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Hamilton College

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Founded by Samuel Kirkland in 1793 as Hamilton-Oneida Academy, changed to Hamilton College in 1812. Named for Alexander Hamilton.

Location:
Clinton, NY

Founding Date:
1793

Team:
Continentals

Enrollment:
1750

Official Website:
http://www.hamilton.edu/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Journalist
26-Jan-1871 15-Nov-1958 The Great American Fraud
J. Carter Bacot
Business
7-Feb-1933 7-Apr-2005 CEO of the Bank of New York, 1982-98
Robert F. Bernstock
Business
c. 1950   President of Shipping, USPS
Josh Billings
Author
21-Apr-1818 14-Oct-1885 19th century American humorist
Richard W. Boehm
Diplomat
25-Jun-1926 28-Nov-2011 US Ambassador to Oman, 1989-92
Terry Brooks
Author
8-Jan-1944   The Shannara series
Mike Castle
Politician
2-Jul-1939   Congressman from Delaware, 1993-2011
Peter Dalton Constable
Diplomat
10-Apr-1932   US Ambassador to Zaire, 1982-84
Lisa Daniels
TV Personality
?   MSNBC anchor
Drew S. Days III
Government
1941   US Solicitor General, 1993-96
Gerald V. Dirvin
Business
c. 1937   EVP at Procter & Gamble, 1989-94
Benjamin A. Elman
Historian
6-Sep-1946   Science in China, 1550-1900
Joseph I. France
Politician
11-Oct-1873 26-Jan-1939 US Senator from Maryland, 1917-23
Jonathan Gilbert
Actor
10-Jul-1968   Little House on the Prairie
Tony Goldwyn
Actor
20-May-1960   From the Earth to the Moon
Paul Greengard
Scientist
11-Dec-1925   Signal transduction in the nervous system
Ward Hunt
Judge
14-Jun-1810 24-Mar-1886 US Supreme Court Justice, 1873-82
William R. Hutchison
Historian
21-May-1930 16-Dec-2005 The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism
Irving M. Ives
Politician
24-Jan-1896 24-Feb-1962 US Senator from New York, 1947-59
Joel W. Johnson
Business
c. 1943   CEO of Hormel, 1993-2005
Michael Klosson
Diplomat
22-Aug-1949   US Ambassador to Cyprus, 2002-05
Alan G. Lafley
Business
13-Jun-1947   CEO of Procter & Gamble, 2000-09
Sol Linowitz
Business
17-Dec-1913 18-Mar-2005 Negotiated return of the Panama Canal
William H. Luers
Diplomat
15-May-1929   US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1983-86
William Masters
Scientist
27-Dec-1915 16-Feb-2001 Human Sexual Response
Matthew M. McKenna
Business
c. 1950   Senior VP at Pepsi
Victor H. Metcalf
Government
10-Oct-1853 20-Feb-1936 US Secretary of the Navy, 1906-08
Robert P. Paganelli
Diplomat
3-Nov-1931   US Ambassador to Syria, 1981-84
Henry B. Payne
Politician
30-Nov-1810 9-Sep-1896 US Senator from Ohio, 1885-91
Ezra Pound
Poet
30-Oct-1885 1-Nov-1972 The Cantos
Bill Purcell
Politician
25-Oct-1953   Mayor of Nashville, 1999-2007
Arnold L. Raphel
Diplomat
16-Mar-1943 17-Aug-1988 US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1987-88
Elihu Root
Government
15-Feb-1845 7-Feb-1937 Senator, Secretary of War, State
James S. Sherman
Politician
24-Oct-1855 30-Oct-1912 Vice President under Taft
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist
20-Mar-1904 18-Aug-1990 Radical Behaviorism
Thomas Vilsack
Politician
13-Dec-1950   US Secretary of Agriculture
Edward S. Walker
Diplomat
13-Jun-1940   US Ambassador to Israel, 1997-99
Charles Dudley Warner
Author
12-Sep-1829 20-Oct-1900 Harper's editorialist
Alexander Woollcott
Critic
18-Jan-1887 23-Jan-1943 The Man Who Came to Dinner

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
J. Brian Atwood
Government
25-Jul-1942   USAID Administrator, 1993-99
Stephen W. Bosworth
Diplomat
4-Dec-1939 4-Jan-2016 US Ambassador to South Korea, 1997-2000
Brandon Grove
Diplomat
8-Apr-1929 20-May-2016 US Ambassador to Zaire, 1984-87
Richard Haass
Government
28-Jul-1951   President, Council on Foreign Relations
Jack Matlock
Diplomat
1-Oct-1929   US Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-91
Bernie Sanders
Politician
8-Sep-1941   US Senator from Vermont
Edward S. Walker
Diplomat
13-Jun-1940   US Ambassador to Israel, 1997-99

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
J. Carter Bacot
Business
7-Feb-1933 7-Apr-2005 CEO of the Bank of New York, 1982-98
Drew S. Days III
Government
1941   US Solicitor General, 1993-96
Gerald V. Dirvin
Business
c. 1937   EVP at Procter & Gamble, 1989-94
Irving M. Ives
Politician
24-Jan-1896 24-Feb-1962 US Senator from New York, 1947-59
Joel W. Johnson
Business
c. 1943   CEO of Hormel, 1993-2005
Alan G. Lafley
Business
13-Jun-1947   CEO of Procter & Gamble, 2000-09
Sol Linowitz
Business
17-Dec-1913 18-Mar-2005 Negotiated return of the Panama Canal
Matthew M. McKenna
Business
c. 1950   Senior VP at Pepsi
Joan Hinde Stewart
Educator
c. 1943   President, Hamilton College


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