34 Notable alumni of
Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
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Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law is 1845th in the world, 646th in North America, and 608th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 notable alumni from Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Rick Santorum
- Enrolled in Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
- In 1986 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Richard John Santorum Sr. is an American politician, attorney, author, and political commentator who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2007. He was the Senate's third-ranking Republican during the final six years of his tenure. He also ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States in the 2012 Republican primaries, finishing second to Mitt Romney.
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Tom Ridge
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Thomas Joseph Ridge is an American politician and author who served in the George W. Bush administration as the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security from 2001 to 2003 and as the United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005. He was the first person to hold either office. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and as the 43rd governor of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001.
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Brian Fitzpatrick
- Enrolled in Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
- In 2001 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- accountantpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Brian Kevin Fitzpatrick is an American politician, attorney, and former FBI agent who has served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania since 2017. His district, which was numbered the 8th district during his first term and the 1st district since 2019, includes all of Bucks County, a mostly suburban county north of Philadelphia, as well as a sliver of Montgomery County.
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Tom Marino
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- politicianlawyer
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Thomas Anthony Marino is an American politician and attorney, who served as a United States Representative from Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2019. He represented the 10th congressional district from January 3, 2011 to January 3, 2019, and the 12th district from January 3 to January 23, 2019, when he resigned to work in the private sector. A member of the Republican Party, Marino was the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in his early career.
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Mike Fitzpatrick
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Michael Gerard Fitzpatrick was an American attorney and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 2005 to 2007 and 2011 to 2017. He was first elected to Congress in 2004 and represented the district from 2005 to 2007, but he was defeated by Democrat Patrick Murphy in 2006.
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Matthew W. Brann
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Matthew William Brann is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
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John E. Jones III
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
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John Edward Jones III is the 30th President at Dickinson College and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his presiding role in the landmark Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case, in which the teaching of intelligent design in public school science classes was ruled to be unconstitutional. In 2014, he ruled that Pennsylvania's 1996 ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. On May 14, 2021, it was announced that Judge Jones would serve as interim president of his alma mater Dickinson College for a two-year period beginning July 1, 2021. On February 28, 2022, Jones was named the 30th President of Dickinson College.
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D. Brooks Smith
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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David Brookman "Brooks" Smith is a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was previously Chief Judge of both the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and is the only judge in the history of the Third Circuit to have served as both a chief district judge and chief of the Court of Appeals.
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Andrew Gregg Curtin
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Andrew Gregg Curtin was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 15th governor of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War, helped defend his state during the Gettysburg Campaign, and oversaw the creation of the National Cemetery and the ceremony in which Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address.
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Jim Gerlach
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- politicianlawyer
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James William Gerlach is the former U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district, serving from 2003 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. Gerlach retired from Congress after completing his sixth term.
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Thomas I. Vanaskie
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- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Ignatius Vanaskie is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and former Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
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Paul Kanjorski
- Enrolled in Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
- Studied in 1962-1965
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Paul Edmund Kanjorski is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 1985 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Brian Sloan
- Biography
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Brian Sloan is an American entrepreneur known for creating a number of sex toys and adult-themed beauty contests. He is one of the few entrepreneurs in the adult industry to successfully use crowd funding for his products. He hosted a number of genital beauty contests, including a vaginal beauty contest, a scrotum beauty contest, and an anus beauty contest. He is also the inventor of the first sex toy that uses artificial intelligence to replicate human movements, and appears as a pitchman in infomercial style videos for most of his products and contests.
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Arthur James
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Arthur Horace James was an American lawyer, politician, and judge. A Republican, he served as the 14th lieutenant governor (1927–1931) and the 31st governor (1939–1943) of Pennsylvania.
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John S. Fine
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- judgelawyer
- Biography
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John Sydney Fine was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. A Republican, he served as the 35th governor of Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1955.
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Pedro Cortés
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- politician
- Biography
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Pedro A. Cortés is an American government official. He served twice in the role of Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, originally from 2003 to 2010 until Governor Ed Rendell and later from 2015 to 2017 under Governor Tom Wolf.
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Edward George Smith
- Enrolled in Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
- In 1986 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Edward George Smith was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Christopher F. Burne
- Occupations
- military officerlawyer
- Biography
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Christopher Francis Burne is a United States Air Force lieutenant general and was Judge Advocate General of the Air Force from May 2014 until May 2018. He retired on July 1, 2018.
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Carl Risch
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Carl C. Risch is an American lawyer and former government official who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs within the U.S. Department of State, as the acting chief of staff for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and as Deputy Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review within the U.S. Department of Justice. Risch was also a field office director for USCIS at the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South Korea and a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Department of State.
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Daniel Flood
- Enrolled in Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
- Studied in 1929
- Occupations
- actorpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Daniel John Flood was an American attorney and politician, a flamboyant and long-serving Democratic United States Representative from Pennsylvania. First elected to the US House in 1944, he served continuously from 1955 to 1980. Flood was credited with leading the effort to help the Wilkes-Barre area recover after the 1972 effects of the Agnes Flood.
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John P. Saylor
- Enrolled in Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
- Studied in 1933
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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John Phillips Saylor was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania serving from 1949 until his death from a heart attack in Houston, Texas in 1973.
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Kim R. Gibson
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Kim Richard Gibson is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
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Rick Gray
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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J. Richard Gray is an American lawyer and politician, who was mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania from 2006 until 2018.
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Sylvia H. Rambo
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Sylvia H. Rambo is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
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Milton W. Glenn
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Milton Willits Glenn was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1957–1965.
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William W. Caldwell
- Enrolled in Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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William Wilson Caldwell II was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
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T. Millet Hand
- Enrolled in Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
- In 1922 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianpublisherlawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Millet Hand was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for six consecutive terms from 1945 to 1956.
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Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer
- Enrolled in Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
- In 1914 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer represented the fifth district of the state of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives for seven terms from 1939 to 1953.
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Joseph S. Ammerman
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Scofield Ammerman was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania for one term from 1977 to 1979.
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Arthur Ringwalt Rupley
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Arthur Ringwalt Rupley was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Daniel Brodhead Heiner
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Daniel Brodhead Heiner was an American lawyer and politician who served as a two-term Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1897.
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Thomas Reap
- Years
- 1895-1935 (aged 40)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Thomas M. Reap was an American lawyer and college football coach. He served as the head coach at Villanova College—now known as Villanova University—from 1917 to 1920, during which time he compiled a record of 9–13–4.
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Frederick William Magrady
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerteacher
- Biography
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Frederick William Magrady was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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John Hopper
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John D. Hopper was a Pennsylvania politician. A Republican, he was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from the 31st district, serving from 1977 to 1992.