatrick.
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Hugh L. Nichols
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Hugh Llewellyn Nichols was an American politician who served as the 32nd lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1911 to 1913 and Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio 1913 to 1920.
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John F. McKinney
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- politicianlawyer
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John Franklin McKinney was an American lawyer and politician who served two non-consecutive terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1863 to 1865 and again from 1871 to 1873.
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George Carleton Lacy
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- priest
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George Carleton Lacy was an American Methodist missionary and the last Methodist Bishop in Mainland China.
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John W. McCormick
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- politician
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John Watts McCormick was an American politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1883 to 1885,
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Leon C. Marshall
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- economist
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Leon Carroll Marshall was an American economist, Professor of Political Economy and fourth dean of the Booth School of Business from 1909 to 1924, Professor at the Law School of the Johns Hopkins University, and Professor at the American University. He is known for his works on our(?) economic organization, business administration, curriculum-making in the social studies and the divorce court, as well as his involvement in the Bohemian Grove.
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William R. Warnock
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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William Robert Warnock was an American lawyer, politician, and veteran of the Civil War who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1901 to 1905.
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Daniel Webster Comstock
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- lawyerwriterpoliticianjudge
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Daniel Webster Comstock was an American lawyer, jurist, and Civil War veteran who briefly served as a U.S. representative from Indiana in 1917.
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Grant E. Mouser, Jr
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- politicianlawyer
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Grant Earl Mouser Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for two terms from 1929 to 1933.
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Thomas Milton Gatch
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- politician
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Thomas Milton Gatch was an American educator and politician in Oregon. He served one term as mayor of Salem, Oregon, was the president of what would become Oregon State University, served as president of the University of Washington, and twice served as president of Willamette University. A native of Ohio, he was the first president of Oregon State University to hold a doctorate degree.
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Edwin Erle Sparks
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Edwin Erle Sparks was the eighth president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1908 until 1920.
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John S. Jones
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- politicianlawyer
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John Sills Jones was a U.S. Representative from Ohio who also served as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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Driss Sekkat
- Born in
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Morocco - Biography
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Driss Sekkat is an international award-winning executive producer and expert in television programming.
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Robert M. Nevin
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- politicianlawyer
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Robert Murphy Nevin was an attorney and three-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio from 1901 to 1907.
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L. L. Marshall
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- politicianlawyer
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Lycurgus Luther Marshall was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1939 to 1941.
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Hü King Eng
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- physician
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Hü King Eng was a physician, and the second ethnic Chinese woman to attend university in the United States, after King You Mé. Her medical career is well-documented, as she was treated as a celebrity by American media, due to the lack of even American women studying medicine at the time.
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Charles H. Lewis
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- politician
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Charles Hendrickson Lewis was an American politician who served as the 38th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1925 to 1927.
