List of Union College alumni explained

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

NameYearNotabilityReference
1798Member of the United States House of Representatives[1]
1818Member of the United States House of Representatives[2]
1799Member of the United States House of Representatives[3]
1799Member of the United States House of Representatives[4]
1801Member of the United States House of Representatives[5]
1802Member of the United States House of Representatives[6]
1803Member of the United States House of Representatives[7]
1803First Chancellor of New York University[8]
1803Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (two terms)[9]
1804President of Washington College (Trinity College)[10]
1804Member of the United States House of Representatives[11]
1806Member of the United States House of Representatives; United States Secretary of War; United States Secretary of the Treasury[12]
1807Author of pioneering Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1823)[13]
1807President of The College of William & Mary[14]
1808Member of the United States House of Representatives[15]
1809First New York State Superintendent of Common Schools; Regent of the State University of New York; "Father of the New York State Common School System"[16]
1809Missionary; appointed Indian Commissioner by Andrew Jackson[17]
1810Member of the United States House of Representatives; Federal judge; United States Minister to Mexico[18]
1810Member of the United States House of Representatives[19]
1810Member of the United States House of Representatives[20]
1810Member of the United States House of Representatives[21]
1811Member of the United States House of Representatives[22]
1813President of Brown University (1827–1855)[23]
1814Founder of the Oneida Institute and Knox College (Illinois). Galesburg, Illinois, named for him.[24]
1815Secretary to William H. Seward; New York Central Park Commissioner[25]
1815President of Western University of Pennsylvania, Edgeworth Female Seminary, Harmony Female College[26]
1815Member of the United States House of Representatives[27]
1815Member of the United States Senate[28]
1816Member of the United States House of Representatives[29]
1818Attorney, Member of the New York State Assembly, U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican[30]
1818Member of the United States Senate; author of landmark judicial decisions on state and national economic regulation[31]
1818Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey[32]
1818Member of the United States Senate[33]
1818Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania[34]
1818Member of the United States House of Representatives[35]
1819President of Jefferson College; Superintendent of Public Instruction for Kentucky[36]
1819Member of the United States House of Representatives[37]
1819 (1821?)President of Ohio University[38]
1819Member of the United States House of Representatives[39]
1819Member of the United States Senate[40]
1820Educator; author; President of Union College (New York)[41]
1820Member of the United States House of Representatives[42]
1820Governor of New York; member of the United States Senate; United States Secretary of State[43]
1819Member of the United States House of Representatives[44]
1821Member of the United States House of Representatives[45]
1821Member of the United States House of Representatives[46]
1821Presbyterian minister, missionary, and community leader who founded several settlements in Ottawa County, Michigan.[47]
1821Member of the United States House of Representatives[48]
1821Member of the United States House of Representatives[49]
1821President of Franklin & Marshall College[50]
1822Member of the United States House of Representatives[51]
1822Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate[52]
1823Member of the United States House of Representatives[53]
1823Member of the United States House of Representatives[54]
1823Member of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly; Justice of the New York Superior Court[55]
1824Astronomer; original member of the United States National Academy of Sciences[56]
1824Member of the United States House of Representatives[57]
1824Member of the United States Senate; lawyer, judge, educator[58]
1824Governor of Georgia[59]
1824Member of the United States House of Representatives[60]
1824Member of the United States House of Representatives[61]
1825Member of the United States House of Representatives[62]
1825Member 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 School[63]
1825President of Western University of Pennsylvania[64]
1825First official President of the University of Michigan (1852-1863)[65]
1826Dean of the Philadelphia Divinity School[66]
1826Episcopal Bishop in the Diocese of New York; founded the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York[67]
1827Member of the United States House of Representatives[68]
1827Member of the United States House of Representatives[69]
1827Explorer; Indian agent; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin; one of the founders of Denver[70]
1827Member of the United States House of Representatives; Justice of the Superior Court of New York City; Justice of the New York State Supreme Court; historian[71]
1827Wisconsin Supreme Court[72]
1827Member of the United States Senate[73]
1827President of Hanover College[74]
1827Member of the United States House of Representatives[75]
1827Member of the United States House of Representatives[76]
1827President of Bowdoin College (1839–1866)[77]
1828Mayor of Utica, New York; Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1872-1882)[78]
1828Mayor of Buffalo, New York; Judge of the New York Superior Court[79]
1828Member of the United States Senate; Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America[80]
1828President of the New York State Normal Institute; president of Jefferson College[81]
1829Member of the United States House of Representatives[82]
1829African missionary and explorer; author of Western Africa: Its History, Condition, and Prospects (1856)[83]
1829President of Colgate University (1856-1868)
1830Member of the United States House of Representatives[84]
1830Surgeon; president of the New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence; author of important medical texts[85]
1830Philosopher and author; father of Henry James (novelist) and William James (philosopher/psychologist)[86]
1830Historian; author of The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858)[87]
1830Lawyer; stock market manipulator; successor of William M. Tweed as Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society[88]
1830The "Father of American Metal Bridges"; civil engineer; inventor; bridge designer[89]
1831Chancellor of the University of Buffalo[90]
1831President of Racine College[91]
1831Mayor of Milwaukee[92]
1832Member of the United States House of Representatives; railroad builder; printer to the Senate and House[93]
1832Religious journalist[94]
1833Member of the United States House of Representatives[95]
1835New York State Supreme Court Justice[96]
1834Lawyer; Solicitor of the United States Treasury; Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals[97]
1834Clergyman; author; hymn writer ("It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," "Calm on the Listening Ears of Night")[98]
1835Consul-General to Paris during the Civil War; Minister to France; founder of the New York Public Library[99]
1835Member of the United States House of Representatives[100]
1837General-in-Chief of the Union Armies[101]
1837Member of the United States House of Representatives[102]
1837Botanist; lichenologist; namesake of Tuckerman Ravine[103]
1838Catholic priest; author; historian[104]
1839Member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Michigan[105]
1839New York Secretary of State; historian and author[106]
1839Member of the United States House of Representatives[107]
1840Founder of the Mount Washington Collegiate Institute[108]
1839New York City financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill[109]
1840Anthropologist; ethnologist; the "Father of American Anthropology"[110] [111]
1842Wisconsin State Senator[112]
1842Botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture; explorer and botanist of the Rocky Mountains[113]
1842Member of the United States House of Representatives[114]
1843Botanist; mineralogist; forester; historian of New York State; Director of the United States Census; "Father of American Forestry"[115]
1844Member of the United States House of Representatives[116]
1844Member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Massachusetts and mayor of Boston[117]
1845International manufacturer; inventor[118]
1845Judge on the New York State Court of Appeals[119]
1845Member and Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly[120]
1846Regent of the University of Washington; founder of the University of Puget Sound[121]
1846Member of the United States House of Representatives[122]
1846President of the University of Illinois and Kalamazoo College[123]
1846Governor of New York[124]
1846Clergyman and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly[125]
1847Member of the United States House of Representatives[126]
1848Twenty-first President of the United States[127]
1848Journalist; artist; photographer; diplomat; American Consul to Rome during the Civil War; American Consul at Crete[128]
1848Inventor of roll film[129]
1848Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims[130]
1849Civil 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 Meade[131] [132]
1849Diplomat; journalist; son of William H. Seward; Assistant Secretary of State[133]
1852Governor, Choctaw Nation; author of English-Choctaw dictionary[134]
1853Governor of Pennsylvania[135]
1853Architect of the Nott Memorial; architect of Mark Twain's residence in Hartford, Connecticut[136]
1853President of Milton College[137]
1854Solicitor General of the United States[138]
1854Editor and author with the American Sunday School Union[139]
1855Presbyterian missionary in the Western United States; first United States Superintendent of Public Instruction in Alaska[140]
1855Member of the United States House of Representatives[141]
1855Member of the United States House of Representatives[142]
1856Member of the United States House of Representatives[143]
1856Astronomer; inventor of meteorological instruments; president of the World Congress on Astronomy and Astrophysics[144]
1856Pioneer in experimental agriculture and practical education; president of Iowa State University[145]
1856Author; drug experimentalist; author of The Hasheesh Eater[146]
1856Member of the United States House of Representatives[147]
1857First president of Smith College; advocate for women's colleges[148]
1859Mycologist; New York State Botanist[149]
1859New York State Engineer and Surveyor[150]
1860Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate[151]
1860Speaker of the New York State Assembly[152]
1860Member of the United States House of Representatives[153]
1861Missionary; diplomat; secretary of the United States Legation to China[154]
1861United States minister to Russia; United States Postmaster General[155]
1862Governor of Mississippi[156]
1863New York State Senator; Union College trustee; author of Banking Law of New York[157]
1863Member of the United States House of Representatives[158]
1864Architect; designed many Princeton University buildings; Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury[159]
1865Member of the United States House of Representatives[160]
1865President of Case Western Reserve University[161]
La Mott W. Rhodes1866Member of the New York State Assembly[162]
1866Member of the United States House of Representatives; New York State Comptroller[163]
1867?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)[164]
1827Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate[165]
1877"Father of American Sociology"[166]
1882Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate from Louisiana; career ended by Huey Pierce Long, Jr.[167]
1885Member of the United States House of Representatives[168]
1893New York State Engineer and Surveyor[169]
1904Educator, author[170]
1912United States Secretary of War[171]
1927One of the fathers of the modern digital computer[172]
1938Member of the United States House of Representatives[173]
1940Psychologist; developed theory of human development known as "emergent cyclical levels of existence theory"[174]
1941Widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser[175]
1942Businessman; developer of the concept of Total Quality Management/Control[176]
1945Scientist in the field of applied mathematics; Gordon–Newell theorem named for him and colleague William J. Gordon[177]
1946Nobel Prize in Medicine (1976)[178]
1947Professor of Germanic Languages with a particular expertise in Runology[179]
1947Computer Pioneer Award winner from the IEEE Computer Society; designer of the Sperry Corporation's first digital computer, the SPEEDAC
1948Author of books for children and young adults[180]
1948Law professor and labor arbitrator[181]
1948Surgeon and author[182]
1949Frederic Ives Medal; National Medal of Science[183]
1950Author of works such as Wittgenstein's Mistress and The Ballad of Dingus Magee[184]
1951Ambassador to South Africa[185]
1951Paleontologist[186]
1951Managing editor of The Washington Post[187]
1952Vice President of Public Affairs for the Mobil Corporation[188]
1955Producer[189]
1959Politician in Hawaii; member of the US House of Representatives (1986–87, 1991–2010) and 7th Governor of Hawaii (2010–2014)[190]
1962Character actor and acting teacher[191]
1963Ophthalmologist; discovered the benefits of Vitamin A for children deficient in this vitamin[192]
1964President and COO of Warner Bros. Entertainment[193]
1965Member of the United States House of Representatives[194]
1965Psychologist; psychotherapist; writer; director of the Center for Adult Development[195]
1965Historian; critic[196]
1966One of the developers of the Macsyma computer algebra system and the Franz Lisp system[197]
1967Executive producer for HBO[198]
1967D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University
1968Chair of Accountancy at the Leventhal School of Accounting, University of Southern California[199]
1969Film and television actor[200]
1969Zambian politician and president of the United Party for National Development (UPND), a leading opposition party
1971Screenwriter; director[201]
1972New York State Assemblyman[202]
1972Author; editor[203]
1973American historian; defense consultant; author[204]
1974Author; National Book Award winner; MacArthur Fellow[205]
Mark J. Bennett1976Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[206]
1976Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research[207]
1980Chairman, president and CEO of Texas Instruments
1982Philanthropist; activist; CEO of Equal Justice Works and president of the Stern Family Fund[208]
1983Physics professor, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Nobel Committee for Physics
1983Emmy-award winning television and film producer. Co-executive producer for HBO's The Sopranos.[209]
1984MacArthur Fellow[210]
1988President and CEO at eBay[211]
1989Writer and television producer noted for his work on Family Guy[212]
1990Corporate executive and entrepreneur[213]
1992US Army Veteran, Gastroenterologist, Atrium Health[214]
1994Television journalist; host of MSNBC's Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan[215]
1995Olympian; first American to win a gold medal in inverted aerial skiing; motivational speaker[216]
1997Screenwriter; director[217]
2003Actor and comedian, known for House of Lies and Parks and Recreation
2005Actor, on cast of Silver Linings and Concussion[218]
2006Senior personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal[219]
2007American artist, photographer, and author.[220]
2015NHL defenseman for the Arizona Coyotes2015Tufts Medical Center Psychiatry student rotator of the month, October 2023
2019American-Israeli baseball player for the Miami Marlins and for Team Israel[221]
2019American former professional racing cyclist and Olympic bronze medalist.[222]

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Notes and References

  1. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

    1774–2005 (BDUCS), 1587

  2. Book: Philomathean Society (Union College). Catalogue of the Members of the Philomathean Society, Instituted in Union College, in 1795. 1847. Riggs, printer. 14. 24 July 2014.
  3. BDUSC, 796
  4. BDUSC, 1866
  5. BDUSC, 888
  6. BDUSC, 2208
  7. BDUSC, 672
  8. UUCC, 3
  9. DAB, 18:335
  10. DAB, 3:171
  11. BDUSC, 1716
  12. DAB, 17:449
  13. DAB, 2:116
  14. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (NCAB), 3:235
  15. BDUSC, 766
  16. DAB, 8:418
  17. UUCC, 6
  18. DAB, 4:345
  19. BDUSC, 1092
  20. BDUSC, 1522
  21. BDUSC, 1872
  22. BDUSC, 681
  23. DAB, 19:560
  24. DAB, 7:99
  25. DAB, 2:359
  26. UUCC, 13
  27. BDUSC, 1887
  28. BDUSC, 2014
  29. BDUSC, 882
  30. Book: Hannan, Caryn . 2008 . Connecticut Biographical Dictionary . 1, A-G . Hamburg, MI . State History Publications, LLC . 978-1-878592-72-9 . 124–125. .
  31. BDUSC, 702
  32. DAB, 5:333
  33. BDUSC, 1752
  34. DAB, 15:124
  35. BDUSC, 1830
  36. DAB, 3:10
  37. BDUSC, 816
  38. NCAB, 4:443
  39. BDUSC, 1467
  40. BDUSC, 1978
  41. DAB, 9:5
  42. BDUSC, 1452
  43. DAB, 16:615
  44. BDUSC, 1965
  45. BDUSC, 691
  46. BDUSC, 908
  47. Book: Seibold, David H. . Grand Haven in the path of destiny: a history of Grand Haven, Spring Lake, Ferrysburg and adjoining townships . 2007 . Grand Haven Historical Museum . 9781424319008 . 1st . Grand Haven, MI . 183327308.
  48. BDUSC, 1148
  49. DAB, 1:297
  50. DAB, 8:442
  51. BDUSC, 1193
  52. DAB, 20:84
  53. BDUSC, 704
  54. BDUSC, 1013
  55. UUCC, 25
  56. DAB, 1:174
  57. BDUSC, 1136
  58. DAB, 8:310
  59. DAB, 10:44
  60. BDUSC, 2002
  61. BDUSC, 2194
  62. BDUSC, 959
  63. DAB, 14:214
  64. UUCC, 29
  65. DAB, 18:302
  66. DAB, 8:261
  67. DAB, 15:129
  68. BDUSC, 688
  69. BDUSC, 1434
  70. DAB, 2:90
  71. DAB, 3:467
  72. Web site: Supreme Court Justices: Levi Hubbell (1808–1876) . Wisconsin Court System . 2009-11-23 . 2010-04-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100609151127/http://www.wicourts.gov/about/judges/supreme/retired/hubbell.htm . 2010-06-09 .
  73. DAB, 10:396
  74. NCAB, 2:123
  75. BDUSC, 1701
  76. BDUSC, 1715
  77. DAB, 20:502
  78. DAB, 9:394
  79. UUCC, 34
  80. DAB, 18:590
  81. DAB, 1:147
  82. BDUSC, 1214
  83. DAB, 20:337
  84. BDUSC, 589
  85. DAB, 8:185
  86. DAB, 9:577
  87. DAB, 15:347
  88. DAB, 16:424
  89. DAB, 20:70
  90. UUCC, 40
  91. DAB, 14:207
  92. Book: Atwood, David. Memorial Record of the Fathers of Wisconsin: Containing Sketches of the Lives and Careers of the Members of the Constitutional Conventions of 1846 and 1847-8. With a History of Early Settlement in Wisconsin. 1880. D. Atwood. 176.
  93. DAB, 1:206
  94. DAB, 15:227
  95. BDUSC, 1634
  96. Lanham(1876), p. 343
  97. DAB, 4:332
  98. DAB, 16:538
  99. DAB, 2:258
  100. BDUSC, 2138
  101. DAB, 8:150
  102. BDUSC, 1486
  103. DAB, 19:42
  104. DAB, 19:405
  105. DAB, 2:329
  106. DAB, 8:479
  107. BDUSC, 1729
  108. "Dr. G.W. Clarke, Educator, Dead", New York Times: 9, September 16, 1908
  109. NCAB, 32:448
  110. DAB, 18:183
  111. ANB, 15:848
  112. Web site: Cary, John Watson 1817 – 1895. Wisconsin Historical Society. 2011-12-13.
  113. DAB, 14:261
  114. BDUSC, 1755
  115. DAB, 9:250
  116. BDUSC, 627
  117. DAB, 15:534
  118. DAB, 1:219
  119. NCAB, 12:59
  120. Book: THE LEGISLATIVE MANUAL OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. 11th. Madison, Wis.. 1872. 449.
  121. UUCC, 71
  122. BDUSC, 791
  123. DAB, 7:603
  124. DAB, 9:113
  125. Book: THE LEGISLATIVE MANUAL OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. 11th. Madison, Wis.. 1872. 447.
  126. BDUSC, 683
  127. DAB, 1:373
  128. DAB, 18:29
  129. DAB, 7:408
  130. DAB, 8:579
  131. DAB, 3:372
  132. Book: Sears, Stephen. Gettysburg. Houghton Mifflin. New York. 2003. 2002191259. 36, 130. 0-395-86761-4. registration.
  133. DAB, 16:612
  134. UUCC, 87
  135. DAB, 8:368
  136. ANB, 17:744
  137. NCAB, 6:119
  138. News: Orlow W. Chapman . Obituary . The New York Times . 1890-01-20 . 2010-05-11.
  139. DAB, 15:538
  140. DAB, 9:555
  141. NCAB, 4:315
  142. BDUSC, 1917
  143. BDUSC, 971
  144. DAB, 9:252
  145. DAB, 10:452
  146. DAB, 11:491
  147. BDUSC, 1590
  148. DAB, 16:557
  149. DAB, 14:372
  150. UUCC, 104
  151. DAB, 12:641
  152. UUCC, 107
  153. BDUSC, 1803
  154. DAB, 9:132
  155. DAB, 17:246
  156. Raymond (1907), p. 2:284
  157. NCAB, 2:176
  158. BDUSC, 1712
  159. ANB, 17:753
  160. BDUSC, 1460
  161. DAB, 17:495
  162. Book: Proceedings of the New York State Bar Association, Fourteenth Annual Meeting, Held at the City of Albany, January 20 and 21, 1891 . Weed, Parsons & Company . 1891 . Albany, N.Y. . 117 . en . Google Books.
  163. BDUSC, 2139
  164. DAB, 3:487
  165. NCAB, 2:93
  166. ANB, 8:943
  167. ANB, 18:149
  168. NCAB, 34:355
  169. NCAB, 35:35
  170. ANB, 19:130
  171. ANB, 17:140
  172. http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Stibitz.html Obituary by Kip Crosby of the Computing History Association of California
  173. BDUSC, 2191
  174. News: The Concordiensis. In Memoriam . Obituary . Union College . 1986-01-16 . 10 June 2010.
  175. News: New York Times. Gordon Gould, 85, Figure In Invention of the Laser. Obituary . The New York Times . 2005-09-20 . 9 June 2010.
  176. UCAD, 146
  177. Web site: Gordon F. Newell, Transportation Engineering: Berkeley . Carlos F. Daganzo . Calisphere . University of California . 9 June 2010.
  178. UCAD, 43
  179. UCAD, 162
  180. UCAD, 319
  181. News: Eric Schmertz, Labor Negotiator, Dies at 84. Hevesi. Dennis. 2010-12-22. The New York Times. 2018-03-28. en-US. 0362-4331.
  182. UCAD, 449
  183. 10.1088/1464-4266/6/8/E02 . Shapiro . Jeffrey H. . Hermann Anton Haus, 1925-2003 . J. Opt. Soc. Am. B . 6 . 8 . S623–S625 . 2004.
  184. UCAD, 312
  185. UCAD, 361
  186. UCAD, 371
  187. News: Howard Simons Dies at Age 60 . Obituary . The New York Times . 1989-06-14.
  188. Web site: Ronald Reagan: Nomination of Herbert Schmertz To Be a Member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. www.presidency.ucsb.edu. 2018-03-28.
  189. UCAD, 79
  190. BDUSC, 538
  191. UCAD, 120
  192. UCAD, 472
  193. UCAD, 223
  194. BDUSC, 1041
  195. UCAD, 272
  196. UCAD, 237
  197. UCAD, 145
  198. UCAD, 165
  199. UCAD, 332
  200. UCAD, 116
  201. UCAD, 416
  202. UCAD, 495
  203. UCAD, 533
  204. UCAD, 549
  205. UCAD, 23
  206. UCAD, 32
  207. UCAD, 253
  208. UCAD, 481
  209. Web site: Ilene Landress - 1983.
  210. UCAD, 181
  211. UCAD, 34
  212. UCAD, 455
  213. UCAD, 52
  214. UCAD, 403
  215. UCAD, 403
  216. UCAD, 484
  217. UCAD, 499
  218. Web site: Capital Region schools helped arts-minded students gain career footholds . 7 January 2016 . TimesUnion.com . 2017-02-26.
  219. Web site: Joanna Stern - 2006. 3 February 2021 .
  220. Web site: Nancy Borowick - 2007.
  221. Web site: Jake Fishman - 2016 - Baseball.
  222. Web site: Emma White - 2019 - Cyclist. 13 September 2021 .

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