List of Union College alumni/Reformat
Name |
Year |
Notability |
Reference |
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1798 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1798 |
Founder of Syracuse, New York |
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1798 |
Clergyman and abolitionist |
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1799 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1799 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1801 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1802 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1803 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1803 |
First Chancellor of New York University |
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1803 |
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (two terms) |
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1804 |
President of Washington College (Trinity College) |
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1804 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1804 |
First president of Union Theological Seminary |
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1806 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; United States Secretary of War; United States Secretary of the Treasury |
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1807 |
Author of pioneering Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1823) |
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1807 |
President of College of William & Mary |
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1808 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1809 |
First New York State Superintendent of Common Schools; Regent of the State University of New York; "Father of the New York State Common School System" |
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1809 |
Missionary; appointed Indian Commissioner by Andrew Jackson |
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1810 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; Federal judge; United States Minister to Mexico |
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1810 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1810 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1810 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1811 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1813 |
Founding president of Delaware College (University of Delaware) |
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1813 |
Agriculturist; president and corresponding secretary of the New York State Agricultural Society |
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1813 |
President of Brown Universeity |
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1814 |
Founder of the Oneida Institute and Knox College (Illinois) |
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1814 |
President of the University of Pennsylvania |
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1815 |
Secretary to William H. Seward; New York Central Park Commissioner |
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1815 |
President: Western University of Pennsylvania, Edgeworth Female Seminary, Harmony Female College |
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1815 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1815 |
Member of the United States Senate |
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1816 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1816 |
Prison reformer; Justice of the New York Supreme Court |
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1817 |
Geologist; botanist; mineralogist |
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1817 |
President of Shurtleff College, Masonic College, Marshall College |
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1818 |
Member of the United States Senate; author of landmark judicial decisions on state and national economic regulation |
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1818 |
Editor, poet (Florio) |
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1818 |
Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey |
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1818 |
Member of the United States Senate |
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1818 |
Member of the United States Senate |
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1818 |
Member of the United States Senate |
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1818 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1819 |
President of Jefferson College; Superintendent of Public Instruction for Kentucky |
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1819 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1819 |
Educator; President of Ohio University |
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1819 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1819 |
Member of the United States Senate |
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1820 |
President of Marion College, Missouri |
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1820 |
Author; educator |
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1820 |
Educator; author; President of Union College |
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1820 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1820 |
Governor of New York; member of the United States Senate; United States Secretary of State |
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1820 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1821 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1821 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1821 |
President of Washington College (Tennessee) |
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1821 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1821 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1821 |
President of Franklin and Marshall College |
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1822 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1822 |
Clergyman; founder of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York |
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1822 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate |
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1822 |
President of Hanover College |
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1823 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1823 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1823 |
President of Marion College, Missouri |
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1823 |
Member of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly; Judge of the New York Supreme Court |
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1823 |
President of Hobart College; Dean of the Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge) |
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1824 |
Astronomer; original member of the United National Academy of Sciences |
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1824 |
Principal of the Albany Female Academy |
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1824 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1824 |
Member of the United States Senate; lawyer, judge, educator |
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1824 |
Governor of Georgia |
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1824 |
Early convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; known for his religious writings |
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1824 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1824 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1825 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1825 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; Regent of the State University of New York; Justice of the New York State Supreme Court; a founder of Albany Law School |
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1825 |
President of Western University of Pennsylvania |
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1825 |
Physician, surgeon |
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1825 |
President of the University of Michigan |
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1826 |
New York State Comptroller |
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1826 |
President of the University of Iowa; a founder of Albany Law School |
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1826 |
Dean of the Philadelphia Divinity School |
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1826 |
Episcopal Bishop in the Diocese of New York; founded the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City |
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1826 |
President of New York College of Veterinary Surgeons |
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1827 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1827 |
President of Washington College (Maryland) |
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1827 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1827 |
Explorer; Indian agent; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin; one of the founders of Denver, CO |
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1827 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; Justice of the Superior Court of New York City; Justice of the New York State Supreme Court; historian |
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1827 |
President of Washington College, Maryland |
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1827 |
Wisconsin Supreme Court |
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1827 |
Member of the United States Senate |
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1827 |
President of Hanover College |
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1827 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1827 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1827 |
President of Bowdoin College |
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1828 |
Missionary; educator; minister to African Americans in Charleston |
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1828 |
Mayor of Utica, New York; Justice of the United States Supreme Court |
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1828 |
Mayor of Buffalo, New York; Judge of the New York Superior Court |
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1828 |
Member of the United States Senate; Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America |
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1828 |
President of the College of Cincinnati |
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1828 |
President of the New York State Normal Institute; president of Jefferson College |
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1829 |
President of Colgate University, Madison |
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1829 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1829 |
President of Willamette University |
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1829 |
African missionary and explorer; author of Western Africa: It's History, Condition, and Prospects (1856) |
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1830 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1830 |
Surgeon; president of the New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence; author of important medical texts |
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1830 |
Philosopher and author; father of Henry James (novelist) and William James (philosopher/psychologist) |
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1830 |
Historian; author of The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858) |
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1830 |
Lawyer; STOCK market manipulator; Tweed's successor as Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society |
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1830 |
Author of The District School |
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1830 |
President of Trinity College; Chancellor of the University of Iowa |
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1830 |
The "Father of American Metal Bridges"; civil engineer; inventor; bridge designer |
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1831 |
Established Ohio Female College; Terre Haute Female College; Glendale Female College; Lyons Female College; Michigan Female College |
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1831 |
Served briefly as governor of Michigan |
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1831 |
President of Jackson College (Columbia, Tennessee) |
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1831 |
Chancellor of the University of Buffalo |
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1831 |
President of Racine College |
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1831 |
Physician; medical historian |
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1832 |
Lawyer; politician |
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1832 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; railroad builder; printer to the Senate and House |
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1832 |
Religious journalist |
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1832 |
Founder of the University of Rochester; president of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; president of Vassar College |
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1832 |
Principal of Rutgers Female Seminary; principal of Buffalo Female Seminary |
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1832 |
Author; publisher; impressario |
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1833 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1833 |
New York State Supreme Court Justice |
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1834 |
Principal of the Buffalo Female Academy |
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1834 |
Lawyer; Solicitor of the United States Treasury; Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals |
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1834 |
Clergyman; author; hymn writer ("It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," "Calm on the Listening Ears of Night") |
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1835 |
Consul-General to Paris during the Civil War; Minister to France; founder of the New York Public Library |
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1835 |
President of Alexander College |
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1835 |
President of Hartwick Seminary and Iowa Lutheran College |
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1835 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1836 |
President of Delaware College |
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1836 |
President of Alexander College |
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1836 |
Educator; author of school readers and textbooks |
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1836 |
Acting president of Miami University |
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1837 |
General-in-Chief of the Union Armies |
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1837 |
Pioneer medical missionary |
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1837 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1837 |
Inventor |
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1837 |
Lawyer; assisted in the prosecution of Charles J. Guiteau for the assassination of President James A. Garfield |
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1837 |
Botanist; lichenologist; "Tuckerman Ravine" |
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1838 |
President of Ripley Female College |
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1838 |
Principal of Young Ladies Seminary, Richmond, Virginia |
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1838 |
President of Deveaux College and Hobart College |
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1838 |
Catholic priest; author; historian |
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1839 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Michigan |
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1839 |
Superintendent of the Institution for the Blind, New York City |
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1839 |
President of Asbury Female Academy |
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1839 |
Florida historian; founder of the University of the South |
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1839 |
New York Secretary of State; historian and author |
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1839 |
Journalist; Catholic polemicist |
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1839 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1840 |
Founder of the Mount Washington Collegiate Institute |
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1840 |
Principal of Female Academy, Windsor, Connecticut; principal of Female Academy, Milford, Delaware |
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1840 |
President of Talladega Institute |
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1840 |
New York City financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill |
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1840 |
Anthropologist; ethnologist; the "Father of American Anthropology |
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1841 |
President of the Peabody Institute |
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1841 |
President of Elmira College |
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1841 |
President of Wells College; president of Pennsylvania Female College |
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1841 |
Biographer and writer on jurisprudence |
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1842 |
President of Biddle University |
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1842 |
Botanist of the United States Department Of Agriculture; explorer and botanist of the Rocky Mountains |
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1842 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1842 |
Pioneer educator of American Indians |
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1842 |
President of Milwaukee Female College |
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1843 |
President of Washington College (California) |
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1843 |
President of Bellevue College (Nebraska) |
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1843 |
Botanist; mineralogist; forester; historian of New York State; Director of the United States Census; "Father of American Forestry" |
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1843 |
President of Cumberland College |
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1844 |
Principal of Baltimore Female Academy |
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1844 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1844 |
Military engineer |
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1844 |
President of Alfred University |
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1844 |
President of Hope College |
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1844 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; mayor of Boston |
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1844 |
President of Pacific Female College; chancellor of Ingham University |
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1845 |
Episcopal Bishop of Long Island |
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1845 |
International manufacturer; inventor |
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1845 |
Judge on the New York State Court of Appeals |
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1846 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1846 |
President of the University of Illionis and Kalamazoo College |
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1846 |
Governor of New York |
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1846 |
Chancellor of the University of the State of New York |
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1846 |
President of Hobart College |
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1846 |
President of City College of San Francisco |
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1847 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1847 |
Principal of the Female Academy, Nashville, Tennessee |
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1848 |
Twenty-first President of the United States |
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1848 |
President of Rockland College (New York) |
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1848 |
Missionary to China |
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1848 |
Journalist; artist; photographer; diplomat; American Consul to Rome during the Civil War; American Consul at Canea (Crete) |
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1848 |
Inventor of roll film |
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1848 |
Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims |
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1849 |
Civil War general; composer of revised "Taps" bugle call |
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1849 |
President of Highland University |
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1849 |
President of Claverac College |
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1849 |
One of the founders of Theta Delta Chi fraternity; Judge Advocate of United States Navy Squadron, Pacific Squadron |
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1849 |
Diplomat; journalist; son of William H. Seward; Assistant Secretary of State |
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1850 |
President of Griswald College (Iowa) |
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1850 |
Translator of the New Testament into Cantonese; missionary to China |
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1851 |
Mycologist |
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1851 |
President of Cooper Medical College, which became Stanford University School of Medicine |
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1852 |
President of Shepherd College, now Shepherd University |
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1852 |
Leader in the establishment of the Japanese education system |
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1852 |
Governor, Choctaw Nation; author of English-Choctaw dictionary |
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1853 |
President of Ohio Female College |
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1853 |
Governor of Pennsylvania |
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1853 |
Architect of the Nott Memorial; architect of Mark Twain's residence in Hartford, Connecticut |
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1853 |
President of Milton College |
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1854 |
Solicitor General of the United States |
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1854 |
Editor and author with the American Sunday School Union |
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1855 |
Missionary; first United States Superintendent of Public Instruction in Alaska |
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1855 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1855 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1856 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1856 |
President of Hillsdale College |
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1856 |
President of the University of Colorado |
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1856 |
Astronomer; inventor of meteorological INSTRUMENTS; president of the World Congress on Astronomy and Astrophysics |
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1856 |
Pioneer in experimental agriculture and practical education; president of Iowa State University |
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1856 |
Author; [...] experimentalist; author of The Hasheesh Eater |
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1856 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1856 |
United States Secretary of Agriculture; founder of Arbor Day |
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1857 |
First president of Smith College; advocate for women's colleges |
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1857 |
Chief Civil War correspondant for the New York Times |
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1858 |
Engineer; surveyor; mapped the Brooks Iron Range |
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1858 |
President of Pacific Theological Seminary |
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1858 |
Principal of the California Institution for the Deaf and the Blind |
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1859 |
Texas judge killed in a gunfight |
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1859 |
Mycologist; New York State Botanist |
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1859 |
New York State Engineer and Surveyor |
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1860 |
United States Consul to China; head of the scientific library of the United States Patent Office; first librarian of the Washington Free Public Library |
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1860 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the Unites States Senate |
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1860 |
Speaker of the New York State Assembly |
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1860 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1860 |
United States Minister to the Netherlands |
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1861 |
Chancellor of Des Moines University |
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1861 |
Missionary; diplomat; secretary of the Unites States Legation to China |
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1861 |
Humorist; author (pen name, "Eli Perkins") |
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1861 |
Educator; Episcopal clergyman; president of Union College |
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1861 |
United States minister to Russia; United States Postmaster General |
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1862 |
Governor of Mississippi |
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1862 |
Civil War general |
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1863 |
President of Sedalia University |
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1863 |
Editorial writer for the New York Times |
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1863 |
Inventor of tablet triturates |
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1863 |
Educator; economist; scientist |
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1863 |
New York State Senator; Union College trustee; author of Banking Law of New York |
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1863 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1864 |
Architect; designed many Princeton University buildings; Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department |
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1865 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1865 |
President of the Chicago Board of Trade |
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1865 |
President of Case Western Reserve |
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1866 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; New York State Comptroller |
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1867? |
Member of the United States Senate; member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Wyoming; author of the Carey Arid Lands Act (1894) |
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1867 |
President of the New York State Bar Association; vice-president of the American Bar Association |
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1869 |
Superintendent of the Adirondack National Park |
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1869 |
Principal of the Freedmen's Institute, Henderson, North Carolina |
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1869 |
New York State Engineer and Surveyor |
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1870 |
Chief Engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Company; Chief Engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company |
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1870 |
Educator; prolific author of books on rhetoric and composition |
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1871 |
Chief Surgeon of the Department of the Lakes; Chief Surgeon of the Department of the East |
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1871 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate |
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1872 |
Physician; scientist; inventor; lawyer; editor of The National Cyclopedia of Applied Mechanics |
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1872 |
Gynecologist; author of numerous medical textbooks |
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1875 |
Topographer with the United States Geological Survey; author of Flora of the Yellowstone National Park (1886) |
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1877 |
"Father of American Sociology" |
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1877 |
Pioneer in the development of Niagara Falls power |
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1881 |
United States Commissioner of Patents |
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1882 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate |
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1884 |
Principal of the Hebrew Technical Institute |
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1885 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1889 |
Civil engineer; substantially expanded and improved the New York City subway system |
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1893 |
Bacteriologist; introduced chlorination into Cleveland's water supply |
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1893 |
Chief Astronomer of the Department of Meridian Astronomy, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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1893 |
New York State Engineer and Surveyor |
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1895 |
Embryologist; Director of Embryology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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1904 |
Educator, author |
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1908 |
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter on international affairs |
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1910 |
Founder of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and of the World Council of Churches |
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1912 |
United States Secretary of War |
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1927 |
One of the fathers of the modern digital computer |
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1936 |
Chief engineer of the United States Public Health Service |
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1938 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1940 |
Psychologist; developed theory of human development known as "emergent cyclical levels of existence theory" |
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1940 |
Physical chemist and president of DuPont Company |
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1941 |
Widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser |
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1942 |
American businessman and developer of the concept of Total Quality Management/Control |
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1943 |
Manhattan Project engineer |
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1944 |
President of the American Medical Association |
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1944 |
IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award winner; ACM Fellow |
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1945 |
Scientist in the field of applied mathematics; Gordon–Newell theorem named for him and colleague William J. Gordon |
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1946 |
Nobel Prize in Medicine (1976) |
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1947 |
Computer Pioneer Award winner from the IEEE Computer Society; designer of the Sperry Corporation's first digital computer, the SPEEDAC |
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1948 |
American author of books for children and young adults |
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1948 |
Surgeon and author |
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1949 |
Frederic Ives Medal; National Medal of Science |
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1950 |
Author of works such as Wittgenstein's Mistress and The Ballad of Dingus Magee |
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1951 |
Ambassador to South Africa |
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1951 |
Paleontologist |
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1951 |
Managing editor of The Washington Post |
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1952 |
Head of the Photonic Networks and Components Research Department at Bell Labs |
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1952 |
Standards manager at Hewlett Packard |
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1955 |
Producer |
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1958 |
Ambassador to Yugoslavia |
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1959 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1962 |
American character acter and acting teacher |
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1963 |
Ophthalmologist; discovered the benefits of Vitamin A for children deficient in this vitamin |
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1964 |
President and COO of Warner Bros. Entertainment |
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1965 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1965 |
Psychologist; psychotherapist; writer; director of the Center for Adult Development |
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1965 |
Historian; critic |
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1966 |
Director of the Center for a Public Anthropology |
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1966 |
One of the developers of the Macsyma computer algebra system and the Franz Lisp system |
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1966 |
Member of the United States House of Representatives |
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1967 |
President of Wendel Duchscherer Architects and Engineers (public transport facility design and planning) |
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1967 |
Executive producer for HBO |
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1968 |
New York Times reporter |
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1968 |
Chair of Accountancy at the Leventhal School of Accounting, University of Southern California |
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1969 |
Film and television actor |
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1969 |
Economic development expert and leader of The Greening of Black America; winner of 2008 Purpose Prize |
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1969 |
Former president of Zambia |
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1969 |
Motion picture producer |
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1971 |
Pioneer in the Community Hospice movement and in bringing hospice services to sub-Saharan Africa |
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1971 |
Screenwriter; director |
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1972 |
Neural prosthesis researcher |
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1972 |
New York State Assemblyman |
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1972 |
Author; editor |
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1973 |
American historian; defense consultant; author |
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1974 |
Author; National Book Award winner; MacArthur Fellow |
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1975 |
Big Ten basketball coach |
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1976 |
Executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs |
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1979 |
Chief Engineer at General Motors |
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1980 |
Chairman, president and CEO of Texas Instruments |
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1982 |
Philanthropist; activist; CEO of Equal Justice Works and president of the Stern Family Fund |
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1983 |
Producer |
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1984 |
MacArthur Fellow |
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1985 |
Cardiothoracic surgeon |
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1985 |
Vice president of RF engineering for Entropic Communications; senior vice president of engineering for Qualcomm |
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1989 |
Writer and television producer noted for his work on Family Guy |
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1994 |
Television journalist; host of MSNBC's Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan |
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1995 |
Olympian; first American to win a gold medal in inverted aerial skiing |
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1997 |
Screenwriter; director |
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