100 Notable alumni of
Washington & Jefferson College
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Washington & Jefferson College is 919th in the world, 334th in North America, and 312th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Washington & Jefferson 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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John Astin
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actorstage actorfilm director
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John Allen Astin is an American retired actor and director who has appeared in numerous stage, television and film roles, primarily in character roles. He is widely known for his role as patriarch Gomez Addams in The Addams Family (1964–1966), reprising the role in the television film Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977) and the animated series The Addams Family (1992–1993).
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Roger Goodell
- Occupations
- Commissioner of the National Football Leaguebusinessperson
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Roger Stokoe Goodell is an American businessman who has served as the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) since 2006.
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Stephen Foster
- Occupations
- chansonniermusiciansingerpoetcomposer
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Stephen Collins Foster, known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. He wrote more than 200 songs, including "Oh! Susanna", "Hard Times Come Again No More", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River"), "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer". Many of his compositions remain popular today.
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James G. Blaine
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistdiplomatlawyerwriter
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James Gillespie Blaine was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the United States House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881. Blaine twice served as Secretary of State, first in 1881 under President James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur, and then from 1889 to 1892 under President Benjamin Harrison. He is one of only two U.S. Secretaries of State to hold the position under three separate presidents, the other being Daniel Webster. Blaine unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1876 and 1880 before being nominated in 1884. In the 1884 general election, he was narrowly defeated by Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland. Blaine was one of the late 19th century's leading Republicans and a champion of the party's moderate reformist faction, later known as the "Half-Breeds".
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Clement Vallandigham
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- editorpoliticianlawyerpeace activistjournalist
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Clement Laird Vallandigham was an American lawyer and politician who served as the leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War.
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Joseph A. Walker
- Occupations
- astronautphysicisttest pilot
- Biography
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Joseph Albert Walker was an American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, NASA test pilot, and astronaut who was the first person to fly an airplane to space. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA.
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Martin R. Delany
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- physiciannovelistwriterjournalistabolitionist
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Martin Robison Delany was an American abolitionist, journalist, physician, military officer and writer who was arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. Delany is credited with the Pan-African slogan of "Africa for Africans." Born as a free person of color in Charles Town, Virginia, now West Virginia (not Charleston, West Virginia), and raised in Chambersburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Delany trained as a physician's assistant. During the cholera epidemics of 1833 and 1854 in Pittsburgh, Delany treated patients, even though many doctors and residents fled the city out of fear of contamination. In this period, people did not know how the disease was transmitted.
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John Murtha
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- politicianmilitary officer
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John Patrick Murtha Jr. was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Murtha, a Democrat, represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1974 until his death in 2010. He is the longest-serving member of the United States House of Representatives ever elected from Pennsylvania.
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Luke Ravenstahl
- Occupations
- politicianAmerican football player
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Luke Robert Ravenstahl is an American politician who served as the 59th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 2006 until 2014. A Democrat, he became the youngest mayor in Pittsburgh's history in September 2006 at the age of 26. He was among the youngest mayors of a major city in American history.
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Tom Rooney
- Enrolled in Washington & Jefferson College
- In 1993 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Joseph Rooney is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Florida from 2009 to 2019. He represented Florida's 16th congressional district from 2009 to 2013 and Florida's 17th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Joseph Ruggles Wilson
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Joseph Ruggles Wilson Sr. was a prominent American Presbyterian theologian and father of President Woodrow Wilson, Nashville Banner editor Joseph Ruggles Wilson Jr., and Anne E. Wilson Howe. In 1861, as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia, he organized the General Assembly of the newly formed Presbyterian Church in the United States, known as the Southern Presbyterian Church, and served as its clerk (chief executive officer) for 37 years.
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Henry A. Wise
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- politicianhistorianlawyerdiplomat
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Henry Alexander Wise was an American attorney, diplomat, politician and slave owner from Virginia. As the 33rd Governor of Virginia, Wise served as a significant figure on the path to the American Civil War, becoming heavily involved in the 1859 trial of abolitionist John Brown. After leaving office in 1860, Wise also led the move toward Virginia's secession from the Union in reaction to the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Battle of Fort Sumter.
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John W. Geary
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- politicianmilitary officerlawyer
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John White Geary was an American lawyer, politician, Freemason, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, a governor of the Kansas Territory, and the 16th governor of Pennsylvania.
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Matthew Quay
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- lawyerpolitician
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Matthew Stanley Quay was an American politician of the Republican Party who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1887 until 1899 and from 1901 until his death in 1904. Quay's control of the Pennsylvania Republican political machine for almost twenty years made him one of the most powerful and influential politicians in the country. As chair of the Republican National Committee and thus party campaign manager, he helped elect Benjamin Harrison as president in 1888. He was also instrumental in the 1900 election of Theodore Roosevelt as vice president.
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Melissa Hart
- Enrolled in Washington & Jefferson College
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Melissa Ann Hart is an American lawyer and politician. She was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007, representing western Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district. In the 2006 midterm elections, Hart lost her bid for re-election to Democrat Jason Altmire. She challenged Altmire again in the 2008 election, but was defeated again.
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Clarence Long
- Occupations
- writerpolitician
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Clarence Dickinson "Doc" Long, Jr. was a Democratic U.S. Congressman who represented the 2nd congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1963, to January 3, 1985.
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William Holmes McGuffey
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- teacher
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William Holmes McGuffey was an American college professor and president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of elementary school-level textbooks. More than 120 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.
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Philo McGiffin
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- military officer
- Biography
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Philo Norton McGiffin was an American soldier of fortune serving in Chinese service as a naval advisor during the First Sino-Japanese War. Although primarily skilled as an instructor and administrator, he proved a talented tactician during the September 17, 1894 Battle of the Yalu River as well as the first American to command a modern battleship in wartime.
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Buddy Jeannette
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Harry Edward "Buddy" Jeannette was an American professional basketball player and coach.
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David A. Steinberg
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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David A. Steinberg is the founder and chief executive officer of Zeta Global. Steinberg is a serial entrepreneur, one of few who have built multiple companies that are worth $1 billion dollars, and do more than $100 million in annual sales. His net worth has been estimated at over a Billion Dollars. Steinberg also serves as chairman and co-founder of On Demand Pharma and Caivis Investment corporation.
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Benjamin Helm Bristow
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Benjamin Helm Bristow was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 30th U.S. Treasury Secretary and the first Solicitor General.
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Milton Latham
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Milton Slocum Latham was an American politician, who served as the sixth governor of California and as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator. Latham holds the distinction of having the shortest governorship in California history, lasting for five days between January 9 and January 14, 1860. A Lecompton Democrat, Latham resigned from office (the second governor to do so) after being elected by the state legislature to a seat in the U.S. Senate.
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Samuel Baldwin Marks Young
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- military officer
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Samuel Baldwin Marks Young was a United States Army general. He also served as the first president of Army War College between 1902 and 1903. He then served from 1903 until 1904 as the first Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
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Jonathan Letterman
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- military physician
- Biography
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Major Jonathan Letterman was an American surgeon credited as being the originator of the modern methods for medical organization in armies or battlefield medical management. In the United States, Letterman is known today as the "Father of Battlefield Medicine". His system of organization enabled thousands of wounded men to be recovered and treated during the American Civil War.
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Albert G. Jenkins
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Albert Gallatin Jenkins was an American attorney, planter, politician and military officer who fought for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He served in the United States Congress and later the First Confederate Congress. After Virginia's secession from the Union, Jenkins raised a company of partisan rangers and rose to become a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, commanding a brigade of cavalry. Wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg and again during the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, during which he was captured, Jenkins died just 12 days after his arm was amputated by Union Army surgeons as he was unable to recover. His former home is now operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
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Jesse William Lazear
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Jesse William Lazear was an American physician. In 1900, he deliberately allowed a mosquito to bite him to prove his hypothesis that mosquitoes were the vector for yellow fever transmission. He contracted the disease, thus proving his hypothesis, but did not recover and died 17 days after the transmission.
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James Addams Beaver
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- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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James Addams Beaver was an American attorney, recruiter and field commander of Pennsylvania Infantry who was wounded four times during the American Civil War, and politician who served as the 20th governor of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891. He also served as the acting president of the Pennsylvania State University from 1906 to 1908.
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James Patton Anderson
- Enrolled in Washington & Jefferson College
- Studied in 1840
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Patton Anderson was an American slave owner, physician, lawyer, and politician, most notably serving as a United States Congressman from the Washington Territory, a Mississippi state legislator, and a delegate at the Florida state secession convention to withdraw from the United States. He also served in the American Civil War as a general in the Confederate States Army, serving in the Army of Tennessee.
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Henry H. Bingham
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- politicianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Henry Harrison Bingham was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1879 to 1912. He was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, fought in some of the key battles of the war and received the United States Military's highest award for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of the Wilderness.
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Andy Oyler
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Andrew Paul "Pepper" Oyler was an American professional baseball player who played one season in Major League Baseball for the Baltimore Orioles in 1902. In 27 games as a third baseman, shortstop, and outfielder for the Orioles, he had 77 at-bats with 17 hits and one home run.
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Henry Stanbery
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Henry Stanbery was an American lawyer from Ohio. He was Ohio's first attorney general from 1846 to 1851 and the United States Attorney General from 1866 to 1868.
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Israel Pickens
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Israel Pickens was an American politician and lawyer, third Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama (1821–1825), member of the North Carolina Senate (1808–1810), and United States Congressman from North Carolina in the United States House of Representatives (1811–1817).
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Jon Soltz
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Jon Soltz served as a United States Army officer in the Iraq War and is chairman and co-founder of the veterans advocacy group VoteVets.org. Soltz served in both the Kosovo campaign in 2000 and later in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Based on his service, Soltz became an outspoken critic of the execution of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Soltz deployed in 2011 as part of Operation New Dawn in Iraq.
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Meldrim Thomson, Jr
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Meldrim Thomson Jr. was an American politician who served three terms as the 73rd governor of New Hampshire from 1973 to 1979. A Republican, he was known as a strong supporter of conservative political values.
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William Hendricks
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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William Hendricks was a Democratic-Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1822, the third governor of Indiana from 1822 to 1825, and an Anti-Jacksonian member of the U.S. Senate from 1825 to 1837. He led much of his family into politics and founded one of the largest political families in Indiana. He was the uncle of Thomas Andrews Hendricks, who was also Governor of Indiana and Vice President of the United States. Hendricks County was named in his honor. His term as governor was spent repairing the state's finances to later enable large scale internal improvements. The establishment of the basic framework of the state's public school system and the transfer of the capital from Corydon to Indianapolis also occurred during his term.
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Absalom Baird
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Absalom Baird was a career United States Army officer who distinguished himself as a Union Army general in the American Civil War. Baird received the Medal of Honor for his military actions.
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Harvey Weir Cook
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
- Biography
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Harvey Weir Cook was an American fighter ace in World War I and Distinguished Service Cross recipient. He was also a pioneer in civilian commercial aviation and a leading figure in the development of aviation in the United States and in the state of Indiana. The Indianapolis International Airport terminal building and entrance road are named in his honor.
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Isaac Murphy
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Isaac Murphy was a native of Pennsylvania, a teacher and lawyer who moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas with his wife and child in 1834. He continued to teach and also became active in politics. Murphy is best known as the only delegate to have repeatedly voted against secession at the second Arkansas Secession Convention in 1861.
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Jim Christiana
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James J. Christiana III is an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2009 to 2019.
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George W. Morgan
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- politicianlawyerdiplomatmilitary officer
- Biography
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George Washington Morgan was an American soldier, lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He fought in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican–American War, and was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Morgan later served as a three-term reconstruction era United States Congressman from Ohio. He also served as the United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1858 to 1861, during the term of President James Buchanan.
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A. Loudon Snowden
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Archibald Loudon Snowden was an American diplomat. He served simultaneously as the United States Minister to Greece, Romania, and Serbia from 1889 to 1892 and as the United States Minister to Spain from 1892 to 1893. During the American Civil War, he raised a regiment of infantry and served as lieutenant-colonel during their training. He subsequently served as captain in the First City Troop. He held multiple roles at the Philadelphia Mint, including as chief coiner from 1877 to 1879 and as superintendent and Chief Executor from 1879 to 1885.
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Francis Julius LeMoyne
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- 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 (~$425,287 in 2023) donation in 1870.
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Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan was a 19th-century politician and lawyer who served briefly as United States Secretary of the Interior under President Millard Fillmore.
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James S. Jackson
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- politicianmilitary officerlawyer
- Biography
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James Streshly Jackson was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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George Junkin
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- educatorclergyman
- Biography
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The Reverend George Junkin was an American educator and Presbyterian minister who served as the first and third president of Lafayette College and later as president of Miami University and Washington College (now Washington and Lee University).
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Richard Clark
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Richard T. Clark is a former chairman of the Merck & Co. pharmaceutical company, a position he held from 2007 to 2011. His previous leadership positions at Merck & Co. include CEO (2005–2010), president (2005–2009) and president of the Merck & Co. manufacturing division (2003–2005).
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William Alfred Passavant
- Occupations
- editor
- Biography
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William Alfred Passavant was a Lutheran minister who brought the Lutheran Deaconess movement to the United States. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on November 24 with Justus Falckner and Jehu Jones.
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Stephan Loewentheil
- Occupations
- historianjurist
- Biography
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Stephan Loewentheil is an American antiquarian and a rare book and photograph collector. He is the founder and president of the 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop, located in New York, New York and Baltimore, Maryland. Over a career spanning four decades, Loewentheil "has excelled … in unearthing obscure bibliographic details leading to the acquisition of under-appreciated rarities, seminal documents and early historic photographic images." Loewentheil has been described as a "super-collector," whose clients include celebrities, heads of state, American presidents, and some of the most prominent private collectors and institutional clients of rare books and photographs.
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David Hayes Agnew
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- surgeonuniversity teachermilitary physician
- Biography
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David Hayes Agnew was an American surgeon.
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John Livingston Lowes
- Occupations
- writerscholar of Englishliterary critic
- Biography
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John Livingston Lowes was an American scholar and critic of English literature, specializing in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Kevin A. Ohlson
- Enrolled in Washington & Jefferson College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- judgemilitary officerlawyer
- Biography
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Kevin Alan Ohlson is an American lawyer who serves as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
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James S. Rollins
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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James Sidney Rollins was a 19th century Missouri politician and lawyer. He helped establish the University of Missouri at Columbia, and led the successful effort to get it located in Boone County, and gained funding for the proposed state university with the passage of a series of legislative acts in the General Assembly of Missouri (state legislature) at the Missouri State Capitol in the state capital town of Jefferson City. For his efforts, he was named "Father of the University of Missouri."
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John S. Horner
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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John Scott Horner was a U.S. politician, Secretary and acting Governor of Michigan Territory, 1835–1836 and Secretary of Wisconsin Territory, 1836–1837.
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Johnson C. Smith
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Johnson Crayne Smith was an early 20th-century businessman from Pittsburgh and the namesake of Johnson C. Smith University.
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Daniel McCook
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Daniel McCook was an attorney and an officer in the Union army during the American Civil War. He was one of two Ohio brothers who, along with 13 of their sons, became widely known as the “Fighting McCooks” for their contributions to the war effort.
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Harry E. Miller Jr
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Harry E. Miller Jr. is a retired Army National Guard officer. A veteran of the Iraq War, he attained the rank of major general as commander of the 42nd Infantry Division, a position he held from 2013 to 2017.
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John Brallier
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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John Kinport "Sal" Brallier was one of the first professional American football players. He was nationally acknowledged as the first openly paid professional football player when he was given $10 to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association for a game against the Jeanette Athletic Association in 1895.
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Lorrin Andrews
- Occupations
- judgeBible translatortranslatorlexicographer
- Biography
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Lorrin Andrews was an early American missionary to Hawaii and judge. He opened the first post-secondary school for Hawaiians called Lahainaluna Seminary, prepared a Hawaiian dictionary and several works on the literature and antiquities of the Hawaiians. His students published the first newspaper, and were involved in the first case of counterfeiting currency in Hawaii. He later served as a judge and became a member of Hawaii's first Supreme Court.
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James Millikin
- Biography
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James Millikin was the founder of Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.
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Daniel Van Voorhis
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Daniel Van Voorhis was a United States Army lieutenant general and was noteworthy for his assignments as commander of V Corps and the Caribbean Defense Command, as well as his efforts in creating the Army's modern armor branch.
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Richard C. Drum
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Richard Coulter Drum was an American military officer who was Adjutant General of the United States Army from 1880 to 1889. In addition to serving in the Mexican–American War early in his career, Drum's experience included the American Indian Wars, support for the Union during the American Civil War, and the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Beginning as a private in 1846, he rose through the ranks to brigadier general before retiring in 1889. After retiring, he was vice president of the Aztec Club of 1847 from 1906 to 1907, and president from 1907 to 1908.
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John Hemphill
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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John Hemphill was an American politician and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas from 1841 to 1846 and of the Supreme Court of Texas until 1858, and a United States senator from Texas from 1859 to 1861. A member of the Democratic Party, he was one of the signatories of the Confederate States Constitution.
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William Henry Letterman
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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William Henry Letterman was the co-founder of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 1852 at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
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John J. Patterson
- Occupations
- editorpoliticianjournalistbusinessperson
- Biography
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John James "Honest John" Patterson was a businessman and United States Senator from South Carolina. He was a Republican.
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Hunter Corbett
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Hunter Corbett D.D. was a pioneer American missionary to Chefoo (Zhifu 芝罘区, in Yantai), Shandong China, he served with the American Presbyterian Mission. He was a fervent advocate of the missionary enterprise.
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John D. Fredericks
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Donnan Fredericks was an American lawyer and politician from Los Angeles, California, who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from 1923 to 1927. As District Attorney of Los Angeles County (1903-1915) he successfully prosecuted the McNamara brothers for their 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building.
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Henry Capehart
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Henry Capehart was a surgeon and officer in the U.S. Cavalry during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for saving the life of a drowning soldier while under fire at Greenbrier River, West Virginia, on May 22, 1864.
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Jacob B. Sweitzer
- Enrolled in Washington & Jefferson College
- Studied in 1843
- Occupations
- lawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Jacob Bowman Sweitzer was a Pennsylvania lawyer and soldier who commanded a regiment and then a brigade in the Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War. He and his men were significantly engaged at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, where they reinforced and helped temporarily stabilize the Union defensive line on the second day of fighting.
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Richard Coulter
- Occupations
- military officerdiarist
- Biography
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Richard Coulter, Sr. was an American Civil War Colonel and brevet brigadier general of volunteers in the Union Army, a businessman, and banker. During the Civil War he was colonel of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry, often rising to brigade command upon the wounding of superior officers. In 1866, he was nominated and confirmed as a brevet major general of volunteers to rank from April 1, 1865.
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Scott Petri
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Scott Petri is an American politician who was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 178th Legislative District. He was the Chairman of House Urban Affairs and the House Ethics Committee. He also served as a member of the Liquor Control Committees. Petri served as executive director of the Philadelphia Parking Authority from 2017 until he was abruptly ousted in 2021.
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Daniel Sturgeon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Sturgeon was an American physician, banker and Democratic party politician from Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He served in both houses of the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate.
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Kenneth Melani
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Kenneth R. Melani is the former president and chief executive officer of Highmark, a health insurance company based in Pittsburgh and the largest health insurer in Pennsylvania. Before his abrupt departure from Highmark in 2012, he was one of the most powerful health insurance executives in the country. At his peak in 2012, Melani was in charge of a Highmark that was $14.6 billion company and had millions of policyholders, for which he was paid $4 million annually.
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Thomas W. Bartley
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Welles Bartley was an American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. He served as the 17th governor of Ohio. Bartley was succeeded in office by his father, Mordecai Bartley, one of only a few instances of this occurring in high elected office in the United States.
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Charles Fremont West
- Occupations
- athletics competitorAmerican football player
- Biography
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Charles Fremont "Pruner" West was an American track athlete, college football player and coach, and physician. He played football and ran track at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. He was the first African American to play quarterback in a Rose Bowl. West served as the head football coach at Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1928 and again from 1934 to 1935, compiling a record of 12–7–2.
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Henry Adams Thompson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Henry Adams Thompson was an American prohibitionist and professor who was the vice-presidential nominee of the Prohibition Party in 1880.
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William Thomas Hamilton
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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William Thomas Hamilton, a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 38th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1880 to 1884. He also served in the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland, from 1868 to 1874, and in the House of Representatives, representing the second district (1849–1853) and fourth district (1853–1855) of Maryland.
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William L. Alden
- Occupations
- short story writerlawyerjournalisthumoristwriter
- Biography
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William Livingston Alden was an American journalist, fiction writer, humorist and canoe enthusiast. He was a US diplomat in Rome from 1885 to 1890 and thereafter lived in Europe until shortly before his death.
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William B. Mitchell
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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William Mitchell was a lawyer and judge notable for his work in Minnesota as a member of the 3rd Minnesota District Court and Minnesota Supreme Court. He was also the first dean of the St. Paul College of Law, later renamed in his honor as the William Mitchell College of Law.
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Robert I. Miller
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Enrolled in Washington & Jefferson College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in biology and chemistry
- Occupations
- military leaderpediatrician
- Biography
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Robert Irving Miller is a medical surgeon and retired United States Air Force lieutenant general who last served as the twenty-fourth Surgeon General of the United States Air Force and also served as the Surgeon General of the United States Space Force.
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Carl G. Bachmann
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Carl G. Bachmann was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a United States Congressman from Wheeling, West Virginia from 1925 to 1933.
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John V. Le Moyne
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Valcoulon Le Moyne was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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James Cooper
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary officerlawyer
- Biography
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James Cooper was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician, who served in the United States Congress.
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Charles Page Thomas Moore
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Charles Page Thomas Moore was a lawyer and justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, who before the American Civil War had helped found the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 1852 at Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College) in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
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James Wallace Robinson
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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James Wallace Robinson was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1873 to 1875.
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Hal Tidrick
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Howard Benjamin "Hal" Tidrick was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Indianapolis Jets and the Baltimore Bullets of the Basketball Association of America (BAA). He attended college at Washington & Jefferson College.
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Jonathan Kearsley
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- politician
- Biography
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Jonathan Kearsley was an American military officer and politician. He fought in the War of 1812 and was a two-time mayor of Detroit.
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Andrew Wylie
- Enrolled in Washington & Jefferson College
- Studied in 1810
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- pastoracademic administratoruniversity teacherwriterChristian minister
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Andrew Wylie was an American academic and theologian, who was president of Jefferson College (1811–1816) and Washington College (1816–1828) before becoming the first president of Indiana University (1829–1851).
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Henry Christopher McCook
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- entomologistarachnologistnaturalistwriterbiologist
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Henry Christopher McCook was an American Presbyterian clergyman, naturalist, and prolific author on religion, history, and nature. He was a member of the celebrated Fighting McCooks, a family of Ohio military officers and volunteers during the American Civil War.
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George A. Jenks
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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George Augustus Jenks was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He served in Congress and as Solicitor General of the United States.
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John James McCook
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- military personnel
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John James McCook, was a patriarch of the Fighting McCooks, one of the most prolific families in United States Army history. Five of his sons became prominent soldiers, chaplains, or sailors, as well as eight of his nephews.
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Leonidas Sexton
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Leonidas Sexton was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1877 to 1879. He previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877.
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Robert Ould
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- politicianmilitary personnellawyer
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Robert Ould was a lawyer who served as a Confederate official during the American Civil War. From 1862 to 1865 he was the Confederate agent of exchange for prisoners of war under the Dix–Hill Cartel. After the war he became a member of the Virginia General Assembly and was later elected president of a railroad company.
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Chris Mosley
- Occupations
- American football coachAmerican football player
- Biography
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Chris Mosley is an American football coach who last served as an assistant offensive line coach with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He has been the team's assistant offensive line coach since 2012.
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Charles Ogle
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Charles Ogle was an American attorney and politician who served as an Anti-Masonic and Whig member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Christopher Wolcott
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Christopher Parsons Wolcott was a Republican politician from the state of Ohio. He was Ohio Attorney General 1856–1860 and United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1862 to 1863.
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Rush Clark
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Rush Clark was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Iowa, who died on the floor of Congress in 1879.
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Albert C. Thompson
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- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Albert Clifton Thompson was an American lawyer and Civil War veteran who served as a United States representative from Ohio and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
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Ralph Vince
- Occupations
- judgeAmerican football playerlawyer
- Biography
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Raffaello "Ralph" D. Vince was an American football player for the Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Bulldogs, and the Cleveland Panthers. He later coached at Baldwin–Wallace College and John Carroll University. Outspoken and inventive as a coach, he was the inventor of the face mask. The original he created is on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. He was the first coach to put an armband of plays on his quarterbacks' wrists, now a common sight in football. He attended Washington & Jefferson College and played in the 1922 Rose Bowl. He is distinguished as being the first Italian to play in the National Football League (NFL).
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Alfred L. Pearson
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- lawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Alfred Lawrence Pearson was a lawyer and Union Army general in the American Civil War. He was awarded the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Lewis's Farm.
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Sherrard Clemens
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sherrard Clemens was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia and Missouri. He was a cousin to author Samuel L. Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain). The unincorporated community of Sherrard in Marshall County, West Virginia is named after him.
