List of Bowdoin College people

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Here follows a list of notable people associated with Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. This list includes alumni, faculty, and honorary degree recipients.

Contents 1 Distinguished Graduates 1.1 Arts & Letters 1.2 Government 1.3 Law 1.4 Science & Medicine 1.5 Athletics 1.6 Business 1.7 Academia 2 Honorary Degree Recipients 3 Notable Faculty Members and Trustees (Non-Graduates) 4 References

[edit] Distinguished Graduates

[edit] Arts & Letters

• Seba Smith 1818, humorist, creator of the fictional character Major Jack Downing
• Jacob Abbott, 1820, academic and author of 180 books, primarily children's books^[1]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1825, world-renowned poet; professor at Bowdoin (1829-31) and Harvard University (1831-54); memorialized in the Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey; namesake, along with Hawthorne, of Bowdoin's main library
• Nathaniel Hawthorne 1825, author, most notably of The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851); namesake, along with Longfellow, of Bowdoin's main library
• John Stevens Cabot Abbott 1825, biographer, most notably of Napoleon Bonaparte (1855)
• John Brown Russwurm 1826, second black college graduate in the United States; founder of Freedom's Journal, America's first black newspaper (1827); governor of Maryland County in Liberia (1836-41)
• Charles Beecher 1834, author, minister, and abolitionist; brother of the author Harriet Beecher Stowe, the minister Henry Ward Beecher, and educator Catharine Beecher
• Robert P.T. Coffin 1915, Rhodes Scholar, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1936), and Bowdoin professor (1934-55)
• Phillips Lord 192?, radio personality, writer and actor
• Hodding Carter 1927, progressive journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1946)
• Francis Russell 1933, historian, best known for his work on Warren Harding
• James Bassett 1934, journalist and author, most notably of the best-selling novel In Harm's Way (1962)
• H. Richard Hornberger 1945, doctor and author, most notably of M*A*S*H (1968)
• Abelardo Morell 1977, photographer
• Paul "DJ Spooky" Miller 1992, trip-hop musician, turntablist and producer
• Brian Farnham 1993 - editor-in-chief of Time Out New York

[edit] Government

• George Evans 1815, congressman (1829-41) and senator (1841-47) from Maine
• James Bell 1822, senator from New Hampshire (1855-57)
• William Fessenden 1823, congressman (1841-43) and senator (1854-64, 1865-69) from New Hampshire; Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln (1864-65)
• Franklin Pierce 1824, congressman (1833-37) and senator (1837-42) from New Hampshire; 14th President of the United States (1853-57); namesake of Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire
• James Ware Bradbury 1825, senator from Maine (1847-53)
• Jonathan Cilley 1825, congressman from Maine whose death in an 1838 duel with a Kentucky congressman prompted outrage and a congressional ban on the practice *
• Horatio Bridge 1825, commodore in the US Navy; chief of the Naval Bureau of Provisions & Clothing (1854-1869)
• John Fairfield 1826, congressman (1835-38) and senator (1843-47) from Maine; governor of Maine (1839-43)
• Alpheus Felch 1827, Michigan governor (1846-47), senator from Michigan (1847-1853), professor of law at the University of Michigan, and namesake of Felch Township in Michigan
• John Hale 1827, congressman (1843-45) and senator (1847-53) from New Hampshire; ran against Franklin Pierce 1824 as the Free Soil Party candidate for President (1852)
• Hugh McCulloch 1827, Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Abraham Lincoln (1865), Andrew Johnson (1865-69) and Chester A. Arthur (1884-85)
• John Appleton 1834, US Minister to Bolivia (1848-49), congressman from Maine (1851-53), Assistant US Secretary of State (1857-60), and US Ambassador to Russia (1860-61)
• Samuel Fessenden 1834, congressman from Maine (1861-63)
• Alonzo Garcelon 1836, co-founder of Bates College (1855), Civil War general, Maine governor (1879-80)
• John Andrew 1837, Massachusetts governor (1861-66) responsible for the formation of the 54th Massachusetts during the Civil War
• Lorenzo De Medici Sweat 1837, congressman from Maine (1863-65)
• T.A.D. Fessenden 1845, congressman from Maine (1862-63)
• La Fayette Grover 1846, Oregon governor (1871-77); congressman (1859) and senator (1877-83) from Oregon
• William Frye 1850, congressman (1871-81) and senator (1881-1911) from Maine; played a role in the founding of Bates College (1855)
• Isaac Newton Evans 1851, doctor and congressman from Pennsylvania (1877-79, 1883-87)
• Paris Gibson 1851, senator from Montana (1901-05)

• Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 1852, Bowdoin College professor (1855-62), Civil War hero, Medal of Honor recipient, Maine governor (1867-71), and president of Bowdoin College (1871-83); a large statute of Chamberlain now stands at the entrance to the College
• William D. Washburn 1854, congressman (1879-85) and senator (1889-95) from Minnesota
• Wilmot Brookings 1855, first provisional governor of the Dakota Territory; namesake of the city and county of Brookings, both in South Dakota
• Sumner Increase Kimball 1855, organizer (1878) and superintendent (1878-1916) of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, precursor to the U.S. Coast Guard
• Ellis Spear 1858, Civil War general, U.S. Commissioner of Patents
• Thomas Brackett Reed 1860, congressman from Maine (1877-99); Speaker of the House (1889-91, 1895-99)
• Charles Fletcher Johnson 1879, senator from Maine (1911-1917)
• Wallace White 1899, congressman (1916-31) and senator (1931-49) from Maine; Senate Minority Leader (1944-47); Senate Majority Leader (1947-49)
• Ralph Owen Brewster 1909, Maine governor (1925-29); congressman (1935-41) and senator (1941-53) from Maine
• Paul Douglas 1913, professor of economics at the University of Chicago (1920-42) and senator from Illinois (1949-67)
• Sumner Pike 1913, member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1940-1946) and chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1946-1951)
• Horrace Hildreth 1925, Maine governor (1944-48), US Ambassador to Pakistan (1953-57), and president of Bucknell University (1957-67)
• Joseph Fisher 1935, congressman from Virginia (1975-81)
• George Mitchell 1954, senator from Maine (1982-95); Senate Majority Leader (1989-95); chairman of the Walt Disney Corporation (2004-present); winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1999); Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast *
• Thomas Pickering 1953, US Ambassador to Jordan (1974-78), Nigeria (1981-83), El Salvador (1983-85), Israel (1985-88), the United Nations (1989-92), India (1992-93), and Russia (1993-96); recipient of thirteen honorary degrees
• Bill Cohen 1962, congressman (1972-78) and senator (1978-97) from Maine; Secretary of Defense under President Clinton (1997-2001)
• Tom Allen 1967, Rhodes Scholar, mayor of Portland, and congressman from Maine (1996-present) *

• Christopher Hill 1974, US Ambassador to Macedonia (1996-99), Poland (2000-2004), and South Korea (2004-2005); Undersecretary of State and chief US negotiator with North Korea (2005-Present)
• Lawrence Lindsey 1976, professor of economics at Harvard, and economic adviser to President George W. Bush (2001-2002)
• Tom Andrews 1976, congressman from Maine (1991-1995)
• Stephen Laffey 1984, mayor of Cranston, R.I. (2002-present); candidate for U.S. Senate (2006)

[edit] Law

• Melville Weston Fuller 1853, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (1888-1910)
• Harold Hitz Burton 1909, senator from Ohio (1941-45); associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1945-1958)
• Fred Fisher 1942, Boston attorney and figure in the Army-McCarthy hearings.
• Dennis J. Hutchinson 1969, Rhodes Scholar, law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, professor of law at the University of Chicago, and biographer of Justice Byron White (1998)
• Christopher Wolf 1976, attorney for Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame

[edit] Science & Medicine

• William Smyth 1822, professor of mathematics and philosophy at Bowdoin; author of popular textbooks on algebra, trigonometry, geometry and calculus (1833-59)
• Francis Robbins Upton, mathematician and inventor; long-time associate of Thomas Edison; first student ever to receive a graduate degree from Princeton (1877)*
• George Edwin Lord, doctor killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876
• Edwin Hall 1875, physicist, discoverer of the Hall effect, used worldwide in sensors and has led more recently to the quantum Hall effect, the international standard defining the ohm in electrical resistance.
• Robert Peary 1877, Naval officer and leader of the first expedition to reach the North Pole (1909)
• Donald MacMillan 1898, member of the Peary expedition and pioneering Arctic explorer *
• Alfred Kinsey 1916, sex researcher, author of the controversial Kinsey Reports (1948, 1953), professor at Indiana University (1920-56), and founder of the Institute for Sex Research (1947) *

[edit] Athletics

• Fred Tootell 1923, Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw (1924)
• Philip Good 1936, co-world recorld holder in the 40-, 45- and 50-meter hurdles
• Joan Benoit Samuelson 1979, world record holder and winner of the Boston (1979, 1983), Olympic (1984) and Chicago (1985) marathons

[edit] Business

• Thomas Hyde 1861, founder of Bath Iron Works (1884)
• Everett P. Pope 1941, Medal of Honor recipient, bank president, and longtime member (1977-87) and chairman of the college's Board of Trustees (1985-87)
• Charles Ireland, Jr. 1942, president of CBS (1971-72)
• Leon Gorman 1956, president (1967-2001) and chairman (2001-present) of L. L. Bean
• Peter Buck 196?, physicist and co-founder of the Subway sandwich chain (1965)
• Kenneth Chenault 1973, president (1997-2001) and CEO (2001-present) of American Express; the first African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company
• Stanley Druckenmiller 1975, billionaire financier and philanthropist; former business associate of George Soros
• Richard Salsman 1981, economist, author and lecturer
• Reed Hastings 1983, founder (1997) and CEO (1997-present) of Netflix

[edit] Academia

• Nathan Lord 1809, president of Dartmouth College (1828-63) *
• Alpheus Packard, Sr. 1819, professor (1824-65) and acting president (1882-84) of Bowdoin College
• Calvin Ellis Stowe 1824, professor of religion at the Andover Theological Seminary, Dartmouth College and Bowdoin; husband and literary agent of the author Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Samuel Harris 1833, president of Bowdoin College (1867-71)
• Cyrus Hamlin 1834, co-founder of Robert College in Istanbul (1860); president of Middlebury College (1880-85)
• Henry Boynton Smith 1834, theologian and professor at Amherst College (1847-50) and the Union Theological Seminary (1850-74)
• Ezra Abbot 1840, influential biblical scholar and professor at the Harvard Divinity School (1872-1884)
• Charles Carroll Everett 1850, theologian and philosopher; professor at (1869-78), and dean of (1878-1900), the Harvard Divinity School
• Oliver Otis Howard 1850, Civil War general, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-72), and founder and president of Howard University (1869-74)
• William Alfred Packard 1851, classical scholar and professor at Princeton University
• Kenneth Sills 1901, president of Bowdoin College (1918-52)
• Robert Albion 1918, author and professor at Princeton University (1922-47) and at Harvard University, 1948-1965.
• Asa Knowles 1930, president of Northeastern University (1959-75), and namesake of the building which houses its law school
• Lawrence Lee Pelletier 1936, president of Allegheny College, and namesake of the school's library
• Roger Howell, Jr. 1958, Rhodes Scholar and president of Bowdoin College (1969-78)
• Richard E. Morgan 1959, distinguished professor of Government at Bowdoin College (1969-present)
• Barry Mills 1972, president of Bowdoin College (2001-present) *
• Meredith Jung-En Woo 1980, professor at Northwestern University (1989-2000) and the University of Michigan (2001-present); expert on Korean politics

[edit] Honorary Degree Recipients

• Jefferson Davis LL.D. 1859, senator from Mississippi (1847-53, 1857-61), Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce (1853-1857), and president of the Confederate States of America (1861-65); namesake of Bowdoin's award for excellence in government and constitutional law *
• Robert Frost Litt.D. 1926, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor at Amherst College (1916-38)
• Harlan Fiske Stone LL.D. 1944, Attorney General under President Calvin Coolidge (1924-25); Associate (1925-41) and Chief (1941-46) Justice of the Supreme Court
• N.C. Wyeth A.M. 1945, American artist and illustrator
• Margaret Chase Smith LL.D. 1952, representative (1940-49) and senator (1949-73) from Maine
• Edmund Muskie LL.D. 1957, Maine governor (1954-58); senator from Maine (1958-1980); Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter (1980-81)
• Edward Brooke LL.D. 1969, senator from Massachusetts (1967-79)
• Andrew Wyeth D.F.A. 1970, American artist
• E. Frederic Morrow LL.D. 1970, first black US presidential aide; former Bowdoin undergraduate (1926-30)
• Olympia Snowe LL.D. 1983, representative (1979-94) and senator (1994-present) from Maine
• George H. W. Bush LL.D. 1982, 43rd Vice President (1981-89) and 41st President of the United States (1989-1993)
• Maya Angelou, Litt.D. 1987, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author
• Ken Burns L.H.D. 1991, director of documentaries on the American Civil War (1990), baseball (1994) and jazz (2001)
• Cornel West L.H.D. 1999, celebrity professor at Yale, Harvard and Princeton *
• Paul Simon LL.D. 2001, congressman (1975-85) and senator (1985-97) from Illinois

[edit] Notable Faculty Members and Trustees (Non-Graduates)

• John Chandler (1762-1841), congressman and senator from Maine, trustee
• William King (1768-1862), Maine governor, trustee
• Parker Cleaveland (1780-1858), professor (50 years plus), scientist, "Father of American Mineralogy"
• Andrews Norton (1786-1853), theologian, visiting faculty member
• Amos Nourse (1794-1877), senator from Maine, professor of obstetrics
• James Bradbury (1802-1901), senator from Maine, trustee
• Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (1817-1887), professor of natural and revealed religion
• Charles Abiathar White (1826-1910), professor of natural history
• George Trumbull Ladd (1842-1921), professor of philosophy
• Roy Ridley (1890-1969), writer and poet, visiting faculty member
• Rex Warner (1905-1986), English classicist, visiting faculty member
• Louis Coxe (1918-1993), poet and author, longtime professor of English
• Angus King (1944-present), Maine governor, adjunct faculty member
• Paul Franco (19??-present), professor of political philosophy

[edit] References

• 1. ^ (1967) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Marquis Who's Who.