List of Phillips Exeter Academy alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni from Phillips Exeter Academy.

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Notable faculty members and trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy

John Phillips – founder of Phillips Exeter; President of Board of Trustees 1781-1795^[1]
John Pickering - Federal Judge, impeached for drunkenness; trustee 1781-1782
Salmon P. Chase - U.S. Senator from Ohio; Governor of Ohio; U.S. Treasury Secretary; Chief Justice of the U.S.; instructor 1785-1786
Benjamin Abbot – Principal 1788-1838^[1]
Daniel Dana - President of Dartmouth College; instructor 1789–91; Board of Trustees 1809-1843
John Taylor Gilman – Delegate to the Continental Congress; Governor of New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1795-1827^[2]
Ashur Ware - Federal Judge; instructor 1804-5
Nathan Hale - editor and publisher; introduced regular editorial commentary; instructor 1805-1807
Alexander Hill Everett – diplomat and politician (1807)^[3]
Nathan Lord - President of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire; faculty member 1809-1812
Henry Ware, Jr. - mentor to Ralph Waldo Emerson; instructor, 1812-14
James Walker - President of Harvard University; faculty 1814-1815
Ebenezer Adams – first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy^[4]
Nathaniel Appleton Haven – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1828-1830^[5]
Jeremiah Smith – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, Judge; Governor of New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1830-1842^[5]
Francis Bowen – Philosopher, writer, and educationalist; faculty 1833-1835^[5]
Joseph Gibson Hoyt – Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis; faculty 1840-1858^[6]
Amos Tuck - U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; founder of the Republican Party; Board of Trustees 1853-1879
Charles H. Bell – Governor of New Hampshire; trustee 1879-1883^[7]
George Lyman Kittredge – faculty 1883-1887^[8]
T.A. Dwight Jones – faculty^{[citation needed]}
H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell – Director of Scholarships^[9]
Donald B. Cole – historian; faculty 1947-1988^[10]
Winthrop Jordan – historian; faculty member in History Department 1955-1960^[11]
Frederick Buechner – writer; theologian; Religion and English faculty and School Minister 1958-1967^{[citation needed]}
Richard G. Brown – faculty 1962-1997^[12]
Michael S. Greco – President of American Bar Association; faculty 1965-1968^[13]
David P. Robbins – mathematician; faculty^[14]
Stephen G. Kurtz – historian; faculty (1974-1987)^[15]
Jeffrey Harrison – faculty^[16]
Thomas Hassan – faculty 1989–present; Principal 2009–present^[17]
Dan Brown – New York Times bestselling author; faculty 1993^[18]
Tyler Tingley – Principal 1997-2009^[19]
Todd Hearon – faculty 2003–present^[20]
Michael Golay – historian; faculty 1999–present^[21]
Gwynneth Coogan – U.S. Olympian; faculty 2002–present^[22]

1780s

Benjamin Ives Gilman (1783) - Ohio pioneer
George Sullivan (1783) - U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Nathaniel Thayer (1783) - Unitarian minister
Samuel Smith (1784) - U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
George B. Upham (1785) – United States Representative from New Hampshire^[23]
Josiah Bartlett, Jr. (c. 1786) – United States Representative from New Hampshire^[24]
Daniel Meserve Durell (1789) - U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; member of Democratic-Republican Party

1790s

Dudley Leavitt (1790) – publisher, writer, teacher, Meredith, New Hampshire^[25]
David L. Morril (1790) - U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, Governor of New Hampshire
John Noyes (1791) - U.S. Representative from Vermont
Lewis Cass (1792) – Brigadier General; Governor of Michigan Territory, Secretary of War; U.S. Senator from Michigan; U.S. Secretary of State; Democratic candidate for President^[26]
William Ladd (1793) - pacifist, founder and first President of American Peace Society
Nathaniel Upham (1793) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire^[27]
Samuel Conner (1794) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts^[28]
John Adams Harper (c. 1794) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire^[29]
Edward Little (1794) - attorney, entrepreneur, philanthropist
Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1795) - Unitarian minister and promulgator of Higher Criticism
Daniel Webster (1796) – U.S. Representative who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; U.S. Secretary of State; diplomat^[30]
Leverett Saltonstall I (1798) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts^[31]
James Clark (c1798) - President of the New Hampshire State Senate

1800s

Samuel Livermore (c. 1800) - legal scholar
Richard Saltonstall Rogers (1800) – East Indies Merchant, N. L. Rogers & Bros., Salem, Massachusetts^[32]^[33]
Abiel Chandler (1802) - merchant, philanthropist
Joseph Cogswell (1802) - educator, editor, library administrator
William Plumer, Jr. (1802) - U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
James Carr (1803) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
John Perkins Cushing (1803) - China merchant, opium smuggler, philanthropist
Augustine Heard (c. 1803) – entrepreneur and businessman
Nicholas B. Doe (1804) – U.S. Representative from New York State
Theodore Lyman (1804) - Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
Lucius Manlius Sargent (1804) – author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate
John Lauris Blake (1806) - minister and prolific author
Benjamin T. Pickman (1806) - President of the Massachusetts State Senate
Zachariah Allen (1807) - manufacturer and inventor
Edward Everett (1807) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts, Ambassador to Great Britain; U.S. Secretary of State; President of Harvard University
Benjamin Kendrick Pierce (1807) - U.S. Army officer; brother of Franklin Pierce; son of Benjamin Pierce
James H. Duncan (1808) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Samuel Luther Dana (1809) - chemist, agricultural science specialist, science author

1810s

Thomas Bulfinch (1810) – author of Bulfinch's Mythology
John Adams Dix (1810) – Secretary of the Treasury; U.S. Senator from New York; Governor of New York
William Willis (1810) - Mayor of Portland, Maine; railroad president
Jonathan P. Cushing (1811) - President of Hampden-Sydney College
George Bancroft (1811) – historian, Secretary of Navy; founder of the United States Naval Academy; Ambassador to the United Kingdom
John G. Palfrey (1811) – clergyman, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Jared Sparks (1811) – President of Harvard University
Benjamin Ogle Tayloe – businessman
David Barker, Jr. (1812) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Samuel Cartland (1812) - President of the New Hampshire State Senate; Acting Governor of New Hampshire
William Bourne Oliver Peabody (1812) - Unitarian minister, author
John Sherburne Sleeper (c. 1812) – sailor, ship master, novelist, journalist, politician
Charles Paine (1813) - Governor of Vermont
James Wilson II (1813) - U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Nathaniel Gookin Upham (1816) - Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court; railroad president; diplomat
Thomas Wilson Dorr (1819) – Governor of Rhode Island; leader of the eponymous Dorr Rebellion
Alfred L. Elwyn (1819) - humanitarian, author
Russell Sturgis (1819) - merchant, banker

1820s

George Lunt (c. 1820) - politician, author, editor, poet
Franklin Pierce (1820) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire; 14th President of the United States^[34]
Josiah S. Little (1821) - Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
John Langdon Sibley (1821) - librarian of Harvard University
Jonathan Chapman (1822?) - Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
Alpheus Felch (c. 1822) – U.S. Senator from Michigan; Governor of Michigan^[35]
Samuel Haven (1822) - archeologist, anthropologist
Richard Hildreth (1823) - historian, political theorist
John Hodgdon (1823) - President of the Maine State Senate, Mayor of Dubuque, Iowa
Ephraim Peabody (1823) - Unitarian minister; abolitionist
George Bradburn (1824) – politician and Unitarian minister in Massachusetts^[36]
John Parker Hale (c. 1824) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire; abolitionist; Free Soil candidate for U.S. President; Ambassador to Spain^[37]
Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (c. 1824) – U.S. Representative from Maine^[38]
Edward Henry Durell (1826) - Mayor of New Orleans, Federal Judge
Theodore Howard McCaleb (1828) - Federal Judge; President of the University of Louisiana
Francis Bowen (1829) – philosopher, writer, educationalist^[39]
Benjamin Butler (1829) - Civil War General (Union); U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts
Charles Turner Torrey (1829) - abolitionist; convicted of stealing slaves, died in prison
Jeffries Wyman (1829) - naturalist and anatomist
Morrill Wyman (1829) – physician and social reformer

1830s

Edward Fox (1830) - Federal Judge
Henry Gardner (1831) - Governor of Massachusetts
Timothy R. Young (c. 1831) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
Nathaniel B. Baker (1834) - Governor of New Hampshire
Edmund Burke Whitman (c. 1834) – quartermaster
Fitz John Porter (1835) - Civil War General (Union)
John F. Potter (1835) – U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
William B. Small (c. 1835) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Ezra Abbot (1836) - New Testament scholar
Charles H. Bell (1837) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, Governor of New Hampshire
Nathanial Gordon (1838) - President of the New Hampshire State Senate; philanthropist
Amos Tappan Akerman (c.1839) – U.S. Attorney General, 1870–1872
John W. Kingman (1839) - one of the first three judges in Wyoming Territory; proponent of women's suffrage
E. Carleton Sprague (1839) – lawyer, politician, Chancellor of the University of Buffalo

1840s

James Camp Tappan (c. 1841) - Civil War General (CSA), Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Paul A. Chadbourne (1842) - President of University of Wisconsin, Williams College, and University of Massachusetts
James Cooley Fletcher (1842) - missionary, diplomat, author
Charles J. Gilman (c. 1842) – U.S. Representative from Maine
Jonathan Homer Lane (1842) - astronomer
Elijah B. Stoddard (1843) - Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts
E. C. Banfield (1845) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Solicitor of the United States Treasury
Curtis Coe Bean (1846) – Delegate from the Territory of Arizona to the U.S. House of Representatives
William Dorsheimer (1847) - U.S. Representative from New York; Lieutenant Governor of New York^[40]
Richard Sylvester (1847) – journalist
William Robert Ware (1847) - architect, founder of architecture programs at MIT and Columbia University^[40]
Christopher Langdell (1848) – legal scholar, jurist and educator

1850s

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1851) - author, journalist, abolitionist
Uriah Smith (1851) - Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian
Benjamin Smith Lyman (1852) - mining engineer, surveyor, linguist
Benjamin F. Prescott (1852) – Governor of New Hampshire
Wheelock G. Veazey (1855) - Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court; Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Gettysburg)
George E. Adams (1856) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
Edward Rowland Sill (1857) - poet
George W. Atherton (1858) - President of Pennsylvania State University
William Ripley Brown (1858) – U.S. Representative from Kansas
Edward Tuck (1858) - banker, diplomat, philanthropist
George S. Morison (1859) – leading bridge designer
Henry B. Lovering (1859) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

1860s

Jeremiah Curtin (1860) - translator of Native American and Slavic languages; folklorist
William M.R. French (1860) - first Director of the Art Institute of Chicago
Robert Todd Lincoln (1860) – son of President Abraham Lincoln; US Secretary of War; U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom
Marshall Snow (1861) - Acting Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
Augustus Van Wyck (1862) – Supreme Court Justice of Brooklyn, New York
John E. Leonard (1863) – U.S. Representative from Louisiana^[41]
Elisha B. Maynard (1863) - Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts; Associate Justice of Massachusetts Superior Court
John Ames Mitchell (1863) - architect, writer, publisher, co-founder and President of Life magazine
George Thomas Tilden (1863) – architect
Wilmon W. Blackmar (1864) - Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Battle of Five Forks)
Charles Rufus Brown (1865) - Hebrew Bible scholar
Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1865) - architect
William Gardner Hale (1866) – classical scholar
Herbert H. D. Peirce (1867) - diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Norway; brother of C. S. Peirce
Herbert Baxter Adams (1868) – educator and historian
Winfield Scott Edgerly (1868) - Brigadier General, U.S. Army
Charlemagne Tower, Jr. (1868) - U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Germany
Frank O. Briggs (1869) - U.S. Senator from New Jersey

1870s

August Belmont, Jr. (1870) - banker; owner and breeder of Thoroughbreds, builder of Belmont Park racetrack
Erastus Brainerd (1870) - museum curator; newspaper editor; publicist for Seattle, Washington
Nathan Haskell Dole (1870) - author and translator
Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr. (c. 1870) – entrepreneur; son of President Ulysses S. Grant
Samuel Leland Powers (1870) - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Sylvester Primer (1870) - linguist and philologist
Albert D. Bosson (1871) – Mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts
Philip Hale (1872) - music critic
Oscar Richard Hundley (1872) - Federal Judge
George Edward Woodberry (1872) - poet and literary critic
Melville Bull (1873) – U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
Henry G. Danforth (1873) – U.S. Representative from New York
Robert O. Harris (1873) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
James Cameron Mackenzie (1873) - transformative Headmaster of Lawrenceville School
George Arthur Plimpton (1873) – publisher and philanthropist
William Bancroft (1874) - businessman; Brigadier General; Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ogden Mills (1874) - financier; owner of Thoroughbreds; philanthropist
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874) – president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1906–1907
William DeWitt Hyde (1875) - President of Bowdoin College
Henry Shute (1875) - author
William Morton Grinnell (1876) – diplomat, lawyer, and banker
William Schaus (1876) – entomologist
Robert Winsor (1876) - financier, investment banker, and philanthropist
Timothy L. Woodruff (1876) - Lieutenant Governor of New York
William W. Stickney (1877) – Governor of Vermont
Willard S. Augsbury (1878) - businessman, banker, and politician from New York State
Sherman Hoar (1878) - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Walter I. McCoy (1878) – U.S. Representative from New Jersey^[42]
Henry Grier Bryant (1879) - explorer, writer
S. Percy Hooker (1879) - politician from New York State
Moses King (1879) - editor and publisher of travel guidebooks
Francis S. Peabody (1879) - coal baron, ally of Adlai Stevenson

1880s

Amos Alonzo Stagg (1880) – "grandfather of football"
Charles Augustus Strong (1881) - philosopher and psychologist
Frank G. Higgins (1882) – football player, lawyer, politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana
Edmund Wilson, Sr. (1882) – Attorney General of New Jersey
Joseph H. Walker (1883) - Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Larz Anderson (1884) – businessman, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Lindley Miller Garrison (1884) - U.S. Secretary of War
Wallace Nutting (1884) – photographer
Bradley Palmer (1884) - attorney, businessman, philanthropist, part of American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference
John Scammon (1884) - President of the New Hampshire State Senate; Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court
William A. Chanler (1885) – explorer, soldier, US Representative from New York
Morton D. Hull (1885) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
George Hunter (1885) – authority on decorative art
Walter W. Magee (1885) - U.S. Representative from New York
Gifford Pinchot (1885) – first Chief Forester of the U.S. Forest Service; Governor of Pennsylvania
George Rublee (1885) - diplomat, advisor to Woodrow Wilson
William Wurtenburg (1886) - college football player, coach, physician
James Madison Morton Jr. (1887) - Federal Judge
George Higgins Moses (1887) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, Ambassador to Greece
Curtis Hidden Page (1887) - scholar, author, translator
Frank Barbour (1888) – football player, coach, businessman
Thomas Lamont (1888) – partner and chairman of Board of Directors of J.P. Morgan & Co.
Lee McClung (1888) – Treasurer of the United States
Samuel Washington Weis (1888) – painter
Robert D. Farquhar (1889) – architect
Ogden H. Hammond (1889) – U.S. Ambassador to Spain
Booth Tarkington (1889) – Pulitzer Prize winner

1890s

Butler Ames (1890) - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Carroll Bond (1890) - Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of the U.S. State of Maryland, the Court of Appeals
George Lawrence Day (1890) - aka John Mapes Adams, Medal of Honor recipient (Boxer Rebellion)
William Boyce Thompson (1890) - mining engineer, financier, philanthropist
Louis W. Hill (1891) - railroad magnate
Henry McKee Minton (1891) - physician, co-founder of Sigma Pi Phi
Winfred Thaxter Denison (1892) - Secretary of the Interior of the Philippines
Daniel Gregory Mason (1892) - composer, music critic
Charles Loring (1893) - Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
George R. Stobbs (1895) - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Charles R. Forbes (1896) - Director of the Veterans' Bureau
Walter Dearborn (1897) - experimental psychologist; specialist in reading education
Burt Z. Kasson (1897) - politician from New York State
Roscoe Conkling Bruce (1898) - educator
Robert William Sawyer (1898) - journalist, conservationist
Samuel Davis Wilson (1898) - Mayor of Philadelphia
Barry Faulkner (1899) - muralist
Robert Leavitt (1899) - Olympic gold medalist, 110m hurdles

1900s

John F. Dore (1901) - Mayor of Seattle
Foster Rockwell (1901) - All-American football player, coach, hotelier
Ralph B. Strassburger (1901) – businessman, Thoroughbred owner and breeder
Joseph Gilman (1902) - All-American football player, businessman
Nicholas V. V. Franchot II (1903) - businessman and New York State politician
Samuel Abraham Marx (1903) - architect and interior designer
Jay R. Benton (1904) – Massachusetts Attorney General
Edwin F. Harding (1904) - U.S. Army Major General, Commander of 32nd Infantry Division during WW II
Harrie B. Chase (1905) - Federal Judge
Richard Grozier (1905) - owner, publisher, and editor of The Boston Post; responsible for exposing Charles Ponzi
Roger Sherman Hoar (1905) - lawyer, politician, science fiction author
William Rand (1905) - Olympic athlete (1908, 110m hurdles)
Thomas Coffin (1906) – U.S. Representative from Idaho
Haniel Long (1906) – poet, novelist, publisher and academic
Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1906) - Secretary of the Treasury
Ed Wheelan (1907) - cartoonist
Robert Benchley (1908) – author; member of original staff of The New Yorker; actor
Frank M. Dixon (1908?) - Governor of Alabama; a founder of the States' Rights Party ("Dixiecrats")
Arthur Bluethenthal (1909) - All-American football player; decorated World War I pilot
Walter Nelles - a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union^[43]

1910s

Wayne G. Borah (1910) - Federal Judge
Edwin C. Parsons (1910) – Rear Admiral of the United States Navy
Olin M. Jeffords (1911) - Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
Robert Nathan (1912) - novelist and poet
Phelps Putnam (1912) - poet
Donald Ogden Stewart (1912) - Academy Award-winning screenwriter, The Philadelphia Story
Harold Weston (1912) - modernist painter
William D. Byron (1913) – U.S. Representative from Maryland
John Amen (1914) - prosecutor of government corruption, head of the U.S. Interrogation Division at the Nuremberg Trials
Arthur Freed (1914) - film producer
Howard Hawks (1914) – film director; resided in Webster Hall
Joseph Frank Wehner (1914) – fighter pilot
Charles Bierer Wrightsman (1914) - fine arts collector and philanthropist
Lawrence Dennis (1915) – author and economist
Louis M. Loeb (1915) – President of the New York City Bar Association
Drew Pearson (1915) – newspaper reporter, author, columnist
John Cowles, Sr. (1917) – co-owner of the Cowles Media Company
Werner Janssen (1917) – conductor and composer
Donald Lourie (1917) – businessman, government official, college football player
Robert Chiperfield (1918) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
George H. Love (1918) - businessman; industrialist; coal baron; Chairman of the Board of Chrysler
Francis T.P. Plimpton (1918) – lawyer and diplomat
Norris H. Cotton (1919) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
David Granger (1919) - 1928 Olympic silver medalist (five-man bobsleigh)
Donald Oenslager (1919) - Tony Award-winning scenic designer

1920s

Corliss Lamont (1920) – humanist and civil libertarian
Jess Sweetser (1920) – amateur golfer
C. Bradford Welles (1920) - classicist
James Greenway (1921) – ornithologist
Weston Adams (1922c) - principal owner and President of the Boston Bruins
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1922) – great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln
Laurence Duggan (1923) – head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State
Jarvis Hunt (1923) - President of the Massachusetts State Senate
Charles Edward Wyzanski, Jr. (1923) - Federal Judge
George E. Kimball (1924) – professor of quantum chemistry
John K. Fairbank (1925) – academic and historian of China
Lincoln Kirstein (1925) - writer, co-founder and General Director of the New York City Ballet (did not graduate)
Dwight Macdonald (1925) – author and critic
Kent Smith (c. 1925) - actor
Walter A. Brown (1926) – original owner of the Boston Celtics,^[44] owner of the Boston Bruins
Richard W. Leopold (1926) – historian at Northwestern University
Red Rolfe (1927) - All-Star New York Yankee third baseman, Manager of the Detroit Tigers
James Agee (1928) – author and critic
Jack R. Howard (1928) – broadcasting executive
Tex McCrary (1928) – journalist, radio and television talk-show innovator, political "fixer"
Hart Day Leavitt (1928) – longtime English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Paul Sweezy (1928) – economist and publisher
Whiting Willauer (1928) - U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and Costa Rica
Robert H. Bates (1929) – instructor in English, PEA; mountaineer
H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929) – long-time Director of Scholarships at the Academy; uncle of John Irving (1961)
Edwin Gillette (1929) - cameraman, inventor of animation technique
William Howard Stein (1929) - Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1972
Richard Walker Bolling - U.S. Representative from Missouri (did not graduate)

1930s

Pierre S. du Pont (1930) – President of DuPont, manager of General Motors
John A. M. Hinsman (1930) – President of the Vermont State Senate
Francis Spain (1930) - Captain of the 1936 U. S. Olympic hockey team (bronze medal)
Eliot Butler Willauer (1930) – architect
Larry Bogart (1931) - critic of nuclear power
Macdonald Carey (1931) - film and television actor, winner of two Emmy Awards
John Crosby (1931) - newspaper columnist, media critic, suspense novelist
Richard S. Salant (1931) - President of CBS News
Sonny Tufts (1931) - film and television actor
Bruce H. Billings (1932) – physicist
Richard Pike Bissell (1932) - author and playwright, winner of Tony Award (The Pajama Game)
John Toland (1932) - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (The Rising Sun)
Adolph Coors III (1933) – businessman
Richard Dorson (1933) – "father of American folklore"
Richard French (1933) – musicologist; Yale professor
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1933) – historian
Charles E. Tuttle (1933) – publisher
Nathaniel Benchley (1934) – author, screenwriter
William H. Blanchard (1934) - four-star general, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
Robert W. Anderson (1935) - playwright
Tom Slick (c. 1935) – inventor and businessman
Joseph Coors (1935) – C.E.O., Coors Brewing Company
David D. Furman (1935) – New Jersey Attorney General, New Jersey Superior Court judge
Hugh Gregg (1935) – Governor of New Hampshire, father of Senator Judd Gregg (1965)
David Hall (c. 1935) – Recorded sound archivist
William Verity, Jr. (c. 1935) - Secretary of Commerce
James T. Aubrey, Jr. (c. 1936) - President of CBS and MGM
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1936) - business historian
Thomas Clinton (1936) - executive of Deutsche Bank, philanthropist, early advocate of the formation of the Presbyterian Church
Calvin Plimpton (1936) – physician, President of Amherst College
Robert Samuel Salzer (1936) – Vice Admiral of the United States Navy
Lee Parsons Gagliardi (1937) - Federal Judge
Douglas Knight (1937) - President of Duke University
Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. (1937) - co-founder of Atheneum Publishers
Nelson Gidding (1937) – screenwriter
Lex Barker (1938) – actor
T. Clark Hull (1938) - Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut; Connecticut Supreme Court Justice
Nicholas Katzenbach (1938) – U.S. Attorney General; Vice-President of IBM; father of John Katzenbach (1968)
Alexander Saxton (c. 1938) – historian, novelist, and university professor
Arthur A. Seeligson, Jr. (1938) – oilman, rancher, Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
Sloan Wilson (1938) - author (did not graduate)
Alfred Atherton (1939) - U.S. Ambassador to Egypt
Ward Chamberlin (1939) - Public Broadcasting Executive
John Holt (1939) - educational critic, activist, and author
Bud Palmer (c. 1939) – professional basketball player

1940s

Burke Marshall (1940) – U.S. Assistant Attorney General
Lloyd Shapley (1940) – winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics
Harold R. Tyler, Jr. (1940) - Federal Judge
Neil MacNeil (1941) - journalist
Anton Myrer (1941) - author of war novels
Robert B. Choate, Jr. (1942) – businessman and political activist
Nathaniel Davis (1942) - career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Chile, and Switzerland
William Bell Dinsmoor, Jr. (1942) – classical archaeologist and architectural historian
Thomas Ashley Graves, Jr. (1942) - President of the College of William & Mary
Robert B. Rheault (1943) – U.S. military officer
Roger Sonnabend (1943) - hotelier and businessman
John Thomson (1943) - UK High Commissioner to India; UK Ambassador to the UN
Gore Vidal (1943) – author
Whitney Balliett (1944) – writer for The New Yorker
Robinson O. Everett (1944) - judge and law professor
Edward Lamont (1944) – politician, grandson of Thomas W. Lamont (1888)
George Plimpton (1944) – author, editor, journalist, actor (expelled)
Henry N. Cobb (1944) – architect and founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
J. Glenn Beall, Jr. (1945) - U.S. Representative from Maryland; U.S. Senator from Maryland
James P. Gordon (1945) – discovered Maser as a graduate student at Columbia University with Charles H. Townes (who was awarded Nobel Physics prize in 1964 for development of masers and lasers)^[45]
John Knowles (1945) – author, A Separate Peace
James R. Lilley (1945) - U.S. Ambassador to China
William E. Schluter – New Jersey politician
Charles W. Bailey II (1946) - political reporter, newspaper editor, political novelist (Seven Days in May)
Michael Forrestal (1946) - government aide, legal advisor
Will Holt (1946?) - singer, songwriter, librettist, lyricist
Ramsay MacMullen (1946) – professor of history at Yale University
Wallace Nutting (1946) – four-star general
F. D. Reeve (1946) - author, poet, translator, editor
Julian Roosevelt (1946) - Olympic gold medalist in sailing
Donald Hall (1947) – poet; US Poet Laureate, 2006–2007
Richard W. Murphy (1947) - diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia
John Pittenger (c. 1947) – lawyer and academic
Herbert P. Wilkins (1947) - Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
David Bevington (1948) - literary scholar
Douglas M. Head (1948) - Attorney General of Minnesota
Carlos Romero Barceló (1949) – Governor of Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the U.S. House of Representatives
Adair Dyer (1949) - attorney, passed the International Family Law through the Supreme Court
Bo Goldman (1949) - screenwriter (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Scent of a Woman), winner of two Academy Awards
Thomas P. Hoving (1949) – museum director, author, publisher (expelled; graduated from Hotchkiss School)
John Kerr (1949) – actor

1950s

M. Scott Peck (c. 1951) - psychiatrist
Walter Darby Bannard (1952) - abstract painter
Robert Cowley (1952) - military historian
Pierre S. du Pont, IV (1952) – U.S. Representative from Delaware, Governor of Delaware
Thomas Ehrlich (1952) - President of Indiana University
Harmon Elwood Kirby (1952) - career diplomat; Ambassador to Togo
Karl Ludvigsen (1952) - automotive journalist, author, historian, and design consultant
David Mumford (1952) – mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal; MacArthur Fellow
Robert D. Richardson (1952) – historian and biographer
Harold Russell Scott, Jr. (1952) - Broadway actor and director
Robert G. Wilmers (1952) - businessman
Richard S. Arnold (1953) – former judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; namesake of federal courthouse in Little Rock
Hodding Carter III (1953) – Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
Michael von Clemm (1953) – businessman, restaurateur, anthropologist
Robert C. Wetenhall (1953) - owner of the Montreal Allouettes Football Club
Peter B. Bensinger (1954) - administrator of the D.E.A.
Earl J. Silbert (1953) - prosecutor in Watergate case
James F. Hoge, Jr. (1954) – editor of Foreign Affairs
Christopher Jencks (1954) - sociologist
G. Bradford Cook (1955) - Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
John Gager (1955) – Professor of Religion at Princeton University
John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (1955) – Governor of West Virginia; U.S. Senator from West Virginia
Peter Sears (1955) - Poet Laureate of Oregon
Gordon Park Baker (1956) – American-English philosopher
William Bayer (1956) - crime fiction writer
Stewart Brand (1956) – editor, author, Internet pioneer
H. John Heinz III (1956) – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
Theodore Stebbins (1956) – art historian
John Negroponte (1956) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, The Philippines, and Iraq; the first Director of National Intelligence
Peter Benchley (1957) - journalist, presidential speechwriter, author, screenwriter (Jaws)
Bill Keith (1957) - banjo innovator
Herbert Kohler, Jr. (1957) - businessman (did not graduate)
Tim Wirth (1957) – U.S. Representative from Colorado; U.S. Senator from Colorado; current head of the United Nations Foundation
John Winslow Bissell (1958) – judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Don Briscoe (1958) - television actor
George Gilder (1958) – writer and co-founder of the Discovery Institute
Warren Hoge (1958) - reporter, Bureau Chief, and Editor at The New York Times (did not graduate)
David Lamb (1958) - reporter, Bureau Chief at The Los Angeles Times (did not graduate)
Robert Thurman (1958) – first American to be ordained a Buddhist priest in 1964; leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism
John M. Walker, Jr. (1958) – Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
David Rockefeller, Jr. (1959) – Philanthropist and businessman, descendant of John D. Rockefeller
Morris S. Arnold (1959) – judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Daniel Dennett (1959) – philosopher
Tom Mankiewicz (1959) - screenwriter, director, producer
Hayford Peirce (1959) – writer
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (1959) – educator, President of Yale University

1960s

Robert Mehrabian (c. 1960) – materials scientist
Charles Horman (1960) – journalist, victim of Chilean coup
Charles C. Krulak (1960) – 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
Jerrold Speers (1960) – Maine State Treasurer
John Irving (1961) – author; has written more books and short stories set at Exeter than any other alum author
George W. S. Trow (1961) – novelist, playwright, short story writer, longtime contributor to The New Yorker
Peter Simon (c. 1961) – actor
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (1961) - Deputy Mayor of the City of New York, President of the New York City Board of Education
Kenneth Bacon (1962) - Department of Defense spokesman; president of Refugees International^[46]^[47]
Evan A. Davis (1962) - President of the New York City Bar Association
Chester E. Finn, Jr. (1962) – educator; President of Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Myron Magnet (1962) – conservative author, Editor at Large of City Journal
Henry Burkhardt III (1963) – co-founder of Data General, Encore Computer, and Kendall Square Research
Gregory Craig (1963) – attorney; assistant Secretary of State; defended President Clinton in impeachment trial; represented father of Elián González in child custody/refugee case; foreign policy adviser to Senator Barack Obama; White House Counsel to President Obama; now at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and coordinating defense of Goldman Sachs before the SEC
Gordon Gahan (1963) – photographer
Craig Roberts Stapleton (1963) – U.S. Ambassador to France and Czech Republic
Willy Eisenhart (1964) – writer on art
Peter Coors (1965) – President, Adolph Coors Brewing Co.
David Darst (1965) – managing director, Morgan Stanley
Barry Golson (c. 1965) – editor, journalist, author
Terry Goddard (1965) – Attorney General of Arizona; Mayor of Phoenix
Judd Gregg (1965) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; Governor of New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, (withdrew as U.S. Commerce Secretary-designate)
Helmut Panke (1965) – President, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW)
Harrison "Skip" Pope Jr. (1965) – psychiatrist
Charlie Smith (1965) - poet, novelist
Kent Conrad (1966) – U. S. Senator from North Dakota
David Eisenhower (1966) – grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower; 34th president of the United States; namesake of the Camp David presidential retreat
Fred Grandy (1966) – actor; U.S. Representative from Iowa; political commentator
Steven T. Kuykendall (1966) - U.S. Representative from California
James Earl Coleman, Jr. (1966) - attorney
Jonathan Galassi (1967) - President and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; poet
Curt Hahn (c. 1967) – filmmaker
Lawrence Lasker (1967) – producer and screenwriter of Sneakers
Frank Teruggi (1967) – journalist
Tom Birmingham (1968) - President of the Massachusetts Senate
Edward Hallowell (1968) - psychiatrist
John Katzenbach (1968) – author; son of Nicholas Katzenbach (1938)
Michael Fossel (1968) – editor of the Journal of Anti-Ageing Medicine
John R. Ettinger (1969) - lawyer and philanthropist
Peter W. Galbraith (1969) - diplomat, author, Ambassador to Croatia (did not graduate)
John C. Harvey, Jr. (1969) – Vice Admiral; Chief of Naval Personnel Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
Christopher Kimball (1969) – founder of Cook's Illustrated; host of America's Test Kitchen
Jack Gilpin (1969) – movie and television actor
John McTiernan (1969) - filmmaker

1970s

Robert Bauer (1970) – attorney, White House Counsel
Nicholas Callaway (1970) – publisher, television producer, writer, and photographer
Alex Beam (1971) – journalist, social critic
Joyce Maynard (1971) – author
Benmont Tench (1971) – musician and producer
Roland Merullo (1971) – author
Eben Alexander (1972) – neurosurgeon and author
Robert J. Fisher (1972) - former Chairman of the Board, Gap, Inc.
Ned Lamont (1972) – businessman; cable television executive; MBA, Yale School of Management; Democratic nominee for Senator from Connecticut in 2006, defeated by Joseph Lieberman
Mike Lynch (1972) - television sports broadcaster
Bobby Shriver (1972) – activist, attorney, journalist
Eric Breindel (1973) - neoconservative writer, editorial page editor of the New York Post
Rusty Magee (1973) – comedian, actor and composer/lyricist
Clayton Spencer (1973) - president of Bates College
Paul Sullivan (1973) – pianist and composer
Emery Brown - neuroscientist and anesthesiologist
Andrew Holtz (1974) – journalist
William S. Fisher (1975) - businessman and investor
Joseph Lykken (1975) — physicist
John O. McGinnis (1975) – legal theorist
Brooks D. Simpson (1975) – author, historian
Tom Steyer (1975) – asset manager, philanthropist, environmentalist
Charlie Hunter (1976) – artist
Ginna Sulcer Marston (1976) – advertising director for the Partnership for a Drug Free America^[48]^[49]
Norb Vonnegut (1976) – author
Bear Atwood (1977) - attorney, former Legal Director for ACLU of Mississippi
James F. Conant (1977) – philosopher
James Somerville (1977) – minister, First Baptist Church (Richmond, Virginia); former minister of First Baptist Church of Washington, DC
Suzy Welch (1977) – journalist; author; former editor of Harvard Business Review; married to former GE CEO Jack Welch
Catherine Disher (1978) – actress
Mark Driscoll (1978) – Emmy Award-winning screenwriter^[50]
Michael Lynton (1978) - CEO of Sony Entertainment Inc.
Jeffrey Toobin (1978) – lawyer and journalist
Michael Cerveris (1979) – Broadway and movie actor
John J. Fisher (1979) - majority owner of the Oakland Athletics
Andrew Sudduth (1979) – Olympic athlete (rowing, men's eight, silver, 1984, single scull, 6th, 1988)
Hansen Clarke - U.S. Representative from Michigan (did not graduate)

1980s

Greg Daniels (1981) – producer, including The Simpsons; adapted U.S. version of The Office from the BBC version
Dave Douglas (1981) - jazz trumpeter and composer
Pamela Erens (1981) - novelist
Paul Klebnikov (1981) – journalist; murdered in Moscow
Sarah Lyall (1981) – reporter, The New York Times
Dan Brown (1982) – former instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy; bestselling author, The Da Vinci Code
Stephen Metcalf (1982) - critic-at-large and columnist at Slate magazine (did not graduate)
Cosy Sheridan (1982) – folk singer and songwriter
Gwynneth Coogan (1983) – Olympic athlete (10,000m, 1992)
Adam Guettel (1983) - musical theater composer; composed The Light in the Piazza; winner of six Tony Awards
Chang-Rae Lee (1983) – author
Julie Livingston (1984) - public health historian, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow
Shinichi Mochizuki (1985) - mathematician
Edmund Perry (1985) - honor student,; inspiration to many, including Michael Jackson; shooting victim
David Folkenflik (1987) - NPR reporter
Kenji Yoshino (1987) – law school professor, author
Peter Orszag (1987) – Director of U.S. Office of Management & Budget under President Barack Obama^[51]
China Forbes (1988) – musician (lead singer of Pink Martini)
Niel Brandt (1988) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University
David Goel (1989) - hedge fund manager^[52]

1990s

Jon Bonné (1990) – journalist
Michael Crowley (1990) – journalist
Adrian Dearnell (1990) – Franco-American financial journalist; CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media^[53]
Jeff Ma (1990) – part of MIT blackjack team, basis of the film 21 and the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich; Webster Hall South dormitory proctor
Alessandro Nivola (1990) – actor
John Palfrey (1990) – educator, scholar, law professor, head of school of Andover
Brian Shactman (1990) - television news anchor
Jonathan Orszag (1991) – economist
Trish Regan (1991) - television news anchor
Roxane Gay (1992) - author
Jedediah Purdy (1992) – author, law school professor
John Forté (1993) – musician, recording artist, composer, music producer, educator, activist
Debby Herbenick (1994) - human sexuality expert
Sloan DuRoss (1995) - Olympic rower 2004, Men's Quadruple Sculls^[54]
Ketch Secor (1996) - musician and vocalist, Old Crow Medicine Show
Hrishikesh Hirway (1996) – musician and vocalist, The One AM Radio
Luke Bronin (1997) – Mayor of Hartford
Win Butler (1998) – musician; lead singer of Arcade Fire
Mike Morrison (1998) – professional ice hockey player
Soce, the elemental wizard (c. 1998) – rapper and producer
Mike Blomquist (1999) – U.S. National Team (rowing); 2005 Men's 8+l gold medal at 2005 World Championships^[55]

2000s

Sam Fuld (2000) – Major League outfielder for the Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota Twins, and Oakland Athletics
William Butler (2001) – musician; multi-instrumentalist of Arcade Fire
Tom Cavanagh (2001) – National Hockey League player
Adam D'Angelo (2002) – founder of Quora, first Chief Technology Officer of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg (2002) – founder of Facebook
Andréanne Morin (2002) – Canadian Olympic rower
Shani Boianjiu (2005) - writer
Nicholas la Cava (2005) - Olympic rower
Josh Owens (2007) - professional basketball player
Erik Per Sullivan (2009) - actor; "Dewey" on Malcolm in the Middle

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