(1950) – pioneer in silicon chemistry research; discovered first advancing modern glacier Eugene N. Feingold (1952) – President of the American Public Health Association (1993–1994) Rexford A. Boda (1955) – President of Nyack College (1988–1993) Roy Curtiss (1956) – Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University; published over 250 scholarly articles; holds multiple patents; United States National Academy of Sciences Jay O. Light (1963) – Dean of the Harvard Business School (2006–2010) Harold O. Levy (1974) – New York City School Chancellor (2000–2002) under Mayor Rudy Giuliani; Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Kaplan, Inc.; Director of Global Compliance at Citigroup; Cornell University trustee Robert Harrison (1976) – CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative and Chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees; Rhodes Scholar Lori L. Altshuler (1978) – Director of the UCLA Mood Disorders Research Program and the UCLA Women's Life Center Gregory L. Fenves (1979) – University of Texas at Austin president (2015–) Kimberlé Crenshaw (1981) – prominent scholar and academic; Critical Race Theory movement founder and leader; influential in drafting of the South African Constitution equality clause Wendy Raymond (1982) - Haverford College president (2019–) Government, law, and politics U.S. Congress Elmer E. Studley (1892) – U.S. Representative (D-NY) (1933–1935); Progressive National Convention delegate (1916) Maurice Connolly (1897) – U.S. Representative (D-IA) (1913–1915); Chairman of Iowa State Democratic Convention (1914); Democratic National Convention delegate (1916) Daniel A. Reed (1898) – U.S. Representative (R-NY) (1919–1959); Cornell University football coach (1910–1911) Norman J. Gould (1899) – U.S. Representative (R-NY) (1915–1923); Republican National Convention delegate (1908, 1916) Lewis Henry (1909) – U.S. Representative (R-NY) (1922–1923) Alexander Pirnie (1927) – U.S. Representative (R-NY) (1959–1973); Bronze Star and Legion of Merit recipient Barber Conable (1943) – U.S. Representative (R-NY) (1965–1984); World Bank President (1986–1991); Council on Foreign Relations; possibly coined the term "smoking gun" when referring to the Watergate scandal Hansen Clarke (1984) – U.S. Representative (D-MI) (2011–2013); Michigan House of Representatives (1991–1992, 1999–2002); Michigan Senate (2003–2010); first Bangladeshi American to serve in U.S. Congress U.S. State Department and National Security Manton M. Wyvell (1901) – private secretary of Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan; U.S. Counsel to International Joint Commission; assistant to U.S. State Department Foreign Trade Adviser; brother-in-law of E.B. White Roger W. Jones (1928) – Deputy Secretary of State (1961–1962); chairman of the Civil Service Commission (1959–1961); adviser to five