List of Lafayette College people

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This is a list of notable people affiliated with Lafayette College.

Notable alumni, faculty, and trustees

William C. Cattell, President of Lafayette College from 1863–83
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Ralph Cooper Hutchison, President of Lafayette College from 1945 to 1958
William E. Simon, class of 1952, served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1974–77.
Fred Morgan Kirby, trustee from 1916–40, provided funds to establish a Professorship of Civil Rights.

Academics and education

Business

  • James Gayley, class of 1876, Managing Director Carnegie Steel Company and first Vice President U.S. Steel, 1901–09
  • Torrence Huffman, class of 1878, Banker; loaned the Huffman Prairie to the Wright Brothers
  • Charles Bergstresser, class of 1881, one of the three founders of Dow Jones & Company
  • Harrison Woodhull Crosby, commercialized the canned tomato
  • Leslie Freeman Gates, class of 1897, President Chicago Board of Trade, 1919–20
  • George B. Walbridge, class of 1898, co-founder and Chairman of Walbridge Aldinger (now known as simply Walbridge)
  • T. Frank Soles, class of 1904, Chairman of the Board of Talon, Inc., producers of the then-patented zipper; trustee and donor of Soles Hall
  • Fred Morgan Kirby, trustee from 1916–40, helped found the Woolworth's five and dime store chain
  • Thomas J. Watson, trustee; donor; first Chairman and CEO of IBM, 1914–56; computing pioneer; namesake of the Watson Computer
  • Edward Jesser, class of 1939, former Chairman and CEO of Summit Bancorp
  • Walter E. Hanson, class of 1949, Chairman of KPMG.[1]
  • Sarkis Acopian, class of 1951, founded Acopian Technical Company, makers of the first solar radios.
  • Arthur J. Rothkopf, class of 1955, retired Senior Vice President of U.S. Chamber of Commerce; President Emeritus, Lafayette College
  • Michael H. Moskow, class of 1959, CEO and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • Thomas J Neff, class of 1959, Chairman of Spencer Stuart; former Lafayette College trustee
  • E. Wayne Nordberg, class of 1960, CIO of Hollow Brook Wealth Management; former Lafayette College trustee
  • William F. Buechler, class of 1961, Vice Chairman of Xerox, 1999–2001
  • Steven Kent Rockwell, class of 1966, CEO of ExOne and Rockwell Venture Capital
  • Carl G. Anderson Jr., class of 1967, CEO of Arrow International
  • Charles Golden, class of 1968, CFO of Eli Lilly and Company, 1996–2006
  • Jonathan D. Green, class of 1968, CEO of Rockefeller Group
  • Alfred A. Piergallini, class of 1968, former CEO of Gerber Products and Novartis
  • Frederick Haddad, class of 1970, founding partner of GoldenTree Asset Management, former Managing Director of Royal Bank of Canada
  • Michael F. Weinstein, class of 1970, CEO of Snapple, 1997–2000
  • Stephen D. Pryor, class of 1971, President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company
  • Roger Newton, class of 1972, co-discoverer of Lipitor; Senior Vice President and Director at Esperion Therapeutics, Pfizer Global Research and Development
  • Neil Levin, class of 1976, former Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Vice President of Goldman Sachs
  • James H. Kaplan, class of 1977, CEO of Tai Ping Carpets International
  • John Donleavy, class of 1978, CEO of Vermont Electric Power Company Inc.
  • Samuel R. Chapin, class of 1979, Executive Vice Chairman Global Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • Judson C. Linville, class of 1979, CEO, Citi Cards, Citigroup
  • Donald Morel Jr., Ph.D., class of 1979, Former CEO West Pharmaceutical; Director Fox Chase Cancer Center; Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Franklin Institute; has served on several NASA advisory committees
  • Douglas Burcin, class of 1980, Global CEO Havas Health
  • Peter G. Jacoby, class of 1981, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs UnitedHealth Group
  • Elisabeth H. MacDonald, class of 1981, former Managing Director, Global Investment Banking, Chase
  • Angel L. Mendez, class of 1982, Senior Vice President of Customer Value Chain Management at Cisco Systems
  • Alan Hoffman, class of 1988, Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy and Government Affairs at PepsiCo.; former Deputy Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States Joe Biden; Deputy Assistant to the President[2]
  • Vicki O. Ebner, class of 1982, former Senior Vice President, Customer & Government Relations, UGI Corporation
  • Michael P. Whitman, class of 1982, CEO Micro Interventional Devices, former VP Sales & Marketing Johnson & Johnson
  • Fran Horowitz, class of 1985, President & Chief Merchandising Officer, Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
  • Thomas M. Moriarty, class of 1985, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of CVS Caremark
  • Michael C. Heaney, class of 1986, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
  • Jamie Mattikow, class of 1986, Chief Commercial Officer at Ferrara Candy Company
  • Susan L. Fox, class of 1988, Vice President, Government Relations, The Walt Disney Company
  • Andrew Lapkin, class of 1988, CEO HedgeMark International
  • Chris McCumber, class of 1989, President, Entertainment Networks (USA, Syfy, Chiller, Cloo), NBC Universal
  • Chris Pucillo, class of 1989, CEO/CIO Solus Alternative Asset Management
  • Kevin Mandia, class of 1992, CEO Mandiant
  • Jed Plafker, class of 1992, President Franklin Templeton International
  • Ian Murray, class of 1997, co-founder of the Vineyard Vines clothing company

Engineering

Entertainment

Government

  • Isaiah D. Clawson, class of 1833, represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, 1855-59[3]
  • James Morrison Harris, class of 1833, U.S. Representative from Maryland, 1855–1861; Lafayette College trustee, 1865–72
  • Alexander Ramsey, class of 1836 (Honorary), Governor of Minnesota, US Senator, Congressman, Secretary of War
  • Nathaniel B. Smithers, class of 1836, U.S. Representative from Delaware, 1863–65
  • William Miller Francis, class of 1837 (non-graduate), honorary degree in 1865, Speaker of the Pennsylvania State Senate 1857-59
  • William Augustus Porter, class of 1838, District Attorney of Philadelphia 1843, Judge of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1858
  • Augustus G. Richey, class of 1840, New Jersey State Senator 1866-68
  • John Cresswell Jr., class of 1841, Speaker of the Pennsylvania State Senate 1853-59
  • Philip Johnson, class of 1844, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1861–63, 1863–67
  • Henry Clay Longnecker, class of 1845 (non-graduate), honorary degree in 1851, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 1859-61
  • Henry Green, class of 1846, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
  • Henry Martyn Hoyt, attended 1845–48, honorary law degree conferred in 1882, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1879–83
  • Robert Bruce Petriken, class of 1849 (non-graduate), honorary degree in 1866 , Pennsylvania State Senator 1871 - 73
  • William Henry Woodring, class of 1852, Pennsylvania State Representative, 1892–97
  • Horatio Gates Fisher, class of 1855, US Representative from Pennsylvania, 1879–83
  • Samuel McLean (congressman), non-graduate, received honorary degree in 1857, member of first Montana State Legislature, 1865–67
  • Benjamin Franklin Junkin, entered 1837, A.M. in 1865, US Representative from Pennsylvania, 1859–1861
  • Mahlon Yardley, class of 1843, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1858–61
  • Oliver Horatio Meyers, class of 1847, Pennsylvania State Representative, 1866–67
  • James H. Neighbour, class of 1848, New Jersey State representative 1882-83
  • Robert Porter Allen, class of 1855, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1875–78
  • Allen Craig, class of 1855, Pennsylvania State Representative and Senator, 1865–67, 1879–82
  • Abraham D. Hazen, class of 1863, 3rd Assistant Postmaster General and Chief of Stamps Division 1877-93; namesake of Hazen, North Dakota
  • John W. Griggs, class of 1868, Governor of New Jersey, 1896–1898; US Attorney General, 1898–1901
  • Silas W. DeWitt, class of 1869, New Jersey State Representative, 1877–79
  • Frank J. Washabaugh, class of 1870, South Dakota jurist and legislator
  • Laird Howard Barber, class of 1871, US Representative from Pennsylvania 1899–1901, lawyer
  • Edmund S. Doty, class of 1872, Pennsylvania State Representative 1898-1904
  • William Sebring Kirkpatrick, classes of 1862 (A.B.) and 1872 (A.M.), Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania 1888–91; member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1897–99
  • Arthur Granville Dewalt, class of 1874, US Representative from Pennsylvania, 1915–21
  • Isaac Barber, class of 1876, New Jersey State Senator 1896–99, 1902–05
  • William Thomas Fee, class of 1876, U.S. Consul-general at Guatemala City, Bremen, Bombay, and Cienfuegos
  • Frank G. Harris, class of 1876, Pennsylvania State Representative 1897-1902
  • Cyrus Lee Stevens, class of 1876, Pennsylvania State Representative 1907-08
  • Russell Benjamin Harrison, class of 1877, Indiana legislator; consul to Portugal and Mexico; son of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison
  • Benjamin Silver Jr., class of 1877 Maryland State Representative and later Senator 1889-90
  • Edward F. Blewitt, class of 1879, Pennsylvania State Senator 1907-10; Great-grandfather Vice President Joe Biden
  • George Howell, class of 1880, US Representative from Pennsylvania, 1903–1904
  • Frederic James Grant, class of 1883, Washington State Speaker of the House, 1888–89; Envoy to Bolivia, 1893; editor-in-chief of Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • Grant Stanley Herring, class of 1883, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1890–94
  • John R. Farr, class of 1885, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1911–19, and 1921
  • John Edgar Fox, class of 1885, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1900–1912
  • Robert McNamee, class of 1885 (non-graduate), Florida State Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1899
  • George W. W. Porter, class of 1885, member New Jersey State Representative 1897-98.
  • Cyrus E. Woods, class of 1886, President pro tempore Pennsylvania State Senate 1901-07; U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Japan, 1921–24
  • Wallace McCamant, class of 1888, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1925–26
  • Marshall Lee Phipps, class of 1888, Pennsylvania State Senator 1915-25
  • Frederick Theodore Dumont, class of 1889, U.S. Consul at Guadeloupe, Madrid, Florence, and others, 1903–15
  • Frederick Watts Culbertson, class of 1890 (non-graduate), Pennsylvania State senator 1921-27
  • Fred Taylor Ikeler, class of 1890, Minority Floor Leader Pennsylvania State House of Representatives 1901-04
  • Harry Arista Mackey, class of 1890, Mayor of Philadelphia 1928 - 31
  • Wilbur P. Graff, class of 1891, Pennsylvania State Senator 1917-19
  • John H. Patchin, class of 1892, Pennsylvania State Representative 1895-96 and 1925–26
  • Frederic Antes Godcharles, class of 1893, Pennsylvania State Representative and Senator, 1900–08
  • Isaac Clinton Kline, class of 1893, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1921–23, lawyer
  • William H Earnest, class of 1897, Pennsylvania State Senator 1925-31
  • John D. Clarke, class of 1898, U.S. Congressman from New York
  • Edward Griswold Bray, class of 1900, Pennsylvania State Representative 1925-26
  • Joseph F. Crater, class of 1910, Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court
  • Robert Elliot Haas, class of 1913, Pennsylvania State Representative 1923-28
  • Robert Leon Rankin, class of 1914, U.S. Consul Warsaw, Frontera, Newcastle, and Brisbane 1920-29.
  • H. Stanley Welty, class of 1917, Pennsylvania State Representative 1925-30
  • E. Arnold Forrest, class of 1918, Pennsylvania State Representative 1933-36
  • John H. Longaker, class of 1923, Pennsylvania State Representative 1935-38
  • Oscar J. Tallman, class of 1924, Pennsylvania State Senator 1939-49
  • Henry Van Sickle, class of 1924, Pennsylvania State Representative 1935-38
  • H. Franklin Kehler, class of 1926, Pennsylvania State Representative 1955-58
  • Wesley Lance, class of 1928, member of New Jersey General Assembly and New Jersey Senate; one of the drafters of the current, 1947 New Jersey State Constitution[4]
  • Robert B. Meyner, class of 1930, Governor of New Jersey 1954–62; competed against John F. Kennedy in the 1960 Democratic Party primary
  • Winston L. Prouty, class of 1930, United States Representative and Senator from Vermont
  • Albert S. Readinger, class of 1930, Majority Floor Leader Pennsylvania State House of Representatives 1937-58
  • William H. Woodin, Trustee, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1933
  • Wayne Dumont, class of 1935, former Acting Governor of New Jersey
  • Wendell Good, class of 1935, Pennsylvania State Representative 1967-72
  • Charles Timothy Slack, class of 1935, Pennsylvania State Representative 1961-70
  • Arch A. Moore, Jr., attended in 1943, twice Governor of West Virginia
  • William A. Wyatt, class of 1950, Pennsylvania State Representative 1957-58
  • D. Bennett Mazur (c. 1925–1994), member of the New Jersey General Assembly[5]
  • Fred Ashton, class of 1952, Mayor of Easton from 1967–75.[6]
  • Dennis Kux, class of 1952, U.S. Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire, 1986–89
  • William E. Simon, class of 1952, 63rd Secretary of the Treasury, President of the United States Olympic Committee
  • Bob Smith, class of 1952, former Senator of New Hampshire
  • Garrett E. Brown, Jr., class of 1965, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • George F. Pott, Jr., class of 1965, Pennsylvania State Representative 1977-86
  • Robert Pastor, class of 1969, former member of the United States National Security Council
  • Thomas LaConte, class of 1970, superior court judge to the New Jersey Civil Court
  • James Pooley, class of 1970, former Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization
  • Joel A. Pisano, class of 1971, Federal Judge for District Court of New Jersey
  • Marcia Bernicat, class of 1975, U.S. Ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau
  • Robin L. Wiessmann, class of 1975, former Pennsylvania State Treasurer
  • Craig Dally, class of 1978, Pennsylvania State Representative, 1997–2010
  • Col. Howie Cohen, class of 1979, Commander of the White House Communications Agency until 2006
  • Bruce L. Castor, Jr., class of 1983, first Solicitor General of Pennsylvania, former district attorney and county commissioner in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; lawyer
  • Doug Reichley, class of 1983, Pennsylvania State Representative 2003-12
  • Robert Spagnoletti, class of 1984, former Attorney General of the District of Columbia
  • William Bull, class of 1985, Peace Corps Director, Madagascar
  • Frank Gaziano, class of 1986, Associate Justice of Massachusetts Superior Court
  • Paula A. Roscioli, class of 1987, Judge of Northampton County Court of Common Pleas
  • Anthony Palumbo, class of 1994, member New York State Assembly, 2013–present
  • Matthew Rutherford, class of 2001, former Acting Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, U.S. Treasury
  • Aaron Kaufer, class of 2011, Pennsylvania State Representative, 2015–present

Arts and Humanities

Literature and poetry

Medicine

Military

Religion and theology

Sciences

  • Rev. Thomas Conrad Porter, class of 1840, discoverer and namesake of several species of plants, among them Desmatodon Porteri, discovered on College Hill
  • James H. Coffin, Lafayette College Vice President and Treasurer 1846–73, pioneer in meteorology
  • William Harkness, attended 1854–56, astronomer
  • Abram Paschal Garber, class of 1868, discoverer of the rare plant Garberia Fruticosa
  • Richard William Dickinson Bryan – class of 1869, astronomer and chaplain on the Polaris Expeditions' attempt to reach the North Pole in 1871
  • William McMurtrie, class of 1871 and first Ph.D. in chemistry awarded at Lafayette (1875); Chief Chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture, 1873–78; President of American Chemical Society in 1900
  • William Porter Shimer, classes of 1878 and 1899, discoverer of titanium carbide
  • Eugene C. Bingham, Chemistry Professor 1916–39, pioneer in rheology; namesake of Bingham plastic, fluid, and stress, and the Bingham Medal
  • S. Donald Stookey, class of 1938, inventor of Corningware earned his master's degree in chemistry in the 1930s[8]
  • John J. Marchalonis, class of 1962, immunologist discoverer of T-cell receptors

Sports

Notable faculty

Presidents of Lafayette College

References

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  9. College Football Hall of Fame
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