United States Military Academy

:Alternate meanings: West Point (disambiguation).

Notable graduates

Note: Some notable graduates also later served as Superintendent of the Academy (see list below)

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• Dennis Hart Mahan, Class of 1824
• Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, Class of 1826
• Gen. Jefferson Davis, Class of 1828 (President of the Confederate States of America)
• Gen. Robert E. Lee, Class of 1829
• Maj. Gen. Francis Henney Smith, Class of 1835 (first Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute)
• Gen. George Meade, Class of 1835
• Lt. Gen. Jubal Early, Class of 1837
• Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant (P.G.T.) Beauregard Class of 1838
• Gen. E. R. S. Canby, Class of 1839
• Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Class of 1840
• Col. Abner Doubleday, Class of 1842
• Gen. James Longstreet, Class of 1842
• Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Class of 1843
• Gen. Stonewall Jackson, Class of 1846
• Gen. George Pickett, graduated last in the class of 1846.
• Brig. Gen. George Stoneman, Class of 1946 (Governor of California)
• Lt. Gen John Schofield, Class of 1853 (U.S. Secretary of War)
• Gen. Jeb Stuart, Class of 1854
• Gen. George Armstrong Custer, Class of 1861
• General of the Armies John J. Pershing, Class of 1886
• George Washington Goethals, Class of 1880
• General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, First in the Class of 1903
• General of the Air Force Henry "Hap" Arnold, Class of 1907
• Gen. George Patton, Class of 1909
• General of the Army Omar Bradley, Class of 1915
• General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower, Class of 1915 (34th President of the United States)
• Gen. Hubert Harmon, Class of 1915 (1st Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy)
• Gen. Robert Neyland, Class of 1916, coach of national champion Tennessee Volunteers
• Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Class of 1917
• Maj. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr., Class of 1917 (first Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police and father of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.)
• Lt. Gen Leslie Groves, Class of 1918 (Directed the construction of The Pentagon and the Manhattan Project)
• 2nd Lt. Earl Blaik, Class of 1920 (Army football coach 1941-1958)
• Col. Mickey Marcus, Class of 1924
• Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin, Class of 1929
• Lt. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Class of 1936
• Gen. William Westmoreland, Class of 1936
• Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Class of 1946 (former President of Nicaragua)
• Gov. Warren E. Hearnes, Class of 1946 (former Governor of Missouri)
• Gen. Brent Scowcroft, Class of 1947 (U.S. National Security Advisor)
• Gen Alexander Haig, Class of 1947 (U.S. Secratary of State)
• Col. Frank Borman, Class of 1950 (astronaut)
• Gen. Fidel V. Ramos, Class of 1950 (former President of the Philippines)
• Col. Buzz Aldrin, Class of 1951 (astronaut)
• Lt. Col. Edward H. White, Class of 1952 (early astronaut)
• Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., Class of 1956
• Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Class of 1964 (White House Drug Czar)
• Brig. Gen. Pete Dawkins, Class of 1959 (Heisman Trophy winner)
• Maj. James Kimsey, Class of 1962 (Cofounder and former CEO of America Online)
• Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, Class of 1965
• Gen. Wesley Clark, Class of 1966
• Brig. Gen. Thomas E. White, Class of 1967 (Secretary of the Army)
• Capt. Mike Krzyzewski, Class of 1969 (basketball coach)
• Capt. Roy Moore, Class of 1969 (Chief Justice Alabama Supreme Court)
• Capt. Jack Reed, Class of 1971 (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island)
• Capt. Louis E. Caldera, Class of 1978 (Secretary of the Army)
• José María Figueres, President of Costa Rica, Class of 1979
• Capt. Geoff Davis, Class of 1981 (U.S. Representive, Kentucky)
• Kelly Perdew, Class of 1989 (winner of Donald Trump's The Apprentice in winter of 2004)

Non-graduate alumni

• The writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe dropped out of West Point before graduating. He would have been in the class of 1834.
• James McNeill Whistler, artist, dropped out of the class of 1855.
• Courtney Hodges, 4-star-general of World War 2, would have been in the class of 1909; dropped out after the first year because "found deficient" in mathematics (so was his classmate Patton, but Patton reentered to graduate with the next class)
• Timothy Leary, counterculture icon and LSD proponent, dropped out of the class of 1943.
• Fred Phelps, famously homophobic evangelist, was appointed to the class of 1950 but dropped out before even attending.
• Richard Hatch (reality TV), winner of the first Survivor (TV series), dropped out of the class of 1986.
• Dan Hinote, professional ice hockey player in the NHL, dropped out in 1996 when he was drafted by the Colorado Avalanche, and is the first NHL player ever being drafted from West Point.