100 Notable alumni of
Union College
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Union College is 535th in the world, 202nd in North America, and 186th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Union College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jimmy Carter
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- submarinernovelistnaval officerhumanitarianhuman rights activist
- Biography
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James Earl Carter Jr. is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967. At age 99, he is both the oldest living former U.S. president and the longest-lived president in U.S. history.
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Chester A. Arthur
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1848
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianeducatormilitary officerstatesperson
- Biography
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Chester Alan Arthur was an American politician who served as the 21st president of the United States from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican lawyer from New York who briefly served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield. Arthur assumed the presidency after Garfield's death on September 19, 1881, and served the remainder of his term until March 4, 1885.
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Ben Schwartz
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 2003
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actorcomedianactor
- Biography
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Benjamin Joseph Schwartz is an American actor and comedian. He has guest starred as Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation and Clyde Oberholt on the Showtime series House of Lies; voiced Randy Cunningham in Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Dewey Duck in DuckTales, and Leonardo in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; and appeared many times in the CollegeHumor web series Jake and Amir.
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Jeffrey DeMunn
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1969 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Jeffrey P. DeMunn is an American stage, film and television actor known for playing Captain Esteridge in The Hitcher (1986), Sheriff Herb Geller in The Blob (1988), Andrei Chikatilo in Citizen X (1995), Harry Terwilliger in The Green Mile (1999), Ernie Cole in The Majestic (2001), Dan Miller in The Mist (2007), Dale Horvath in The Walking Dead (2010–2012), and Charles Rhoades Sr. in Billions (2016–2023).
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George Westinghouse
- Occupations
- inventorentrepreneur
- Biography
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George Westinghouse Jr. was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of 19. Westinghouse saw the potential of using alternating current for electric power distribution in the early 1880s and put all his resources into developing and marketing it. This put Westinghouse's business in direct competition with Thomas Edison, who marketed direct current for electric power distribution. In 1911 Westinghouse received the American Institute of Electrical Engineers's (AIEE) Edison Medal "For meritorious achievement in connection with the development of the alternating current system." He founded the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1886.
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William H. Seward
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1820
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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William Henry Seward was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a prominent figure in the Republican Party in its formative years, and was praised for his work on behalf of the Union as Secretary of State during the Civil War. He also negotiated the treaty for the United States to purchase the Alaska Territory.
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Lewis H. Morgan
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1840
- Occupations
- historiananthropologistarchaeologistwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Lewis Henry Morgan was a pioneering American anthropologist and social theorist who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Interested in what holds societies together, he proposed the concept that the earliest human domestic institution was the matrilineal clan, not the patriarchal family.
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Rawson Marshall Thurber
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1997
- Occupations
- manufacturerfilm producerwriterscreenwriterdirector
- Biography
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Rawson Marshall Thurber is an American filmmaker and actor.
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James Roosevelt
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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James Roosevelt I, known as "Squire James", was an American businessman, politician, horse breeder, and the father of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States.
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Henry Rathbone
- Occupations
- lawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Henry Reed Rathbone was a United States military officer and lawyer who was present at the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Rathbone was sitting by Lincoln when the president was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre; when Rathbone attempted to prevent Booth from fleeing, Booth stabbed and seriously wounded him. Rathbone's mental state deteriorated after the assassination, and in 1883, he fatally shot his wife, Clara Harris, in a fit of madness, later being declared insane by doctors and living the rest of his life in a lunatic asylum.
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Henry Halleck
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1837
- Occupations
- military officerlawyermilitary commander
- Biography
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Henry Wager Halleck was a senior United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies, he was known by a nickname that became derogatory: "Old Brains". He was an important participant in the admission of California as a state and became a successful lawyer and land developer. Halleck served as the General-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States from 1862 to 1864, and then became Chief of Staff for the remainder of the war when Ulysses S. Grant was appointed to that position.
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Neil Abercrombie
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1959 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politiciansociologistteacher
- Biography
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Neil Abercrombie is an American politician who served as the seventh governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Leonard Jerome
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1839
- Occupations
- financierentrepreneur
- Biography
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Leonard Walter Jerome was an American financier in Brooklyn, New York, and the maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill.
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Alan F. Horn
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1964
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Alan Frederick Horn is an American entertainment industry executive. Horn became president and COO of Warner Bros. from 1999 to 2012. Horn next served as the chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 2012 to 2020. During his tenure at Disney, Horn also served as the chief creative officer from 2019 to 2021. Horn agreed to depart from Disney, effective December 31, 2021.
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Edward Bellamy
- Occupations
- journalistnovelistscience fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Edward Bellamy was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of his political ideas.
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George DiCenzo
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1962
- Occupations
- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
- Biography
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George Ralph DiCenzo was an American actor, and one-time associate producer for Dark Shadows. He was in the show business for over 30 years, with extensive film, TV, stage, and commercial credits. DiCenzo notably played Marty's grandfather Sam Baines in the film Back to the Future. He also had a minor role in William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist III.
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Dylan Ratigan
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1994 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalisttelevision producer
- Biography
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Dylan Jason Ratigan is an American businessman, author, film producer, former host of MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show and political commentator for The Young Turks. He was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York's 21st Congressional District. He is a former contributor to The Huffington Post.
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Devin Wenig
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1988
- Occupations
- lawyerbusiness executiveinternational forum participantchief executive officer
- Biography
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Devin Norse Wenig is an American business executive. From July 2015 to September 2019, Wenig was president and CEO of eBay. From April 2008 to August 2011, Wenig was CEO of Thomson Reuters Markets, the financial and media businesses of Thomson Reuters Corporation.
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Baruch Samuel Blumberg
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1946
- Occupations
- university teachervirologistanthropologistgeneticistphysician
- Biography
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Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.
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Robert Toombs
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1828
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Augustus Toombs was an American politician from Georgia, who was an important figure in the formation of the Confederacy. From a privileged background as a wealthy planter and slaveholder, Toombs embarked on a political career marked by effective oratory, although he also acquired a reputation for hard living, disheveled appearance, and irascibility. He was identified with Alexander H. Stephens's libertarian wing of secessionist opinion, and in contradistinction to the nationalist Jefferson Davis, Toombs believed a Civil War to be neither inevitable or winnable by the South.
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Andy Miller
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Andrew "Andy" D. Miller is an American businessman and technology/sports entrepreneur. He was formerly the Vice President for Mobile Advertising at Apple Inc. As of 2015, Miller is a co-owner of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA), chairman and co-owner of NRG Esports, co-owner of the Modesto Nuts, high Single A minor league baseball affiliate of the Seattle Mariners of MLB, co-founder of Remix Media, Inc. and its app Spun, as well as co-founder of start-up vehicle StartingFive.
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Lee Tracy
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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William Lee Tracy was an American stage, film, and television actor. He is known foremost for his portrayals between the late 1920s and 1940s of fast-talking, wisecracking news reporters, press agents, lawyers, and salesmen. From 1949 to 1954, he was also featured in the weekly radio and television versions of the series Martin Kane: Private Eye, as well as starring as the newspaper columnist Lee Cochran in the 1958–1959 British-American crime drama New York Confidential. Later, in 1964, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the film The Best Man.
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Mitch Epstein
- Occupations
- journalistcinematographerphotojournalistphotographer
- Biography
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Mitchell Epstein is an American photographer. His books include Vietnam: A Book of Changes (1997); Family Business (2003), which won the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award; Recreation: American Photographs 1973–1988 (2005); Mitch Epstein: Work (2006); American Power (2009); Berlin (2011); New York Arbor (2013); Rocks and Clouds (2018); Sunshine Hotel (2019); In India (2021); and Property Rights (2021).
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Arnold Mindell
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1962 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- writerpsychotherapistpsychologist
- Biography
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Arnold Mindell is an American author, therapist, and teacher in the fields of transpersonal psychology, body psychotherapy, social change, and spirituality. He is known for extending Jungian dream analysis to body symptoms, promoting ideas of 'deep democracy,' and interpreting concepts from physics and mathematics in psychological terms. Mindell is the founder of process oriented psychology, or process work, a development of Jungian psychology influenced by Taoism, shamanism, and physics.
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Clifford A. Henricksen
- Occupations
- musicianinventor
- Biography
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Cliff Henricksen is a musician, inventor and audio technologist. He is self-taught as a musician with a graduate degree in mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Throughout his career Cliff has found innovative ways to apply engineering basics to electro acoustics and to audio technology as it applies to music and in particular to live music performance. He has invented and engineered a wide variety of technologies and products well known in the world of professional audio. Today he balances work in audio and work as a performing musician.
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Henry Schoolcraft
- Occupations
- anthropologistwritergeographergeologistexplorer
- Biography
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of Native Americans commissioned by Congress and published in the 1850s.
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George Crockett Strong
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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George Crockett Strong was a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War.
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Daniel Butterfield
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1849
- Occupations
- military officerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Daniel Adams Butterfield was a New York businessman, a Union general in the American Civil War, and Assistant Treasurer of the United States.
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Gordon Gould
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1941 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistinventor
- Biography
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Richard Gordon Gould was an American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier. (Credit for the invention of the laser is disputed, since Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow were the first to publish the theory and Theodore Maiman was the first to build a working laser). Gould is best known for his thirty-year fight with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to obtain patents for the laser and related technologies. He also fought with laser manufacturers in court battles to enforce the patents he subsequently did obtain.
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Frederick W. Seward
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1849
- Occupations
- politicianeditorlawyer
- Biography
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Frederick William Seward was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who twice served as the Assistant Secretary of State. The son of U.S. secretary of state William H. Seward, he served as Assistant Secretary from 1861 to 1869, when his father was the secretary under both Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and then from 1877 to 1879 in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Robert P. Patterson
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1912 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Robert Porter Patterson Sr. was an American judge who served as Under Secretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.S. Secretary of War under President Harry S. Truman. He was a US circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit after he had been a district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Rich Templeton
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1980 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- engineerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Richard K. Templeton, best known as Rich Templeton, is an American electrical engineer and business executive. He is currently the chairman and former chief executive officer of Texas Instruments.
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Henry James, Sr
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1828-1830
- Occupations
- writertheologianphilosopheressayist
- Biography
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Henry James Sr. was an American theologian and the father of the philosopher William James, the novelist Henry James, and the diarist Alice James.
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William Elliot Griffis
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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William Elliot Griffis was an American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author.
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David Markson
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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David Merrill Markson was an American novelist. He was the author of several postmodern novels, including Springer's Progress, Wittgenstein's Mistress, and Reader's Block. His final book, The Last Novel, published in 2007, was called "a real tour de force" by The New York Times.
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Spencer Foo
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Spencer Foo, also known as Fu Jiang (Chinese: 福将), is a Chinese Canadian professional ice hockey forward for the Kunlun Red Star of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Foo turned professional in 2017 by signing an entry-level contract with the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL) as an undrafted college free agent.
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Martin Jay
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1965 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- historianwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Martin Evan Jay is an American intellectual historian whose research interests connected history with the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, social theory, cultural criticism, and historiography.
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Mark J. Bennett
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1976 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Mark Jeremy Bennett is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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Josh Jooris
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Joshua Jooris is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre currently playing for Genève-Servette HC of the National League (NL). An undrafted player, Jooris signed with the Calgary Flames organization in 2013 after playing three seasons of college hockey for the Union College Dutchmen. He holds a Swiss player-license as he made his junior debut in Switzerland.
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Daniel Carr
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Daniel Carr is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing under contract with HC Lugano of the National League (NL).
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Joanna Stern
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Enrolled in Union College
- 2002-2006 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- journalisteditorcolumnist
- Biography
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Joanna Stern is an American technology journalist, best known for her videos and columns at The Wall Street Journal and technology news websites Engadget and The Verge. She became a personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal in 2014, as part of the team that replaced Walt Mossberg.
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John Howard Payne
- Occupations
- writersongwriterdiplomatstage actorpoet
- Biography
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John Howard Payne was an American actor, poet, playwright, and author who had nearly two decades of a theatrical career and success in London. He is today most remembered as the creator of "Home! Sweet Home!", a song he wrote in 1822 that became widely popular in the United States and the English-speaking world. Its popularity was revived during the American Civil War, as troops on both sides embraced it.
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Fitz Hugh Ludlow
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1856
- Occupations
- autobiographerwriter
- Biography
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Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as Fitzhugh Ludlow, was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857).
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John Frederick Hartranft
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1853
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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John Frederick Hartranft was an American military officer who read the death warrant to the individuals who were executed on July 7, 1865, for conspiring to assassinate American President Abraham Lincoln. Previously having achieved the rank of major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War, he had also been awarded the U.S. Medal of Honor for his actions in the First Battle of Bull Run.
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Nikhil Srivastava
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Nikhil Srivastava is an associate professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman.
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Sheldon Jackson
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1855
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian minister, missionary, and political leader. During this career he travelled about one million miles (1.6 million km) and established more than one hundred missions and churches, mostly in the Western United States. He performed extensive missionary work in Colorado and the Alaska Territory, including his efforts to suppress Native American languages.
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Hannibal Goodwin
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1848
- Occupations
- Anglican priestphotographerinventor
- Biography
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Hannibal Williston Goodwin, patented a method for making transparent, flexible roll film out of nitrocellulose film base, which was used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, an early machine for viewing motion pictures.
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Kate White
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1972 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- novelistjournalist
- Biography
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Kate White is an American author, former magazine editor, and speaker. From 1998 to 2012, she served as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and left to concentrate full time on writing suspense fiction. She is the author of seventeen novels: eight books in the Bailey Weggins mystery series, including Such a Perfect Wife (May 2019), which was nominated for an International Thriller Writer’s Award, and nine stand-alone psychological thrillers, including, most recently, The Second Husband (June 2022) and the upcoming Between Two Strangers (May 2023). White has also written five non-fiction books with business advice for women, including The Gutsy Girl Handbook: Your Manifesto for Success, based on her groundbreaking bestseller Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do, and I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: How to Ask for the Money, Snag the Promotion, and Create the Career You Deserve. Her books have appeared on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best seller lists and have been published in thirteen countries. She is also the editor of The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook (March 2015). In June 2022 White was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Union College.
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John Thompson Hoffman
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1846
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Thompson Hoffman was the 23rd governor of New York (1869–72). He was also recorder of New York City (1861–65) and the 78th mayor of New York City (1866–68). Connections to the Tweed Ring ruined his political career, in spite of the absence of evidence to show personal involvement in corrupt activities. He is to date the last New York City mayor elected Governor of New York and the last elected to higher office.
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John Bigelow
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1835
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerwriterpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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John Bigelow Sr. was an American lawyer, statesman, and historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin and the first autobiography of Franklin taken from Franklin's previously lost original manuscript. He played a central role in the founding of the New York Public Library in 1895.
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John W. Taylor
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1803
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John W. Taylor was an early 19th-century U.S. politician from New York. He served twice as speaker of the House of Representatives.
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George Reid
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision producerpoliticianfilm producer
- Biography
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Sir George Newlands Reid is a Scottish politician and journalist who served as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region from 1999 to 2003 and then for the Ochil constituency from 2003 to 2007. Reid was Member of Parliament (MP) for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire from February 1974 to 1979.
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Troy Grosenick
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Troy Grosenick is an American ice hockey professional goaltender currently playing for the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League (AHL), while under contract to the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Jim Tedisco
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1972 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Nicholas Tedisco is an American politician. Since 2023, he has been the New York State Senator for New York's 44th State Senate district.
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John S. Wold
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1938
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Schiller Wold was an American business executive, philanthropist, World War II veteran, and Republican politician from Wyoming. He served a single term in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1971. He was the first professional geologist to have served in Congress.
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Ira Harris
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1824
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Ira Harris was an American jurist and senator from New York. He was also a friend of Abraham Lincoln.
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John C. Spencer
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1806
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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John Canfield Spencer was an American lawyer, politician, judge and United States Cabinet secretary in the administration of President John Tyler.
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Mike Vecchione
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Michael Vecchione is an American professional ice hockey center for the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League (AHL).
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Ward Hunt
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1828
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Ward Hunt was an American jurist and politician. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1868 to 1869, and an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1872 to 1882.
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Victor H. Fazio
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1965 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lobbyistpolitician
- Biography
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Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for California from 1979 to 1999.
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Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
- Years
- 1800-1871 (aged 71)
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1819 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- Christian ministerpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Robert Jefferson Breckinridge was a politician and Presbyterian minister. He was a member of the Breckinridge family of Kentucky, the son of Senator John Breckinridge.
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Henry A. Cooper
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Henry Allen Cooper was an American lawyer and progressive Republican politician from Racine County, Wisconsin. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 1st congressional district for 18 terms, spanning from the 1890s to his death in 1931. He earlier served in the Wisconsin Senate and was district attorney of Racine County.
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Rufus W. Peckham
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Rufus W. Peckham was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1896 to 1909, and is the most recent Democratic nominee approved by a Republican-majority Senate. He was known for his strong use of substantive due process to invalidate regulations of business and property. Peckham's namesake father was also a lawyer and judge, and a U.S. Representative. His older brother, Wheeler Hazard Peckham (1833–1905), was one of the lawyers who prosecuted William M. Tweed and a failed nominee to the Supreme Court.
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Franklin Henry Giddings
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1877
- Occupations
- university teachersociologisteconomist
- Biography
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Franklin Henry Giddings was an American sociologist and economist.
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Austin Blair
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1839
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Austin Blair, also known as the Civil War Governor, was a politician who served as the 13th governor of Michigan and in Michigan's House of Representatives and Senate as well as the U.S. Senate. He was known as a strong opponent of slavery and secession. He also led efforts to provide women and black citizens the right to vote. He simultaneously sought to ban capital punishment.
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Alexander H. Rice
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1840-1844
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexander Hamilton Rice was an American politician and businessman from Massachusetts. He served as Mayor of Boston from 1856 to 1857, a U.S. Congressman during the American Civil War, and as the 30th Governor of Massachusetts from 1876 to 1878. He was part owner and president of Rice-Kendall, one of the nation's largest paper products distributors.
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Daniel S. Lamont
- Occupations
- politiciansecretary
- Biography
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Daniel Scott Lamont was the United States Secretary of War during Grover Cleveland's second term.
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John Livingstone Nevius
- Years
- 1829-1893 (aged 64)
- Occupations
- writermissionary
- Biography
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John Livingston Nevius was an American Protestant missionary in China for forty years, appointed by the American Presbyterian Mission; his ideas on mission organization were also very important in the spread of the church in Korea. He wrote several books on the themes of Chinese religions, customs and social life, and missionary work.
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Randy Kuhl
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1966 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Randolph Kuhl Jr. is an American Republican politician. He is a former member of the New York State Assembly, the New York State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives. Kuhl represented New York's 29th congressional district for two terms before being defeated for reelection by Eric Massa in 2008.
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Joseph M. Carey
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Maull Carey was an American lawyer, rancher, judge, and politician, who was active in Wyoming local, state, and federal politics.
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Francis Wayland
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1813
- Occupations
- theologianuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Francis Wayland was an American Baptist minister, educator and economist. He was president of Brown University and pastor of the First Baptist Church in America in Providence, Rhode Island. In Washington, D.C., Wayland Seminary was established in 1867, primarily to educate former slaves, and was named in his honor. (In 1899, Wayland Seminary merged with another school to become the current Virginia Union University, at Richmond, Virginia.)
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Squire Whipple
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1829-1830
- Occupations
- civil engineer
- Biography
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Squire Whipple was an American civil engineer.
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Edmund Sears
- Years
- 1810-1876 (aged 66)
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1834
- Occupations
- clergymanwriter
- Biography
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Edmund Hamilton Sears was an American Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th-century liberal Protestants. Today, Sears is primarily known as the man who penned the words to "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" in 1849. It has been sung to two tunes, one by Richard Storrs Willis and another adapted by Arthur Sullivan from a traditional English air.
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Charles Horton Peck
- Enrolled in Union College
- 1855-1859 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- botanistmycologist
- Biography
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Charles Horton Peck was an American mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the New York State Botanist from 1867 to 1915, a period in which he described over 2,700 species of North American fungi.
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Preston King
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1827
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Preston King was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the United States Senate from 1857 to 1863. King also represented the North Country in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms and represented his native St. Lawrence County in the New York State Assembly for four terms. King entered politics as an ally of Martin Van Buren and was a lifelong opponent of slavery as a member of the Democratic, Free Soil, and Republican parties.
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Joseph E. Ransdell
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1882
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Eugene Ransdell was an attorney and politician from Louisiana. Beginning in 1899, he was elected for seven consecutive terms as United States representative from Louisiana's 5th congressional district. He subsequently served for three terms in the United States Senate from Louisiana before being defeated in the 1930 Democratic primary for the seat by Governor Huey Long.
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Allen Wright
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1852 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- Bible translatortranslator
- Biography
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Allen Wright was Principal Chief of the Choctaw Republic from late 1866 to 1870. He had been ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1852 after graduating from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was very active in the Choctaw government, holding several elected positions. He has been credited with the name Oklahoma (Choctaw word meaning "Home of the Red Man" in English) for the land that would become the state.
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John Milton Gregory
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1846
- Biography
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John Milton Gregory was an American educator and the first president (regent was his official title) of the University of Illinois, then known as Illinois Industrial University.
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Steven Zaloga
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1973
- Occupations
- military historianhistorianwriterweapon historian
- Biography
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Steven Joseph Zaloga is an American author and defense consultant. He received a bachelor's degree cum laude at Union College and a master's degree at Columbia University, both in history.
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Weston E. Vivian
- Years
- 1924-2020 (aged 96)
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Weston "Wes" Edward Vivian was an American World War II veteran, electrical engineer and politician from the state of Michigan. He served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965 to 1967.
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Nathaniel P. Tallmadge
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1815
- Occupations
- politicianwriterlawyer
- Biography
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Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge was an American lawyer and politician. He served two terms as United States Senator from New York (1833–1844) and was the 3rd Governor of the Wisconsin Territory (1844–1845).
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Alfred Sommer
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1963 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- ophthalmologistepidemiologistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Alfred Sommer (born October 2, 1942) is a prominent American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing even mildly vitamin A deficient children with an inexpensive, large dose vitamin A capsule twice a year reduces child mortality by as much as 34 percent. The World Bank and the Copenhagen Consensus list vitamin A supplementation as one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the world.
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George Wilbur Peck
- Occupations
- politicianwritereditor
- Biography
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George Wilbur Peck was an American writer and politician from Wisconsin. He served as the 17th governor of Wisconsin and the 9th mayor of Milwaukee.
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Frank Stephen Baldwin
- Occupations
- inventorcomputer scientist
- Biography
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Frank Stephen Baldwin was an American who invented a pinwheel calculator in 1875. He started the design of a new machine in 1905 and was able to finalize its design with the help of Jay R. Monroe who eventually bought the exclusive rights to the machine and started the Monroe Calculating Machine Company to manufacture it.
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Charles J. Jenkins
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1824
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Charles Jones Jenkins was an American politician from Georgia. A Democrat, Jenkins served as Attorney General of Georgia from 1831 to 1834. He then went on to serve as Governor of Georgia from December 14, 1865 to January 13, 1868. He was removed from office and replaced by Thomas H. Ruger as military governor after Jenkins refused to allow state funds to be used for a racially integrated state constitutional convention. Jenkins remained a respected figure in Georgia, and despite not running for the office, he received two electoral votes in the 1872 United States presidential election, due to the premature death of candidate Horace Greeley.
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James A. Bayard Jr
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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James Asheton Bayard Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party and served as U.S. Senator from Delaware.
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Charles Emory Smith
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1861
- Occupations
- journalistpoliticianeditordiplomat
- Biography
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Charles Emory Smith was an American journalist and political leader.
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Sidney Breese
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1816-1818
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Sidney Breese, a lawyer, soldier, author and jurist born in New York, became an early Illinois pioneer and represented the state in the United States Senate as well as served as Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court and Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, and has been called "father of the Illinois Central Railroad".
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William James Stillman
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1848
- Occupations
- art historianwriterpainterdiplomatjournalist
- Biography
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William James Stillman was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer. Educated as an artist, Stillman subsequently converted to the profession of journalism, working primarily as a war correspondent in Crete and the Balkans, where he served as his own photographer. For a time, he also served as United States consul in Rome, and afterward in Crete during the Cretan insurrections. He helped to train the young Arthur Evans as a war correspondent in the Balkans, and remained a lifelong friend and confidant of Evans. Later in life, he seriously considered taking over the excavation at Knossos from Minos Kalokairinos, who had been stopped from further excavation by the Cretan Assembly; he was, however, prevented from pursuing that goal further by a failure to obtain a firman, or permission, to excavate. Stillman wrote several books, one of which, his Autobiography of a Journalist, suggests that he viewed himself primarily as a writer.
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Augustus Schell
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1830
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Augustus Schell was a New York politician and lawyer. He was Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1872 to 1876.
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Richard M. Blatchford
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1815
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Richard Milford Blatchford was an attorney and political figure in New York City. A longtime political and legal associate of college classmate William H. Seward, Blatchford is most notable for his service in the New York State Assembly and as U.S. Minister to the State of the Church. He was also the father of Samuel Blatchford, who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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Mulugeta Bekele
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Mulugeta Bekele is an Ethiopian scientist and academic. He is an associate Professor of Physics at Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia. He completed his PhD in Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1997. He has been awarded the Andrei Sakharov Prize by the American Physical Society (APS) "For tireless efforts in defense of human rights and freedom of expression and education anywhere in the world, and for inspiring students, colleagues and others to do the same." He is the president of Ethiopian Physical Society since October 1998 and an Associate Member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy since May 1999.
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Charles Christopher Parry
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1842
- Occupations
- explorermountaineerbotanist
- Biography
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Charles Christopher Parry was a British-American botanist and mountaineer.
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Alfred Lebbeus Loomis
- Enrolled in Union College
- In 1856 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Alfred Lebbeus Loomis was an American physician who served as president of the Association of American Physicians.
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George Washington Gale
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1814
- Occupations
- clergymaneducator
- Biography
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George Washington Gale was a Presbyterian minister who founded the Oneida Institute of Science and Industry. He later purchased land in Illinois that became Galesburg, Illinois, named in his honor, and was instrumental in founding Knox College.
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Albert Smith White
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1822
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Albert Smith White was a United States senator from Indiana, a United States representative from Indiana and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana.
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John Williamson Nevin
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1821
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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John Williamson Nevin, was an American theologian and educationalist. He was born in the Cumberland Valley, near Shippensburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He was the father of noted sculptor and poet Blanche Nevin.
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Jeremy Welsh
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Jeremy Welsh is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre currently playing under contract with Romanian Erste Liga side HSC Csíkszereda. Welsh was most recently with UK EIHL side Nottingham Panthers, Cracovia of the Polska Hokej Liga (PHL) and formerly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Carolina Hurricanes, Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues.
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Warner Miller
- Enrolled in Union College
- Studied in 1860
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Warner Miller was an American businessman and politician from Herkimer, New York. A Republican, he was most notable for his service as a U.S. Representative (1879-1881) and United States Senator (1881-1887).
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John Pettit
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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John Pettit was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician. A United States Representative and Senator from Indiana, he also served in the court systems of Indiana and Kansas.
