List of Lafayette College people
This is a list of notable people affiliated with Lafayette College.
Notable alumni and trustees
Academics and education
- George C. Heckman, class of 1845, president of Hanover College 1870–79
- Thomas Craig, class of 1875, early professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University
- James Bright, class of 1877, philologist, first person to receive a Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins
- James Cameron Mackenzie, class of 1878, educator
- James McKeen Cattell, class of 1880, the first professor of psychology in the United States
- Robert L. Slagle, class of 1887, President South Dakota Agricultural College 1906–14; University of South Dakota 1914-28[1][2]
- Earl Gregg Swem, class of 1893, historian, bibliographer and librarian
- Joseph S. Illick, class of 1907, Dean of the New York State College of Forestry, 1944–51
- Ralph Cooper Hutchison, class of 1918, president of Washington & Jefferson College, 1931–45, and Lafayette College, 1945–57
- Frank Reed Horton, class of 1926, founder of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity
- The University of Alabama in Huntsville[3]
- Nils Yngve Wessell, class of 1934, president of Tufts University, 1953–66
- Leonard Jeffries, class of 1959, Professor of Black Studies at the City College of New York (City)
- Martin Jezer, class of 1961, progressive activist in New York and Vermont; leader of stutterers' self-help movement
- Barry Wellman, class of 1963, Professor of Sociology,. University of Toronto, 1967–2013; Co-director, NetLab Network
- Joseph Rallo, class of 1971, Commissioner of Higher Education for the State of Louisiana.
- College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota[4]
- John Anderson Fry, class of 1982, former president of Franklin & Marshall College and current president of Drexel University
Business
- Pardee Hallwhich he also funded
- James Gayley, class of 1876, Managing Director Carnegie Steel Company and first vice president of U.S. Steel, 1901–09[5][6]
- Wright Brothers[7]
- Charles Bergstresser, class of 1881, one of the three founders of Dow Jones & Company
- Harrison Woodhull Crosby, commercialized the canned tomato
- Leslie Freeman Gates, class of 1897, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, 1919–20[8]
- George B. Walbridge, class of 1898, co-founder and chairman of Walbridge Aldinger (now known as simply Walbridge)
- T. Frank Soles, class of 1904, chairman of the board of Talon, Inc., zipper manufacturer; trustee and donor of Soles Hall[9][10]
- five and dimestore chain
- Watson Computer
- Edward Jesser, class of 1939, former president of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce & New Jersey Bankers Association, chairman and CEO of Summit Bancorp[11]
- Walter E. Hanson, class of 1949, chairman of KPMG.[12]
- Sarkis Acopian, class of 1951, founded Acopian Technical Company, makers of the first solar radios.
- Arthur J. Rothkopf, class of 1955, retired senior vice president of U.S. Chamber of Commerce; president emeritus of Lafayette College[13]
- Michael H. Moskow, class of 1959, CEO and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- Stephen D. Pryor, class of 1971, president of ExxonMobil Chemical Company
- Neil Levin, class of 1976, former executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, vice president of Goldman Sachs
- Chip Bergh, Class of 1979, CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.[14]
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- Fran Horowitz, class of 1985, president & chief merchandising officer of Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
- Alan Hoffman, class of 1988, senior vice president, PepsiCo.; former deputy chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden; Deputy Assistant to the U.S. President[16]
- Hendrik J. Hartong III, class of 1989, CEO of Brynwood Partners[17][18]
- LogMeIn[19]
- Rakuten Linkshareand angel investor
- Ian Murray, class of 1997, cofounder of Vineyard Vines[20]
- Carson Conant, class of 1998, founder and CEO of Mediafly[21]
Engineering
- William Ashburner Cattell, class of 1884, civil engineer and railroad company president
- James Madison Porter III, class of 1886, professor of civil engineering and designer of Northampton Street Bridge
- William F. Durand, class of 1888, mechanical engineer and first civilian chair of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
- Edgar Jadwin, class of 1888, General, Chief of Engineers
- Don Lancaster, class of 1961, author, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer
Entertainment
- Burr McIntosh, class of 1884, actor, author, and photographer.
- Hollywood's Silver Pictures and producer of films including the Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and The Matrixseries
- Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
- Cleveland Indians
- Beth Mowins, class of 1989, ESPN announcer and one of the first women color analysts on the network
Government
- Charles F. Chidsey, class of 1864, first mayor of Easton, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.[22]
- Isaiah D. Clawson, class of 1833, represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, 1855-59[23]
- James Morrison Harris, class of 1833, U.S. Representative from Maryland, 1855–1861; Lafayette College trustee, 1865–72
- Alexander Ramsey, class of 1836, Governor of Minnesota, US Senator, Congressman, Secretary of War
- Nathaniel B. Smithers, class of 1836, U.S. Representative from Delaware, 1863–65
- Philip Johnson, class of 1844, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1861–63, 1863–67
- Henry Clay Longnecker, class of 1845 (non-graduate), honorary degree in 1851, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 1859-61
- Henry Green, class of 1846, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Henry Martyn Hoyt, attended 1845–48, honorary law degree conferred in 1882, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1879–83
- Horatio Gates Fisher, class of 1855, US Representative from Pennsylvania, 1879–83
- Samuel McLean, non-graduate, received honorary degree in 1857, member of first Montana State Legislature, 1865–67
- Benjamin Franklin Junkin, entered 1837, A.M. in 1865, US Representative from Pennsylvania, 1859–1861
- Robert Porter Allen, class of 1855, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1875–78
- Allen Craig, class of 1855, Pennsylvania State Representative and Senator, 1865–67, 1879–82
- John W. Griggs, class of 1868, Governor of New Jersey, 1896–1898; US Attorney General, 1898–1901
- Frank J. Washabaugh, class of 1870, South Dakota jurist and legislator
- Laird Howard Barber, class of 1871, US Representative from Pennsylvania 1899–1901, lawyer
- Arthur Granville Dewalt, class of 1874, US Representative from Pennsylvania, 1915–21
- Isaac Barber, class of 1876, New Jersey State Senator 1896–99, 1902–05
- Russell Benjamin Harrison, class of 1877, Indiana legislator; consul to Portugal and Mexico; son of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison
- Edward Francis Blewitt, class of 1879, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1907–1910; great-grandfather to Joe Biden
- George Howell, class of 1880, US Representative from Pennsylvania, 1903–1904
- John R. Farr, class of 1885, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1911–19, and 1921
- Cyrus E. Woods, class of 1886, president pro tempore Pennsylvania State Senate 1901–07; U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Japan, 1921–24
- Wallace McCamant, class of 1888, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1925–26
- Harry Arista Mackey, class of 1890, Mayor of Philadelphia 1928 - 31
- Frederic Antes Godcharles, class of 1893, Pennsylvania State Representative and Senator, 1900–08
- Isaac Clinton Kline, class of 1893, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvaniafrom 1921 to 1923, lawyer
- Attorney General of the United States, overseer of the Palmer Raids[24]
- John D. Clarke, class of 1898, U.S. Congressman from New York
- William Huntington Kirkpatrick, class of 1905, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 1921-23
- Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court
- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
- New Jersey State Constitution[25]
- Robert B. Meyner, class of 1930, Governor of New Jersey 1954–62; competed against John F. Kennedy in the 1960 Democratic Party primary
- Winston L. Prouty, class of 1930, United States Representative and Senator from Vermont
- William H. Woodin, Trustee, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1933
- Wayne Dumont, class of 1935, former Acting Governor of New Jersey
- Wendell Good, class of 1935, Pennsylvania State Representative 1967-72
- Charles Timothy Slack, class of 1935, Pennsylvania State Representative 1961-70
- Arch A. Moore, Jr., attended in 1943, twice Governor of West Virginia
- Arthur Sohmer, class of 1948, Chief of Staff to former Vice President Spiro Agnew
- D. Bennett Mazur (c. 1925–1994), member of the New Jersey General Assembly[26]
- Fred Ashton, class of 1952, Mayor of Easton from 1967 to 1975.[27]
- Côte d'Ivoire, 1986–89
- United States Olympic Committee
- Senator of New Hampshire
- Garrett E. Brown, Jr., class of 1965, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- George F. Pott, Jr., class of 1965, Pennsylvania State Representative 1977-86
- Robert Pastor, class of 1969, former member of the United States National Security Council
- Joel A. Pisano, class of 1971, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 2000 to 2015. He served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court from 1991 to 2000.
- United States Ambassador to Bangladesh
- Pennsylvania State Treasurer
- Craig Dally, class of 1978, Pennsylvania State Representative, 1997–2010
- Bruce L. Castor, Jr., class of 1983, Attorney General (interim) and first Solicitor General of Pennsylvania, former district attorney and county commissioner in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; Presidential Impeachment Counsel; Lawyer.
- Doug Reichley, class of 1983, Pennsylvania State Representative 2003-12
- District of Columbia
- United States Ambassador to Benin[28]
- Anthony Palumbo, class of 1994, member New York State Assembly, 2013–present
- Aaron Kaufer, class of 2011, Pennsylvania State Representative, 2015–present
- Travis Hutson, class of 2007, Florida State Senator 2012-present
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
- Snowden Ashford, class of 1888, Washington D.C.'s first municipal architect
- Edwin Atlee Barber, classes of 1887 and 1893, Director Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
- Harold H. Bender, class of 1903, professor of philology at Princeton University
- Brent Glass, class of 1969, director of Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Jules Prown, class of 1951, professor of art history at Yale University
- Frederick Starr, class of 1882, anthropologist
- J. Elfreth Watkins Sr., class of 1874, Curator United States National Museum
- Barry Wellman, class of 1963, sociologist; founder of International Network for Social Network Analysis
Literature and poetry
- John Martin Crawford, class of 1871, translated the Finnish epic Kalevala into English; Consul-general of the United States to Russia under President Benjamin Harrison
- Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage; attended for one semester before leaving to focus exclusively on his writing
- Dominique Lapierre, class of 1952, author
- Martin Jezer, class of 1961, activist and author
- Jay Parini, class of 1970, poet and Middlebury College professor
- Ross Gay, class of 1996, poet
- M. K. Asante, Jr., class of 2004, professor, author, and filmmaker
- Michael S. Schmidt, class of 2005, author and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington correspondent for The New York Times
Medicine
- Philip S. Hench, class of 1916, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicinein 1950
- Haldan K. Hartline, class of 1923, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967
- Orvan Hess, class of 1927, physician noted for his early use of penicillin and development of the fetal heart monitor
- C. Harmon Brown, class of 1952, pioneer in women's sports medicine; Olympic track and field coach
Military
- Andrew Porter, class of 1838 (non-graduate), honorary degree in 1865, Brigadier General U.S. Army
- Theophilus Francis Rodenbough, class of 1854 (non-graduate), Brigadier General U.S. Army; Medal of Honor recipient
- Charles A. Wikoff, class of 1855, most senior ranking United States Army officer killed in the Spanish–American War
- Stephen Wilson Pomeroy, class of 1861, "The Unknown Scout" who alerted Governor Curtin of General Lee's amassing army at Gettysburg[29]
- Duncan Stephen Walker, class of 1862 (non-graduate), Brigadier General U.S. Army, great-great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin
- Peyton C. March, class of 1884, Army Chief of Staff during World War I
- General George H. Decker, class of 1924, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 1960–62
- David Showell, class of 1951, member of the Tuskegee Airmen; a football player while at Lafayette; his exclusion led to the 1949 Sun Bowl controversy
Religion and theology
- William Henry Green, class of 1840, president of The College of New Jersey, professor of Biblical and Oriental Literature in Princeton Theological Seminary
- John Douglas Bemo (Husti-Coluc-Chee, later Tal-a-Mas-Mico), non-graduate 1843–46, nephew of Osceola Chief of the Seminoles; responsible for baptizing over 5,000 Native Americans in the Oklahoma Territory
- Presbyterianmissionary and translator
- James Isaac Good, class of 1872, clergyman
- Kenneth Wapnick, class of 1963, co-founder of A Course in Miracles
Sciences
- James H. Coffin, Lafayette College vice president and treasurer 1846–73, pioneer in meteorology
- William Harkness, attended 1854–56, astronomer
- William McMurtrie, class of 1871 and first Ph.D. in chemistry awarded at Lafayette (1875); Chief Chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture, 1873–78; president of American Chemical Society in 1900
- Maynard Bixby, class of 1876, discoverer of bixbyite and explorer
- Eugene C. Bingham, Chemistry Professor 1916–39, pioneer in rheology; namesake of Bingham plastic, fluid, and stress, and the Bingham Medal
- Corningware earned his master's degree in chemistry in the 1930s[30]
- Jay Weiss, class of 1962, professor of psychiatry Emory University School of Medicine, MacArthur Fellow
Sports
- New York Giants, National League baseball team.
- Boston Beaneaters
- Charles Rinehart, class of 1898, College Football Hall of Fame member
- Dick Wright, catcher for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops
- Fritz Scheeren, class of 1914, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates
- Ty Helfrich, class of 1915, second baseman for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops
- Al Bedner, class of 1921, NFL player
- George Seasholtz, class of 1922, NFL player for the Milwaukee Badgers and the Kenosha Maroons
- Frank Schwab, class of 1923, College Football Hall of Fame member
- Al LeConey, class of 1923, 1924 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the 4 × 100 meter relay, later featured on a U.S. postal stamp
- NFL leading scorer in 1925 for the Pottsville Maroons
- Joe Marhefka, class of 1924, NFL player for Pottsville Maroons
- Matt Brennan, class of 1925, NFL player
- Frank Grube, class of 1926, catcher for the White Sox and St. Louis Browns
- Frank Kirkleski, class of 1927, NFL player for the Pottsville Maroons
- George Wilson, class of 1929, College Football Hall of Fame member and previous NCAA scoring record holder
- Adam J. Cirillo, class of 1933, head football coach of Brooklyn Technical High School, won 10 New York City Public School Athletic League championships[32]
- Frank Hiller, class of 1942, pitcher for the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds
- Pete Carril, class of 1951, former Princeton University men's basketball head coach and Sacramento Kings assistant coach
- Alexander K. 'Whip' Buck, class of 1952, co-owner of the Philadelphia Phillies from 1981 until his death in 2010[33]
- Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame
- Tracy Tripucka, class of 1972, three-time men's basketball All-American, New York Knicks draft selection, collegiate assistant coach[34]
- Peter Simon, class of 1975, co-owner of the NHL's New Jersey Devils, name inscribed on the Stanley Cup[35]
- Anaheim Angels, Chicago Cubs, and Tampa Bay Rays.
- George Tiger, class of 1981, midfielder for Pittsburgh Spirit, 1984–1985
- Florida Marlins, pitcher
- Blake Costanzo, class of 2006, linebacker and special teams specialist for the NFL's Chicago Bears and formerly the San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns, and Buffalo Bills
- David Bednar, class of 2017, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates and formerly San Diego Padres; named an All-Star in 2022
- Walt Zirinsky, American football player
Notable faculty
- The Federalist[36]
- Guy Consolmagno, assistant professor, physics and astronomy
- Tom Davis, college men's basketball coach, 1971–77
- Clement Eaton, chair of history department, 1931–42
- Terry Jonathan Hart, visiting lecturer of engineering
- George Junkin, first president of Lafayette College
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- John Kincaid, Robert B. & Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service and Director of the Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government, 1994–present[37]
- Butch van Breda Kolff, college men's basketball coach, 1952–56
- Francis March, first professor of English Literature at any American college or university
- Herb McCracken, head football coach
- Edward Mylin, head football coach
- Bruce Allen Murphy, Supreme Court Scholar
- Theodore Roethke, poet, served on faculty prior to his publication and fame
- Steve Spagnuolo, football coach, defensive line/special teams 1984–86
- Jock Sutherland, head football coach 1919–23
- Lee Upton, poet, writer in residence, professor of English
- Hal Wissel, college men's basketball coach, 1967–71
- Tim Lenahan, Men's Soccer Coach, 1998–2001
- Gary Williams, Men's Head Soccer Coach and Assistant Basketball Coach, 1972–77
Presidents of Lafayette College
- George Junkin, 1832–1841, 1844–1848
- John William Yeomans, 1841–1844
- Charles William Nassau, 1849–1850
- Daniel V. McLean, 1850–1857
- George Wilson McPhail, 1857–1863
- William Cassady Cattell, 1863–1883
- James Hall Mason Knox, 1883–1890
- Traill Green, 1890–1891 (acting)
- Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, 1891–1914
- John Henry MacCracken, 1915–1926
- Donald B. Prentice, 1926–1927 (acting)
- William Mather Lewis, 1927–1945
- Ralph Cooper Hutchison, 1945–1957, class of 1918
- Guy Everett Snavely, 1957–1958 (interim)
- K. Roald Bergethon, 1958–1978
- David Ellis, 1978–1990
- Robert I. Rotberg, 1990–1993
- Arthur J. Rothkopf, 1993–2005, class of 1955
- Daniel Weiss, 2005–2013
- Alison Byerly, 2013–2021
- Nicole Hurd, 2021–Present
William Sebring Kirkpatrick served as acting president from 1902 to 1903 during the tenure of Warfield, who remained as president. Warfield had suffered a nervous breakdown before commencement in 1902, and was granted one years absence to recuperate.[38]
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- ^ "S. Donald Stookey, Scientist, Dies at 99; Among His Inventions Was CorningWare". NY Times.
- ^ College Football Hall of Fame
- ^ "Adam J. Cirillo, 72, Dies". The New York Times. October 3, 1982. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
- ^ "A.K. 'Whip' Buck, 80, part-owner of Phillies". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
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