EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Fomerly a Methodist university, until 1937.

Location:
Middletown, CT

Founding Date:
1831

Team:
Cardinals

Enrollment:
2880

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

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Kofi Appenteng	Attorney	14-Jun-1957		Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP
Miguel Arteta	Film Director	1965		Chuck & Buck
Raymond E. Baldwin	Politician	31-Aug-1893	4-Oct-1986	Governor and Senator from Connecticut
Gerald L. Baliles	Politician	8-Jul-1940		Governor of Virginia, 1986-90
Robert M. Ball	Government	28-Mar-1914	29-Jan-2008	Director of Social Security, 1962-73
John Perry Barlow	Activist	3-Oct-1947		Co-Founder, EFF
David A. Barr	Business	c. 1963		Warburg Pincus
John D. Bates	Judge	11-Oct-1946		FISA Court Judge
Michael Bay	Film Director	17-Feb-1964		Armageddon
Bill Belichick	Football	16-Apr-1952		Head Coach, New England Patriots
Douglas J. Bennet	Educator	23-Jun-1938		President of Wesleyan University, 1995-2007
Michael Bennet	Politician	28-Nov-1964		US Senator from Colorado
Edward G. Biester, Jr.	Judge	5-Jan-1931		Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1967-77
David Brancaccio	TV Personality	c. 1960		NOW, Marketplace
David Josiah Brewer	Judge	20-Jan-1837	28-Mar-1910	US Supreme Court Justice, 1890-1910
L. Dean Brown	Diplomat	21-Aug-1920	2-May-2001	US Ambassador to Jordan, 1970-73
Richard E. Cavanagh	Government	c. 1946		CEO of The Conference Board, 1995-2007
William Christopher	Actor	20-Oct-1932		Father Mulcahy on M*A*S*H
Walter E. Clark	Politician	7-Jan-1869	4-Feb-1950	Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1909-13
Kit Clayton	Electronic Musician	1974		Orthlorng Musork
Thomas H. Collins	Military	c. 1946		US Coast Guard Commandant, 2002-06
Norris Cotton	Politician	11-May-1900	24-Feb-1989	US Senator from New Hampshire, 1954-74
Walter Cutler	Diplomat	25-Nov-1931		US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1984-87
Emilio Daddario	Politician	24-Sep-1918	6-Jul-2010	Congressman from Connecticut, 1959-71
Ram Dass	Religion	5-Apr-1931		Be Here Now
Dana Delany	Actor	13-Mar-1956		China Beach
Chuck Douglas	Politician	2-Dec-1942		Congressman from New Hampshire, 1989-91
Mallory Factor	Activist	c. 1950		Merchant banker
Harold Underwood Faulkner	Historian	25-Feb-1890	19-Jun-1968	American Economic History
Michael T. Fries	Business	6-Feb-1963		CEO of Liberty Global
MC Frontalot	Musician	3-Dec-1973		Coined the term Nerdcore
David J. Garrow	Historian	11-May-1953		Bearing the Cross
Willie Garson	Actor	20-Feb-1964		Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City
Elisabeth Harnois	Actor	26-May-1979		Christina Nickson on Point Pleasant
Robert H. Hayes	Business	c. 1936		Professor at HBS, 1966-2000
Sally Hernandez	Attorney	c. 1952		Deputy Mayor of NYC, 1990-92
John Hickenlooper	Politician	7-Feb-1952		Governor of Colorado
Paul Horgan	Author	1-Aug-1903	8-Mar-1995	Great River: The Rio Grande
Lester C. Hunt	Politician	8-Jul-1892	19-Jun-1954	US Senator, committed suicide
Robert E. Hunter	Diplomat	c. 1940		US Ambassador to NATO, 1993-98
Alberto Ibargüen	Publisher	c. 1944		President of the Knight Foundation
Sebastian Junger	Author	17-Jan-1962		The Perfect Storm
Herb Kelleher	Business	12-Mar-1931		Founder of Southwest Airlines
Andrew J. Kleinfeld	Judge	12-Jun-1945		9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Arthur Kopit	Playwright	10-May-1937		Mama's Hung You in the Closet
William J. Lansing	Business	c. 1958		CEO of Value Vision Media, 2004-07
James Lord	Author	27-Nov-1922	23-Aug-2009	Giacometti: A Biography
Gary W. Loveman	Business	c. 1960		CEO of Harrah's Entertainment
James M. Loy	Military	10-Aug-1942		US Coast Guard Commandant, 1998-2002
Robert Ludlum	Novelist	25-May-1927	12-Mar-2001	The Bourne Identity
Barton MacLane	Actor	25-Dec-1902	1-Jan-1969	Gen. Peterson on I Dream of Jeannie
Eric Mangini	Football	19-Jan-1971		Head Coach, Cleveland Browns
Carola McGiffert	Government	?		Center for Strategic & International Studies
Charles Olson	Poet	27-Dec-1910	10-Jan-1970	The Maximus Poems
Amanda Palmer	Singer/Songwriter	30-Apr-1976		The Dresden Dolls
Robert E. Patricelli	Business	c. 1940		Women's Health USA
Michael S. Roth	Educator	c. 1956		President, Wesleyan University
Santigold	Singer	25-Sep-1976		L.E.S. Artistes
Jonathan I. Schwartz	Business	20-Oct-1965		CEO of Sun Microsystems
Anthony J. Scirica	Judge	16-Dec-1940		3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Peter Shumlin	Politician	24-Mar-1956		Governor of Vermont
Frank V. Sica	Business	c. 1951		Managing Partner, Tailwind Capital
David Skaggs	Politician	22-Feb-1943		Congressman from Colorado, 1987-99
Tristan Taormino	Columnist	9-May-1971		Anal sex authority
Herbert H. Tate, Jr.	Attorney	22-Feb-1953		President, NJ Board of Public Utilities, 1994-2001
Stephen S. Trott	Judge	12-Dec-1939		9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1988-2004
Jon Turteltaub	Film Director	8-Aug-1963		National Treasure
Daisy von Scherler Mayer	Film Director	14-Sep-1966		The Guru
Kim Wayans	Actor	16-Oct-1961		A Wayans sister
Paul Weitz	Film Director	19-Nov-1965		American Pie
Joss Whedon	Film/TV Producer	23-Jun-1964		Creator of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly
Mike White	Screenwriter	28-Jun-1970		Writer of School of Rock
Bradley Whitford	Actor	10-Oct-1959		The West Wing
Henry Willson	Business	31-Jul-1911	2-Nov-1978	Talent agent, cultivated gay clientele
Henry M. Wriston	Educator	4-Jul-1889	7-Mar-1978	President of Brown University, 1937-55
Walter B. Wriston	Business	3-Aug-1919	19-Jan-2005	CEO of Citibank, 1967-84
Stephen M. Young	Diplomat	1951		Director of the American Institute in Taiwan
Strauss Zelnick	Business	26-Jun-1957		CEO of BMG Entertainment, 1998-2000

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Reginald Bartholomew	Diplomat	17-Feb-1936	26-Aug-2012	US Ambassador to Italy, 1993-97
Anthony Braxton	Jazz Musician	4-Jun-1945		Inventive jazz multi-instrumentalist
Norman O. Brown	Historian	25-Sep-1913	2-Oct-2002	Life Against Death
Annie Dillard	Author	30-Apr-1945		Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Leslie H. Gelb	Government	4-Mar-1937		President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003
Paul Horgan	Author	1-Aug-1903	8-Mar-1995	Great River: The Rio Grande
Clarence D. Long	Politician	11-Dec-1908	18-Sep-1994	Congressman from Maryland, 1963-85
Alvin Lucier	Composer	14-May-1931		I Am Sitting In A Room
William Manchester	Author	1-Apr-1922	1-Jun-2004	The Last Lion
Arno J. Mayer	Historian	19-Jun-1926		Marxist Jew, quasi-revisionist
Nathan M. Pusey	Educator	4-Apr-1907	14-Nov-2001	President of Harvard, 1953-71
Carl E. Schorske	Historian	15-Mar-1915	13-Sep-2015	Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Wilbert Snow	Politician	6-Apr-1884	28-Sep-1977	Governor of Connecticut, 1946-47
Richard Wilbur	Poet	1-Mar-1921		Second U.S. Poet Laureate
Woodrow Wilson	Head of State	28-Dec-1856	3-Feb-1924	28th US President, 1913-21
Henry M. Wriston	Educator	4-Jul-1889	7-Mar-1978	President of Brown University, 1937-55

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Kofi Appenteng	Attorney	14-Jun-1957		Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP
Douglas J. Bennet	Educator	23-Jun-1938		President of Wesleyan University, 1995-2007
Richard E. Cavanagh	Government	c. 1946		CEO of The Conference Board, 1995-2007
Sally Hernandez	Attorney	c. 1952		Deputy Mayor of NYC, 1990-92
James L. McConaughy	Politician	21-Oct-1887	7-Mar-1948	Governor of Connecticut, 1947-48
Robert E. Patricelli	Business	c. 1940		Women's Health USA
Michael S. Roth	Educator	c. 1956		President, Wesleyan University
Frank V. Sica	Business	c. 1951		Managing Partner, Tailwind Capital
David Skaggs	Politician	22-Feb-1943		Congressman from Colorado, 1987-99
Stephen S. Trott	Judge	12-Dec-1939		9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1988-2004
Frank B. Weeks	Politician	20-Jan-1854	2-Oct-1935	Governor of Connecticut, 1909-11
Strauss Zelnick	Business	26-Jun-1957		CEO of BMG Entertainment, 1998-2000

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