List of engineers educated at the United States Military Academy

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Engineers

Note: "Class year" refers to the class year of each alumnus, which usually is the same year the person graduated. However, in times of war, classes often graduate early.

Name Class year Notability References Joseph Gardner Swift 1802 Chief of Engineers (1812–1818) [1] Walker Keith Armistead 1803 Chief of Engineers (1818–1821) [1] Joseph Gilbert Totten 1805 Chief of Engineers (1838–1864) [1] Charles Gratiot 1806 Chief of Engineers (1828–1838) [1] Richard Delafield 1818 Chief of Engineers (1864–1866) [1] George Washington Whistler 1819 Major (United States); Chief Engineer that constructed the railroad between St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia (1842); Received the Order of St. Anne from the Czar Nicholas (1847); father of the painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834) [1] Isaac R. Trimble 1822 Major General CSA; civil and railroad engineer; wounded and captured at the Battle of Gettysburg [a][b][2] George S. Greene 1823 American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects; defender of Culp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg [b][3][self-published source] Andrew A. Humphreys 1831 United States National Academy of Sciences [1] Herman Haupt 1835 Brigadier general; railroad engineer and head of the United States Military Railroad during the American Civil War [4] John Williams Gunnison 1837 Captain; topographical engineer; supervised one of the Pacific Railroad surveys in 1853; Gunnison, Colorado and Gunnison, Utah are named in his honor [5][6] Horatio Wright 1841 Chief of Engineers (1879–1884) [1] John Newton 1842 Chief of Engineers (1884–1886) [1] John Pope 1842 Major general; topographic engineer and surveyor; Dakota War of 1862, Apache Wars; defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run, commander of Army of the Mississippi and Army of Virginia [b][7] William F. Raynolds 1843 Colonel; topographic engineer; Mexican–American War; American Civil War; lighthouse construction, led 1859–1860 Raynolds Expedition in Yellowstone region. James Chatham Duane 1848 Chief of Engineers (1886–1888) [1] Robert S. Williamson 1848 Lieutenant colonel; American Civil War; topographical engineer; participated in the Pacific Railroad Surveys [6] John Parke 1849 Major general; American Civil War; participated in the Pacific Railroad surveys in 1853; chief surveyor who delineated the boundary between northwestern United States and British North America; Superintendent of the Academy (1887–1889) [8] Rufus Saxton 1849 Brigadier general; recipient of the Medal of Honor for his defense at the Battle of Harpers Ferry ; participated in the Pacific Railroad surveys in 1853; early abolitionist [9][10] Gouverneur K. Warren 1850 Major general; commended at the battle of Little Round Top, Chief of Engineers of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War; participated in topographical and railroad explorations of the Mississippi River and trans-Mississippi West [11] Thomas Lincoln Casey 1852 Chief of Engineers (1888–1895) [1] William Price Craighill 1853 Chief of Engineers (1895–1897) [1] Orlando Metcalfe Poe 1856 Brigadier general; American Civil War; lighthouse, harbor, and river engineer; responsible for much of the early lighthouse construction on the Great Lakes; built the Poe Lock of the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Poe Reef Light in Lake Huron is named in his honor [12] Henry Martyn Robert 1857 Chief of Engineers (1901) [1] John Moulder Wilson 1860 Chief of Engineers (1897–1901) [1][9] John W. Barlow 1861 Chief of Engineers (1901) [1] George Lewis Gillespie, Jr. 1862 Chief of Engineers (1901–1904) [1][13] David Porter Heap 1864 Brigadier general; engineer and author; harbor and lighthouse engineer [14] Alexander Mackenzie 1864 Chief of Engineers (1904–1908) [1] William Louis Marshall 1868 Chief of Engineers (1908–1910) [1] William Herbert Bixby 1873 Chief of Engineers (1910–1913) [1] William Trent Rossell 1873 Chief of Engineers (1913) [1] Dan Christie Kingman 1875 Chief of Engineers (1913–1916) [1] William Murray Black 1877 Chief of Engineers (1917–1919) [1] George Washington Goethals 1880 Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (1914–1917) [15] Lansing Hoskins Beach 1882 Chief of Engineers (1920–1924) [1] Harry Taylor 1884 Chief of Engineers (1924–1926) [1] Edgar Jadwin 1890 Chief of Engineers (1926–1929) [1] Lytle Brown 1898 Chief of Engineers (1929–1933) [1] Edward Murphy Markham 1899 Chief of Engineers (1933–1937) [1] Julian Larcombe Schley 1903 Chief of Engineers (1937–1941) [1] Raymond Albert Wheeler 1911 Chief of Engineers (1945–1949); directed the clearing of the Suez Canal following the 1956 Suez Crisis [1][16] Lunsford E. Oliver 1913 Major general; initiated the research that led to the development of the steel treadway bridge; Commander of 5th Armored Division during World War II [17] Hugh John Casey 1918 Major general; instructor and engineer company commander during World War I; Chief Engineer for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur for the South West Pacific theatre of World War II; initial designer of The Pentagon; father of Major Hugh Boyd Casey; father-in-law of Major General Frank Butner Clay [18] Samuel D. Sturgis, Jr. 1918 Chief of Engineers (1953–1956) [1] Emerson C. Itschner 1924 Chief of Engineers (1956–1961) [1] Walter K. Wilson, Jr. 1929 Chief of Engineers (1961–1965) [1] William F. Cassidy 1931 Chief of Engineers (1965–1969) [1] Frederick J. Clarke 1937 Chief of Engineers (1969–1973) [1] William C. Gribble, Jr. 1941 Chief of Engineers (1973–1976) [1] John W. Morris 1943 Chief of Engineers (1976–1980) [1] Joseph K. Bratton 1948 Chief of Engineers (1980–1984) [1] Fidel V. Ramos 1950 University of Illinois (1951); Chief of Staff of the United Nations engineering contingent during the Vietnam War [19] Elvin R. Heiberg III 1953 Chief of Engineers (1984–1988) [1] Henry J. Hatch 1957 Chief of Engineers (1988–1992) [1] Robert L. Van Antwerp, Jr. 1972 Chief of Engineers (2007–present) [1]

References

General references

^ a: Special Collections: Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy. West Point, NY: United States Military Academy Library. 1950.

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