List of Groton School alumni
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The following is a list of notable alumni of Groton School.
A
- Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Truman, presidential advisor to Lyndon Johnson
- Joseph Wright Alsop IV, politician and insurance executive; father to Joseph Alsop V and Stewart Alsop
- Joseph Wright Alsop V, journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist from the 1930s through the 1970s
- Ayi Kwei Armah, Ghanaian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, considered one of Africa's most important writers
- Hugh D. Auchincloss, stockbroker and lawyer
- James C. Auchincloss, United States Representative from New Jersey
- Louis Auchincloss, author, winner of the National Medal of Arts
B
- Tracy Barnes, CIA officer, one of the planners of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba
- Francis M. Bator, Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States, Professor, author
- Paul M. Bator, Deputy Solicitor General, legal scholar
- Donald Beer, 1956 Olympic gold medalist in men's eights, rowing
- Francis Biddle, Attorney General under Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941–1945), Chief American Justice of the Nuremberg Trials
- George Biddle, artist
- Hiram Bingham IV, American Vice Consul in Marseilles, France during World War II
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham, United States Representative from New York
- Richard M. Bissell, Jr., CIA Deputy Director for Plans, Bay of Pigs Invasion planner, father of U-2; formed the basis for Matt Damon's character in The Good Shepherd
- McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
- William Bundy, McGeorge Bundy's brother, foreign affairs advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
C
- Henry Chauncey, founder, Educational Testing Services, Harvard University administrator, father, Sam Chauncey
- Sam Chauncey, Yale University administrator
- Ben Coes, novelist, New York Times bestselling author
- Hamilton Coolidge, World War I flying ace
- Jim Cooper, United States Representative from Tennessee
- Edwin Corning Jr., member of the New York State Assembly[1]
- Erastus Corning 2nd, mayor of Albany, New York
- Laurence Curtis, United States Representative from Massachusetts
- Bronson M. Cutting, United States Senator from New Mexico
D
- F. Trubee Davison, Director of Personnel for the Central Intelligence Agency
- Charlie Devens, baseball player, New York Yankees 1932-1934
- C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of State, Ambassador to France
- Henry Francis du Pont, horticulturist and Founder of the Winterthur Museum housing one of the most important collections of Americana in the United States
E
F
- Adrian S. Fisher, Deputy Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
- Ned Freed, co-author of the MIME email standard (RFCs 2045-2049)
G
- Peter Gammons, Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, baseball writer and commentator
- Alex Gansa, producer for the TV show Homeland, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Winner
- Sumner Gerard, Ambassador to Jamaica, businessman
- John B. Goodenough, scientist, awarded the National Medal of Science and Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work developing the lithium battery[2][3]
- Ward Goodenough, anthropologist known for his studies in the southern Pacific islands
- Gerrit Graham, actor
- Marshall Green, Ambassador to Indonesia and Australia and Assistant Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon
- Joseph Grew, Ambassador to Japan before WWII, Under Secretary of State
- Charles Grimes, 1956 Olympic gold medalist in men's eights, rowing
- Ashbel Green Gulliver, former dean of Yale Law School
- Gordon Gund, formerly the principal owner of the NBA franchise, Cleveland Cavaliers; co-owner of the NHL franchise, San Jose Sharks
- Fred Gwynne, actor
H
- Pierpont M. Hamilton, United States Army Air Forces Major General, recipient of the Medal of Honor
- E. Roland Harriman, financier and philanthropist
- W. Averell Harriman, Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Governor of New York
- Percy Haughton, was head football coach at Cornell, Columbia and Harvard
- Stuart Heintzelman, United States Army Major General
- Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 8th Earl of Donoughmore, Irish peer
- Stephen A. Higginson, Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
- George Holding, member of Congress
K
- Francis Keppel, Commissioner of Education under President Kennedy
- Howard Kingsbury, 1924 Olympic gold medallist in men's eights, rowing
- Peter Kunhardt, documentary film maker
L
- Christopher Landau, United States Ambassador to Mexico
- James Lawrence, 1928 Olympic gold medallist in men's coxed fours, rowing
- Hunter Lewis, author
- George C. Lodge, professor at Harvard Business School
M
- Lincoln MacVeagh, ambassador and archeologist
- W. Kingsland Macy, congressman
- Greg Maffei, CEO of Liberty Media[4][5]
- Peter Magowan, managing general partner, San Francisco Giants
- Harry Mathews, poet
- Joseph Medill McCormick, United States Senator from Illinois
- Robert R. McCormick, publisher, Chicago Tribune
- Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations
- Henry Sturgis Morgan, grandson of JP Morgan
- Newbold Morris, President of the New York City Council under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
- Daniyal Mueenuddin, Pakistani author
- Henry A. Murray, psychologist at Harvard University, developer of Personology and Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)[6]
N
- Candace Nelson, founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes
O
P
- James Graham Parsons, Ambassador to Laos and Sweden, Deputy U.S. Representative to SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), 1970–1972
- Alexandra Paul, actress, star of Baywatch
- Endicott Peabody, former Governor of Massachusetts
- Fuller Potter, abstract-expressionist artist
- Norman Prince, aviator
Q
R
- Stanley Rogers Resor, Secretary of the Army, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
- Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; distinguished U.S. Army officer and commander of U.S. forces in both World War I and II
- Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr., career CIA officer, soldier, scholar, linguist; grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Congressman from New York; Naval Officer
- James Roosevelt, son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Congressman from California; Brigadier General in the United States Marine Corps
- James "Tadd" Roosevelt, Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt's nephew, who was slightly older than his uncle, and attended Groton at the same time
- Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; successful businessman; service in both World Wars
- Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., career CIA; organized Operation Ajax; grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt
- Quentin Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; fought and died in World War I
- Quentin Roosevelt II, son of Theodore Roosevelt III; grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt; killed in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances in China in 1948
- Theodore Roosevelt III, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; led the D-day assault on Utah Beach; recipient of the Medal of Honor
- Theodore Roosevelt IV, World War II Veteran; eldest son of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.; grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt V, managing director at Barclays Capital; prominent conservationist; former U.S. Navy SEAL and U.S. Foreign Service Officer, great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt
- Eugene Rostow, Under-Secretary of State under President Johnson, head of Arms Control Agency
- George Rublee, lawyer and diplomat
- Tom Rush, singer-songwriter
S
- Robert C. Scott, United States Representative from Virginia
- Ellery Sedgwick, editor
- Sarah Sewall, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
- Frederick Sheffield, 1924 Olympic gold medallist in men's eights, rowing
- Curtis Sittenfeld, author
T
- Ambassador David Thorne, founder of Body And Soul magazine; US Ambassador to Italy, appointed by President Barack Obama
- John Train, investment adviser and author
- Sandy Treadwell, Secretary of State of New York
U
V
- Cyrus Vance, Jr., Manhattan District Attorney
- Andrés Velasco, Finance Minister of Chile
- Nicholas Vreeland, Buddhist monk
W
- George Herbert Walker III, former ambassador to Hungary and board member of the New York Stock Exchange
- Bradford Washburn, photographer, director of the Boston Museum of Science from 1939–1980 and Honorary Director (a lifetime appointment) 1985–2007
- Sherwood Washburn, physical anthropologist
- James Waterston, actor, Dead Poets Society
- Sam Waterston, actor, notably Law & Order's Jack McCoy
- J. Watson Webb, Jr., film editor
- Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State under FDR
- James Boyd White, legal and literary scholar
- Harry Payne Whitney, businessman and Thoroughbred horse breeder
- John Hay Whitney, Ambassador to Britain, newspaper publisher
- Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange
- William Payne Whitney, philanthropist and businessman
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Z
References
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- ^ Tuttle, Kelen; White, Lori Ann. "Drell and Gates receive National Medal". symmetry magazine.
- ^ Sugden, Joanna; Landers, Peter. "Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Developers of Lithium-Ion Batteries". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "CEO Greg Maffei giving Liberty a lift". 27 March 2010.
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- ^ Bellak, Leopold (1958). "Henry A. Murray: An Appreciation." Journal of Projective Techniques, vol. 22, no. 2, p. 143. PMID 13550260. doi:10.1080/08853126.1958.10380835.