List of people from Exeter, New Hampshire
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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Academics and writing
- Dan Brown, author
- Lisa Bunker, author, NH state representative
- Andrew Coburn, author
- Sidney Darlington, electrical engineer; inventor of the Darlington pair
- William Perry Fogg, author and adventurer
- Michael Golay, historian and author
- Thomas Hassan, 14th principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; husband of New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan
- Todd Hearon, poet, musician
- Daniel Heartz, musicologist
- Charles Snead Houston, mountaineer, medical doctor, Peace Corps administrator, author
- John Irving, author
- Dolores Kendrick, author, poet laureate of the District of Columbia, teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy
- John Knowles, author
- Dudley Leavitt (1750–1831), publisher of Farmers Almanack and Miscellaneous Yearbook
- John Phillips, founder of Phillips Exeter Academy along with his wife Elizabeth[1]
- Edward L. Rowan, psychiatrist, author, Scouting leader
- Tabitha Gilman Tenney (1762–1837), novelist, early feminist
- James Monroe Whitfield (1822–1871), abolitionist poet "America and other poems" published 1853
Arts
- Daniel Chester French, sculptor Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial
- Elizabeth Jane Gardner, painter
Business
- Enoch Poor, ship builder and merchant; Continental Army brigadier general
- Ambrose Swasey, inventor and businessman
- Edward Tuck, banker and philanthropist
Music
- Lloyd Ahlquist (aka EpicLLOYD), internet musician/rapper
- Statik Selektah (aka Statik Selektah), DJ, producer, CEO of Showoff Records
- Dan Zanes, lead singer of The Del Fuegos and Dan Zanes and Friends
Politics and law
- Frank C. Archibald, Vermont Attorney General[2]
- Charles H. Bell, U.S. senator and the 38th Governor of New Hampshire
- Lewis Cass, 2nd Territorial Governor of Michigan, President pro tempore of the Senate, 22nd U.S. Secretary of State
- Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, lawyer, soldier, and U.S. congressman from Massachusetts
- Nicholas Emery, judge and legislator from Maine
- Nathaniel Folsom, merchant, militia general, and delegate to the Continental Congress
- John Taylor Gilman, 7th and 12th Governor of New Hampshire
- Nicholas Gilman, Jr., signer of U.S. Constitution
- Maggie Hassan, 81st Governor of New Hampshire and current U.S. senator
- Moses Leavitt (1650–1730), early Exeter settler, selectman, and Moderator of the General Court
- Gilman Marston, U.S. congressman and senator; Union Army general
- Tristram Shaw, U.S. congressman
- Henry Shute (1856–1943), lawyer, judge, and author of "Plupy Shute" series
- Amos Tuck, lawyer and U.S. congressman
- Rev. John Wheelwright, clergyman and founder of Exeter
Sports
- Victoria Arlen, Paralympian swimmer
- Chris Carpenter, pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals[3]
- Fred Frame, auto racer, 1932 Indianapolis 500 winner
- Heather Jackson, professional triathlete
- Kevin Romine, right fielder for the Boston Red Sox[4]
References
- ^ https://www.exeter.edu/news/academy-center-renamed-honor-elizabeth-phillips
- ^ Bigelow, Walter J. (1919). Vermont, Its Government 1919-1920. Montpelier, VT: Historical Publishing Company. p. 23.
- ^ "Chris Carpenter Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ^ "Kevin Romine Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 26, 2012.