65 Notable alumni of
Thomas Jefferson University
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Thomas Jefferson University is 1309th in the world, 472nd in North America, and 443rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 65 notable alumni from Thomas Jefferson 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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J. Marion Sims
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- In 1835 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeongynaecologist
- Biography
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James Marion Sims was an American physician in the field of surgery. His most famous work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe complication of obstructed childbirth. He is also remembered for inventing the Sims speculum, Sims sigmoid catheter, and the Sims position. Against significant opposition, he established, in New York, the first hospital specifically for women. He was forced out of the hospital he founded because he insisted on treating cancer patients; he played a small role in the creation of the nation's first cancer hospital, which opened after his death.
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Robert Gallo
- Occupations
- university teacheroncologistimmunologistvirologistphysician
- Biography
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Robert Charles Gallo is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in establishing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the development of the HIV blood test, and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research.
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Carlos Juan Finlay
- Occupations
- physicianmedical researcher
- Biography
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Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes aegypti.
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Anson Jones
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Anson Jones was a doctor, businessman, member of Congress, and the fourth and last president of the Republic of Texas.
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Jay McCarroll
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Jay McCarroll is a fashion designer who gained fame after winning the debut season of the competitive reality show Project Runway in 2005.
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Pat Chambers
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Patrick Brian Chambers is an American college basketball coach and is the current head coach at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is formerly the head men's basketball coach at Penn State and Boston University.
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Silas Weir Mitchell
- Occupations
- writerphysicianneurologistmedical writer
- Biography
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Silas Weir Mitchell was an American physician, scientist, novelist, and poet. He is considered the father of medical neurology, and he discovered causalgia (complex regional pain syndrome) and erythromelalgia, and pioneered the rest cure.
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William Williams Keen
- Occupations
- surgeonmilitary physicianneurosurgeonmedical writer
- Biography
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William Williams Keen Jr. was an American physician and the first brain surgeon in the United States. During his lifetime, Keen worked with six American presidents.
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Marcella Nuñez-Smith
- Born in
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United States - Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- In 2001 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physicianmedical researcherinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Marcella Nunez-Smith is an American physician-scientist. She is C.N.H Long Professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, where she serves as the inaugural Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and founding director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center. She also holds joint appointments at the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale School of Management. After co-chairing the Biden-Harris transition’s COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021, she was selected by President Joe Biden to serve as Senior Advisor to the White House COVID-19 Response Team and Chair of the Presidential COVID-19 Equity Task Force.
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Bethany Hall-Long
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bethany A. Hall-Long is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. She has served as the 26th lieutenant governor of Delaware since 2017. Hall-Long previously served in the Delaware Senate from 2008 to 2016 and in the Delaware House of Representatives from 2002 to 2008.
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James P. Bagian
- Occupations
- astronautengineerphysicianmilitary officer
- Biography
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James Philip Bagian, is an American physician, engineer, and former NASA astronaut of Armenian descent. During his career as an astronaut, he logged 337 hours of space-flight, over two missions, STS-29 (in 1989) and STS-40 (in 1991). After leaving NASA in 1995, Bagian was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine. He was also elected as member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for the integration of engineering and medical knowledge in applications to aerospace systems, environmental technology, and patient safety.
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Maurice Kanbar
- Occupations
- inventorentrepreneur
- Biography
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Maurice Kanbar was an American entrepreneur and inventor who lived in San Francisco, California. He was particularly well known for his creation of SKYY vodka and was also noted for his extensive real estate investments.
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John Martyn Harlow
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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John Martyn Harlow was an American physician primarily remembered for his attendance on brain-injury survivor Phineas Gage, and for his published reports on Gage's accident and subsequent history.
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Samuel David Gross
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- In 1828 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Samuel David Gross was an American academic trauma surgeon. Surgeon biographer Isaac Minis Hays called Gross "The Nestor of American Surgery." He is immortalized in Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic (1875), a prominent American painting of the nineteenth century. A bronze statue of him was cast by Alexander Stirling Calder and erected on the National Mall, but moved in 1970 to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
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Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck
- Occupations
- translatorphysicianBible translatorlinguist
- Biography
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Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck, M.D. was an American missionary physician, teacher and translator of the Protestant Bible into Arabic.
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Carl Rogers Darnall
- Occupations
- chemistsurgeon
- Biography
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Brigadier General Carl Rogers Darnall was a United States Army chemist and surgeon credited with originating the technique of liquid chlorination of drinking water. Chlorination has been an exceedingly important innovation in public health, saving innumerable lives.
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Legrand G. Capers
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Legrand G. Capers was an American physician, best known for his 1874 spurious case report of bullet-mediated impregnation of a young woman.
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Jacob Mendes Da Costa
- Occupations
- university teachersurgeon
- Biography
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Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa was an American physician.
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Bartley P. Griffith
- Occupations
- cardiac surgeon
- Biography
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Bartley P. Griffith is an American heart surgeon.
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Lamartine Griffin Hardman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lamartine Griffin Hardman was an American physician, farmer, businessman, entrepreneur, and politician who served two terms as the 65th Governor of the state of Georgia from 1927 to 1931. He believed that state government should be run like a business and was best known for his effort to make governmental processes more efficient.
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Francis Julius LeMoyne
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Francis Julius LeMoyne was a 19th-century American medical doctor and philanthropist from Washington, Pennsylvania. Responsible for creating the first crematory in the United States, he was also an abolitionist, founder of Washington's first public library (known as Citizen's Library), co-founder of the Washington Female Seminary, and an instrumental benefactor to the LeMoyne Normal and Commercial School (now LeMoyne-Owen College), to which he made a $20,000 (~$410,435 in 2022) donation in 1870.
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Lidia Rudnicka
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- Studied in 1991-1993
- Occupations
- researcherdermatologist
- Biography
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Lidia Rudnicka is a Polish-American dermatologist with contributions to the field of scleroderma research, hair diseases and melanoma prevention.
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Gamaliel Bailey
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Gamaliel Bailey was an American physician who left that career to become an abolitionist journalist, editor, and publisher, working primarily in Cincinnati, and Washington, D.C. Anti-abolitionist mobs attacked his offices in both cities during the 1840s.
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Edward A. Wild
- Occupations
- homeopathmilitary officer
- Biography
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Edward Augustus Wild was an American homeopathic doctor and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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John Glasgow Kerr
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeon
- Biography
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John Glasgow Kerr was an American medical missionary and philanthropist who helped establish The Canton Hospital, also known as the Ophthalmic Hospital, in Canton, China.
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Robert G. Lahita
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Robert George Lahita is an American physician, internist and rheumatologist, best known for his research into systemic lupus erythematosus. and other autoimmune diseases. He is the author of more than 16 books and 150 scientific publications in the field of autoimmunity and immuno-endocrinology and a media consultant on health-related issues. He currently serves as Director of the Institute of Autoimmune and Rheumatic Diseases at St. Joseph's Healthcare System, specializing in autoimmunity, rheumatology, and treatment of diseases of joints, muscle, bones and tendons including arthritis, back pain, muscle strains, common athletic injuries and collagen diseases.
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Malcolm Cummings Grow
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- 1887-1960 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- military officersurgeon
- Biography
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Major General Malcolm Cummings Grow was the first Surgeon General of the United States Air Force from July 1, 1949 to November 30, 1949.
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Bob File
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Robert Michael File is an American former professional baseball pitcher. File spent three-plus seasons as a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2001 to 2004. He signed with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2005, retiring shortly after spring training with a back injury.
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William Goodell
- Occupations
- gynaecologist
- Biography
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William Goodell was an American gynecologist from Philadelphia, best remembered for first describing what is now referred to as Goodell's sign.
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Brian S. Robinson
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- military leader
- Biography
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Brian Scott Robinson is a United States Air Force lieutenant general who has served as commander of the Air Education and Training Command since May 20, 2022. He previously served as the deputy commander of the Air Mobility Command.
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Charles B. Mitchel
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles Burton Mitchel was an American politician who served as a Confederate States senator from Arkansas from February 18, 1862 until his death in 1864. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Arkansas as a U.S. senator in 1861.
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William S. Forbes
- Years
- 1831-1905 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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William Smith Forbes was an American physician who served as demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College. He is known as the "Father of the Anatomical Act" in Pennsylvania.
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Robert Battey
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Robert Battey was an American physician who is known for pioneering a surgical procedure then called Battey's Operation and now termed radical oophorectomy (or removal of a woman's ovaries).
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George M. Gould
- Years
- 1848-1922 (aged 74)
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- 1885-1888 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- linguistophthalmologistlexicographer
- Biography
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George Milbry Gould (November 8, 1848 Auburn, Maine – August 8, 1922 Atlantic City) was an American physician and lexicographer.
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Thomas J. Herzfeld
- Biography
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Thomas J. Herzfeld is the founder, Chairman and President of Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, Inc., an investment firm specializing in the field of closed-end funds. Herzfeld is also the Chairman and President of The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund Inc., the first closed-end fund formed to invest in the Caribbean region (as well as Cuba, when permitted). Herzfeld wrote the first of his six books on the subject of closed-end funds in 1979. He is the publisher of The Investor's Guide to Closed-End Funds monthly research report and is quoted and interviewed on the subject by publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Financial Times. He has served as a contributing editor for the Global Guide to Investing (published by Financial Times), and The Encyclopedia of Investments. He has appeared annually on the Nightly Business Report (PBS) show for 30 years and was interviewed on the show Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser several times.
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George R. Robbins
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Robbins Robbins was an American Opposition Party/Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms from 1855 to 1859.
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Tom Bentley Throckmorton
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- In 1909 graduated with bachelor's degree in medicine
- Occupations
- neurologist
- Biography
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Tom Bentley Throckmorton was an American neurologist remembered for describing Throckmorton's reflex. He is also the namesake of the Throckmorton sign used in radiology.
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Samuel Abbott Green
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianmilitary physicianphysician
- Biography
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Samuel Abbott Green was an American physician-turned-politician from Massachusetts who served as a medical officer during the American Civil War and as mayor of Boston in 1882.
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Jonathan Sackner Bernstein
- Occupations
- physiciancardiologist
- Biography
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Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein is an American physician. He has published around 80 scientific articles, which have been cited more than 4,000 times. His research has ranged from cardiac care to the efficacy of drugs. His research led to increased scrutiny of Nesiritide, a widely marketed drug, which led to its decline in its use.
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Daniel Brainard
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- In 1834 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Daniel Brainard was a Chicago-based surgeon and founder of Rush Medical College.
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Louis Livingston Seaman
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Louis Livingston Seaman, FRGS was an American surgeon, born in Newburgh, New York.
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Austin Flint II
- Occupations
- physiologist
- Biography
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Austin Flint II was an American physician. He carried out extensive experimental investigations in human physiology and made several important discoveries. He assisted in establishing the glycogenic function of the liver; showed that one of the functions of the liver is to separate from the blood the cholesterin, which is a product of the nervous system. and which, becoming a constituent of the bile, is afterward converted into what he named "stercorin" (better known as coprosterol), the odorous principle of feces.
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Ivor David Fenton
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianmedical intern
- Biography
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Ivor David Fenton was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Isaac Newton Evans
- Occupations
- bankerpolitician
- Biography
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Isaac Newton Evans was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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John Hill Brinton
- Occupations
- surgeonmilitary physician
- Biography
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John Hill Brinton was an American surgeon.
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Charles Skelton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles Skelton was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855.
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Ninian Pinkney
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- In 1833 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- military officersurgeon
- Biography
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Ninian Pinkney, also spelled Pinckney, was a United States Navy surgeon and medical director. He graduated from St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, in 1829, and from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1833. He spent his entire naval career helping to further develop the field of surgery and medicine. He was especially prominent—and praised—during the American Civil War.
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Samuel Brubaker Hartman
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- Studied in 1857
- Occupations
- carpenterbook peddlerphysicianfarmer
- Biography
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Samuel Brubaker Hartman was an American physician, surgeon, and multi-millionaire quack who redefined catarrh as the source of all disease and patented the renowned miracle cure Peruna.
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Zedekiah Kidwell
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Zedekiah Kidwell was a nineteenth-century politician, physician, lawyer, teacher and clerk from Virginia and West Virginia. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1857.
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Benjamin Howard Rand
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- In 1848 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Benjamin Howard Rand was an American academic physician at Jefferson Medical College. He is depicted in Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand, an 1874 painting by Thomas Eakins. It is oil on canvas and depicts Rand reading a book while petting a cat.
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John Flournoy Henry
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Flournoy Henry was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
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Orlando Plummer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Orlando Pleasant Shields Plummer was an American physician and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he started practicing medicine in Illinois before moving to Portland, Oregon. In Oregon, he continued his medical work as well as working for several telegraph companies. A Republican, Plummer was also a member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, a medical professor, fruit farmer, and Portland city council member. His drug store in downtown had the first telephone in Portland.
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Peter Remondino
- Occupations
- physicianlawyer
- Biography
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Peter Charles Remondino was an Italian-American physician, pro-circumcision advocate, first president of the San Diego Board of Health, and co-founder of San Diego’s first private hospital. In the course of a medical career spanning 55 years, he served with the Union forces during the American Civil War as surgeon. He also served as a surgeon during the Franco-Prussian War, for which he was awarded a medal by the French Government for his services.
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James Ewing Mears
- Occupations
- writersurgeon
- Biography
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James Ewing Mears, also J. Ewing Mears M.D., LL.D. was a surgeon and author. He was a pioneer in jaw and mouth surgeries. He was the first to propose the use of Gasserian ganglionectomy for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. He was the first surgeon in the United States to successfully perform a subcutaneous osteotomy for the relief of old dislocations. He was the first to open the peritoneal cavity to drain pus. He was professor of anatomy and clinical surgery at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and demonstrator of surgery at Jefferson Medical College. He was a charter member of the American Surgical Association and became its president in 1894.
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Robert Coltman
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Robert Coltman, Jr. was an American physician, born in Washington, to Robert Coltman and Mary Jane Clements. He received his medical training at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and in 1881 began the practice of medicine. In 1896 he was appointed professor of anatomy at the Tung Wen College, Beijing, and in 1898 professor of surgery at the Imperial University, Beijing. He was personal physician to the Chinese royal household during that time. Li Hongzhang bestowed upon Dr. Coltman the decoration of the Double Dragon and made him a mandarin of the fourth rank.
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Edmund W. Samuel
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edmund William Samuel was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- Studied in 1838
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt was a prominent physician in Hartford, Connecticut.
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John Roberts Reading
- Years
- 1826-1886 (aged 60)
- Occupations
- homeopathpolitician
- Biography
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John Roberts Reading was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Joseph Garland
- Occupations
- surgeonpoliticianteacher
- Biography
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Joseph Garland was an American doctor and politician who served as Mayor of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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R. Beverly Cole
- Occupations
- obstetricianphysician
- Biography
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Richard Beverly Cole was an American physician and past president of the American Medical Association (AMA). He was dean of the Toland Medical College during the time that it merged with the University of California system (it was later known as University of California, San Francisco). A surgeon and obstetrician-gynecologist, Cole was among the first to perform some of the newer surgical procedures of his era, such as the Caesarean section and ligation of the common carotid and femoral arteries.
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John Cox Hupp
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- In 1847 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physicianmedical writer
- Biography
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John Cox Hupp was a noted physician of Wheeling, West Virginia. He was known for his contributions to the City of Wheeling and educational reform.
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Frank E. Wilson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frank Eugene Wilson was a U.S. Representative from New York.
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Andrew Jackson Barchfeld
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew Jackson Barchfeld was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Joseph Henderson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joseph Henderson was a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Leon F. Harvey
- Enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University
- Studied in 1859
- Occupations
- physicianentomologistdentist
- Biography
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Leon F. Harvey was an American entomologist, physician, and dentist. He was a founding member of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, serving as its first treasurer and later as its president.
