List of Union College alumni

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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 therefore subjective.


Name Year Notability Reference
Morris S. Miller 1798 Member of the United States House of Representatives [1]
Walter Case 1799 Member of the United States House of Representatives [2]
John Savage 1799 Member of the United States House of Representatives [3]
John Cramer 1801 Member of the United States House of Representatives [4]
John B. Yates 1802 Member of the United States House of Representatives [5]
Abraham Bockee 1803 Member of the United States House of Representatives [6]
James M. Matthews 1803 First chancellor of New York University [7]
John W. Taylor 1803 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (two terms) [8]
Thomas Church Brownell 1804 President of Washington College (Trinity College) [9]
Harmanus Peek 1804 Member of the United States House of Representatives [10]
John C. Spencer 1806 Member of the United States House of Representatives; U.S. secretary of war; U.S. secretary of the treasury [11]
Theodric Romeyn Beck 1807 Author of pioneering Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1823) [12]
Adam Empie 1807 President of The College of William & Mary [13]
John Watts Cady 1808 Member of the United States House of Representatives [14]
Gideon Hawley 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" [15]
John F. Schermerhorn 1809 Missionary; appointed Indian commissioner by Andrew Jackson [16]
Alfred Conkling 1810 Member of the United States House of Representatives; federal judge; United States minister to Mexico [17]
William Kendall Fuller 1810 Member of the United States House of Representatives [18]
John Maynard 1810 Member of the United States House of Representatives [19]
Abraham Maus Schermerhorn 1810 Member of the United States House of Representatives [20]
Charles Borland, Jr. 1811 Member of the United States House of Representatives [21]
Francis Wayland 1813 President of Brown University (1827–1855) [22]
George Washington Gale 1814 Founder of the Oneida Institute and Knox College; namesake of Galesburg, Illinois [23]
Richard M. Blatchford 1815 Secretary to William H. Seward; New York Central Park commissioner [24]
Gilbert Morgan 1815 President of Western University of Pennsylvania, Edgeworth Female Seminary, Harmony Female College [25]
Dudley Selden 1815 Member of the United States House of Representatives [26]
Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge 1815 Member of the United States Senate [27]
Henry Booth Cowles 1816 Member of the United States House of Representatives [28]
Sidney Breese 1818 Member of the United States Senate; author of landmark judicial decisions on state and national economic regulation [29]
George Washington Doane 1818 Episcopal bishop of New Jersey [30]
Augustus Seymour Porter 1818 Member of the United States Senate [31]
Alonzo Potter 1818 Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania [32]
Charles Rogers 1818 Member of the United States House of Representatives [33]
John Van Buren 1818 Member of the United States House of Representatives [34]
Robert J. Breckinridge 1819 President of Jefferson College; superintendent of Public Instruction for Kentucky [35]
Joseph William Chinn 1819 Member of the United States House of Representatives [36]
James Irvine 1819 President of Ohio University [37]
Andrew W. Loomis 1819 Member of the United States House of Representatives [38]
David Stewart 1819 Member of the United States Senate [39]
Laurens Perseus Hickok 1820 Educator; author; president of Union College [40]
Archibald L. Linn 1820 Member of the United States House of Representatives [41]
William H. Seward 1820 Governor of New York; member of the United States Senate; United States secretary of state [42]
George A. Starkweather 1819 Member of the United States House of Representatives [43]
Nathaniel Boyden 1821 Member of the United States House of Representatives [44]
Edward Curtis 1821 Member of the United States House of Representatives [45]
William Montague Ferry 1821 Presbyterian minister, missionary, and community leader; founded several settlements in Ottawa County, Michigan [46]
Hiram Gray 1821 Member of the United States House of Representatives [47]
Sherlock J. Andrews 1821 Member of the United States House of Representatives [48]
John Williamson Nevin 1821 President of Franklin & Marshall College [49]
Gideon Hard 1822 Member of the United States House of Representatives [50]
Albert S. White 1822 Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate [51]
David P. Brewster 1823 Member of the United States House of Representatives [52]
Chesselden Ellis 1823 Member of the United States House of Representatives [53]
John A. Lott 1823 Member of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly; justice of the New York Superior Court [54]
Stephen Alexander 1824 Astronomer; original member of the United States National Academy of Sciences [55]
Charles Goodyear 1824 Member of the United States House of Representatives [56]
Ira Harris 1824 Member of the United States Senate; lawyer, judge, educator [57]
Charles J. Jenkins 1824 Governor of Georgia [58]
Josiah Sutherland 1824 Member of the United States House of Representatives [59]
Bradford Ripley Wood 1824 Member of the United States House of Representatives [60]
Samuel Dickson 1825 Member of the United States House of Representatives [61]
Amasa J. Parker 1825 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 School [62]
John F. McLaren 1825 President of Western University of Pennsylvania [63]
Henry Philip Tappan 1825 First official president of the University of Michigan (1852–1863) [64]
George Emlen Hare 1826 Dean of the Philadelphia Divinity School [65]
Horatio Potter 1826 Episcopal bishop in the Diocese of New York; founded the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York [66]
Thomas Fielder Bowie 1827 Member of the United States House of Representatives [67]
M. Lindley Lee 1827 Member of the United States House of Representatives [68]
Samuel W. Beall 1827 Explorer; Indian agent; lieutenant governor of Wisconsin; one of the founders of Denver [69]
William W. Campbell 1827 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; historian [70]
Levi Hubbell 1827 Wisconsin Supreme Court [71]
Preston King 1827 Member of the United States Senate [72]
Erasmus D. MacMaster 1827 President of Hanover College [73]
Virgil Delphini Parris 1827 Member of the United States House of Representatives [74]
Rufus Wheeler Peckham 1827 Member of the United States House of Representatives [75]
Leonard Woods 1827 President of Bowdoin College (1839–1866) [76]
Ward Hunt 1828 Mayor of Utica, New York; associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1872–1882) [77]
Joseph G. Masten 1828 Mayor of Buffalo, New York; judge of the New York Superior Court [78]
Robert A. Toombs 1828 Member of the United States Senate; secretary of state for the Confederate States of America [79]
Joseph Alden 1828 President of the New York State Normal Institute; president of Jefferson College [80]
Israel T. Hatch 1829 Member of the United States House of Representatives [81]
John L. Wilson 1829 African missionary and explorer; author of Western Africa: Its History, Condition, and Prospects (1856) [82]
Leander Babcock 1830 Member of the United States House of Representatives [83]
Frank Hastings Hamilton 1830 Surgeon; president of the New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence; author of important medical texts [84]
Henry James 1830 Philosopher and author; father of Henry James (novelist) and William James (philosopher/psychologist) [85]
Henry S. Randall 1830 Historian; author of The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858) [86]
Augustus Schell 1830 Lawyer; stock market manipulator; successor of William M. Tweed as Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society [87]
Squire Whipple 1830 The "father of American metal bridges"; civil engineer; inventor; bridge designer [88]
Orsamus H. Marshall 1831 Chancellor of the University of Buffalo [89]
Roswell Park 1831 President of Racine College [90]
Don A. J. Upham 1831 Mayor of Milwaukee [91]
Thomas Allen 1832 Member of the United States House of Representatives; railroad builder; printer to the Senate and House [92]
Edward Dorr Griffin Prime 1832 Religious journalist [93]
Joseph Mullin 1833 Member of the United States House of Representatives [94]
Daniel Pratt 1835 New York State Supreme Court justice [95]
George F. Comstock 1834 Lawyer; solicitor of the United States Treasury; chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals [96]
Edmund Sears 1834 Clergyman; author; hymn writer ("It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," "Calm on the Listening Ears of Night") [97]
John Bigelow 1835 Consul-General to Paris during the Civil War; Minister to France; founder of the New York Public Library [98]
John Wells 1835 Member of the United States House of Representatives [99]
Henry W. Halleck 1837 General-in-chief of the Union Armies [100]
Levi Augustus Mackey 1837 Member of the United States House of Representatives [101]
Edward Tuckerman 1837 Botanist; lichenologist; namesake of Tuckerman Ravine [102]
Clarence A. Walworth 1838 Catholic priest; author; historian [103]
Austin Blair 1839 Member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Michigan [104]
Joel T. Headley 1839 New York secretary of state; historian and author [105]
John Upfold Pettit 1839 Member of the United States House of Representatives [106]
Leonard Jerome 1839 New York City financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill [107]
Lewis Henry Morgan 1840 Anthropologist; ethnologist; the "father of American anthropology" [108][109]
John W. Cary 1842 Wisconsin state senator [110]
Charles C. Parry 1842 Botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture; explorer and botanist of the Rocky Mountains [111]
Clarkson N. Potter 1842 Member of the United States House of Representatives [112]
Franklin B. Hough 1843 Botanist; mineralogist; forester; historian of New York State; director of the United States Census; "father of American forestry" [113]
Charles Lewis Beale 1844 Member of the United States House of Representatives [114]
Alexander H. Rice 1844 Member of the United States House of Representatives; governor of Massachusetts and mayor of Boston [115]
Edward P. Allis 1845 International manufacturer; inventor [116]
Robert Earl 1845 Judge on the New York State Court of Appeals [117]
Daniel Hall 1845 Member and speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly [118]
Daniel Bigelow 1846 Regent of the University of Washington; founder of the University of Puget Sound [119]
John Michael Carroll 1846 Member of the United States House of Representatives [120]
John M. Gregory 1846 President of the University of Illinois and Kalamazoo College [121]
John T. Hoffman 1846 Governor of New York [122]
Bradley Phillips 1846 Clergyman and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly [123]
Gabriel Bouck 1847 Member of the United States House of Representatives [124]
Chester A. Arthur 1848 Twenty-first president of the United States [125]
William James Stillman 1848 Journalist; artist; photographer; diplomat; American consul to Rome during the Civil War; American consul at Crete [126]
Hannibal Goodwin 1848 Inventor of roll film [127]
Charles C. Nott 1848 Chief justice of the United States Court of Claims [128]
Daniel Butterfield 1849 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 Meade [129][130]
Frederick W. Seward 1849 Diplomat; journalist; son of William H. Seward; assistant secretary of state [131]
Allen Wright 1852 Governor, Choctaw Nation; author of English-Choctaw dictionary [132]
John F. Hartranft 1853 Governor of Pennsylvania [133]
Edward Tuckerman Potter 1853 Architect of the Nott Memorial; architect of Mark Twain's residence in Hartford, Connecticut [134]
William Clarke Whitford 1853 President of Milton College [135]
Orlow W. Chapman 1854 Solicitor general of the United States [136]
Edwin W. Rice 1854 Editor and author with the American Sunday School Union [137]
Sheldon Jackson 1855 Presbyterian missionary in the Western United States; first United States superintendent of Public Instruction in Alaska [138]
Philip S. Post 1855 Member of the United States House of Representatives [139]
Clement Hall Sinnickson 1855 Member of the United States House of Representatives [140]
William G. Donnan 1856 Member of the United States House of Representatives [141]
George W. Hough 1856 Astronomer; inventor of meteorological instruments; president of the World Congress on Astronomy and Astrophysics [142]
Seaman A. Knapp 1856 Pioneer in experimental agriculture and practical education; president of Iowa State University [143]
Fitz Hugh Ludlow 1856 Author; drug experimentalist; author of The Hasheesh Eater [144]
Seth L. Milliken 1856 Member of the United States House of Representatives [145]
Laurenus C. Seelye 1857 First president of Smith College; advocate for women's colleges [146]
Charles Horton Peck 1859 Mycologist; New York state botanist [147]
Elnathan Sweet 1859 New York state engineer and surveyor [148]
Warner Miller 1860 Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate [149]
Charles E. Patterson 1860 Speaker of the New York State Assembly [150]
Americus Vespucius Rice 1860 Member of the United States House of Representatives [151]
Chester Holcombe 1861 Missionary; diplomat; secretary of the United States Legation to China [152]
Thomas Jones Thorp 1861 Union Army officer [153]
Charles E. Smith 1861 United States minister to Russia; United States Postmaster General [154]
Ridgley C. Powers 1862 Governor of Mississippi [155]
Amasa J. Parker, Jr. 1863 New York state senator; Union College trustee; author of Banking Law of New York [156]
Charles Edward Pearce 1863 Member of the United States House of Representatives [157]
William Appleton Potter 1864 Architect; designed many Princeton University buildings; supervising architect of the United States Department of the Treasury [158]
Daniel Newton Lockwood 1865 Member of the United States House of Representatives [159]
Cady Staley 1865 President of Case Western Reserve University [160]
La Mott W. Rhodes 1866 Member of the New York State Assembly [161]
Edward Wemple 1866 Member of the United States House of Representatives; New York state comptroller [162]
Joseph M. Carey 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) [163]
Preston King 1827 Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate [164]
Franklin H. Giddings 1877 "Father of American sociology" [165]
Joseph E. Ransdell 1882 Member of the United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Senate from Louisiana; career ended by Huey Pierce Long, Jr. [166]
Wallace T. Foote 1885 Member of the United States House of Representatives [167]
Henry A. Van Alstyne 1893 New York state engineer and surveyor [168]
Fraser Metzger 1902 Clergyman, politician, college administrator [169]
Archibald Rutledge 1904 Educator, author [170]
Robert P. Patterson 1912 United States secretary of war [171]
George Stibitz 1927 One of the "fathers" of the modern digital computer [172]
John Schiller Wold 1938 Member of the United States House of Representatives [173]
Clare W. Graves 1940 Psychologist; developed theory of human development known as "emergent cyclical levels of existence theory" [174]
Gordon Gould 1941 Widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser [175]
Armand V. Feigenbaum 1942 Businessman; developer of the concept of total quality management/control [176]
Stanley Green 1943 Historian of theatre and film; writer on music [177][178]
Gordon F. Newell 1945 Scientist in the field of applied mathematics; Gordon–Newell theorem named for him and colleague William J. Gordon [179]
Baruch S. Blumberg 1946 Nobel Prize in Medicine (1976) [180]
Elmer H. Antonsen 1947 Professor of Germanic Languages with a particular expertise in runology [181]
Herbert Freeman 1947 Computer Pioneer Award winner from the IEEE Computer Society; designer of the Sperry Corporation's first digital computer, the SPEEDAC [181]
Harry Mazer 1948 Author of books for children and young adults [182]
Eric Schmertz 1948 Law professor and labor arbitrator [183]
Richard Selzer 1948 Surgeon and author [184]
Hermann A. Haus 1949 Frederic Ives Medal; National Medal of Science [185]
David Markson 1950 Author, Wittgenstein's Mistress and The Ballad of Dingus Magee [186]
Herman W. Nickel 1951 Ambassador to South Africa [187]
John H. Ostrom 1951 Paleontologist [188]
Howard Simons 1951 Managing editor of The Washington Post [189]
Herbert Schmertz 1952 Vice president of Public Affairs for the Mobil Corporation [190]
Robert Chartoff 1955 Producer [191]
Neil Abercrombie 1959 Politician in Hawaii; member of the US House of Representatives (1986–87, 1991–2010) and 7th governor of Hawaii (2010–2014) [192]
George DiCenzo 1962 Character actor and acting teacher [193]
Alfred Sommer 1963 Ophthalmologist; discovered the benefits of Vitamin A for children deficient in this vitamin [194]
Alan Horn 1964 President and COO of Warner Bros. Entertainment [195]
Victor H. Fazio 1965 Member of the United States House of Representatives [196]
Douglas LaBier 1965 Psychologist; psychotherapist; writer; director of the Center for Adult Development [197]
Martin Jay 1965 Historian; critic [198]
Richard Fateman 1966 One of the developers of the Macsyma computer algebra system and the Franz Lisp system [199]
Michael Fuchs 1967 Executive producer for HBO [200]
Lamin Sanneh 1967 D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and professor of History at Yale University [200]
Kenneth Merchant 1968 Chair of Accountancy at the Leventhal School of Accounting, University of Southern California [201]
Jeffrey DeMunn 1969 Film and television actor [202]
Anderson Mazoka 1969 Zambian politician and president of the United Party for National Development, a leading opposition party
Phil Alden Robinson 1971 Screenwriter; director [203]
Jim Tedisco 1972 New York State assemblyman [204]
Kate White 1972 Author; editor [205]
Steven Zaloga 1973 American historian; defense consultant; author [206]
Andrea Barrett 1974 Author; National Book Award winner; MacArthur Fellow [207]
Mark J. Bennett 1976 Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [208]
John Kelly III 1976 Senior vice president and director of IBM Research [209]
Rich Templeton 1980 Chairman, president and CEO of Texas Instruments [204]
David Stern 1982 Philanthropist; activist; CEO of Equal Justice Works and president of the Stern Family Fund [210]
David B. Haviland 1983 Physics professor, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Nobel Committee for Physics
Ilene Landress 1983 Emmy-award winning television and film producer; co-executive producer of HBO's The Sopranos [211]
Sue Goldie 1984 MacArthur Fellow [212]
Devin Wenig 1988 President and CEO of eBay [213]
Chris Sheridan 1989 Writer and television producer noted for his work on Family Guy [214]
Andy Miller 1990 Corporate executive and entrepreneur [215]
Dylan Ratigan 1994 Television journalist; host of MSNBC's Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan [216]
Nikki Stone 1995 Olympian; first American to win a gold medal in inverted aerial skiing; motivational speaker [217]
Jennifer Lawless 1997 Commonwealth Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia
Rawson Marshall Thurber 1997 Screenwriter; director [218]
Ben Schwartz 2003 Actor and comedian, known for House of Lies and Parks and Recreation
Phillip Chorba 2005 Actor, on cast of Silver Linings and Concussion [219]
Joanna Stern 2006 Senior personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal [220]
Nancy Borowick 2007 Artist, photographer, and author [221]
Shayne Gostisbehere 2015 NHL defenseman for the Carolina Hurricanes
Jake Fishman 2019 American-Israeli baseball player for the Miami Marlins and for Team Israel [222]
Emma White 2019 Former professional racing cyclist and Olympic bronze medalist [223]

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