Baldwin was a Georgia representative in the Continental Congress and served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate after the adoption of the Constitution. Baldwin was the founding father of the University of Georgia, first state-charted public institution of higher education in the United States and served as its first president. Nathan Hale - Class of 1773 - Spy for General George Washington and the state hero of Connecticut James Hillhouse - Class of 1773 - An American lawyer, real estate developer, and politician from New Haven, Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in both the U.S. House and Senate Eli Whitney - Class of 1789 - An American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin Jeremiah Day - Class of 1789 - An American academic, a Congregational minister and President of Yale College (1817–1846). James Fenimore Cooper - Class of 1806 - A prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century, author of Last of the Mohicans Henry Leavitt Ellsworth - Class of 1810 - A Yale-educated attorney who became the first Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, where he encouraged innovation by inventors Samuel F.B. Morse and Samuel Colt. Ellsworth also served as the second president of the Aetna Insurance Company, and was a major donor to Yale College, a commissioner to Indian tribes on the western frontier, and the founder of what became the United States Department of Agriculture. Roger Sherman Baldwin- Class of 1811 - An American lawyer involved in the Amistad case, who later became the 32nd Governor of Connecticut and a United States Senator. Asa Thurston - Class of 1818 - First American Christian Missionary to the Hawaiian Islands. Nathaniel Parker Willis - Class of 1827 - An American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - Class of 1828 - A classical and English scholar, a mathematician, a physicist, a chemist, and a good public speaker. He was the tenth president of Columbia University in New York City. Barnard strove to have educational privileges extended by the university to women as well as to men, and Barnard College Noah Porter - Class of 1831 - An American academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer and President of Yale College (1871–1886). Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt - Class of 1833 -