Politics and Gov
Stephen J. Field, Williams 1837 - US Supreme Court Justice
James Abram Garfield, Williams 1856 - the second fraternity man to become President of the United States
Justin L. Morrill, Middlebury 1860 - United States Senator, Vermont; author of the land grant college act
W.H.H. Miller, Hamilton 1861 - Attorney General of the United States
Daniel S. Lamont, Union 1872 - Secretary of War
George W. Goethals, Manhattan 1877 - US Army General, chief engineer during the building of the Panama Canal
Otto M. Eidlitz, Cornell 1881 - contractor and civic investigator
Charles Evans Hughes, Colgate and Brown 1881 - Governor of New York, US Vice President, Secretary of State, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
Charles G. Dawes, Marietta 1884 - Vice President of the United States and Ambassador to Great Britain; winner of the Nobel Prize for peace
Arthur M. Hyde, Michigan 1899 - US Secretary of Agriculture
William B. Greeley, Stanford and California ‘01 - chief forester, US Forest Service
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Michigan ‘04 - United States Senator, Michigan
J. Arthur Clark, Toronto ‘06 - President of the Canadian Bar Association
Robert H. Lord, Harvard and Northwestern ‘06 - adviser to the 1918 Versailles Peace Conference
Amos J. Peaslee, Swarthmore ‘07 - United States Ambassador to Australia
W. W. Randolph Burgess, Brown ‘12 - United States Ambassador to NATO
Joseph P. Kennedy, Harvard ‘12 - Ambassador to Great Britain, father of two Senators and a President
James B. Conlan, Harvard ‘13 - Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
Paul H. Douglas, Bowdoin ‘13 - Senator - Illinois
Sumner T. Pike, Bowdoin ‘13 - President of the Atomic Energy Commission
John L. Keddy, Hamilton ‘15 - Curator of the Smithsonian Institute
Matthew W. Hill, Washington ‘17 - Chief Justice, Washington State Supreme Court
Kenneth B. Keating, Rochester ‘19 - United States Senator, New York; Ambassador to India; Ambassador to Israel; Brigadier General, United States Army
Lester B. Pearson, Toronto ‘19 - Prime Minister of Canada and President of the United Nations General Assembly; Nobel Prize winner for Peace
David E. Lilienthal, DePauw ‘20 - President of the Atomic Energy Commission
Herbert Brownell, Nebraska ‘24 - US Attorney General
Clifford P. Case, Rutgers ‘25 - Senator - New Jersey
Francis H. Russell, Tufts ‘26 - United States Ambassador to Indonesia
General David M. Shoup, DePauw ‘26 - Commandant, US Marine Corps and Congressional Medal of Honor winner
John M. Matthias, Ohio State ‘28 - Justice, Ohio Supreme Court
Frank R. Kenison, Dartmouth ‘29 - Chief Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court
Winston L. Prouty, Lafayette ‘30 - Senator - Vermont
Foy D. Kohler, Ohio State ‘31 - ambassador to the USSR
William H. Avery, Kansas ‘34 - Governor, State of Kansas
Robert T. Stafford, Middlebury ‘35 - US Congressman and Senator, Vermont
Hugh E. Rodham, Pennsylvania State ‘35 - Father of First Lady Hillary Rodham-Clinton
Joseph L. Fisher, Technology ‘35 - US Congressman, Virginia
George R. Hunter, Manitoba ‘37 - Member of Parliament
William C. O’Neill, Marietta and Ohio State ‘38 - Governor, State of Ohio
John P. Robarts, Western Ontario ‘39 - Premier, Province of Ontario, Canada
F. Ray Keyser, Jr., Tufts ‘50 - Governor, State of Vermont
Dr. G. William Whitehurst, Washington and Lee ‘50 - US Congressman from Virginia
William H. Brown, Jr., Swarthmore ‘51 - Parliamentarian, United States House of Representatives
John B. Conlan, Northwestern ‘51 - US Congressman, Arizona
Alan J. Dixon, Illinois ‘51 - Senator - Illinois
E. Peter Lougheed, Alberta ‘52 - Premier, Province of Alberta, Canada
Robert Hanrahan, Bowling Green ‘56 - US Congressman, Illinois
Ronald A. Irwin, Western Ontario ‘57 - Minister of Indian Affairs
Thomas E. Morgan, Lafayette ‘58 - US Congressman, Pennsylvania
John S. Herrington, Stanford ‘61 - US Energy Secretary
N. Lloyd Axworthy, Manitoba ‘63 - Member of Parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Michael D. Barnes, North Carolina ‘65 - US Congressman, Maryland
Anthony J. Moffat, Jr., Syracuse ‘66 - US Congressman, Connecticut
Paul R. Ford, Middlebury ‘67 - director of Amnesty International
Les Aspin, Jr., Marquette ‘70 - Congressman from Wisconsin and former Secretary of Defense
Thomas J. Vilsack, Hamilton ‘72 - Governor of the State of Iowa
Dennis R. Rehberg, Washington State ‘77 - US Congressman, Montana