List of Union College alumni/Reformat

Name

Year

Notability

Reference

1798

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1798

Founder of Syracuse, New York

1798

Clergyman and abolitionist

1799

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1799

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1801

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1802

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1803

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1803

First Chancellor of New York University

1803

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (two terms)

1804

President of Washington College (Trinity College)

1804

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1804

First president of Union Theological Seminary

1806

Member of the United States House of Representatives; United States Secretary of War; United States Secretary of the Treasury

1807

Author of pioneering Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1823)

1807

President of College of William & Mary

1808

Member of the United States House of Representatives

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"

1809

Missionary; appointed Indian Commissioner by Andrew Jackson

1810

Member of the United States House of Representatives; Federal judge; United States Minister to Mexico

1810

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1810

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1810

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1811

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1813

Founding president of Delaware College (University of Delaware)

1813

Agriculturist; president and corresponding secretary of the New York State Agricultural Society

1813

President of Brown Universeity

1814

Founder of the Oneida Institute and Knox College (Illinois)

1814

President of the University of Pennsylvania

1815

Secretary to William H. Seward; New York Central Park Commissioner

1815

President: Western University of Pennsylvania, Edgeworth Female Seminary, Harmony Female College

1815

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1815

Member of the United States Senate

1816

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1816

Prison reformer; Justice of the New York Supreme Court

1817

Geologist; botanist; mineralogist

1817

President of Shurtleff College, Masonic College, Marshall College

1818

Member of the United States Senate; author of landmark judicial decisions on state and national economic regulation

1818

Editor, poet (Florio)

1818

Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey

1818

Member of the United States Senate

1818

Member of the United States Senate

1818

Member of the United States Senate

1818

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1819

President of Jefferson College; Superintendent of Public Instruction for Kentucky

1819

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1819

Educator; President of Ohio University

1819

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1819

Member of the United States Senate

1820

President of Marion College, Missouri

1820

Author; educator

1820

Educator; author; President of Union College

1820

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1820

Governor of New York; member of the United States Senate; United States Secretary of State

1820

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1821

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1821

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1821

President of Washington College (Tennessee)

1821

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1821

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1821

President of Franklin and Marshall College

1822

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1822

Clergyman; founder of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

1822

Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate

1822

President of Hanover College

1823

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1823

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1823

President of Marion College, Missouri

1823

Member of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly; Judge of the New York Supreme Court

1823

President of Hobart College; Dean of the Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge)

1824

Astronomer; original member of the United National Academy of Sciences

1824

Principal of the Albany Female Academy

1824

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1824

Member of the United States Senate; lawyer, judge, educator

1824

Governor of Georgia

1824

Early convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; known for his religious writings

1824

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1824

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1825

Member of the United States House of Representatives

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

1825

President of Western University of Pennsylvania

1825

Physician, surgeon

1825

President of the University of Michigan

1826

New York State Comptroller

1826

President of the University of Iowa; a founder of Albany Law School

1826

Dean of the Philadelphia Divinity School

1826

Episcopal Bishop in the Diocese of New York; founded the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City

1826

President of New York College of Veterinary Surgeons

1827

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1827

President of Washington College (Maryland)

1827

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1827

Explorer; Indian agent; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin; one of the founders of Denver, CO

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

1827

President of Washington College, Maryland

1827

Wisconsin Supreme Court

1827

Member of the United States Senate

1827

President of Hanover College

1827

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1827

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1827

President of Bowdoin College

1828

Missionary; educator; minister to African Americans in Charleston

1828

Mayor of Utica, New York; Justice of the United States Supreme Court

1828

Mayor of Buffalo, New York; Judge of the New York Superior Court

1828

Member of the United States Senate; Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America

1828

President of the College of Cincinnati

1828

President of the New York State Normal Institute; president of Jefferson College

1829

President of Colgate University, Madison

1829

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1829

President of Willamette University

1829

African missionary and explorer; author of Western Africa: It's History, Condition, and Prospects (1856)

1830

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1830

Surgeon; president of the New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence; author of important medical texts

1830

Philosopher and author; father of Henry James (novelist) and William James (philosopher/psychologist)

1830

Historian; author of The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858)

1830

Lawyer; STOCK market manipulator; Tweed's successor as Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society

1830

Author of The District School

1830

President of Trinity College; Chancellor of the University of Iowa

1830

The "Father of American Metal Bridges"; civil engineer; inventor; bridge designer

1831

Established Ohio Female College; Terre Haute Female College; Glendale Female College; Lyons Female College; Michigan Female College

1831

Served briefly as governor of Michigan

1831

President of Jackson College (Columbia, Tennessee)

1831

Chancellor of the University of Buffalo

1831

President of Racine College

1831

Physician; medical historian

1832

Lawyer; politician

1832

Member of the United States House of Representatives; railroad builder; printer to the Senate and House

1832

Religious journalist

1832

Founder of the University of Rochester; president of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; president of Vassar College

1832

Principal of Rutgers Female Seminary; principal of Buffalo Female Seminary

1832

Author; publisher; impressario

1833

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1833

New York State Supreme Court Justice

1834

Principal of the Buffalo Female Academy

1834

Lawyer; Solicitor of the United States Treasury; Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals

1834

Clergyman; author; hymn writer ("It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," "Calm on the Listening Ears of Night")

1835

Consul-General to Paris during the Civil War; Minister to France; founder of the New York Public Library

1835

President of Alexander College

1835

President of Hartwick Seminary and Iowa Lutheran College

1835

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1836

President of Delaware College

1836

President of Alexander College

1836

Educator; author of school readers and textbooks

1836

Acting president of Miami University

1837

General-in-Chief of the Union Armies

1837

Pioneer medical missionary

1837

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1837

Inventor

1837

Lawyer; assisted in the prosecution of Charles J. Guiteau for the assassination of President James A. Garfield

1837

Botanist; lichenologist; "Tuckerman Ravine"

1838

President of Ripley Female College

1838

Principal of Young Ladies Seminary, Richmond, Virginia

1838

President of Deveaux College and Hobart College

1838

Catholic priest; author; historian

1839

Member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Michigan

1839

Superintendent of the Institution for the Blind, New York City

1839

President of Asbury Female Academy

1839

Florida historian; founder of the University of the South

1839

New York Secretary of State; historian and author

1839

Journalist; Catholic polemicist

1839

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1840

Founder of the Mount Washington Collegiate Institute

1840

Principal of Female Academy, Windsor, Connecticut; principal of Female Academy, Milford, Delaware

1840

President of Talladega Institute

1840

New York City financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill

1840

Anthropologist; ethnologist; the "Father of American Anthropology

1841

President of the Peabody Institute

1841

President of Elmira College

1841

President of Wells College; president of Pennsylvania Female College

1841

Biographer and writer on jurisprudence

1842

President of Biddle University

1842

Botanist of the United States Department Of Agriculture; explorer and botanist of the Rocky Mountains

1842

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1842

Pioneer educator of American Indians

1842

President of Milwaukee Female College

1843

President of Washington College (California)

1843

President of Bellevue College (Nebraska)

1843

Botanist; mineralogist; forester; historian of New York State; Director of the United States Census; "Father of American Forestry"

1843

President of Cumberland College

1844

Principal of Baltimore Female Academy

1844

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1844

Military engineer

1844

President of Alfred University

1844

President of Hope College

1844

Member of the United States House of Representatives; mayor of Boston

1844

President of Pacific Female College; chancellor of Ingham University

1845

Episcopal Bishop of Long Island

1845

International manufacturer; inventor

1845

Judge on the New York State Court of Appeals

1846

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1846

President of the University of Illionis and Kalamazoo College

1846

Governor of New York

1846

Chancellor of the University of the State of New York

1846

President of Hobart College

1846

President of City College of San Francisco

1847

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1847

Principal of the Female Academy, Nashville, Tennessee

1848

Twenty-first President of the United States

1848

President of Rockland College (New York)

1848

Missionary to China

1848

Journalist; artist; photographer; diplomat; American Consul to Rome during the Civil War; American Consul at Canea (Crete)

1848

Inventor of roll film

1848

Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims

1849

Civil War general; composer of revised "Taps" bugle call

1849

President of Highland University

1849

President of Claverac College

1849

One of the founders of Theta Delta Chi fraternity; Judge Advocate of United States Navy Squadron, Pacific Squadron

1849

Diplomat; journalist; son of William H. Seward; Assistant Secretary of State

1850

President of Griswald College (Iowa)

1850

Translator of the New Testament into Cantonese; missionary to China

1851

Mycologist

1851

President of Cooper Medical College, which became Stanford University School of Medicine

1852

President of Shepherd College, now Shepherd University

1852

Leader in the establishment of the Japanese education system

1852

Governor, Choctaw Nation; author of English-Choctaw dictionary

1853

President of Ohio Female College

1853

Governor of Pennsylvania

1853

Architect of the Nott Memorial; architect of Mark Twain's residence in Hartford, Connecticut

1853

President of Milton College

1854

Solicitor General of the United States

1854

Editor and author with the American Sunday School Union

1855

Missionary; first United States Superintendent of Public Instruction in Alaska

1855

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1855

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1856

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1856

President of Hillsdale College

1856

President of the University of Colorado

1856

Astronomer; inventor of meteorological INSTRUMENTS; president of the World Congress on Astronomy and Astrophysics

1856

Pioneer in experimental agriculture and practical education; president of Iowa State University

1856

Author; [...] experimentalist; author of The Hasheesh Eater

1856

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1856

United States Secretary of Agriculture; founder of Arbor Day

1857

First president of Smith College; advocate for women's colleges

1857

Chief Civil War correspondant for the New York Times

1858

Engineer; surveyor; mapped the Brooks Iron Range

1858

President of Pacific Theological Seminary

1858

Principal of the California Institution for the Deaf and the Blind

1859

Texas judge killed in a gunfight

1859

Mycologist; New York State Botanist

1859

New York State Engineer and Surveyor

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

1860

Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the Unites States Senate

1860

Speaker of the New York State Assembly

1860

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1860

United States Minister to the Netherlands

1861

Chancellor of Des Moines University

1861

Missionary; diplomat; secretary of the Unites States Legation to China

1861

Humorist; author (pen name, "Eli Perkins")

1861

Educator; Episcopal clergyman; president of Union College

1861

United States minister to Russia; United States Postmaster General

1862

Governor of Mississippi

1862

Civil War general

1863

President of Sedalia University

1863

Editorial writer for the New York Times

1863

Inventor of tablet triturates

1863

Educator; economist; scientist

1863

New York State Senator; Union College trustee; author of Banking Law of New York

1863

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1864

Architect; designed many Princeton University buildings; Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department

1865

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1865

President of the Chicago Board of Trade

1865

President of Case Western Reserve

1866

Member of the United States House of Representatives; New York State Comptroller

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)

1867

President of the New York State Bar Association; vice-president of the American Bar Association

1869

Superintendent of the Adirondack National Park

1869

Principal of the Freedmen's Institute, Henderson, North Carolina

1869

New York State Engineer and Surveyor

1870

Chief Engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Company; Chief Engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company

1870

Educator; prolific author of books on rhetoric and composition

1871

Chief Surgeon of the Department of the Lakes; Chief Surgeon of the Department of the East

1871

Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate

1872

Physician; scientist; inventor; lawyer; editor of The National Cyclopedia of Applied Mechanics

1872

Gynecologist; author of numerous medical textbooks

1875

Topographer with the United States Geological Survey; author of Flora of the Yellowstone National Park (1886)

1877

"Father of American Sociology"

1877

Pioneer in the development of Niagara Falls power

1881

United States Commissioner of Patents

1882

Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate

1884

Principal of the Hebrew Technical Institute

1885

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1889

Civil engineer; substantially expanded and improved the New York City subway system

1893

Bacteriologist; introduced chlorination into Cleveland's water supply

1893

Chief Astronomer of the Department of Meridian Astronomy, Carnegie Institution of Washington

1893

New York State Engineer and Surveyor

1895

Embryologist; Director of Embryology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

1904

Educator, author

1908

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter on international affairs

1910

Founder of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and of the World Council of Churches

1912

United States Secretary of War

1927

One of the fathers of the modern digital computer

1936

Chief engineer of the United States Public Health Service

1938

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1940

Psychologist; developed theory of human development known as "emergent cyclical levels of existence theory"

1940

Physical chemist and president of DuPont Company

1941

Widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser

1942

American businessman and developer of the concept of Total Quality Management/Control

1943

Manhattan Project engineer

1944

President of the American Medical Association

1944

IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award winner; ACM Fellow

1945

Scientist in the field of applied mathematics; Gordon–Newell theorem named for him and colleague William J. Gordon

1946

Nobel Prize in Medicine (1976)

1947

Computer Pioneer Award winner from the IEEE Computer Society; designer of the Sperry Corporation's first digital computer, the SPEEDAC

1948

American author of books for children and young adults

1948

Surgeon and author

1949

Frederic Ives Medal; National Medal of Science

1950

Author of works such as Wittgenstein's Mistress and The Ballad of Dingus Magee

1951

Ambassador to South Africa

1951

Paleontologist

1951

Managing editor of The Washington Post

1952

Head of the Photonic Networks and Components Research Department at Bell Labs

1952

Standards manager at Hewlett Packard

1955

Producer

1958

Ambassador to Yugoslavia

1959

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1962

American character acter and acting teacher

1963

Ophthalmologist; discovered the benefits of Vitamin A for children deficient in this vitamin

1964

President and COO of Warner Bros. Entertainment

1965

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1965

Psychologist; psychotherapist; writer; director of the Center for Adult Development

1965

Historian; critic

1966

Director of the Center for a Public Anthropology

1966

One of the developers of the Macsyma computer algebra system and the Franz Lisp system

1966

Member of the United States House of Representatives

1967

President of Wendel Duchscherer Architects and Engineers (public transport facility design and planning)

1967

Executive producer for HBO

1968

New York Times reporter

1968

Chair of Accountancy at the Leventhal School of Accounting, University of Southern California

1969

Film and television actor

1969

Economic development expert and leader of The Greening of Black America; winner of 2008 Purpose Prize

1969

Former president of Zambia

1969

Motion picture producer

1971

Pioneer in the Community Hospice movement and in bringing hospice services to sub-Saharan Africa

1971

Screenwriter; director

1972

Neural prosthesis researcher

1972

New York State Assemblyman

1972

Author; editor

1973

American historian; defense consultant; author

1974

Author; National Book Award winner; MacArthur Fellow

1975

Big Ten basketball coach

1976

Executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs

1979

Chief Engineer at General Motors

1980

Chairman, president and CEO of Texas Instruments

1982

Philanthropist; activist; CEO of Equal Justice Works and president of the Stern Family Fund

1983

Producer

1984

MacArthur Fellow

1985

Cardiothoracic surgeon

1985

Vice president of RF engineering for Entropic Communications; senior vice president of engineering for Qualcomm

1989

Writer and television producer noted for his work on Family Guy

1994

Television journalist; host of MSNBC's Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan

1995

Olympian; first American to win a gold medal in inverted aerial skiing

1997

Screenwriter; director