telecommunications mogul Joseph Mansfield (class of 1817) – American Civil War major general Robert Tuttle Morris (class of 1877) – surgeon and writer Newton Morton (class of 1947) – founder of modern genetic epidemiology Jonathan Mostow (class of 1979) – film director, writer, and film producer Henry Murphy (class of 1895) – architect; designed Nationalist Chinese monuments as well as Hopkins' 1925 campus, Baldwin Hall, and Hopkins House Benjamin Matthias Nead (class of 1866) – historian, author, newspaper editor, lawyer, and politician. John Punnett Peters (class of 1868) – Episcopal clergyman, archaeologist, professor, author Edwards Pierrepont (class of 1833) – New York Supreme Courtjustice; minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain; United States Attorney General Abraham Pierson (class of 1664) – first rector of Yale's precursor, the Collegiate School Harry Rowe Shelley (class of 1876) – composer, organist, music professor Selden Palmer Spencer (class of 1880) – lawyer, United States Senator for Missouri Benjamin Silliman (class of 1833) – early science professor William Henry Stiles (class of 1825) – United States Representative for Georgia, U.S. chargé d'affaires to Vienna, Confederate colonel 60th GA Alfred Howe Terry (class of 1838) – American Civil War major general, military commander of the Dakota Territory Sherman Day Thacher (class of 1879) – founder of The Thacher School Thomas Thacher (class of 1867) – lawyer Thomas Anthony Thacher (class of 1831-assumed) – classicist, college administrator Samantha Vinograd (class of 2001) – American journalist and national security analyst at CNN Dan Wasserman (class of 1967) – political cartoonist Ansley Wilcox (class of 1870) – scholar, Oxford graduate, lawyer, civil service reform commissioner, New York political insider and close friend of Theodore Roosevelt Washington F. Willcox (class of 1858) – U.S. Representative from Connecticut Theodore Winthrop (class of 1841) – author Theodore Dwight Woolsey (class of 1816) – president of Yale University References External links Schools in New Haven, Connecticut Educational institutions established in the 1660s 1660 establishments in Connecticut Private high schools in Connecticut Preparatory schools in Connecticut Private middle schools in Connecticut