List of Marietta College alumni explained

Marietta College is a private liberal arts college in Marietta, Ohio. Following are some of its notable alumni.

Art

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Theodore Earl Butler
Charles L. Peterson			Artist

Business

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Henry M. Dawes	1896		President of Pure Oil Company of United States Comptroller of the Currency
	1859		President of Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad Co. and Ashland Coal & Iron Railway; U.S. Army colonel and member of Ulysses S. Grant's staff
	1987	Industrial Engineering	President and chairperson of DXC Technology

Clergy

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Obed Dickinson			Congregational minister and abolitionist
Dean Hess	1941		Clergyman, soldier, and humanitarian
Edward Marsden			Minister and missionary to the Tlingit community of Saxman
John Poage Williamson			Missionary to the Lower Sioux Agency and Crow Creek Indian Reservation; South Dakota House of Representatives

Education

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
	1965	Mathematics	Mathematician and professor at Dartmouth College
Edmund Burke Fairfield			Chancellor of the University of Nebraska and Lieutenant governor of Michigan
John Fantuzzo			Professor of Human Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Child Research Center
Doug La Follette	1963	Chemistry	Academic, environmental scientist, and Secretary of State of Wisconsin
		Sports Medicine	Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences and sports medicine scholar
John Nesselroade			Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and adjunct professor of human development at Pennsylvania State University
Elsie Eaton Newton			Dean of Women at Marietta and educator with the United States Indian Service
Wilbur Schramm	1928		Academic and founding father of the Communication Studies discipline

Entertainment

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Nick Gehlfuss	2007		Actor	^[1]
Gary Kott	1969		Award-winning television and advertising writer, and producer

Law

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
James H. Brown			Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
Martin Dewey Follett			Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
Joseph McCormick			Ohio Attorney General, lawyer, and participant in the second Ohio Constitutional Convention
Chuck McRae			Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
Steven Sadow			Criminal defense attorney
John Elbert Sater			District judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Riley E. Stratton			Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
Joseph G. Wilson	1846		Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court and United States House of Representatives

Literature and journalism

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Kathy Brodsky	1967		Author and poet	^[2]
Rich Galen	1968		Columnist, press secretary, and Republican strategist
Joyce Harrington	1953		Novelist
Joy Williams	1963		Novelist, short story writer, and essayist

Military

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
	1859		U.S. Army colonel and member of Ulysses S. Grant's staff, president of Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad Co. and Ashland Coal & Iron Railway;
Walter Cowen Short	1888		U.S. Army Brigadier General	^[3]

Politics

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Edward H. Allen			Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
Ray Barnhart	1959		Federal Highway Administration director and Texas House of Representatives
			United States House of Representatives
Eldon Jacob Crull	1881		Montana House of Representatives
			United States House of Representatives
Charles G. Dawes	1884		U.S. Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, and ambassador
Henry M. Dawes			United States Comptroller of the Currency and president of Pure Oil Company
Rufus Dawes			United States House of Representatives
Frank Deem			West Virginia Senate and West Virginia House of Delegates
Edmund Burke Fairfield			Lieutenant governor of Michigan and Chancellor of the University of Nebraska
John F. Follett			United States House of Representatives
Glen Gainer Jr.			State Auditor of West Virginia
William Irwin	1848		Governor of California	^[4]
Carte Goodwin	1996		United States Senate
Amy Grady			West Virginia Senate
Doug La Follette			Secretary of State of Wisconsin, academic, and environmental scientist
Isaac Naylor			Mayor of Dallas
Henry S. Neal			United States House of Representatives
C. William O'Neill	1938		Governor of Ohio	^[5]
John Patterson			Ohio House of Representatives
			United States House of Representatives and Lieutenant Governor of Washington
John M. Stowell			Wisconsin State Assembly and Mayor of Milwaukee
Willard Warner	1845		United States Senate
Albert B. White			Governor of West Virginia	^[6]
Wilbur M. White			United States House of Representatives
			South Dakota House of Representatives and Lower Sioux Agency and Crow Creek Indian Reservation missionary
Joseph G. Wilson	1846		United States House of Representatives and justice on the Oregon Supreme Court

Science and medicine

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Richard M. Krause	1947	Biology	Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, physician, microbiologist, and immunologist
F. Story Musgrave	1960	Chemistry	NASA astronaut and shuttle pilot

Sports

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Dale E. Chadwick			College football coach and collegiate athletic director
W. D. Chadwick			Coach of college football, baseball, and basketball and athletics administrator
Dane Dastillung			Professional football player
	2002	Environmental Science	Professional baseball player with the New York Yankees
Mel Doherty			Professional football player-coach
Ban Johnson	1887		Founder of baseball's American League	^[7]
	1985		Professional baseball player	^[8]
Don Schaly	1959		ABCA Hall of Fame member, all-time winningest baseball coach in Division III
John Strotbeck	1979		U.S. Olympic rower
Kent Tekulve	1969		Professional baseball player with the Pittsburgh Pirates
Jim Tracy	1978		Former Major League Baseball manager with the Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers
Bob Walsh	1962	Journalism	Sports executive, television producer, and marketing executive

Other

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Andrea Parhamovich	2000		National Democratic Institute employee killed in Baghdad, Iraq on January 17, 2007
Walter E. Webbe			Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States

External links

• Marietta College website

Notes and References

1. News: News . "Chicago Med" actor reflects on time at Marietta College . live . 2017-03-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170322015147/http://www.thenewscenter.tv/content/news/Chicago-Med-actor-reflects-on-time-at-Marietta-College-368657441.html . 2017-03-22.
2. News: York . Kate . 2017-09-25 . MC Alum Credits Her Success to the School . Marietta Times . live . 2018-11-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181117105929/http://www.mariettatimes.com/news/local-news/2017/09/qa-mc%E2%80%88alum-credits-her-success-to-the-school/ . 2018-11-17.
3. Book: A Centennial Biographical History of the City of Columbus and Franklin County Ohio . 1901 . Lewis Publishing Company . Chicago, IL . 670–672 . 2020-08-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220525021841/https://books.google.com/books?id=yNYyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA670 . 2022-05-25 . live . Google Books.
4. Web site: Governor William Irwin . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220525021843/https://classic.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_california/col2-content/main-content-list/title_irwin_william.default.html . 2022-05-25 . 2018-11-23 . National Governors Association.
5. Web site: C. W. O'Neill – Ohio History Central . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170507011452/http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/C._W._O%27Neill . 2017-05-07 . 2017-03-21 . www.ohiohistorycentral.org.
6. Web site: West Virginia Governor Albert Blakeslee White . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029210704/http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_west_virginia/col2-content/main-content-list/title_white_albert.html . October 29, 2013 . October 26, 2013 . National Governors Association.
7. Web site: Ban Johnson: American Baseball Executive . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20181124004027/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ban-Johnson . 2018-11-24 . 2018-11-23 . Encyclopaedia Britannica.
8. Web site: Terry Mulholland Stats . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20181124003745/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=mulhote01 . 2018-11-24 . 2018-11-23 . Baseball Almanac.