List of Union College alumni
Introduction This '''list of Union College alumni''' includes graduates of Union College in Schenectady, New York, United States who have achieved some notability or influence in the public or private spheres. Such a list is necessarily selective, and perforce subjective.
Alumni list  Name Year Notability Reference  1798 Member of the United States House of Representatives  1818 Member of the United States House of Representatives  1799 Member of the United States House of Representatives  1799 Member of the United States House of Representatives  1801 Member of the United States House of Representatives  1802 Member of the United States House of Representatives  1803 Member of the United States House of Representatives  1803 First Chancellor of New York University  1803 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (two terms)   1804 President of Washington College (Trinity College)   1804 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1806 Member of the United States House of Representatives; United States Secretary of War; United States Secretary of the Treasury 1807 Author of pioneering ''Elements of Medical Jurisprudence'' (1823) 1807 President of The College of William & Mary 1808 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1809 First New York State Superintendent of Common Schools; Regent of the State University of New York; "Father of the New York State Common School System" 1809 Missionary; appointed Indian Commissioner by Andrew Jackson 1810 Member of the United States House of Representatives; Federal judge; United States Minister to Mexico 1810 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1810 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1810 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1811 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1813 President of Brown University (1827–1855) 1814 Founder of the Oneida Institute and Knox College (Illinois). Galesburg, Illinois, named for him. 1815 Secretary to William H. Seward; New York Central Park Commissioner 1815 President of Western University of Pennsylvania, Edgeworth Female Seminary, Harmony Female College 1815 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1815 Member of the United States Senate 1816 Member of the United States House of Representatives1818 Attorney, Member of the New York State Assembly, U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican 1818 Member of the United States Senate; author of landmark judicial decisions on state and national economic regulation 1818 Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey 1818 Member of the United States Senate 1818 Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania 1818 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1819 President of Jefferson College; Superintendent of Public Instruction for Kentucky 1819 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1819 (1821?) President of Ohio University 1819 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1819 Member of the United States Senate 1820 Educator; author; President of Union College (New York) 1820 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1820 Governor of New York; member of the United States Senate; United States Secretary of State  1819 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1821 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1821 Member of the United States House of Representatives1821Presbyterian minister, missionary, and community leader who founded several settlements in Ottawa County, Michigan. 1821 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1821 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1821 President of Franklin & Marshall College 1822 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1822 Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate 1823 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1823 Member of the United States House of Representatives 1823 Member of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly; Justice of the New York Superior Court1824 Astronomer; original member of the United States National Academy of Sciences1824 Member of the United States House of Representatives1824 Member of the United States Senate; lawyer, judge, educator1824 Governor of Georgia1824 Member of the United States House of Representatives1824 Member of the United States House of Representatives1825 Member of the United States House of Representatives1825 Member of the United States House of Representatives; Regent of the State University of New York; Justice of the New York State Supreme Court; a founder of Albany Law School1825 President of Western University of Pennsylvania1825 First official President of the University of Michigan (1852-1863)1826 Dean of the Philadelphia Divinity School1826 Episcopal Bishop in the Diocese of New York; founded the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York1827 Member of the United States House of Representatives1827 Member of the United States House of Representatives1827 Explorer; Indian agent; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin; one of the founders of Denver1827 Member of the United States House of Representatives; Justice of the Superior Court of New York City; Justice of the New York State Supreme Court; historian1827 Wisconsin Supreme Court1827 Member of the United States Senate1827 President of Hanover College1827 Member of the United States House of Representatives1827 Member of the United States House of Representatives1827 President of Bowdoin College (1839–1866)1828 Mayor of Utica, New York; Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1872-1882)1828 Mayor of Buffalo, New York; Judge of the New York Superior Court1828 Member of the United States Senate; Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America1828 President of the New York State Normal Institute; president of Jefferson College1829 Member of the United States House of Representatives1829 African missionary and explorer; author of ''Western Africa: Its History, Condition, and Prospects'' (1856)1829 President of Colgate University (1856-1868)1830 Member of the United States House of Representatives1830 Surgeon; president of the New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence; author of important medical texts1830 Philosopher and author; father of Henry James (novelist) and William James (philosopher/psychologist)1830 Historian; author of ''The Life of Thomas Jefferson'' (1858)1830 Lawyer; stock market manipulator; successor of William M. Tweed as Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society1830 The "Father of American Metal Bridges"; civil engineer; inventor; bridge designer1831 Chancellor of the University of Buffalo1831 President of Racine College1831 Mayor of Milwaukee1832 Member of the United States House of Representatives; railroad builder; printer to the Senate and House1832 Religious journalist1833 Member of the United States House of Representatives1835 New York State Supreme Court Justice1834 Lawyer; Solicitor of the United States Treasury; Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals1834 Clergyman; author; hymn writer ("It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," "Calm on the Listening Ears of Night")1835 Consul-General to Paris during the Civil War; Minister to France; founder of the New York Public Library1835 Member of the United States House of Representatives1837 General-in-Chief of the Union Armies1837 Member of the United States House of Representatives1837 Botanist; lichenologist; namesake of Tuckerman Ravine1838 Catholic priest; author; historian1839 Member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Michigan1839 New York Secretary of State; historian and author1839 Member of the United States House of Representatives1840 Founder of the Mount Washington Collegiate Institute1839 New York City financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill1840 Anthropologist; ethnologist; the "Father of American Anthropology"1842 Wisconsin State Senator1842 Botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture; explorer and botanist of the Rocky Mountains1842 Member of the United States House of Representatives1843 Botanist; mineralogist; forester; historian of New York State; Director of the United States Census; "Father of American Forestry"1844 Member of the United States House of Representatives1844 Member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Massachusetts and mayor of Boston1845 International manufacturer; inventor1845 Judge on the New York State Court of Appeals1845 Member and Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly1846 Regent of the University of Washington; founder of the University of Puget Sound1846 Member of the United States House of Representatives1846 President of the University of Illinois and Kalamazoo College1846 Governor of New York1846 Clergyman and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly1847 Member of the United States House of Representatives1848 Twenty-first President of the United States1848 Journalist; artist; photographer; diplomat; American Consul to Rome during the Civil War; American Consul at Crete1848 Inventor of roll film1848 Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims1849 Civil War general; composer of revised "Taps" bugle call; Civil War chief of staff for General Joseph Hooker; Civil War chief of staff for General George Meade1849 Diplomat; journalist; son of William H. Seward; Assistant Secretary of State1852 Governor, Choctaw Nation; author of English-Choctaw dictionary1853 Governor of Pennsylvania1853 Architect of the Nott Memorial; architect of Mark Twain's residence in Hartford, Connecticut1853 President of Milton College1854 Solicitor General of the United States1854 Editor and author with the American Sunday School Union1855 Presbyterian missionary in the Western United States; first United States Superintendent of Public Instruction in Alaska1855 Member of the United States House of Representatives1855 Member of the United States House of Representatives1856 Member of the United States House of Representatives1856 Astronomer; inventor of meteorological instruments; president of the World Congress on Astronomy and Astrophysics1856 Pioneer in experimental agriculture and practical education; president of Iowa State University1856 Author; drug experimentalist; author of ''The Hasheesh Eater''1856 Member of the United States House of Representatives1857 First president of Smith College; advocate for women's colleges1859 Mycologist; New York State Botanist1859 New York State Engineer and Surveyor1860 Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate1860 Speaker of the New York State Assembly1860 Member of the United States House of Representatives1861 Missionary; diplomat; secretary of the United States Legation to China1861 United States minister to Russia; United States Postmaster General1862 Governor of Mississippi1863 New York State Senator; Union College trustee; author of ''Banking Law of New York''1863 Member of the United States House of Representatives1864 Architect; designed many Princeton University buildings; Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury1865 Member of the United States House of Representatives1865 President of Case Western Reserve UniversityLa Mott W. Rhodes1866Member of the New York State Assembly1866 Member of the United States House of Representatives; New York State Comptroller1867? Member of the United States Senate; member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Wyoming; author of the Carey Arid Lands Act (1894)1827 Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate1877 "Father of American Sociology"1882 Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate from Louisiana; career ended by Huey Pierce Long, Jr.1885 Member of the United States House of Representatives1893 New York State Engineer and Surveyor1904 Educator, author1912 United States Secretary of War1927 One of the fathers of the modern digital computer1938 Member of the United States House of Representatives1940 Psychologist; developed theory of human development known as "emergent cyclical levels of existence theory"1941 Widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser1942 Businessman; developer of the concept of Total Quality Management/Control1945 Scientist in the field of applied mathematics; Gordon–Newell theorem named for him and colleague William J. Gordon1946 Nobel Prize in Medicine (1976)1947 Professor of Germanic Languages with a particular expertise in Runology1947 Computer Pioneer Award winner from the IEEE Computer Society; designer of the Sperry Corporation's first digital computer, the SPEEDAC1948 Author of books for children and young adults1948 Law professor and labor arbitrator1948 Surgeon and author1949 Frederic Ives Medal; National Medal of Science1950 Author of works such as ''Wittgenstein's Mistress'' and ''The Ballad of Dingus Magee''1951 Ambassador to South Africa1951 Paleontologist1951 Managing editor of The Washington Post1952 Vice President of Public Affairs for the Mobil Corporation1955 Producer1959 Politician in Hawaii; member of the US House of Representatives (1986–87, 1991–2010) and 7th Governor of Hawaii (2010–2014)1962 Character actor and acting teacher1963 Ophthalmologist; discovered the benefits of Vitamin A for children deficient in this vitamin1964 President and COO of Warner Bros. Entertainment1965 Member of the United States House of Representatives1965 Psychologist; psychotherapist; writer; director of the Center for Adult Development1965 Historian; critic1966 One of the developers of the Macsyma computer algebra system and the Franz Lisp system1967 Executive producer for HBO1967 D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University1968 Chair of Accountancy at the Leventhal School of Accounting, University of Southern California1969 Film and television actor1969 Zambian politician and president of the United Party for National Development (UPND), a leading opposition party1971 Screenwriter; director1972 New York State Assemblyman1972 Author; editor1973 American historian; defense consultant; author1974 Author; National Book Award winner; MacArthur FellowMark J. Bennett1976Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit1976Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research1980 Chairman, president and CEO of Texas Instruments1982 Philanthropist; activist; CEO of Equal Justice Works and president of the Stern Family Fund1983 Physics professor, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Nobel Committee for Physics1983 Emmy-award winning television and film producer. Co-executive producer for HBO's The Sopranos.1984 MacArthur Fellow1988President and CEO at eBay1989 Writer and television producer noted for his work on ''Family Guy''1990 Corporate executive and entrepreneur1992 US Army Veteran, Gastroenterologist, Atrium Health1994 Television journalist; host of MSNBC's ''Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan''1995 Olympian; first American to win a gold medal in inverted aerial skiing; motivational speaker1997 Screenwriter; director2003 Actor and comedian, known for ''House of Lies'' and ''Parks and Recreation''2005 Actor, on cast of ''Silver Linings'' and ''Concussion''2006Senior personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal2007American artist, photographer, and author.2015 NHL defenseman for the Arizona Coyotes2015  Tufts Medical Center Psychiatry student rotator of the month, October 20232019American-Israeli baseball player for the Miami Marlins and for Team Israel2019American former professional racing cyclist and Olympic bronze medalist. * Samantha Littlefield Huntley, portrait artist
Select gallery File:FWSeward2.jpg|Frederick W. Seward, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson File:Henry Wager Halleck - Brady-Handy.jpg|Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Union Armies File:Robert Toombs - Brady-Handy.jpg|Robert Toombs, first Confederate States Secretary of State File:Ward Hunt - Brady-Handy.jpg|Ward Hunt, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1873-1882File:Portrait of Robert P. Patterson 111-C-C2512 (cropped).jpg|Robert P. Patterson, U.S. Secretary of War under Harry S. Truman File:Franklin Henry Giddings.jpg|Franklin H. Giddings, "Father of American sociology" File:Neil Abercrombie, 109th Pictorial photo.jpg|Neil Abercrombie, seventh Governor of HawaiiFile:John Bigelow - Brady-Handy.jpg|John Bigelow, Minister to France under LincolnFile:Daniel Butterfield.jpg|Daniel Butterfield, Union General in the Civil WarFile:Joseph Maull Carey (1845–1924).jpg|Joseph M. Carey, governor of Wyoming, 1911-1915File:Gordongould2.JPG|Gordon Gould, developer of the laserFile:Ira Harris.jpg|Ira Harris, member of the U.S. Senate, 1861-1867File:JohnFHartranft.jpg|John F. Hartranft, governor of Pennsylvania, 1873-1879File:Franklin B. Hough.jpg|Franklin B. Hough, first chief of the US Division of ForestryFile:Henry James Sr. and Henry James Jr. in 1854.jpg|Henry James, Sr., philosopher and authorFile:Fitz Hugh Ludlow.jpg|Fitz Hugh Ludlow, author of ''The Hasheesh Eater'' and Union's alma materFile:lewishenrymorgan.jpg|Lewis Henry Morgan, "Father of American anthropology"File:JohnWilliamsonNevin.jpg|John W. Nevin, president of Franklin and Marshall College, 1866-1876File:Clarkson Nott Potter - Brady-Handy.jpg|Clarkson N. Potter, president of the American Bar Association (1881–1882) and US Congressman from New York (1869–1875)File:Seelye Laurenus.jpg|Laurenus C. Seelye, first president of Smith College, 1875-1910File:SpencerJohn.jpg|John Canfield Spencer, U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President  John TylerFile:William James Stillman.png|William Stillman, journalist, artist, photographer, and diplomatFile:HenryPhilipTappan.Png|Henry Philip Tappan, first President of the University of Michigan, 1852-1863File:Tedisco Headshot.jpeg|Jim Tedisco, Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly from 2005 to 2009File:Francis Wayland.jpg|Francis Wayland, president of Brown University, 1827-1855
References
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External links * Union Alumni Association