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  1. Daniel Webster

    Daniel Webster (January 18 1782 - October 24 1852), was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. His increasingly nationalistic views and the effectiveness with which he articulated them led Webster to become one of the most famous orators and influential Whig leaders of the Second Party System.

  2. Bob Smith

    Dr. Bob Smith (Robert Holbrook Smith, b. 8 August 1879; d. 16 November 1950) was a physician and surgeon from Akron, Ohio and co founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He was also known as Dr. Bob. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he was raised, to Susan A. Holbrook and Walter Perrin Smith. After graduation from Dartmouth College in 1902, he completed medical school at the University of Michigan.

  3. Paul Hodes

    Paul Hodes (born March 21, 1951 in New York City, New York) is an attorney from the U.S. state of New Hampshire who formerly served at the Shaheen & Gordon Law Firm. He is currently the Representative for the 2nd District of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives. He is New Hampshire's first Jewish congressman. Hodes was born March 21, 1951. After graduating from The Collegiate School, a private school in New York City, …

  4. John Sloan Dickey

    John Sloan Dickey (4 November 1907 - 9 February 1991) was an American diplomat, scholar, and intellectual. Dickey served as President of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire from 1945 to 1970, and helped revitalize the Ivy League institution.

  5. Ernest Martin Hopkins

    Ernest Martin Hopkins served as the 11th President of Dartmouth College from 1916 to 1945. He died in 1964.

  6. William Jewett Tucker

    The Rev. William Jewett Tucker (1839-1926) served as the 9th President of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States, from 1893 to 1909.

  7. David T. McLaughlin

    David T. McLaughlin (March 16, 1932-August 25, 2004) was the 14th President of Dartmouth College, 1981-1987. Mr. McLaughlin also served as Chief Executive Officer of Orion Safety Products from 1988 to December 31 2000. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Aspen Institute from 1988 to 1997 and its Chairman from 1987 to 1988. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Toro Company from 1977 to 1981, …

  8. Robert Frost

    Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work frequently drew inspiration from rural life in New England, using the setting to explore complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was highly honored during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes.

  9. George Bush

    George Bush was a prominent biblical scholar, preacher and controversialist and is a cousin five times removed of President George W. Bush

  10. Salmon P. Chase

    Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 - May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States. Chase articulated the "Slave Power conspiracy" thesis well before Lincoln did, and he coined the slogan of the Free Soil Party, "Free Soil, Free Labor, …

  11. John Wentworth

    "Long" John Wentworth (March 5 1815 - October 16 1888) was the editor of the "Chicago Democrat", a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives. Born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, John Wentworth was a huge man, towering 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) high and weighing more than 300 pounds (136 kg). He drank at least a pint of whiskey each day and would eat from 30-40 different foods during a single meal.

  12. Francis Brown

    The Rev. Francis Brown (January 11, 1784, Chester, New Hampshire - July 27, 1820) served as the president of Dartmouth College. He graduated from the College in 1805 and from 1806-1809 held a tutorship there. He also served a pastor in a Congregational church in North Yarmouth, Maine. Brown was removed from his presidency at the College as part of the actions that resulted in the Dartmouth College case, but was reinstated following the 1819 decision in favor of the College.

  13. Francis Brown

    The Rev. Francis Brown (December 26, 1849 - 1916), American Semitic scholar, was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was the son of Samuel Gilman Brown (1813-1885), president of Hamilton College from 1867 to 1881, and the grandson of Francis Brown, whose removal from the presidency of Dartmouth College and later restoration were incidental to the famous Dartmouth College case.

  14. T. J. Rodgers

    Thurman John Rodgers, better known as T.J. Rodgers, is the founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. He is known for his public relations acumen, his brash personality, and strong advocacy of laissez-faire capitalism. He received his bachelor's degrees from Dartmouth College in 1970, graduating as "salutatorian" with majors in chemistry and physics.

  15. John Wheelock

    John Wheelock was the eldest son of Eleazar Wheelock who was the founder and first president of Dartmouth College; John Wheelock succeeded his father as the College’s second president.

  16. Nelson Rockefeller

    Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 - January 26, 1979) was the forty-first Vice President of the United States, governor of New York State, philanthropist and businessman. A leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, he was Governor of New York from 1959 to 1973, where he launched many construction and modernization projects. A descendant of one of the world's richest and best known families, he failed repeatedly in his attempts to become president, …

  17. Dinesh D'Souza

    Dinesh D'Souza (born April 25, 1961 in Bombay, India) is an author and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. D'Souza is the author of numerous "New York Times" best selling books and one of the most prolific and prominent conservative writers and speakers in the United States.

  18. Chris Miller

    Chris Miller (born 1942) is an American author and screenwriter, most notable for his work on "National Lampoon" magazine and "Animal House" (he also had a bit part as Curtis Wayne "Hardbar" Fuller and was credited as Christian Miller). In fact, his experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College helped inspire much of the material of "Animal House". Prior to writing the script to "Animal House", …

  19. Richard Hovey

    Richard Hovey (1864-1900) was an American composer, poet and artist. Graduating from Dartmouth College in 1885, he is known for penning the school Alma Mater, "Men of Dartmouth". The Hovey Murals at Dartmouth, a controversial and arguably racist series of paintings that are currently shielded from public view, are named in his honor. <br /> <br /> Poems SeaGypsy, When We Are Dead, John Keats, To a Friend, Philosophy, The Old Pine, In Memoriam, Squab Flights, Kronos, …

  20. Peter Robinson

    Peter M. Robinson (born 1957) is an American author, a research fellow, a television host and a former speechwriter for George Bush and Ronald Reagan. Robinson grew up in Vestal, New York. He attended Dartmouth College from 1975 to 1979, where he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and wrote for "The Dartmouth". He majored in English and graduated "summa cum laude", then continued his studies at Oxford University, England, …

  21. Fred Rogers

    Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers was an American educator, minister, songwriter and television host. Rogers was the host of the internationally acclaimed children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", in production from 1968 to 2001. As Mister Rogers, he became an iconic presence to millions of viewers. Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister.

  22. Samuel Colcord Bartlett

    The Rev. Samuel Colcord Bartlett was the president of Dartmouth College from 1877–1892. He graduated from Dartmouth with the Class of 1836.

  23. C. Everett Koop

    Vice Admiral Cornelius Everett Koop, M.D. (born October 14 1916 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physician. He served as the Surgeon General of the United States from 1982 to 1989, under Ronald Reagan's presidency. He was in a sense the first "celebrity Surgeon General" and is probably still the best-known holder of the office. Koop obtained his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1937, where he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, …

  24. Daniel Dana

    The Rev. Daniel Dana (1771 - 1859) was the president of Dartmouth College from 1820-1821. He graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1788.

  25. Asa Dodge Smith

    The Rev. Asa Dodge Smith D.D., L.L.D. (September 21, 1804-August 16, 1877) served as the 7th president of Dartmouth College from 1863 until his death in 1877.

  26. Budd Schulberg

    Budd Schulberg was born in New York City, New York on March 27, 1914. His father, Benjamin P. Schulberg , a producer in the newly erected motion-picture industry, moved the family to Hollywood, California after WWI. By 1925, as general manager of Paramount Famous-Lasky studio, Benjamin P. Schulberg was one of the most powerful forces in the movie industry. Schulberg's mother, Adeline (Jaffe) Schulberg , aspired to raise him with traditional Jewish values.

  27. Laura Ingraham

    After graduating from Dartmouth College, Laura worked as a speechwriter in the final two years of the Reagan Administration at the White House, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education. She went on to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was Notes Editor of the Law Review. She served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

  28. Philander Chase

    Philander Chase was an Episcopal Church bishop, educator, and pioneer of the United States western frontier in Ohio and Illinois. In 1805 he was appointed as the founding Rector of what is now Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans. He became the first Episcopal Bishop of Ohio in 1819, and later the first Episcopal bishop of Illinois, simultaneously serving as Presiding Bishop of the national church.

  29. Paul Gigot

    Paul A. Gigot is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative political commentator and the editor of the editorial pages for "The Wall Street Journal". He is also the moderator of the public affairs television series "Journal Editorial Report", a program reflecting the "Journal"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s editorial views which airs on Fox News Channel.

  30. Jeff Immelt

    Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since September 7, 2001. Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997. A couple years later, in 2000, Mr. Immelt was appointed president and chief executive officer.

  31. Grant Tinker

    Grant A. Tinker (born January 11, 1925) is the former chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986, co-founder of MTM Enterprises, and television producer. Tinker is the former husband of television actress, Mary Tyler Moore and also known as "the man who saved NBC". Tinker married Moore in 1962, and in 1969 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises.

  32. Buddy Teevens

    Eugene Francis Teevens III, more commonly known as Buddy Teevens (b. October 1 1956, Pembroke, Massachusetts) is the head football coach at Dartmouth College.

  33. Sarah Wayne Callies

    Sarah Wayne Callies is an actress who appears on Fox Television's series "Prison Break." She portrays the character of Dr. Sara Tancredi . She has also appeared in "Tarzan" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit... [more] Sarah Wayne Callies is an actress who appears on Fox Television's series "Prison Break." She portrays the character of Dr. Sara Tancredi . She has also appeared in "Tarzan" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."

  34. Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

    Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., KBE, (born in Mineola, New York on March 1, 1942) was chairman of the board of IBM from April 1993 until his retirement in December 2002. He also served as chief executive officer until March 2002. In January 2003, he assumed the position of chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm located in Washington, DC. He was formerly CEO of RJR Nabisco, and also held senior positions at American Express and McKinsey & Company.

  35. Levi Woodbury

    Levi Woodbury (December 22, 1789 - September 4, 1851) was the first justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to have attended law school. Woodbury was born in Francestown, New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1809, briefly attended law school in Litchfield, Connecticut, and was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1812. Woodbury was Justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1816-23; Governor of New Hampshire, …

  36. Rufus Choate

    Rufus Choate (October 1, 1799-July 13, 1859), American lawyer and orator, was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, the descendant of a family which settled in Massachusetts in 1643 ; brother of noted physician George Choate, and uncle to George C. S. Choate and Joseph Hodges Choate. Rufus Choate's birthplace, Choate House, remains virtually unchanged to this day.

  37. Sandy Alderson

    Richard Lynn Alderson is the CEO of the Major League Baseball San Diego Padres. Prior to the Padres, Alderson worked for MLB's commissioner’s office, where he was executive vice president for baseball operations between September 1998 and 2005. The son of a career Air Force pilot, Alderson attended Dartmouth College on a NROTC scholarship and graduated in 1969. He then joined the United States Marine Corps and served a tour of duty in Vietnam.

  38. Andrew Shue

    Andrew Shue (born February 20, 1967 in Wilmington, Delaware USA) is an actor, perhaps best known for his role on "Melrose Place" (1992-1998). Andrew is the brother of actress Elisabeth Shue. He has been married since 1994 and has two children.

  39. Angus King

    Angus S. King, Jr. (born March 31, 1944) served two terms as an Independent Governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003. After leaving office, he became a distinguished lecturer at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and annually teaches a semester-long undergraduate course on leadership. He also became employed at a law firm and a consulting firm in Portland, Maine. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 1966.

  40. Robert Reich

    Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton . He has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations , which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet , and his most recent book, Supercapitalism .

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