Following is a list of notable members of the American Whig–Cliosophic Society. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category.
| Name | Known for | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 110th Supreme Court Justice. | unknown, Class of 1972. President of the Whig-Clio Debate Panel.[1] | ||
| Revolutionary War veteran, Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly. | Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society.[2] | ||
| Coauthored the first American novel while at Princeton. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society.[3] | ||
| Argued the first recorded case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Second Attorney General of the United States under George Washington. | Whig (founder), Class of 1772. Founded the American Whig Society.[4] | ||
| Senator, Secretary of State, Fifteenth President of the United States. | Whig (honorary), inducted 1820.[5] [6] | ||
| Revolutionary War veteran, New York Senator, third Vice-President of the United States. | Clio (founder), Class of 1772. Founded the Cliosophic Society. | ||
| Senator, Texas | Clio, Class of 1992. | ||
| Senator from Pennsylvania, eleventh Vice-President of the United States. | Clio, Class of 1810.[7] | ||
| Forty-ninth Governor of Indiana. | unknown, Class of 1971.[8] | ||
| Diplomat, second Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, first civilian CIA Director. | Whig, Class of 1914.[9] | ||
| As Secretary of State, one of the most famous diplomats of the 20th century. | Whig, Class of 1908.[10] [11] | ||
| Founding Father, drafter of the Constitution, drafter of the Judiciary Act of 1789, third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. | Clio (founder), Class of 1766. Founded the Cliosophic Society. | ||
| U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, the fifteenth Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1836.[12] | ||
| Senator, eighth Governor of Maryland. | Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society.[13] | ||
| Seventh President of the United States. | Whig (honorary), inducted 1838. | ||
| Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, forty-eighth Governor of New Jersey, chaired the 9/11 Commission. | unknown (presumed Clio), Class of 1957.[14] | ||
| Revolutionary War veteran, ninth Governor of Virginia, orator at George Washington’s funeral. Father of Robert E. Lee. | Whig (originally Clio), Class of 1773.[15] | ||
| Revolutionary War veteran, associate Supreme Court justice. | Whig, Class of 1774.[16] | ||
| The Federalist Papers co-author, Father of the United States Constitution, Co-Father of its Bill of Rights, fourth President of the United States. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society. | ||
| Founding Father, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, prominent Anti-Federalist. | Clio (founder), Class of 1766. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[17] | ||
| Founding Father, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Fifth President of the United States. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1817. | ||
| Political activist, presidential candidate. | unknown, Class of 1955.[18] | ||
| United States senator, fifth governor of New Jersey. | Clio, Class of 1773. | ||
| Founding Father, signer of the Constitution, second governor of New Jersey, Supreme Court Justice. | Clio (founder), Class of 1763. Founded the Cliosophic Society. | ||
| Senator (longest-serving senator in Rhode Island’s history), author of the Federal Pell Grant program. | unknown (presumed Whig), class of 1940.[19] | ||
| Senator (longest-serving senator in Maryland’s history), co-sponsor of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act. | unknown, Class of 1954.[20] | ||
| Thirty-first governor of Illinois, fifth Ambassador to the United Nations (during the Cuban Missile Crisis), two-time presidential candidate. | Whig, Class of 1922.[21] | ||
| Pacifist, six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. | Whig, Class of 1905.[22] | ||
| Professor, thirteenth President of Princeton, thirty-fourth Governor of New Jersey, twenty-eighth President of the United States. Wilson delivered his famous speech, “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” as a representative of the American Whig Society.[23] | Whig (Speaker), Class of 1879. Speaker (president) of the American Whig Society, contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine. Later, as a professor, coached the Whig-Clio debate team.[24] | ||
| Ninth Attorney General (longest serving in American history), arguing in Gibbons v. Ogden, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Worcester v. Georgia. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1819. | ||
| U.S. Ambassador to Laos, Syria and Morocco, ninth Ambassador to the United Nations. | Whig, Class of 1928.[25] |
| Name | Known for | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fifth President of Yale University. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1817. | ||
| Samuel Eusebius McCorkle | A pioneer of public and private education in colonial and independent America, progenitor and inceptor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | Clio, class of 1772.[26] | |
| Fourth President of Union College. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1816. | ||
| One of the most influential international relations scholars of the 20th century (pioneered the concept of soft power). | unknown, Class of 1958.[27] | ||
| One of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century. | unknown, class of 1943. First treasurer of Whig-Clio’s Madison Debating Society.[28] | ||
| Founder of the first law school in the United States. | Clio (founder), Class of 1763. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[29] | ||
| Philosopher, seventh President of Princeton University. | Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society.[30] | ||
| Professor, thirteenth President of Princeton, thirty-fourth Governor of New Jersey, twenty-eighth President of the United States. Wilson delivered his famous speech, “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” as a representative of the American Whig Society. | Whig (Speaker), Class of 1879. Speaker (president) of the American Whig Society, contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine. Later, as a professor, coached the Whig-Clio debate team. |
| Name | Known for | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coauthored the first American novel while at Princeton. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society. | ||
| One of the most famous American authors of the 20th century. | Whig, Class of 1917. Contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine.[31] [32] | ||
| Coauthored the first American novel while at Princeton. The Poet of the American Revolution. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society. | ||
| Senior editor for the National Review. | Unknown, Class of 1995[33] | ||
| One of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. | unknown, Class of 1893. Contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine.[34] | ||
| One of the most influential American authors of the 19th century. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1901.[35] | ||
| Among the most influential creators of Comic Books. | Clio (honorary), inducted (unknown).[36] |