by marriage to Robert Gould Shaw. Congressman from Massachusetts. Overseer of Harvard University. First cousin to Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard George Gordon Meade (1866) – major general in the United States Army. Commander of Union forces at Gettysburg. Honorary member Paul Nitze – presidential advisor, diplomat, foreign policy strategist, Secretary of the Navy, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and co-founder of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Wendell Phillips – leading abolitionist William Phillips – diplomat, US ambassador to Italy H. H. Richardson – architect, designer of Trinity Church in Boston, among others President Theodore Roosevelt – 26th president of the United States Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. – recipient of the Medal of Honor Leverett Saltonstall – United States senator from Massachusetts, 59th governor of Massachusetts Louis Agassiz Shaw II – Boston socialite; depicted in Robert Lowell's poem "Waking in the Blue" as "Bobbie, Porcellian '29, a replica of Louis XVI without the wig…" Robert Gould Shaw (1856–1859) – colonel of 54th Massachusetts Regiment, first all-volunteer Black regiment in Union Army, Civil War Killed in action at Ft. Wagner, as depicted in the motion picture Glory. Subject of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens Justice Joseph Story (1795) – associate justice of the Supreme Court, leading Federalist theorist Son of Elisha Story, member of Sons of Liberty and participant in the Boston Tea Party Charles Sumner (1830, LLD 1834) – congressman and senator from Massachusetts, leading abolitionist; nearly beaten to death in 1856 on the floor of the house by Preston Brooks following a speech on slavery and slave holders Benjamin Ogle Tayloe (1814) – American businessman, diplomat, and political activist in Washington, D.C. during the first half of the 19th century. Son of Col. John Tayloe III of The Octagon House. Owner of the Willard Hotel, inherited from his father. Personal secretary to Richard Rush Edward Thornton Tayloe – diplomat and planter. Son of Col. John Tayloe III of Mount Airy. Personal secretary to Joel Roberts Poinsett first United States Minister to Mexico. Selected to be United States Secretary of the Treasury under William Henry Harrison, but President Harrison died before he could be confirmed. Some historians argue Harrison was on his way to the Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House with this information when he caught pneumonia Henry Constantine Wayne (1834) – Confederate officer. Left Harvard to graduate from United States Military Academy (1838). Major