| Name |
Class |
Notability |
References |
| Alfred G. Allen |
1890 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Helen Elsie Austin |
1930 |
United States Foreign Service officer |
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| James Hartley Beal |
1886 |
Ohio House of Representatives, acting president of Scio College, and professor of pharmacy at Pittsburg College of Pharmacy |
|
| Albert S. Berry |
1858 |
U.S. House of Representatives and Kentucky Senate |
|
| John Berry |
1857 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Ted Berry |
1931 |
First African-American mayor of Cincinnati and NAACP attorney |
|
| Stanley E. Bowdle |
1889 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| John L. Bretz |
1880 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Jacob H. Bromwell |
1870 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Jim Butler |
|
Member and speaker pro tempore of the Ohio House of Representatives |
|
| John A. Caldwell |
1876 |
U.S. House of Representatives, lieutenant governor of Ohio, mayor of Cincinnati, and judge of the court of common pleas |
|
| Joseph Gurney Cannon |
Non-degreed |
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives |
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| Willis Carto |
Non-degreed |
Far-right political activist |
|
| Samuel Fenton Cary |
1837 |
U.S. House of Representatives and vice presidential candidate |
|
| John C. Chaney |
1882 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Neil Chatterjee |
|
Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
|
| Norton Parker Chipman |
1859 |
Secretary of the District of Columbia, U.S. congressman, first presiding justice of the California Third District Court of Appeal |
|
| Donald D. Clancy |
1948 |
U.S. House of Representatives and mayor of Cincinnati |
|
| Champ Clark |
1875 |
U.S. House of Representatives and speaker of the House |
|
| Alfred M. Cohen |
1880 |
Ohio Senate |
|
| Robert Crosser |
1901 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| William Cumback |
|
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Charles G. Dawes |
1886 |
30th vice president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
|
| Thomas C. Dawson |
|
US ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Chile, and Panama |
|
| James W. Denver |
1844 |
Governor of the Kansas Territory, secretary of state of California, and namesake of Denver, Colorado |
|
| Joe Deters |
1982 |
Ohio State Treasurer and Ohio Supreme Court associate justice |
|
| Henry L. Dickey |
1859 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Robert E. Doan |
1857 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Ozro J. Dodds |
|
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Sidney Edgerton |
1845 |
1st territorial governor of Montana, chief justice of the Idaho Territorial Supreme Court, U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Henry I. Emerson |
1893 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| William H. Enochs |
1866 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Richard P. Ernst |
1880 |
U.S. senator from Kentucky |
|
| Gustavus A. Finkelnburg |
1859 |
U.S. House of Representatives and US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri judge |
|
| Joseph Fischer |
|
Kentucky House of Representatives |
|
| David Fowler |
1983 |
Tennessee Senate |
|
| Robert E. Freer |
1917 |
Chair of the Federal Trade Commission |
|
| Martin K. Gantz |
1883 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Warren Gard |
1894 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| John J. Gilligan |
1947 |
Governor of Ohio |
|
| Thomas J. Godfrey |
1857 |
Ohio Senate |
|
| Herman P. Goebel |
1872 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| J. Henry Goeke |
1891 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Lewis B. Gunckel |
1851 |
U.S. House of Representatives and Ohio Senate |
|
| Judson Harmon |
1870 |
U.S. attorney general and governor of Ohio |
|
| Richard A. Harrison |
1846 |
U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio House of Representatives, and Ohio Senate |
|
| Victor Heintz |
1899 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| William E. Hess |
|
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| James M. Hinds |
1856 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Greg J. Holbrock |
1932 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Charles John Howard |
|
President of the Ohio Senate |
|
| John Wesley Hoyt |
1849, attended |
Governor of the Wyoming Territory |
|
| David P. Hull |
1840 |
Wisconsin State Assembly |
|
| Henry Thomas Hunt |
1903 |
Mayor of Cincinnati |
|
| Samuel Furman Hunt |
1867 |
Ohio Senate, judge advocate general Ohio, and a judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati |
|
| Stephanie J. Jones |
|
Chief opportunities officer, US Federal Government |
|
| James Joyce |
1892 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Charles Cyrus Kearns |
1894 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| William J. Keating |
1950 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Henry W. King |
1839 |
Ohio secretary of state |
|
| Walter Lanfersiek |
|
Attorney and executive secretary of the Socialist Party of America |
|
| William Lawrence |
1840 |
U.S. House of Representatives and first comptroller of the Treasury |
|
| David Linton |
1840 |
Ohio Senate and a founder of Beta Theta Pi |
|
| Nicholas Longworth |
1894 |
U.S. House of Representatives and speaker of the House |
|
| David P. Lowe |
1851 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Charlie Luken |
1976 |
U.S. House of Representatives and mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio |
|
| Thomas Henry McConica |
1883 |
House of Commons of Canada |
|
| Edwin P. Morrow |
1902 |
Governor of Kentucky |
|
| Grant E. Mouser |
1890 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Paula Boggs Muething |
2003 |
Cincinnati's first Asian-American city manager |
|
| Hugh L. Nichols |
1886 |
Chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and lieutenant governor of Ohio |
|
| Carl L. Nippert |
|
Lieutenant governor of Ohio and Ohio Senate |
|
| Edward Follansbee Noyes |
1858 |
Governor of Ohio |
|
| William Parham |
|
First African-American in the Ohio House of Representatives |
|
| John M. Pattison |
1872 |
Governor of Ohio |
|
| William G. Pickrel |
1912 |
Lieutenant governor of Ohio |
|
| Connie Pillich |
|
Ohio House of Representatives |
|
| Lois Pines |
1963 |
Massachusetts Senate |
|
| Atlee Pomerene |
1886 |
Lieutenant governor of Ohio and United States senator |
|
| Christian L. Poorman |
1855 |
Ohio secretary of state and Ohio House of Representatives. |
|
| Todd Portune |
1983 |
Cincinnati City Council and Hamilton County commissioner |
|
| Walter E. Powell |
|
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Aftab Pureval |
2008 |
Mayor of Cincinnati |
|
| Homer A. Ramey |
Non-degreed |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Carl West Rich |
1924 |
U.S. House of Representatives and mayor of Cincinnati |
|
| James Wallace Robinson |
1851 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Charles W. Sawyer |
1911 |
United States Secretary of Commerce |
|
| Milton Sayler |
|
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Louis J. Schneider Jr. |
1949 |
Ohio Supreme Court and Ohio House of Representatives |
|
| Bill Seitz |
1978 |
Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate |
|
| Philemon Simpson |
1843 |
Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin State Senate |
|
| Yvette Simpson |
|
Cincinnati City Council and former chief executive of Democracy for America |
|
| David L. Sleeper |
1880 |
Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives |
|
| Richard Elihu Sloan |
1882 |
Governor of Arizona Territory, Arizona Territorial Supreme Court associate justice, and US District Court for the District of Arizona judge |
|
| John S. Snook |
1887 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Jacob B. Snyder |
1892 |
Ohio House of Representatives |
|
| William R. Stewart |
1886 |
Ohio House of Representatives |
|
| Bellamy Storer |
1869 |
U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. minister or ambassador to Belgium, Spain, and Austria |
|
| Charles L. Swain |
|
Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives |
|
| Bob Taft |
1976 |
Governor of Ohio |
|
| Charles Tatgenhorst Jr. |
1910 |
U.S. House of Representatives and Ohio First District Court of Appeals judge |
|
| Joseph D. Taylor |
1860 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Samuel McIntire Taylor |
1884 |
Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio secretary of state, and U.S. consul to Glasgow, Scotland; Calao, Peru; and Birmingham, England |
|
| Claudia Tenney |
|
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| William E. Tou Velle |
1889 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Charles Townsend |
1866 |
Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio Senate, and Ohio secretary of state |
|
| H. Clay Van Voorhis |
|
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| John L. Vance |
1861 |
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Robert Ward |
1978 |
Minority leader of the Connecticut House of Representatives |
|
| James B. Weaver |
1856 |
Populist Party candidate for U.S. President, 1892 |
|
Leroy Welsh |
1871 |
Ohio state treasurer |
|
| Charles Preston Wickham |
|
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
| Russell Wilson |
|
Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, and founder of Sigma Sigma |
|
| Thomas L. Young |
1865 |
Governor of Ohio and U.S. House of Representatives |
|