Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school located on 471 acres (1.9 km²) in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, one hour north of Boston.

Notable alumni

• Lewis Cass (1792) - Secretary of State
• Samuel Conner (1794) - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• Daniel Webster (1796) - U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
• John Adams Dix (1810) - Secretary of the Treasury, Senator from New York, Governor of New York
• George Bancroft (1811) - Historian, Secretary of Navy, and founder of the United States Naval Academy.
• Franklin Pierce (1820) - 14th U.S. President
• Carlos Romero Barcelo (1950) - Governor of Puerto Rico
• Alpheus Felch (c. 1822) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Michigan
• John Parker Hale (c. 1824) - U.S. Representative and Senator and abolitionist from New Hampshire
• Robert Todd Lincoln (1860) - Son of President Abraham Lincoln, US Secretary of War
• John Edwards Leonard (1863) - U.S. Representative from Louisiana
• Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr. (c. 1870) - Entrepreneur, Son of President Ulysses S. Grant
• Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874)
• Gifford Pinchot (1885) - First Chief Forester of the US Forest Service
• George Higgins (1887) - U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
• Thomas Lamont (1888)
• Booth Tarkington (1889)- Winner, Pulitzer Prize
• Norris Cotton (c. 1918) - U.S. Representative and Senator from New Hampshire
• James Agee (1928)
• Pierre DuPont III (1930)
• Adolph Coors III (1933) - Entrepreneur
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1933)
• Richard Bolling (c. 1934) - U.S. Representative from Missouri
• Joseph Coors (1935)
• James T. Aubrey, Jr. (c. 1936), President of CBS and MGM
• Lex Barker (1938) - Actor
• Burke Marshall (1940) - U.S. Assistant Attorney General
• Gore Vidal (1943) - Author
• George Plimpton (1944) - Author/Journalist
• John Knowles (1945) - Author (A Separate Peace)
• Carlos Antonio Romero-Barcelo (1949) - U.S. Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico
• Pierre Dupont IV (1952)
• Jay Rockefeller (1954) - Senator from West Virginia
• Stewart Brand (1956)
• H. John Heinz III (1956) - Former Senator from Pennsylvania
• John Negroponte (1956) - The first Director of National Intelligence
• Peter Benchley (1957)- Journalist, Presidential Speech Writer, Author and Screenwriter Jaws
• Daniel Dennett (1959) - Philosopher
• Charles C. Krulak (1960) - 31st Commandant of the U.S Marine Corps
• John Irving (1961) - Author
• David Darst (1965) - Author and Investment Strategist
• Peter H. Coors (1965) - 2004 Republican Senatorial candidate from Colorado
• Judd Gregg (1965) - Senator from New Hampshire
• Kent Conrad (1966) - Senator from North Dakota
• David Eisenhower (1966)
• Fred Grandy (1966) - Actor
• Joyce Maynard (1971)
• Suzy Welch (1977) - Journalist, author, married to former GE CEO Jack Welch
• Ted Hope (1980) - Producer
• Paul Klebnikov (1981) - Journalist
• Dan Brown (1982) - Author (The Da Vinci Code)
• Chang-Rae Lee (1983) - Author
• John Forté (1993) - Musician, Author, Philosopher