Politics and Government
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