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Academics and education

  • Richard Alkire, class of 1963, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

  • Darlyne Bailey
    Darlyne Bailey
    Darlyne Bailey is an American education administrator and professor. She is currently the Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College, where she also serves as Special Assistant to the President for Community Partnerships. She began this position in 2009...

    , class of 1974, first African American dean of the College of Education and Human Development
    College of Education and Human Development
    The College of Education and Human Development is one of seventeen colleges and professional schools at the University of Minnesota. CEHD departments are located on both the East Bank and St. Paul campuses....

     at the University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

    .
  • James McKeen Cattell
    James McKeen Cattell
    James McKeen Cattell , American psychologist, was the first professor of psychology in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania and long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and publications, most notably the journal Science...

    , class of 1880, the first professor of psychology
    Psychology
    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

     in the United States.
  • Frank Franz, class of 1959, provost at West Virginia University
    West Virginia University
    West Virginia University is a public research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery; Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser;...

     and fourth president of The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
  • John Anderson Fry
    John Anderson Fry
    John Anderson Fry is the former President of Franklin & Marshall College and the current President of Drexel University.-Early life:John Anderson Fry was born in Brooklyn, New York City and received an undergraduate degree in American Civilization from Lafayette College. He worked in management...

    , class of 1982, former president of Franklin & Marshall College
    Franklin & Marshall College
    Franklin & Marshall College is a four-year private co-educational residential national liberal arts college in the Northwest Corridor neighborhood of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States....

     and current president of Drexel University
    Drexel University
    Drexel University is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist. Drexel offers 70 full-time undergraduate programs and accelerated degrees...

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  • Gerald Gill, class of 1970, associate professor of history at Tufts University.
  • Frank Reed Horton
    Frank Reed Horton
    Frank Reed Horton , was a United States educator. He is best known as the founder and first national president of Alpha Phi Omega, an international service fraternity....

    , founder of the Alpha Phi Omega
    Alpha Phi Omega
    Alpha Phi Omega is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of approximately 17,000 students, and over 350,000 alumni members...

     fraternity.
  • Ralph Cooper Hutchison, class of 1918, President of Washington & Jefferson College
    Washington & Jefferson College
    Washington & Jefferson College, also known as W & J College or W&J, is a private liberal arts college in Washington, Pennsylvania, in the United States, which is south of Pittsburgh...

     1931–1945 and Lafayette College 1945-1957.
  • Joseph S. Illick
    Joseph S. Illick
    Joseph S. Illick was Dean of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, from 1944-51. He was a graduate of Lafayette College , and the Biltmore Forest School ; he studied at the University of Munich, as well. Prior to coming to New York, Illick was State Forester, in...

    , class of 1907, Dean of the New York State College of Forestry
    History of the New York State College of Forestry
    The New York State College of Forestry, the first professional school of forestry in North America, opened its doors at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in the autumn of 1898. After just a few years of operation, it was defunded in 1903, by Governor Benjamin B. Odell, in response to public...

    , 1944-51.
  • Leonard Jeffries
    Leonard Jeffries
    Leonard Jeffries Jr. is an American professor of black studies at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York. He achieved national prominence in the early 1990s for his controversial statements about Jews and other white people...

    , Professor of Black Studies at the City College of New York
    City College of New York
    The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...

     (City).
  • Martin Jezer
    Martin Jezer
    Marty Jezer , was a well-known activist and author. Born Martin Jezer and raised in the Bronx, he earned a history degree from Lafayette College. He was a co-founding member of the Working Group on Electoral Democracy, and co-authored influential model legislation on campaign finance reform that...

    , class of 1961, progressive activist in New York and Vermont; leader of stutterers' self-help movement.
  • James Cameron Mackenzie
    James Cameron Mackenzie
    James Cameron Mackenzie was an American educator, born in Aberdeen, Scotland.-Early life and Education:He came to America when he was a boy, studied in the public schools of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in the Bloomsburg Normal School in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, at Phillips Exeter Academy, and at...

    , class of 1878, educator.
  • Arthur J. Rothkopf, class of 1955, President of Lafayette College 1993-2006.
  • John J. Marchalonis, class of 1962, immunologist discoverer of T-cell receptors.
  • Earl Gregg Swem
    Earl Gregg Swem
    Dr. Earl Gregg Swem was an American historian, bibliographer and librarianSwem started his career whilst still in high school at the Iowa Masonic Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa...

    , class of 1893, historian, bibliographer and librarian.
  • Barry Wellman
    Barry Wellman
    Barry Wellman, FRSC directs NetLab as the S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His areas of research are community sociology, the Internet, human-computer interaction and social structure, as manifested in social networks in communities and organizations...

    , class of 1963, captain undefeated College Bowl team, sociologist, founder of International Network for Social Network Analysis

Business

  • Carl G. Anderson Jr., class of 1967, CEO of Arrow International.
  • Charles Bergstresser
    Charles Bergstresser
    Charles Milford Bergstresser was an American journalist and, with Charles Dow and Edward Jones, one of the founders of Dow Jones & Company at 15 Wall Street in 1882....

    , one of the three founders of Dow Jones & Company
    Dow Jones & Company
    Dow Jones & Company is an American publishing and financial information firm.The company was founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. Like The New York Times and the Washington Post, the company was in recent years publicly traded but privately...

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  • Harrison Woodhull Crosby
    Harrison Woodhull Crosby
    Harrison Woodhull Crosby of Jamesburg, New Jersey was the first to can tomatoes commercially in 1847. He worked as the chief gardener at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he commercialized the canned tomato.-References:...

    , commercialized the canned tomato.
  • John Donleavy, class of 1978, CEO of Vermont Electric Power Company Inc. (VELCO).
  • Charles Golden, CFO of Eli Lilly and Company
    Eli Lilly and Company
    Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States...

     1996-2006.
  • Jonathan D. Green, class of 1968, CEO of Rockefeller Group.
  • Edward Jesser, class of 1939, former chairman and CEO of Summit Bancorp
    Summit Bancorp
    Summit Bancorp was a Princeton, New Jersey based bank, but also had offices in Summit, New Jersey.The Summit company slowly began expanding in the 1990s, acquiring many regional banks in northern and central and New Jersey. Then, in 1996, the Summit was bought out by Princeton-based rival United...

    .
  • Fred Morgan Kirby, trustee from 1916-1940, helped found the Woolworth's
    F. W. Woolworth Company
    The F. W. Woolworth Company was a retail company that was one of the original American five-and-dime stores. The first successful Woolworth store was opened on July 18, 1879 by Frank Winfield Woolworth in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store"...

     five and dime
    Five and Dime
    Five and Dime is a cartoon short by Walter Lantz which features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It is the 74th Oswald short produced by Lantz and the 125th overall. It also is among the number of shorts that feature Oswald in his fully clothed appearance....

     store chain.
  • Neil Levin
    Neil Levin
    Neil David Levin was a former Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He was killed during the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.-Career:...

    , former Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
    Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
    The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is a bi-state port district, established in 1921 through an interstate compact, that runs most of the regional transportation infrastructure, including the bridges, tunnels, airports, and seaports, within the Port of New York and New Jersey...

    , vice president of Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...

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  • Angel L. Mendez, class of 1982, Senior Vice President of Customer Value Chain Management at Cisco Systems
    Cisco Systems
    Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...

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  • Ian Murray, class of 1997, co-founder of the Vineyard Vines
    Vineyard Vines
    Vineyard Vines is an apparel and accessory retailer founded in 1998 on Martha’s Vineyard by brothers Shep and Ian Murray .The Murray brothers left their corporate jobs in New York City and started to sell neckties on the beaches of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. . Ian claims they “started making...

     clothing company.
  • Michael H. Moskow
    Michael H. Moskow
    Michael H. Moskow is currently vice chairman and senior fellow on the global economy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. From 1994–2007, he served as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago...

    , class of 1959, CEO and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
    Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
    The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is one of twelve regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the nation's central bank....

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  • Roger Newton, class of 1972, Senior Vice President & Director, Esperion Therapeutics, Pfizer
    Pfizer
    Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...

     Global Research and Development; co-discovered of Lipitor.
  • Michael F. Weinstein, CEO of Snapple
    Snapple
    Snapple is a brand of tea and juice drinks which is owned by Dr Pepper Snapple Group and based in Plano, Texas. The brand was founded in 1972. The brand achieved some notoriety due to various pop-culture references including television shows.-History:...

     1997-2000.
  • James H. Kaplan, class of 1977, CEO of Tai Ping Carpets International.

Engineering

  • William F. Durand
    William F. Durand
    William F. Durand was a United States naval officer and pioneer mechanical engineer. He contributed significantly to the development of aircraft propellers...

    , mechanical engineer and first civilian chair of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
    National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
    The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915 to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958 the agency was dissolved, and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and...

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  • Edgar Jadwin
    Edgar Jadwin
    Edgar Jadwin, C.E. was a U.S. Army officer who fought in the Spanish-American War and World War I, before serving as Chief of Engineers from 1926 to 1929.-Early Life:...

    , class of 1888, General, Chief of Engineers.
  • Don Lancaster
    Don Lancaster
    Donald E. Lancaster is a prolific author, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer best known for his magazine columns. He is also known for his "TV Typewriter" dumb terminal project, his book on technical entrepreneurship The Incredible Secret Money Machine, and his work on and advocacy of early...

    , class of 1961, author, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer.
  • James Madison Porter III
    James Madison Porter III
    James Madison Porter III was an American civil engineer notable for his role in designing two unique bridges across the Delaware River and for his development of the civil engineering program at Lafayette College. His grandfather, James Madison Porter, was one of the college's founders...

    , professor of civil engineering
    Civil engineering
    Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...

     and designer of Northampton Street Bridge
    Northampton Street Bridge
    The Northampton Street Bridge is a bridge connecting Easton, PA and Phillipsburg, NJ that crosses the Delaware River. It is maintained by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission despite not being a toll bridge. It is known locally as the "Free Bridge" thus distinguishing it from the...

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Entertainment

  • Glenn Orsher, class of 1973, general manager/vice president of Rogar Studios, and producer of Sheira & Loli's Dittydoodle Works
    Sheira & Loli's Dittydoodle Works
    Sheira and Loli's Dittydoodle Works is a half-hour weekly children's series for preschoolers airing nationally on public television stations in the United States...

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  • Joel Silver
    Joel Silver
    Joel Silver is an American Hollywood film producer, co-creator of the sport of Ultimate, co-founder of Dark Castle Entertainment and owner of Silver Pictures.-Life and career:...

    , head of Hollywood's Silver Pictures
    Silver Pictures
    Silver Pictures is a film production company founded by Hollywood producer Joel Silver during 1985. All movies after Ricochet have been distributed by Warner Bros and its subsidiary New Line Cinema.-Films:-Television series:*Moonlight...

     and producer of films including the Die Hard
    Die Hard
    Die Hard is a 1988 American action film and the first in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. It is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which...

    , Lethal Weapon
    Lethal Weapon
    Lethal Weapon is a 1987 American buddy cop action film and the first in a series of films, all directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched pair of LAPD detectives, and Gary Busey as their primary adversary...

    , and The Matrix
    The Matrix
    The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...

    series.

Government

  • Laird Howard Barber
    Laird Howard Barber
    Laird Howard Barber was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Laird Howard Barber born on a farm near Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania. He prepared for college in the Mifflinburg Academy, and graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1871...

    , class of 1871, US Representative from Pennsylvania
    Pennsylvania
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

     1899-1901, lawyer.
  • Garrett E. Brown, Jr., class of 1965, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
  • Marcia Bernicat, class of 1975, US Ambassador to Senegal
    Senegal
    Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...

     and Guinea-Bissau
    Guinea-Bissau
    The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....

  • William Bull, class of 1985, Peace Corps
    Peace Corps
    The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...

     Director, Madagascar
    Madagascar
    The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

  • Bruce L. Castor, Jr.
    Bruce L. Castor, Jr.
    Bruce L. Castor, Jr. is an American lawyer and Republican politician from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Castor was district attorney for Montgomery County from January 2000 through January 2008 when he took a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners...

    , class of 1983, former district attorney and current county commissioner in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; lawyer.
  • John D. Clarke
    John D. Clarke
    John Davenport Clarke was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Biography:...

    , class of 1898, US Congressperson from New York
    New York
    New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

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  • Isaiah D. Clawson
    Isaiah D. Clawson
    Isaiah Dunn Clawson was an American Opposition Party / Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1855 to 1859....

     (1820-1879), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district
    New Jersey's 1st congressional district
    New Jersey's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The current U.S. Representative from the 1st district is Democrat Rob Andrews...

     in the United States House of Representatives
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from 1855 to 1859.
  • Col. Howie Cohen, class of 1979, Commander of the White House Communications Agency
    White House Communications Agency
    The White House Communications Agency , originally known as the White House Signal Detachment , was officially formed by the United States Department of War on 25 March 1942 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The WHSD was created to provide normal and emergency communications requirements in...

     until 2006.
  • Joseph F. Crater, class of 1910, Associate Justice
    Associate Justice
    Associate Justice or Associate Judge is the title for a member of a judicial panel who is not the Chief Justice in some jurisdictions. The title "Associate Justice" is used for members of the United States Supreme Court and some state supreme courts, and for some other courts in Commonwealth...

     of the New York Supreme Court
    New York Supreme Court
    The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in thestate court system of New York, United States. There is a supreme court in each of New York State's 62 counties, although some smaller counties share judges with neighboring counties...

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  • Arthur Granville Dewalt
    Arthur Granville Dewalt
    Arthur Granville Dewalt was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Arthur G. Dewalt was born in Bath, Pennsylvania...

    , class of 1874, US Representative from Pennsylvania 1915-1921.
  • Wayne Dumont
    Wayne Dumont
    Wayne Dumont, Jr. was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey. He served in the New Jersey Senate for more than 30 years, representing the 15th Legislative District until 1982 and the 24th Legislative District until his retirement in 1990...

    , former Acting Governor of New Jersey.
  • John R. Farr, US Representative from Pennsylvania from 1911-1919, 1921.
  • Horatio Gates Fisher
    Horatio Gates Fisher
    Horatio Gates Fisher was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Horatio G. Fisher was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. He attended public and private schools. He was graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in July 1855. He engaged in...

    , class of 1855, US Representative from Pennsylvania 1879-1883.
  • Frank Gaziano, class of 1986, Associate Justice of Massachusetts
    Massachusetts
    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

     Superior Court.
  • Brent Glass
    Brent Glass
    Brent D. Glass is Elizabeth MacMillan Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. A national leader in the preservation, interpretation and promotion of history, Glass is a public historian who pioneered influential oral history and material culture studies...

    , class of 1969, director of Smithsonian
    Smithsonian Institution
    The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

     National Museum of American History
    National Museum of American History
    The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. Among the items on display are the original Star-Spangled Banner and Archie Bunker's...

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  • John W. Griggs
    John W. Griggs
    John William Griggs was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 29th Governor of New Jersey, from 1896 to 1898, stepping down to assume the position as the United States Attorney General from 1898 to 1901....

    , class of 1868, Governor of New Jersey 1896-1898, US Attorney General 1898-1901.
  • James Morrison Harris
    James Morrison Harris
    James Morrison Harris was a Representative from the third district of Maryland.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Harris was educated at private institutions in the city. He then entered Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1833 where he studied law...

    , class of 1833, US Representative from Maryland 1855-1861, Lafayette College trustee 1865-1872.
  • Russell Benjamin Harrison
    Russell Benjamin Harrison
    Russell Benjamin Harrison , also known as Russell Lord Harrison, was the son of United States President Benjamin Harrison and Caroline Harrison.-Life:...

    , class of 1877, Indiana legislator
  • George Howell
    George Howell (Pennsylvania)
    George Howell was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.George Howell was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, the Pennington Seminary in Pennington, the Newton Collegiate Institute in Newton, Pennsylvania, and Lafayette College in...

    , US Representative from Pennsylvania 1903-1904.
  • Philip Johnson (congressman)
    Philip Johnson (congressman)
    Philip Johnson was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Philip Johnson was born in Polkville in Knowlton Township, New Jersey. He moved to Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania, in 1839. He attended the common schools and Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania,...

    , class of 1844, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 1861-1863, 1863-1867.
  • Benjamin Franklin Junkin
    Benjamin Franklin Junkin
    Benjamin Franklin Junkin was a Republican United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Benjamin F. Junkin was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice in New...

    , US Representative from Pennsylvania, 1859-1861.
  • William Sebring Kirkpatrick
    William Sebring Kirkpatrick
    William Sebring Kirkpatrick was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....

    , member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
  • Isaac Clinton Kline
    Isaac Clinton Kline
    Isaac Clinton Kline was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.I. Clinton Kline was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. He attended the State Normal School in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and Bucknell Academy in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from...

    , class of 1893, US Representative from Pennsylvania
    Pennsylvania
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

     from 1921-1923, lawyer.
  • Dennis Kux, US Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire
    Côte d'Ivoire
    The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population was 15,366,672 in 1998 and was estimated to be...

    , 1986-1989.
  • Thomas LaConte, class of 1970, superior court judge to the New Jersey Civil Court.
  • Wesley Lance
    Wesley Lance
    Wesley Leonard Lance was an American Republican Party politician, who served as a member of both the New Jersey General Assembly and the New Jersey Senate....

     (c. 1909-2007), member of both the New Jersey General Assembly
    New Jersey General Assembly
    The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature.Since the election of 1967 , the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts for a term of two years, each representing districts with average...

     and the New Jersey Senate
    New Jersey Senate
    The New Jersey Senate was established as the upper house of the New Jersey Legislature by the Constitution of 1844, replacing the Legislative Council. From 1844 until 1965 New Jersey's counties elected one Senator, each. Under the 1844 Constitution the term of office was three years. The 1947...

    , who was one of the drafters of the current, 1947 New Jersey State Constitution
    New Jersey State Constitution
    The Constitution of the State of New Jersey is the basic governing document of the State of New Jersey. In addition to three British Royal Charters issued for East Jersey, West Jersey and united New Jersey while they were still colonies, the state has been governed by three constitutions...

    .
  • D. Bennett Mazur
    D. Bennett Mazur
    David Bennett Mazur was an American Democratic Party politician, who was elected to serve six terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 37th Legislative District from 1982 until he was forced to resign in 1992 following a stroke...

     (c. 1925-1994), member of the New Jersey General Assembly
    New Jersey General Assembly
    The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature.Since the election of 1967 , the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts for a term of two years, each representing districts with average...

    .
  • Samuel McLean (congressman)
    Samuel McLean (congressman)
    Samuel McLean was an American politician who represented Montana in the United States House of Representatives from 1865-1867....

    , former U.S, Representative from Montana.
  • Robert B. Meyner
    Robert B. Meyner
    Robert Baumle Meyner of Phillipsburg, New Jersey was an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 44th Governor of New Jersey, from 1954 to 1962...

    , New Jersey
    New Jersey
    New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

     Governor from 1954-1962. Ran in 1960 Democratic Party
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

     Primary against John F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy
    John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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  • Arch A. Moore, Jr.
    Arch A. Moore, Jr.
    Arch Alfred Moore, Jr. was the 28th and 30th Governor of West Virginia from 1969 until 1977 and from 1985 until 1989. He was a Congressman from 1957 until entering the governor's office. He is a member of the United States Republican Party. He ran for reelection in 1988, but was defeated by...

    , twice Governor of West Virginia
    West Virginia
    West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

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  • John T. Morrison
    John T. Morrison
    John Tracy Morrison was the sixth Governor of Idaho from 1903 until 1905.Morrison graduated from Cornell Law School in 1890 and moved to Caldwell, where he became a successful attorney and an active member of the local Presbyterian Church...

    , class of 1880, Governor of Idaho
    Idaho
    Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

     from 1903-1905.
  • Robert Pastor
    Robert Pastor
    Robert Alan Pastor is a former US national security advisor and writer on foreign affairs.-Education:...

    , diplomat.
  • Joel A. Pisano, class of 1971, Federal Judge for District Court of New Jersey.
  • Winston L. Prouty
    Winston L. Prouty
    Winston Lewis Prouty was a United States Representative and Senator from Vermont.Winston Lewis Prouty was born in Newport, Vermont, to Willard Robert Prouty and Margaret Prouty. The Prouty family owned and operated Prouty & Miller, a lumber and building materials company, with forests east of the...

    , class of 1930, United States Representative and Senator from Vermont.
  • Alexander Ramsey
    Alexander Ramsey
    Alexander Ramsey was an American politician. He was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Alexander Ramsey was elected from Pennsylvania as a Whig to the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the 28th and 29th congresses from March 4, 1843 to March 4, 1847...

    , class of 1836 (Honorary), Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

    , US Senator, Congressman, Secretary of War.
  • William E. Simon
    William E. Simon
    William Edward Simon was a businessman, a Secretary of Treasury of the U.S. for three years, and a philanthropist. He became the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury on May 8, 1974, during the Nixon administration. He was reappointed by President Ford and served until 1977. Outside of government, he was...

    , class of 1952, 63rd Secretary of the Treasury, President of the United States Olympic Committee
    United States Olympic Committee
    The United States Olympic Committee is a non-profit organization that serves as the National Olympic Committee and National Paralympic Committee for the United States and coordinates the relationship between the United States Anti-Doping Agency and the World Anti-Doping Agency and various...

    .
  • Robert C. Smith
    Robert C. Smith
    Robert C. "Bob" Smith is an American politician who has served in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate. He is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life:Smith was born in Trenton, New Jersey...

    , class of 1952, former Senator of New Hampshire
    New Hampshire
    New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

    .
  • Nathaniel B. Smithers
    Nathaniel B. Smithers
    Nathaniel Barratt Smithers was a was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served as U. S. Representative from Delaware.-Early life and family:...

    , class of 1836, US Representative from Delaware 1863-1865.
  • Robert Spagnoletti
    Robert Spagnoletti
    Robert Spagnoletti is the former Attorney General of the District of Columbia, United States, appointed 2004. He previously served as District of Columbia Corporation Counsel, and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. He announced in late 2006 that he was leaving that...

    , class of 1984, former Attorney General
    Attorney General
    In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...

     of the District of Columbia.
  • Robin L. Wiessmann, class of 1975, former Pennsylvania State Treasurer.

Literature and poetry

  • M. K. Asante, Jr.
    M. K. Asante, Jr.
    MK Asante is an African-American author, filmmaker, and professor. He has been described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "a rare, remarkable talent that brings to mind the great artists of the Harlem Renaissance." He was described by CNN as "a master storyteller and major creative force." He is...

    , class of 2004, professor, author, and filmmaker.
  • Stephen Crane
    Stephen Crane
    Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism...

    , author of The Red Badge of Courage
    The Red Badge of Courage
    The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane . Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound—a "red badge of courage"—to...

    , attended for one semester before leaving to focus exclusively on his writing.
  • Ross Gay
    Ross Gay
    Ross Gay is an American poet and professor. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Against Which and Bringing the Shovel Down...

    , class of 1996, poet.
  • Martin Jezer
    Martin Jezer
    Marty Jezer , was a well-known activist and author. Born Martin Jezer and raised in the Bronx, he earned a history degree from Lafayette College. He was a co-founding member of the Working Group on Electoral Democracy, and co-authored influential model legislation on campaign finance reform that...

    , class of 1961, activist and author.
  • Dominique Lapierre
    Dominique Lapierre
    Dominique Lapierre is a French author.-Life:Dominique Lapierre was born in Châtelaillon-Plage, Charente-Maritime, France. At the age of thirteen, he traveled to America with his father who was a diplomat...

    , class of 1952, author.
  • Jay Parini
    Jay Parini
    Jay Parini is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels and poetry, biography and criticism.He was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and brought up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1970 and was awarded a doctorate by the University of St. Andrews in 1975...

    , poet and Middlebury College
    Middlebury College
    Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...

     professor.

Medicine

  • Haldan K. Hartline, class of 1923, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

     in 1967.
  • Philip S. Hench, class of 1916, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

     in 1950.
  • Orvan Hess
    Orvan Hess
    Orvan Walter Hess was a physician noted for his early use of penicillin and the development of the fetal heart monitor....

    , physician noted for his early use of penicillin
    Penicillin
    Penicillin is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. They include penicillin G, procaine penicillin, benzathine penicillin, and penicillin V....

     and development of the fetal heart monitor.

Military

  • George H. Decker, class of 1924, Chief of Staff of the United States Army
    Chief of Staff of the United States Army
    The Chief of Staff of the Army is a statutory office held by a four-star general in the United States Army, and is the most senior uniformed officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Army, and as such is the principal military advisor and a deputy to the Secretary of the Army; and is in...

     from 1960 to 1962.
  • Peyton C. March
    Peyton C. March
    Peyton Conway March was an American soldier and Army Chief of Staff.March was the son of Francis Andrew March, considered the principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Anglo-Saxon and one of the first professors to advocate and teach English in colleges and universities...

    , Army Chief of Staff during World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

    .
  • Richard Roberts, class of 1875, personal assistant to General George Armstrong Custer
  • Charles A. Wikoff
    Charles A. Wikoff
    Charles Augustus Wikoff was a United States Army officer serving from American Civil War until he became the most senior ranking American Army officer killed in the Spanish-American War-Early life:...

    , class of 1855, most senior ranking United States Army
    United States Army
    The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

     officer killed in the Spanish-American War
    Spanish-American War
    The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...

    .

Religion and theology

  • James Isaac Good
    James Isaac Good
    James Isaac Good was an American Reformed church clergyman and historian, born at York, Pennsylvania He graduated at Lafayette College in 1872 and at Union Theological Seminary in 1875. For thirty years 1875-1905), his pastorates were in Pennsylvania...

    , class of 1872, clergyman.
  • William Henry Green
    William Henry Green
    William Henry Green , American Hebrew scholar, was born in Groveville, near Bordentown, New Jersey.-Biography:...

    , class of 1840, President of The College of New Jersey
    The College of New Jersey
    The College of New Jersey, abbreviated TCNJ, is a public, coeducational university located in Ewing Township, New Jersey, a suburb of Trenton....

    , professor of Biblical and Oriental Literature in Princeton Theological Seminary.
  • W.A.P. Martin
    William Alexander Parsons Martin
    William Alexander Parsons Martin was an American Presbyterian missionary to China and translator, famous for having translated a number of important Western treatises into Chinese, such as Henry Wheaton's Elements of International Law.He graduated from Indiana University in 1846, known at that...

    , class of 1860, Presbyterian missionary and translator.

Sports

  • George Barclay (baseball)
    George Barclay (baseball)
    George Oliver Barclay was an American football and baseball player. He played Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals and later the Boston Beaneaters. He was also an early professional football player-coach for the Greensburg Athletic Association. He was nicknamed "The Rose" for his...

    , class of 1898. Major League baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals
    St. Louis Cardinals
    The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...

     and the Boston Beaneaters Inventor of the football helmet
    Football helmet
    A football helmet is a protective device used primarily in American football and Canadian football. It consists of a hard plastic top with thick padding on the inside, a face mask made of one or more plastic bars, and a chinstrap. Some players add polycarbonate visors to their helmets, which are...

    .
  • Howard Benedict
    Howard Benedict
    Howard Benedict is an American lacrosse coach. He coached at New Canaan High School for 34 years.- Biography :Howard Benedict graduated from Fairfield College Preparatory School and Lafayette College. He was a varsity lacrosse player while at Lafayette...

    , Legendary Connecticut lacrosse coach
  • Charlie Berry (second baseman)
    Charlie Berry (second baseman)
    Charles Joseph Berry was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball whose career consisted of one season in the Union Association. He was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey....

    , former Major League Baseball player
  • Charlie Berry
    Charlie Berry
    Charles Francis Berry was an American athlete and sports official who enjoyed careers as a catcher and umpire in Major League Baseball and as an offensive end and official in the National Football League...

    , Jr., class of 1925, College Football Hall of Fame, only man to officiate World Series, NFL Championship, and College All-Star game in same year
  • Pete Carril
    Pete Carril
    Peter J. "Pete" Carril is a former collegiate head coach and former NBA assistant with the Sacramento Kings.-Early years:...

    , class of 1951, former Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

     head-coach and assistant coach with the Sacramento Kings
    Sacramento Kings
    The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California, United States. They are currently members of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association...

  • Adam J. Cirillo, head football coach of Brooklyn Technical High School, won 10 New York City PSAL championships.
  • Joe Fadule, member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
  • Blake Costanzo
    Blake Costanzo
    Blake Costanzo is an American football linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2006...

    , American football linebacker for the Cleveland Browns
    Cleveland Browns
    The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

     of the National Football League.
  • Ty Helfrich
    Ty Helfrich
    Emory Wilbur "Ty" Helfrich played second base for the 1915 Brooklyn Tip-Tops of the Federal League. That season was the only season he played Major League Baseball. Prior to his baseball career, he attended Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania...

    , second baseman for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops
    Brooklyn Tip-Tops
    The Brooklyn Tip-Tops were a team in the short-lived Federal League of professional baseball from 1914 to 1915. The team was named by owner Robert Ward, who owned the Tip Top Bakery. They were sometimes informally called the Brooklyn Feds or BrookFeds due to being the Brooklyn team of the Federal...

    .
  • Joe Maddon
    Joe Maddon
    Joseph John Maddon is the Major League Baseball manager for the Tampa Bay Rays.He previously served as interim manager of the Anaheim Angels in both 1996 and 1999. He was also a long-time bench coach for the team.-Early life and career:Maddon attended Lafayette College, where he played baseball...

    , class of 1976, current (2005-2008) manager of Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

    's Tampa Bay Rays
    Tampa Bay Rays
    The Tampa Bay Rays are a Major League Baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays are a member of the Eastern Division of MLB's American League. Since their inception in , the club has played at Tropicana Field...

    , leading the team to the 2008 World Series
    2008 World Series
    The 2008 World Series was the 104th World Series between the American and National Leagues for the championship of Major League Baseball. The Philadelphia Phillies as champions of the National League and the Tampa Bay Rays, as American League champions, competed to win four games out of a possible...

    .
  • Beth Mowins
    Beth Mowins
    Beth Mowins is a play-by-play announcer and reporter for ESPN and CBS. She mostly calls women's college sports but became only the second woman to call nationally televised football games for ESPN in 2005...

    , class of 1989, ESPN
    ESPN
    Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

     announcer.
  • Jeff Mutis
    Jeff Mutis
    Jeff Mutis is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher.Mutis was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 34th round of the 1985 amateur draft, but did not sign. He was subsequently drafted by the Indians in the 1st round of the 1988 amateur draft...

    , Major League baseball player for the Cleveland Indians
    Cleveland Indians
    The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...

     and the Florida Marlins
    Florida Marlins
    The Miami Marlins are a professional baseball team based in Miami, Florida, United States. Established in 1993 as an expansion franchise called the Florida Marlins, the Marlins are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Marlins played their home games at...

    .
  • Fritz Scheeren, Major League baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates
    Pittsburgh Pirates
    The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...

    .
  • Charles Rinehart
    Charles Rinehart
    Charles Ramsay Rinehart was an American football player, engineer and businessman. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1964....

    , class of 1898, College Football Hall of Fame member
  • Frank Schwab
    Frank Schwab
    Frank "Dutch" Schwab graduated from high school in 1912 and worked in coal mines until World War I, when he served as a sergeant in the Army. He played for a service team, where Coach "Jock" Sutherland of Lafayette College saw him. He persuaded Schwab to enroll after the war. Schwab stood 5'11" and...

    , class of 1923, College Football Hall of Fame member
  • George Seasholtz
    George Seasholtz
    George Seasholtz is a former fullback in the National Football League. He first played with the Milwaukee Badgers during the 1922 NFL season. After a year away from the NFL, he played with the Kenosha Maroons during the 1924 NFL season.-References:...

    , National Football League player for the Milwaukee Badgers
    Milwaukee Badgers
    The Milwaukee Badgers were a professional American football team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that played in the National Football League from 1922 to 1926. The team played its home games at Athletic Park, later known as Borchert Field, on Milwaukee's north side...

     and the Kenosha Maroons
    Kenosha Maroons
    The Kenosha Maroons were a National Football League football team in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Officially, the club only played in the league during the 1924 season, dissolving after posting no wins in five games.-Origins:...

  • George Tiger, class of 1981, midfielder for Pittsburgh Spirit, 1984-1985
  • George Wilson
    George Wilson
    -Arts and entertainment:* George Wilson , British actor* George Balch Wilson , American composer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan* George Washington Wilson , pioneering Scottish photographer...

    , class of 1929, College Football Hall of Fame member
  • Dick Wright
    Dick Wright
    Dick Wright was a catcher with the Federal League's Brooklyn Tip-Tops for one season in 1915. He attended Lafayette College and Lehigh University.-Sources:...

    , Major League baseball catcher for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops
    Brooklyn Tip-Tops
    The Brooklyn Tip-Tops were a team in the short-lived Federal League of professional baseball from 1914 to 1915. The team was named by owner Robert Ward, who owned the Tip Top Bakery. They were sometimes informally called the Brooklyn Feds or BrookFeds due to being the Brooklyn team of the Federal...


Notable faculty

  • Guy Consolmagno
    Guy Consolmagno
    Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, SJ , is an American research astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory.-Life:...

    , assistant professor, physics and astronomy.
  • Tom Davis (basketball)
    Tom Davis (basketball)
    Dr. Thomas "Dr. Tom" Davis is an American former college men's basketball coach. He served as the head coach at Lafayette College, Boston College, Stanford University, the University of Iowa, and Drake University from 1971 to 2007....

    , college men's basketball coach 1971-1977.
  • Clement Eaton
    Clement Eaton
    Clement Eaton was an U.S. historian who specialized in the American South.He received his education from the University of North Carolina and Harvard University...

    , Chair of History Department from 1931-1942.
  • Terry Jonathan Hart, visiting lecturer of engineering.
  • George Junkin
    George Junkin
    Rev. George Junkin, D. D., LL. D. was an American educator and Presbyterian minister who served as the first president of Lafayette College and later as president of Miami University and Washington College .-Biography:He was the son of Joseph Junkin, and the sixth of fourteen children born in...

    , first president of Lafayette College.
  • Butch van Breda Kolff, college men's basketball coach 1952-1956.
  • Francis March
    Francis March
    Francis Andrew March was an American polymath, academic, philologist, and lexicographer...

    , first professor of English Literature at any American college or university.
  • Herb McCracken
    Herb McCracken
    G. Herbert McCracken was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Allegheny College from 1921 to 1923 and at Lafayette College from 1924 to 1935, compiling a career college football record of 75–48–7. His 1926 Lafayette Leopards team was recognized as a...

    , head football coach.
  • Edward Mylin
    Edward Mylin
    Edward Everett "Hook" Mylin was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Lebanon Valley College , Bucknell University , Lafayette College , and New York University...

    , head football coach.
  • Theodore Roethke
    Theodore Roethke
    Theodore Roethke was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.-Biography:...

    , poet, served on faculty prior to his publication and fame.
  • Jock Sutherland
    Jock Sutherland
    Dr. John Bain "Jock" Sutherland, D.D.S., was an American football coach. He coached college football at Lafayette College and the University of Pittsburgh and professional football for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Steelers...

    , head football coach 1919-1923
  • Lee Upton
    Lee Upton
    Lee Upton is an American poet, fiction writer, literary critic, and a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.-Life:...

    , poet, writer in residence, professor of English.
  • Hal Wissel
    Hal Wissel
    Dr. Hal Wissel is an American basketball coach who has worked at the professional and collegiate level in his career.Wissel was an assistant coach for player development with the Golden State Warriors , an assistant coach with the Memphis Grizzlies , an assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets ,...

    , college men's basketball coach 1967-1971.
  • Joe Maddon
    Joe Maddon
    Joseph John Maddon is the Major League Baseball manager for the Tampa Bay Rays.He previously served as interim manager of the Anaheim Angels in both 1996 and 1999. He was also a long-time bench coach for the team.-Early life and career:Maddon attended Lafayette College, where he played baseball...

    , Manager of the Tampa Bay Rays
    Tampa Bay Rays
    The Tampa Bay Rays are a Major League Baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays are a member of the Eastern Division of MLB's American League. Since their inception in , the club has played at Tropicana Field...

    , 2006-present.
  • Tim Lenahan
    Tim Lenahan
    Tim Lenahan is the head men's soccer coach at Northwestern University. He has been coaching there since the start of the 2001 season. He is widely regarded as one of the top coaches in the Big Ten, as he rebuilt the Northwestern program from a team that had been winless over 35 games in 2000 and...

    , Men's Soccer Coach 1998-2001
  • Gary Williams
    Gary Williams
    Gary B. Williams is an American university administrator and former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Maryland, Ohio State University, Boston College, and American University. In 2002, he led Maryland to the NCAA Tournament Championship...

    , Men's Head Soccer Coach and Assistant Basketball Coach, 1972-1977

Presidents of Lafayette College

  • George Junkin
    George Junkin
    Rev. George Junkin, D. D., LL. D. was an American educator and Presbyterian minister who served as the first president of Lafayette College and later as president of Miami University and Washington College .-Biography:He was the son of Joseph Junkin, and the sixth of fourteen children born in...

    , 1832-1840, 1848-1849.
  • John William Yeomans, 1840-1848.
  • Charles William Nassau, 1849-1850.
  • Daniel V. McLean, 1850-1854.
  • George Wilson McPhail, 1854-1861.
  • William Cassady Cattell, 1863-1883.
  • James Hall Mason Knox, 1883-1890.
  • Ethelbert Dudley Warfield
    Ethelbert Dudley Warfield
    Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, D.D., LL.D. was an American professor of history and college president who served as president of Miami University, Lafayette College and Wilson College. As Miami University's youngest president, he was noted for bringing football to Miami where its first...

    , 1891-1914.
  • John Henry MacCracken, son of Henry Mitchell MacCracken, 1915-1926.
  • William Mather Lewis
    William Mather Lewis
    William Mather Lewis was an American teacher, university president, local politician, and a state and national government official. He was mayor of Lake Forest, Illinois from 1915-17, President of George Washington University from 1923-7 and the President of Layfayette College from...

    , 1926-1945.
  • Ralph Cooper Hutchison, 1945-1957, class of 1918.
  • Guy Everett Snavely, 1957-58 (Interim).
  • K. Roald Bergethon, 1958-1978.
  • David Ellis
    David Ellis
    David Ellis or Dave Ellis may refer to:* David Ellis , Welsh priest and poet* Dave Ellis , computer game designer and author...

    , 1978-1990.
  • Robert I. Rotberg
    Robert I. Rotberg
    Robert I. Rotberg is an American who served as President emeritus of the World Peace Foundation . An American professor in governance and foreign affairs, he was director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict, Conflict Prevention, and Conflict Resolution at Harvard University's John F...

    , 1990-1993.
  • Arthur J. Rothkopf, 1993-2006, class of 1955.
  • Daniel Weiss, 2006-present.
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