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* [[Peter Orszag]] (1987) - Director (nominated) of U.S. Office of Management & Budget (OMB) under incoming President [[Barack Obama]]<ref> [[http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=41454&dcn=todaysnews]]</ref> |
* [[Peter Orszag]] (1987) - Director (nominated) of U.S. Office of Management & Budget (OMB) under incoming President [[Barack Obama]]<ref> [[http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=41454&dcn=todaysnews]]</ref> |
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==1990s== |
==1990s== |
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*[[Vitus Barbaro]] (summer alumnus 1991) - art historian of the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]; acting head of the [[Barbaro family]]<ref> [[http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Barbaro-family]]</ref> |
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*[[Michael Crowley]] (1990) - Journalist |
*[[Michael Crowley]] (1990) - Journalist |
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*[[Jeff Ma]] (1990) - part of [[MIT blackjack team]], basis of the film [[21 (2008 film)]] and the book [[Bringing Down the House (book)]] by [[Ben Mezrich]]; Webster Hall South dormitory proctor |
*[[Jeff Ma]] (1990) - part of [[MIT blackjack team]], basis of the film [[21 (2008 film)]] and the book [[Bringing Down the House (book)]] by [[Ben Mezrich]]; Webster Hall South dormitory proctor |
Revision as of 17:51, 17 December 2008
The following is a list of notable alumni from Phillips Exeter Academy.
1790s
- Dudley Leavitt (1790) - Publisher, writer, teacher, Meredith, New Hampshire[1]
- Lewis Cass (1792) - Secretary of State
- Nathaniel Upham (1793) - United States Representative from New Hampshire.
- Samuel Conner (1794) - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
- Daniel Webster (1796) - U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, born in New Hampshire
1810s
- John Adams Dix (1810) - Secretary of the Treasury, Senator from New York, Governor of New York
- George Bancroft (1811) - Historian, Secretary of Navy, and founder of the United States Naval Academy. (Admitted to Harvard at age 13.)
1820s
- Franklin Pierce (1820) - 14th U.S. President
- Alpheus Felch (c. 1822) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Michigan
- John Parker Hale (c. 1824) - U.S. Representative, Senator, abolitionist from New Hampshire
1830s
- Amos Tappan Akerman (c.1839) - U.S. Attorney General, 1870-1872, not listed in Alumni Records[2]
1840s
- Christopher Langdell (c.1848) Legal scholar, jurist and educator.
1860s
- Robert Todd Lincoln (1860) - Son of President Abraham Lincoln, US Secretary of War.
- John E. Leonard (1863) - U.S. Representative from Louisiana[3]
- Emmanuel Sullavou (1867) - 2nd African American to Graduate from Harvard [4]
1870s
- Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr. (c. 1870) - Entrepreneur, Son of President Ulysses S. Grant, not listed in Alumni Records
- Walter I. McCoy (c. 1875) - Represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district from 1911 to 1913, and the 9th district from 1913 to 1914.[5]
- Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874) - president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) from 1906-1907
1880s
- Amos Alonzo Stagg (1880) - "Grandfather of Football"
- Gifford Pinchot (1885) - First Chief Forester of the U.S. Forest Service and the Governor of Pennsylvania.
- George Higgins (1887) - U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
- Thomas Lamont (1888) - Partner and chairman of Board of Directors of J.P. Morgan & Co.. Father of Thomas W. Lamont, Jr. (1916) and Corliss Lamont (1920); grandfather of Edward M. Lamont (1944); great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (1972).
- Booth Tarkington (1889) - Winner, Pulitzer Prize, not listed in Alumni Records
1900s
- William D. Byron, Maryland politician.
- Thomas Coffin (1906) - U.S. Representative from Idaho
- Robert Benchley (1908) - author, member of original staff of The New Yorker, actor. Father of Nathaniel Benchley (1934), Robert Benchley Jr. (1938), Grandfather of Peter Benchley (1957) and Nat Benchley.
1910s
- Lawrence Dennis (1912?) - Author and economist, not listed in Alumni Records
- Werner Janssen (1916?) - Conductor and composer
- Norris H. Cotton (1919) - U.S. Representative and Senator from New Hampshire
1920s
- Corliss Lamont (1920) - Humanist and civil libertarian
- Wheaton Lane (1921) - Noted American History Professor at Princeton University
- William N. Bates, Jr. - Instructor in English, PEA. Brother of Robert H. Bates (1929).
- William G. Saltonstall (1924) - Instructor, Ninth Principal PEA.
- Dwight Macdonald (1925) - Author and critic
- Drew Pearson (1925) - Newspaper reporter, author, columnist.
- Walter A. Brown (1926) - Original owner of the Boston Celtics[6]
- James Agee (1928) - Author and critic
- Tex McCrary (1928) - Journalist, radio and television talk-show innovator, political "fixer".
- Hart Day Leavitt (1928) - Longtime English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
- Robert H. Bates (1929) - Instructor in English, PEA. Noted mountaineer. Brother of William N. Bates, Jr. (1924).
- H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929) - Long-time Director of Scholarships at the Academy. Uncle of John Irving (1961).
1930s
- Pierre S. du Pont (1930) - President of DuPont, manager of General Motors
- Andrew Ladd (1931) - Contributed to Dianetics, authored by L. Ron Hubbard.
- Hamilton Webb (1931) - Highly decorated Brigadier General
- Germain Glidden (1932) - Artist and squash player
- Adolph Coors III (1933) - Businessman
- Richard French (1933) - Celebrated Musicologist and Yale Professor
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1933) - Historian
- Nathaniel Benchley (1934) - Author, screenwriter. Son of Robert Benchley (1908), father of Peter Benchley (1957) and Nat Benchley.
- Richard Bolling (c. 1934) - U.S. Representative from Missouri
- Edward Myers (1934) - Founder of first national mail order seafood business; founder of Maine aquaculture industry
- Joseph Coors (1935) - C.E.O., Coors Brewing Company
- Hugh Gregg (1935) - Governor of New Hampshire, father of Senator Judd Gregg (1965)
- David Hall (c. 1935) - Recorded sound archivist
- Alden Todd (1935) - Writer
- James T. Aubrey, Jr. (c. 1936), President of CBS and MGM
- Lex Barker (1938) - Actor
- Nicholas Katzenbach (1938) - Former U.S. Attorney General and Vice-President of IBM. Father of John Katzenbach (1968).
1940s
- Burke Marshall (1940) - U.S. Assistant Attorney General
- Colin F.N. Irving (1941) - Instructor in Russian. Stepfather of John Irving (1961).
- Gore Vidal (1943) - Author
- Edward Lamont (1944) - Politician, grandson of Thomas W. Lamont (1888); son of Thomas W. Lamont, Jr. (1916); father of Ned Lamont (1972).
- George Plimpton (1944) - Author/editor, journalist, actor. [Sent down.] Son of Francis T.P. Plimpton (1917).
- John Knowles (1945) - Author (A Separate Peace)
- Donald Hall (1947) - Poet (US Poet Laureate, 2006-2007)
- Carlos Romero Barceló (1949) - Governor of Puerto Rico
- Thomas P. Hoving (1949) - Museum director, author, publisher [Sent down, graduated from Hotchkiss School.]
1950s
- Richard S. Arnold (1953) - former judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal courthouse in Little Rock bears his name
- Edward S. Gleason (1951) - PEA Chaplain, President Forward Movement Inc.
- Pierre S. du Pont, IV (1952) - former Governor of Delaware, Republican
- Stanford Phelps (1952) - Former President and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Life Advisors and U.S. Life Income Fund
- Christopher Jencks (1954) - Harvard professor, writer, author of "The Exeter Syndrome: Dissatisfaction, Delinquency, Despair, and Departure"
- Joseph Nadeau (1955) - Senior Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
- John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (1954) - Senator from West Virginia, Democratic Party (United States)Democrat
- Stewart Brand (1956) - Editor, author, Internet pioneer
- Jon Helman (1956) - Wasilla, AK Television personality
- H. John Heinz III (1956) - Senator from Pennsylvania
- John Negroponte (1956) - The first Director of National Intelligence
- Peter Benchley (1957)- Journalist, Presidential Speech Writer, Author and Screenwriter (Jaws). Son of Nathaniel Benchley (1934), and grandson of Robert Benchley (1907).
- Tim Wirth (1957) - U.S. Representative and Senator from Colorado, current head of the United Nations Foundation
- David Lamb (1958) - Author, foreign correspondent The Los Angeles Times.
- Robert Thurman (1958) - First American to be ordained a Buddhist priest in 1964, current leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism
- John M. Walker, Jr. (1958) - Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- August Zemo (1958) - Educator
- David Rockefeller, Jr. (1959) - Philanthropist and businessman, descendant of John D. Rockefeller
- Morris S. Arnold (1959) - U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Guy B. Darst (1959) - Journalist
- Daniel Dennett (1959) - Philosopher
- Hayford Peirce (1959) - Writer
- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (1959) - Educator
1960s
- Charles Horman (1960) - Journalist, victim of Chilean coup.
- Charles C. Krulak (1960) - 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
- John Irving (1961) - Author. Has written more books and short stories set at Exeter than any other alum author. Stepson of Colin F.N. Irving (1941).
- Chester E. Finn, Jr. (1962) - Educator. President, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.
- Myron Magnet (1962) - Conservative author, Editor at Large ofCity Journal
- Gregory Craig (1963) - Attorney, assistant Secretary of State, defended President Bill Clinton in Impeachment trial, represented father of Elián González in child custody/refugee case, foreign policy adviser to Senator Barack Obama.
- Frederick I. Taft (1963) - Attorney. (See Taft family)
- Carter Wiseman (1963) - Architecture critic New York magazine; lecturer in architecture, Yale School of Architecture, biographer of Louis Kahn; editor, Yale Alumni Magazine.
- Donald Chiofaro (1964) - President, the Chiofaro Company, property development, Boston, Massachusetts.
- Peter Coors (1965)- President, Adolph Coors Brewing Co.
- David Darst (1965) - Managing director Morgan Stanley.
- Terry Goddard (1965) - Attorney General of Arizona, formerly Mayor of Phoenix.
- Judd Gregg (1965) - Senator from New Hampshire, son of Hugh Gregg (1935), former Governor of New Hampshire.
- Helmut Panke (1965) - President, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG.
- Harrison "Skip" Pope Jr. (1965) - Distinguished psychiatrist.
- Charles Smith (1965) - Author, screenwriter.
- Craig Roberts Stapleton (1963) - U.S. Ambassador to France
- Toby Webb (1965) - Executive Vice President Verizon Communications.
- Kent Conrad (1966) - Senator from North Dakota
- David Eisenhower (1966) - grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States; Namesake to the Camp David presidential retreat.
- Fred Grandy (1966) - Actor, politician, political commentator. Son of William Grandy, Jr. (1927).
- Lawrence Lasker (1967) – Producer and screenwriter of Sneakers
- John Katzenbach (1968) - Author. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach (1938).
- John C. Harvey, Jr. (1969) - Vice Admiral, Chief of Naval Personnel Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
- Charles Trueheart (1969) - Author and journalist.
1970s
- Nicholas Callaway (1970) - Publisher, television producer, writer, and photographer
- Jon Sawyer (1970) - Journalist, executive director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting[7]
- Joyce Maynard (1971) - Author
- Benmont Tench (1971) - Musician and Producer
- Ned Lamont (1972) - businessman, cable television executive; MBA, Yale School of Management; Democratic nominee for Senator from Connecticut in 2006 defeated by Joseph Lieberman (I). Son of Edward M. Lamont (1944), grandson of Thomas W. Lamont, Jr. (1916), great-grandson of Thomas Lamont (1888).
- Ward E. Scott (1972) - Colonel, United States Marines
- John O. McGinnis (1975) Legal theorist
- Brooks D. Simpson (1975) - Author, historian
- Keshav Rao (1976) Businessman, convicted of 4 counts of Racketeering
- Suzy Welch (1977) - Journalist, author, former editor of Harvard Business Review, married to former GE CEO Jack Welch
- Jack Jorgensen (1978) - Winner of a 2008 Darwin Award
- Catherine Disher (1978) - Actress
- Michael Cerveris (1979) - Broadway and movie actor
- Jon Smith (1979) - Four time US Olympic rower (1980 - 1992)
- Andrew Sudduth (1979) - Olympic athlete (Rowing, men's eight, silver, 1984, single scull, 6th, 1988)
1980s
- Paul Klebnikov (1981) - Journalist
- Greg Daniels (1981) - Producer, including (The Simpsons), adapted U.S. version of The Office from the BBC version
- Sarah Lyall (1981) - reporter, The New York Times
- Michael Okwu (1982) - Journalist
- Dan Brown (1982) - Former Instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy, bestselling author (The Da Vinci Code)
- Gwynneth Coogan (1983) - Olympic athlete (10,000 m, 1992)
- Adam Guettel (1983) Musical Theater Composer, Composed The Light in the Piazza Winner of 6 Tony Awards
- Chang-Rae Lee (1983) - Author
- Daniel Vinegrad (1984) - Former Djiboutian Intelligence Czar
- Edmund Perry (1985) - Honor student shot to death by a plainclothes NYC policeman
- Kenji Yoshino (1987) - Law school professor, author
- China Forbes (1988) - Musician (Lead singer of Pink Martini)
- Peter Orszag (1987) - Director (nominated) of U.S. Office of Management & Budget (OMB) under incoming President Barack Obama[8]
1990s
- Vitus Barbaro (summer alumnus 1991) - art historian of the Art Institute of Chicago; acting head of the Barbaro family[9]
- Michael Crowley (1990) - Journalist
- Jeff Ma (1990) - part of MIT blackjack team, basis of the film 21 (2008 film) and the book Bringing Down the House (book) by Ben Mezrich; Webster Hall South dormitory proctor
- Alessandro Nivola (1990) - Actor
- Jedediah Purdy (1992) - Author, law school professor
- John Forté (1993) - Musician
- Ted Zagat (1993) - Vice President, Univision Communications Inc., son of founders of Zagat restaurant guide
- Sloan DuRoss (1995) Olympic Rower 2004, Men's Quadruple Sculls [10]
- Ketch Secor (1996)- Musician & Vocalist, Old Crow Medicine Show
- Win Butler (1998) - Musician (Lead singer of Arcade Fire)
- Sabrina Kolker (1998) - Canadian National Rower [11]
- Mike Blomquist (1999) - U.S. National Team (Rowing), 2005 Men's 8+, Gold Medal 2005 World Championships [12]
2000s
- Sam Fuld (2000) - Major League baseball player
- William Butler (2001) - Musician (multi-instrumentalist of Arcade Fire)
- Tom Cavanagh (2001) - National Hockey League player
- Mark Zuckerberg (2002) - founder of Facebook
References
Harris, Bernard C.; Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni-Alumnae, A Listing of the Trustees, Principals, Members of the Faculty Emeriti, and All Living Alumni and Alumnae ; Harris Publishing Company (White Plaines, New York), 19th Edition, PAH-W121-1M-18.1V
- ^ General Catalogue of Officers and Students, 1783-1903, Phillips Exeter Academy, The News-Letter Press, Exeter, 1903
- ^ [1]
- ^ LEONARD, John Edwards - Biographical Information
- ^ Phillips Exeter Academy | Home
- ^ Walter Irving McCoy biography, United States Congress. Accessed August 3, 2007.
- ^ [2]
- ^ Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- ^ [[3]]
- ^ [[4]]
- ^ [[5]]
- ^ http://www.rowingcanada.org/beijing_2008/athletes_bios/kolker/
- ^ [[6]]