Amherst College

Amherst College is an independent liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. It is the third oldest college in Massachusetts. It has been coeducational since 1975. It is particularly distinguished by the unusual nature of its governing charter, in which operational

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Amherst College include:

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College founders and Presidents

• William S. Clark 1848, second president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College
• Reverend Daniel Bliss 1852, founder of American University of Beirut
• Francis Amasa Walker 1860, third president of MIT
• Joseph Hardy Neesima 1870, founder of Doshisha University in Japan
• David Truman 1935, president of Mt. Holyoke College
• Colin Diver 1965, current president of Reed College
• Richard L. McCormick 1969, current president of Rutgers University

Academics

• Biblical scholar Horatio Balch Hackett 1830
• Historian Herbert Baxter Adams 1872
• Librarian Melvil Dewey 1874, of the Dewey Decimal System
• Astronomer Raymond Smith Dugan 1899
• Mathematician Stephen Cole Kleene 1930
• Political Scientist David Truman 1935
• Neuroscientist James Olds 1947
• Scientist David Suzuki 1958
• Computer Scientist David S. Johnson 1967

Men of the Cloth

• Preacher Henry Ward Beecher 1834

Politicians

• President Calvin Coolidge 1895
• Speaker of the House Galusha A. Grow 1844 (24th Speaker)
• Speaker of the House Frederick H. Gillett 1874 (37th Speaker)
• Speaker of the House Henry T. Rainey 1883 (40th Speaker)
• Senator Dwight Morrow 1895 ( also Ambassador to Mexico, Secretary of the Navy, Partner at J. P. Morgan and Company )
• Representative Julius H. Seelye 1874 (also president of Amherst College from 1877 - 1890)
• Representative Charles H. Allen 1869
• William Estabrook Chancellor 1889, nemesis of Warren G. Harding
• John J. McCloy 1919, Military Governor of Germany (1949-1952), Assistant Secretary of War (1941-1945)
• Thomas F. Eagleton 1950, one-time running mate of George McGovern
• Representative Thomas M. Davis III 1971
• Massachusetts Secretary for Finance and Administration Eric Kriss 1971
• David D. Freudenthal, governor of Wyoming
• Giorgios A. Papandreou 1975, former Foreign Minister of Greece
• Albert II of Monaco 1981
• Francisco G. Flores 1981, former president of El Salvador

Lawyers and judges

• William Henry Lewis 1892 and Charles Hamilton Houston 1915, two of the first black men to argue and win cases before the U.S. Supreme Court
• Harlan Fiske Stone 1894, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• Donald G. Murray 1934, plaintiff in Pearson v. Murray
• Joseph H. Hartzler 1972, lead U.S. attorney for the Oklahoma City bombing trial
• Patrick Fitzgerald 1982, investigator of the Valerie Plame scandal, prosecutor of former Illinois governor George Ryan

Businesspeople

• Henry Clay Folger 1879, former Standard Oil president, Folger Shakespeare Library founder
• Charles E. Merrill ex 1908, the founder of Merrill Lynch & Co.
• Clarence Birdseye ex 1910, food preservationist and founder of Birds Eye Foods
• John J. McCloy 1919, Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (1953-1960) (Also see Politicans and Other)
• Hugh B. Price 1963, former president of the National Urban League
• Daniel F. Duquette 1980, former General Manager of the Red Sox
• Sung Joo Kim 1981, director, Sung Joo International
• Daniel J. Sullivan 1969, founder of Roadway Package System (now FedEx Ground)

CIA Directors

• Stansfield Turner ex 1945 (1977-81)
• William H. Webster 1947 (1987-91)
• John M. Deutch 1960 (1995-96)

Nobel Prize winners

• Henry W. Kendall 1950 (1990, Physics)
• Harold E. Varmus 1961 (1989, Medicine)
• Joseph E. Stiglitz 1964 (2001, Economics), former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank

Doctors

• Dr. Walter Wyman 1870, Surgeon General of the United States from 1891-1911
• Dr. Charles R. Drew 1926, blood bank pioneer
• Talk show host D. Drew Pinsky 1980

Astronauts

• Robert A. R. Parker 1958
• Jeffrey A. Hoffman 1966

Entertainers

• Actor Emery B. Pottle 1899
• Actor Fred Everett Glass 1914
• Actor Burgess Meredith 1931
• Actor Stephen Collins 1969
• Magician Raymond J. Teller 1969, of Penn and Teller;
• Composer James R. Steinman 1969
• Writer and director Henry Bromell 1971
• Comedian and actor Lawrence J. Miller 1975
• Director David O. Russell 1981E
• John Cerutti 1982, major-league baseball pitcher and broadcaster
• Writer and director Victor Levin of Mad About You 1983
• Susannah R. Grant 1984, screenwriter of Pocahontas, Ever After, Erin Brockovich, etc.
• Musicians Jonatha Brooke Mallet 1985 and Jennifer Kimball 1986
• Actor Jeffrey C. Wright 1987
• Actor John Cariani 1991, on Law and Order

Authors and artists

• Architect William Mead 1867, of McKim, Mead, and White
• Sculptor Edward C. Potter ex 1882, of the New York Public Library lions
• Children's author Philip D. Eastman 1933
• Poet Richard P. Wilbur 1942
• Poet James I. Merrill 1947
• Novelist Scott F. Turow 1970
• Cullen Murphy 1974, managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly and writer, "Prince Valiant" comic strip
• Journalist Richard Read 1980
• Novelist Chris Bohjalian 1982
• FoxTrot cartoonist William J. C. Amend III 1984
• Novelist Harlan F. Coben 1984
• Novelist David Foster Wallace 1985
• Novelist Dan Brown 1986
• Poet Rafael Campo 1987
• Get Fuzzy cartoonist Darby N. Conley 1994
• Novelist Jonathon S. Keats 1994
• Novelist Calvin Lamark Baker 1994

Other notables

• Phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler 1834
• Amiel Weeks Whipple ex 1840, surveyor of the First Transcontinental Railroad
• Joseph B. Eastman 1904, Interstate Commerce Commissioner
• John J. McCloy 1919, 2nd President of the World Bank
• Leland Olds 1912, Chairman of the Federal Power Commission under FDR
• Dwight D. Eisenhower II 1970, son of Dwight D. Eisenhower
• James C. Rehnquist 1977 and Nancy Rehnquist Spears 1981, children of Chief Justice William Rehnquist
• Margaret J. Scalia 2002, daughter of Antonin Scalia
• Elizabeth Jennings 2002, daughter of Peter Jennings

Some better-known professors who taught at Amherst are Robert Frost, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Steele Commager, Anthony Lake, Daniel N. Robinson, and Stark Young.

Related Topics:
Robert Frost - Archibald MacLeish - Henry Steele Commager - Anthony Lake - Daniel N. Robinson - Stark Young

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