List of Wabash College people
This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Wabash College.
Alumni
Academia
- George J. Graham, Jr., political theorist
- John S. Hougham, natural scientist and President, Purdue University, 1876
- William Parker McKee, President, Shimer College
- Tom Ostrom, social psychologist
- Stephen H. Webb, theologian and philosopher of religion
Business
- Robert Allen, former AT&T CEO
- David Broecker (born 1961), CEO of Alkermes and Indiana Biosciences Research Institute
- James Bert Garner, Head of the Chemistry Department, 1901–14; inventor of the gas mask used in World War I
Law
- Edward Daniels, co-founder of Baker & Daniels (now Faegre Baker Daniels)
- David E. Kendall, President Bill Clinton's attorney, known for a number of anti-death penalty cases
Media and the arts
- Eric Daman, Emmy-winning costumer and fashion designer
- Dean Jagger, Oscar-winning motion picture actor
- Andrea James, LGBT rights activist and film producer
- Silky Nutmeg Ganache, drag queen and competitor on RuPaul's Drag Race (season 11)
- Kenyon Nicholson, playwright, screenwriter
- Byron Price, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (1944), Director of the Office of Censorship
- Frank Reynolds, ABC World News Tonight anchor
- Lawrence Sanders, novelist
- Allen Saunders, cartoonist
- Dan Simmons, science-fiction author, dedicated his novel Ilium to the college
- Sheldon Vanauken, author, confidante of C. S. Lewis
Medicine
- Robert G. Roeder, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Biochemical and Molecular Biology at The Rockefeller University
- Emery Andrew Rovenstine, co-founder of the American Society of Anesthesiologists
Military
- Major General Edward Canby, only United States general killed during the Indian Wars
- Major General Oscar R. Cauldwell, Marine Corps officer during World War II
- Brigadier General John Coburn, Civil War officer; accepted the surrender of Atlanta
- General Charles Cruft, Civil War officer
- Brigadier General Speed S. Fry, Civil War officer
- Major General Lew Wallace, Civil War officer, statesman, and author of Ben-Hur
- Rear Admiral Alex Miller, Former Chief of Staff at the National Security Agency
Lt. Gen. Charles D. Herron US Army (1877-1977) see Wiki
Politics
- John C. Black, US Representative and Medal of Honor recipient
- Jeremy Bird, National Field Organizer for Barack Obama's 2012 Campaign
- Mike Braun, US Senator, former US Representative
- Kevin P. Chavous, Council of the District of Columbia Representative
- John Coburn, United States Representative from Indiana
- Hiram Orlando Fairchild, speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- Stephen Goldsmith, former Mayor of Indianapolis, former Deputy Mayor of New York City
- Dwight Green, Governor of Illinois and Capone prosecutor
- Andrew Hamilton, US Representative
- Bayless W. Hanna, Indiana Attorney General, United States Ambassador to Iran and United States Ambassador to Argentina
- Will Hays, postmaster general and film censor czar
- Randall Head, Indiana State Senator, District 18
- Thomas Riley Marshall, twenty-eighth Vice-President of the United States (under Woodrow Wilson)
- Joseph E. McDonald, US Representative and Senator
- Reginald Meeks, Kentucky State Representative
- Luke Messer, United States Congressman
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson, US Representative and Senator
- William Pittenger, US Representative
- John Pope, Chicago alderman (10th ward)
- Todd Rokita, United States Congressman
- Richard J. Stephenson, financier of conservative causes
- Reginald H. Sullivan, Mayor of Indianapolis
- Brent Waltz, Indiana State Senator, District 36
- Charles P. White, former Indiana Secretary of State
- Raymond E. Willis, US Senator
- Henry Lane Wilson, US Ambassador to Mexico
- James Wilson, United States Representative from Indiana
- John L. Wilson, US Representative and Senator
Science
- Robert Dirks, computational chemist
- Watson McMillan “Mac” Laetsch, plant biologist[1]
Sports
- Knute Cauldwell, NFL player
- Ward Lambert, college basketball coach
- Don Leppert, Major League Baseball player, homered in first at-bat, first position player All-Star in Washington-Texas franchise history
- Ward Meese, National Football League player
- Pete Metzelaars, National Football League all-time leader in games played by a tight end and four-time AFC champion
- Century Milstead, college football Hall of Famer
- William H. Spaulding, football head coach, University of Minnesota and UCLA
- Ed Summers, Major League Baseball player, pitched in Games 1 and 4 of 1908 World Series
Faculty
- Garfield V. Cox was appointed to start the college's Department of Public Speaking in 1917.[2]
- Poet and critic Ezra Pound (1885–1972) was appointed chair of the Department of Romance Languages for the 1907–1908 academic year, but left in February after alleged sexual impropriety.[3]
- William Placher 1948–2008 was an American postliberal theologian. He was Follette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Wabash College until his death in 2008
References
- ^ Asimov, Nanette (February 1, 2020). "Watson McMillan 'Mac' Laetsch, UC Berkeley botanical expert, dies". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ "Garfield Cox Dies; Former U.C. Edducator". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. February 10, 1970. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
- ^ West, Evan (February 2008). "Poetic Injustice". Indianapolis Monthly. Emmis Communications: 60–68. Retrieved 5 September 2017.