List of people from Montpelier, Vermont

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Montpelier, Vermont.

Artists and authors

• Frederick W. Adams, physician and author
• Michael Arnowitt, classical and jazz pianist
• Ruth Payne Burgess, painter
• Jessica Comolli, beauty queen
• Kathryn Davis, novelist
• Garrett Graff, editor and educator
• Rob Mermin, founder of Circus Smirkus
• Frank Miller, comic book writer and artist
• Anaïs Mitchell, singer-songwriter
• Arthur E. Scott, photo-historian of US senate
• Samuel C. Upham, journalist and counterfeiter
• Thomas Waterman Wood, painter
• Eric Zencey, novelist and essayist

Military

• Richard A. Cody, general, 31st Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
• Hannibal Day, Union Army brigadier general
• George Dewey, US Navy admiral
• William Charles Fitzgerald, US Navy lieutenant
• James Stevens Peck, American Civil War officer who later served as Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard

Politicians

• George W. Cate, US congressman
• Augustine Clarke, Anti-Masonic Party leader and Vermont State Treasurer
• Jedd Philo Clark Cottrill, Wisconsin state senator
• Mary Hooper, state representative
• Vincent Illuzzi, state senator
• Elisha P. Jewett, Vermont State Treasurer
• Patrick Leahy, US senator, President pro tempore of the United States Senate
• Lucas Miltiades Miller, US congressman from Wisconsin
• John A. Page, Vermont State Treasurer
• Asahel Peck, 35th governor of Vermont
• Samuel Prentiss, US senator
• Theodore Prentiss, Wisconsin state assemblyman
• John Mellen Thurston, US senator
• William Upham, US senator
• Eliakim Persons Walton, US congressman
• Charles W. Willard, US congressman

Law and judiciary

• Marilyn Skoglund, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, notable for becoming attorney and judge without attending law school.

Sports

• Jim Laird, running back for several NFL teams

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