Hamilton College is a private, independent liberal arts college located in Clinton, New York. It has been coeducational since 1978, when it merged with Kirkland College.
Below is a non-comprehensive list of Hamiltonians who have made notable achievements or contributions in their chosen fields.
Notable alumni
Law, government, and public affairs
Legislative branch
- David Jewett Baker, class of 1816 - U.S. senator from Illinois
- Matt Cartwright, class of 1983 - U.S. representative from Pennsylvania
- Michael Castle, class of 1961 - 69th governor of Delaware, U.S. representative from Delaware, 2010 Senate candidate (graduation speaker 2004)
- Thomas Treadwell Davis, class of 1831 - U.S. representative from New York
- Victoria Doudera, class of 1983 - state representative in Maine
- Joseph Irwin France, class of 1895 - U.S. senator from Maryland
- Abijah Gilbert, class of 1822 - U.S. senator from Florida
- Joseph Roswell Hawley, class of 1847 - served two terms in the United States House of Representatives; four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut; 42nd governor of Connecticut
- John N. Hungerford, class of 1846 - U.S. representative from New York (1877âÂÂ79)
- Irving Ives, class of 1919 - U.S. senator from New York
- Oliver A. Morse, class of 1833 - U.S. representative from New York (1857âÂÂ1859), and co-founder of the Alpha Delta Phi literary society (now a national fraternity)
- Henry B. Payne, class of 1832 - U.S. senator from Ohio
- Theodore M. Pomeroy, class of 1842 - U.S. representative from New York
- Glenni William Scofield, class of 1840 - U.S. representative from Pennsylvania
- Charles B. Sedgwick - United States congressman from New York
- Gerrit Smith - Hamilton's first valedictorian (1818); U.S. House of Representatives 1853âÂÂ54; a founder of the Republican Party; three-time candidate for president; donated $10,000 to Hamilton just before his death
Executive branch
- Drew S. Days, III, class of 1963 - United States solicitor general, 1993âÂÂ1996; later Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law at Yale Law School
- Michael Dubke, class of 1992 - former White House communications director and former executive director of the Ripon Society
- Victor H. Metcalf, Law School class of 1868 - US secretary of the Navy (1906âÂÂ08)
- William Henry Harrison Miller, class of 1861 - United States attorney general, 1889âÂÂ1893
- Ralph Oman, class of 1962 - copyright law luminary
- Elihu Root, class of 1864 - United States secretary of state, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912
- James S. Sherman, class of 1878 - vice president of the United States
- Tom Vilsack, class of 1972 - United States secretary of agriculture; 40th governor of Iowa
- Jim Walden, class of 1988 - lawyer, former federal prosecutor with the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York
Judicial branch
- Charles F. Amidon, class of 1882 - judge for the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota
- Charles Holland Duell, class of 1871 - judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Randolph Moss, class of 1983 - judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- David Aldrich Nelson, class of 1954 - judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Alfred W. Newman, class of 1857 - Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
- Charles Prentiss Orr, class of 1879 - judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Glenni William Scofield, class of 1840 - judge of the United States Court of Claims
- Augustus Sherrill Seymour, class of 1857 - judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
- Roger Gordon Strand, class of 1955 - judge for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
- Amos Madden Thayer, class of 1862 - judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- John Curtiss Underwood, class of 1832 - lawyer, abolitionist politician, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- William James Wallace, class of 1857 - judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Hiram Wilson, class of 1832 - judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Diplomats
- John B. Emerson, class of 1975 - United States ambassador to Germany (2013 - present)
- Philip Jessup, class of 1917 - diplomat, international law scholar, ambassador
- Sol Linowitz, class of 1935 - attorney, diplomat; negotiated return of the Panama Canal
- William H. Luers, class of 1951 - U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1983âÂÂ86); U.S. ambassador to Venezuela (1978âÂÂ1982)
- Arnold Raphel, class of 1964 - U.S. ambassador to Pakistan (1987âÂÂ88)
- Edward S. Walker, Jr., class of 1962 - former ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, Middle East Institute president, Hamilton professor
- Frederick Hampden Winston (1830âÂÂ1904), attorney, minister to Persia (1885âÂÂ86)
State and city politicians, attorneys, activists, and other
- Dean Alfange, class of 1922 - politician; founding member of the Liberal Party of New York; Greek-American; Zionist activist
- Ashton Applewhite, Kirkland class of 1974 - writer and anti-ageism activist
- Mary Bonauto, class of 1983 - gay rights activist and attorney; successfully argued the Obergefell v. Hodges case that overturned state bans on same-sex marriage in 2015
- Archibald W. Campbell, class of 1855 - lawyer, journalist, and abolitionist
- George W. Clinton, class of 1825 - mayor of Buffalo, district attorney of Ontario County, United States attorney for the Northern District of New York, judge of the Buffalo Superior Court
- Steve Culbertson, class of 1979 - president and chief executive officer at Youth Service America
- Bruce Cutler, class of 1970 - criminal defense lawyer; attorney for John Gotti and Louis Eppolito
- Angela Davis, Hamilton College Junior Year in France Program (1963-64 academic year) - Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author
- George T. Downing, attended
- Marc Elias, class of 1990 - voting rights attorney, founder of Democracy Docket
- Clarence L. Fisher, class of 1900 - businessman, real estate and timber, member New York State Assembly
- Bela Hubbard, class of 1834 - Michigan pioneer, writer, geologist, lawyer, lumberman
- William A. Jacobson, class of 1981 - conservative commentator and clinical professor at Cornell Law School
- Ron Kim, class of 2001 - member of New York State Assembly and first Korean-American elected in New York State
- Bob Moses, class of 1956 - civil rights activist; Algebra Project
- James Noxon, studied 1834-36, then transferred to Union College - New York state senator, member New York State Supreme Court
- Bill Purcell, class of 1976 - mayor of Nashville
- Dan Siegel, class of 1967 - labor attorney and civil rights activist
- Lloyd Paul Stryker, class of 1906 - noted criminal defense lawyer; defended Alger Hiss
- Christie Vilsack, Kirkland class of 1972 - literacy advocate and politician; former First Lady of Iowa
- Theodore Dwight Weld - abolitionist; never enrolled as a student, but about 1825 he stayed at the College in the suite of tutor William Kirkland, attended classes, and was "something of a leader among the students"
- Hiram Wilson, class of 1832 - abolitionist, educator, worked with Josiah Henson to establish the British-American Institute, delegate to the 1843 World Anti-Slavery Convention
Literature and journalism
- Samuel Hopkins Adams, class of 1891 - author and investigative journalist
- Henry Allen, class of 1963 - critic who won Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (most prominently associated with The Washington Post)
- Albert Barnes, class of 1820 - theologian
- Josh Billings, class of 1840 (did not graduate) - pen name of Henry Wheeler Shaw
- Terry Brooks, class of 1966 - fantasy author
- Peter Cameron, class of 1982 - novelist and short-story writer
- Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, class of 1835 - educator and author
- Alf Evers, class of 1928 (did not graduate) - historian
- Amanda Filipacchi, class of 1988 - author of Nude Men, Vapor, and Love Creeps
- Michael Greenspan, class of 1969 - CNN correspondent and documentary filmmaker
- James Grinwis - poet
- Michael Patrick Hearn, class of 1972 (transferred to Bard College) - literary critic and man of letters
- Bill Henderson, class of 1967 - author and publisher; founder of Pushcart Press
- George Wheeler Hinman, class of 1884 - newspaper publisher and writer, President of Marietta College
- Harry Kondoleon, class of 1977 - author and playwright, Obie Award winner
- Chester Sanders Lord, managing editor, New York Sun; regent of the University of the State of New York
- Sarah J. Maas, class of 2008 - author of best-selling fantasy series
- Thomas Meehan, class of 1951 - wrote the books for the musicals Annie and The Producers
- Peter Meinke, class of 1955 - poet and author
- John Nichols, class of 1962 - author of The Milagro Beanfield War and The Sterile Cuckoo
- Steve Orlando, class of 2008 - comic book writer
- Ezra Pound, class of 1905 - poet, modernist polemicist, critic
- Preeta Samarasan, class of 1998 - Malaysian author writing in English
- Clinton Scollard, class of 1881 - poet
- Kamila Shamsie, class of 1995 - novelist
- Evan Smith, class of 1987 - Texas Tribune CEO and editor-in-chief
- Mark T. Sullivan, class of 1980 - author of mystery, suspense and historical fiction novels
- Charles Dudley Warner, class of 1851 - attorney, essayist, and editor; collaborated with Mark Twain on The Gilded Age, Hamilton awarded him the honorary degree Doctor of Letters
- Alexander Woollcott, class of 1909 - critic and commentator; early contributor to The New Yorker; member of the Algonquin Round Table
- Steve Wulf, class of 1972 - magazine journalist, editor, and book writer; former executive editor at ESPN The Magazine; worked for publications including Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, The Economist, and Time
Scientists, physicians, psychologists, engineers, mathematicians, and other researchers
- Lauren Ackerman, class of 1927 - physician and pathologist, championed the subspecialty of surgical pathology in the mid-20th century
- Richard Scott Conley - dental academic
- Edward L. Deci, class of 1964 - psychologist known for studies of human motivation ("self-determination theory")
- Paul Greengard, class of 1948 - neuroscientist awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2000
- Edward Skinner King, class of 1887 - astronomer and developer of the King Tracking Rate
- Garret Kramer, class of 1984 - sports psychologist
- William Howell Masters, class of 1938 - physician and research pioneer in the fields of hormone replacement therapy and sexology; co-author (with Virginia E. Johnson) of Human Sexual Response (1966)
- Jonathan Schooler, class of 1981 - psychologist who developed the theory of verbal overshadowing
- B.F. Skinner, class of 1926 - behavioral psychologist considered the most influential psychologist of the 20th century
- Augustus William Smith, class of 1825 - mathematician and astronomer
- Lawrence Weed, class of 1945 - academic physician and inventor of the problem-oriented medical record
- Edward J. Wickson - class of 1868 - agronomist and researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Academics and scholars (not otherwise listed)
- Robert Livingston Allen - linguist credited with developing "sector analysis" (professor at Columbia University)
- David K. Backus - financial economist (Heinz Riehl Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business)
- John J. Donohue III - law and economics scholar (professor at Yale Law School and Stanford Law School)
- Theodore William Dwight - pioneering legal educator who served on Hamilton faculty before serving as founding dean at Columbia Law School
- Benjamin A. Elman - sinologist, Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University
- Samih Farsoun - influential Arab Studies scholar
- Daniel Willard Fiske (did not graduate) - archivist, chess writer (co-author of Paul Morphy) and Icelandic studies scholar at Cornell University
- Erica Flapan - mathematician
- Charles L. Flynn, Jr. - historian and president of the College of Mount Saint Vincent
- David Greene, class of 1985 - 20th president of Colby College
- John M. Jacobus Jr. - art historian and professor at Princeton University and the University of California at Berkeley
- Matthew E. Kahn - economist at Johns Hopkins University, author of Climatopolis
- Harvey J. Levin - economist, studied spectrum allocation
- Asa Mahan - first president of Oberlin College, later of Adrian College
- Jeffrey Mass - historian, author and Japanologist (formerly Yamato Ichihashi Professor of Japanese History at Stanford University)
- Benjamin Dean Meritt - classical scholar, professor and epigraphist of ancient Greece (served on faculties at Princeton University, University of Michigan and the Institute for Advanced Study)
- James H. Morey - medievalist (and English professor at Emory University)
- Edward Orton Sr. - first president of Ohio State University and geologist
- Alicia Ouellette - dean of Albany Law School
- John H. Peck - 8th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- John Norton Pomeroy - former dean of New York University Law School
- Stephen G. Rabe, class of 1970 - historian and former Ashbel Smith Chair in History at the University of Texas at Dallas
- Edward Robinson, class of 1816 - biblical scholar known as the âÂÂfather of biblical archaeologyâÂÂ
- William A. Shanklin, class of 1883 - Methodist minister, president of Upper Iowa University and Wesleyan University
- Kosali Simon - health economist
Arts and entertainment
- Otis Bigelow, class of 1943 - Broadway actor and New York socialite (later professor at Dartmouth College)
- Robert Bilheimer, class of 1966 - Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, A Closer Walk
- Jake Blount, class of 2017 - musician, scholar and activist
- Kevin Burns, class of 1977 - Emmy Award-winning television producer and filmmaker
- Roz Chast, Kirkland class of 1975 - cartoonist and staff cartoonist for The New Yorker; listed by ComicsAlliance as one of twelve female cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition
- Sandy Faison, Kirkland class of 1972 - Broadway actress, singer, and acting teacher
- Peter Falk, class of 1949 (did not graduate) - actor, most famous for Columbo TV series
- Nat Faxon, class of 1997 - Academy Award-winning screenwriter (The Descendants); actor (Grosse Pointe, The Conners, Friends From College, Disenchantment, The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Beerfest)
- Helaman Ferguson, class of 1962 - sculptor and mathematician
- Spencer Finch, class of 1985 - artist
- Yance Ford - producer and director
- Deborah Forte, class of 1975 - producer of children's television and movies; president of Scholastic Media
- Josh Gardner - actor, comedian, writer; played titular character in the cult TV show Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust
- Jonathan Gilbert - actor, Little House on the Prairie
- Tony Goldwyn, class of 1982 (did not graduate) - actor, singer, producer, director, and political activist
- Eugene Goossen (1921âÂÂ1997) - art critic and historian
- David Grubin, class of 1965 - Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker
- Bill Harley, class of 1977 - children's entertainer, musician, and author
- Joe Howard, class of 1970 - actor, Mathnet
- Daniel Huntington, class of 1835 - Hudson River School artist
- Frederick King Keller, class of 1972 - television and movie director and writer
- Harry Kondoleon, class of 1977 - playwright and novelist; awarded Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim fellowships
- Christopher Kostow, class of 1999 - executive chef, The Restaurant at Meadowood; James Beard Foundation Award winner and recipient of three Michelin stars
- Eric Kuhn, class of 2009 - theatrical producer and entrepreneur; three-time Tony Award winner and co-founder and co-CEO of Folk Media Group
- Paul Lieberstein, class of 1989 - writer and actor; played Toby Flenderson on NBC's The Office
- Grayson McCouch, class of 1991 - actor, As the World Turns
- Richard Nelson, class of 1972 - playwright; current director of playwriting program at Yale University
- Sarah Rafferty, class of 1993 - actress, Suits, 2011âÂÂpresent
- Jay Reise, class of 1972 - composer
- Ryan Serhant, class of 2006 - actor, realtor, Million Dollar Listing New York
- Josh Simpson, class of 1972 - world-renowned glass sculptor
- David Thornton, class of 1977 - actor; husband of Cyndi Lauper
- Thomas Tull, class of 1992 - founder, chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures; film producer
- Melinda Wagner, Kirkland class of 1979 - winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Music Composition
- John Van Alstyne Weaver, class of 1914 - screenwriter and poet
Business leaders
- J. Carter Bacot, class of 1955 - former chairman and CEO, Bank of New York
- William McLaren Bristol, class of 1882 - co-founder of Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Henry Elghanayan - New York real estate developer
- Dan Ferguson, class of 1948 - former CEO of Newell Rubbermaid
- Edward Gelsthorpe, class of 1942 - marketing executive called "Cranapple Ed" for his best-known product launch
- John Jay Knox, class of 1849 - financier and comptroller of the treasury (1867âÂÂ84)
- A. G. Lafley, class of 1969 - CEO of Procter & Gamble; named one of America's Best Leaders by US News
- John Ripley Myers, class of 1887 - co-founder of Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Dan Nye, class of 1988 - former CEO of LinkedIn
- Neal Pilson, class of 1960 - former president of CBS Sports
- Marc Randolph, class of 1980 - co-founder of Netflix
- Stephen Sadove, class of 1973 - CEO of Saks Incorporated, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue
- Ryan Serhant, class of 2006 - founder of SERHANT; real estate broker, television personality, and author
- David M. Solomon, class of 1984 - CEO of Goldman Sachs
Clergy
- David Riddle Breed, class of 1867 - Presbyterian theologian, author of History and Use of Hymns and Hymn Tunes
- Edwin Otway Burnham, class of 1852 - rifle-shooting Presbyterian missionary in Sioux Indian territory
- Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, class of 1835 - Congregationalist minister, philologist and educator
- Franklin Clark Fry, class of 1921 - president of the United Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran Church in America
- Hiram H. Kellogg (1806âÂÂ1881) - minister and founder of the Clinton Female Seminary; first president of Knox College
- George William Knox, class of 1874 - Presbyterian theologian, missionary, professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo
- Theodore B. Lyman - bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina
- Arthur Tappan Pierson, class of 1857 - Presbyterian theologian; author of The Crisis of Missions (1886)
- George Warren Wood Jr., class of 1865 - Presbyterian missionary to Northern Michigan, missionary to the Dakota Mission, and charter member of the utopian Fairhope Single Tax Corporation
Sports
- Guy Hebert, class of 1989 - professional hockey player
- Jeff Hewitt, class of 1974 - professional football player
- André Matias, class of 2012 - 2016 Olympic rower
- Merritt Paulson, class of 1995 - majority owner of Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns FC
- Bill Smith, class of 1980 - general manager, Minnesota Twins
- Kyle Smith, class of 1992 - head men's basketball coach, Washington State University
- Ward Wettlaufer, class of 1959 - amateur golfer
- Gillian Zucker, class of 1990 - former president of Auto Club Speedway, and currently president of business operations for the Los Angeles Clippers
Pioneers in education and cultural exchange
- Samuel Eells, class of 1832 - founder of the Alpha Delta Phi literary society (now a national fraternity); lawyer, essayist, and advocate for literary and moral improvement in higher education
- Zeng Laishun (did not graduate) - Chinese interpreter, businessman, and educator; first Chinese student to attend an American college or university and among the earliest Chinese students to study abroad; later played a role in ChinaâÂÂs education and diplomatic reforms
- Lorenzo Latham, class of 1832 - co-founder of the Alpha Delta Phi literary society (now a national fraternity); editor and publisher
Alumni from works of fiction
Notable faculty
Current members
- Frank Anechiarico - government and law
- Debra Boutin - mathematics
- Heather Buchman - music
- Sally Cockburn - mathematics
- Dennis Gilbert - sociologist, developed the Gilbert Model
- Shelley Haley - professor of Classics and Africana Studies
- Maurice Isserman - historian with notable works on the American Left, the 1960s, and mountaineering
- Marianne Janack - philosophy
- Derek C. Jones - economist
- Philip Klinkner - political scientist specializing in American politics
- Katharine Kuharic - art
- Scott MacDonald - cinema and media studies
- Russell Marcus - philosophy
- Jack F. Matlock, Jr. - former U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union under Reagan
- Quincy D. Newell - history
- Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz - feminist literary critic, classicist
- Heidi Ravven - expert on Jewish ethics, Spinoza, and the relationship between religion and science
- Jane Springer - creative writing
- Anne Valente - short-story writer, essayist, novelist
- Edward S. Walker - former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the UAE; Middle East specialist
Former members (both permanent and visiting)
- Agha Shahid Ali - poet, finalist for the National Book Award
- Robert C. Allen - economic historian and professor at Oxford University
- Alfred Atherton - former United States Ambassador to Egypt
- Natalie Babbitt - author of children's literature, Tuck Everlasting
- Esther Barazzone - president emerita of Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Helen Barolini - writer, editor, and translator
- Thomas Bass - author, The Eudaemonic Pie
- Larry Birns - Latin Americanist
- Joel Black - literary critic
- Brigitte Boisselier - Raëlian and CEO of Clonaid, the "scientific wing" of the Raëlian movement
- Hermann Carl George Brandt - German literature and language scholar
- Jill Bullitt - scholar-in-residence
- Francis Marion Burdick - legal scholar and longtime professor at Columbia Law School
- Mary Bucci Bush - short story writer
- Albert Huntington Chester - geologist and mountaineer
- Richard N. Current - historian, winner of the Bancroft Prize
- Frederick M. Davenport - political science
- Eugene Domack - geologist
- Hubert Dreyfus - artificial intelligence philosopher and professor at University of California, Berkeley
- Ann duCille - African-American literature
- Sereno Edwards Dwight - intellectual historian and Congregationalist minister
- Theodore William Dwight - jurist and pioneering dean of Columbia Law School, professor of law and civil polity at Hamilton
- Edwin Erickson - member of the Pennsylvania Senate, representing the 26th District
- James Fankhauser - conductor
- Elizabeth Flower - philosopher
- Bobby Fong - English, dean of the faculty
- Karl Geiringer - German-American musicologist and biographer
- Kevin Grant - historian
- Edgar B. Graves - history
- Alex Haley - was briefly writer-in-residence
- Elaine Tuttle Hansen - president of Bates College
- Suzanne Keen - vice president for Academic Affairs, dean of faculty, and professor of Literature
- Jerome B. Komisar - economist and president of the University of Alaska
- Stephen G. Kurtz - history
- John Hiram Lathrop - first president of the University of Missouri; first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; president of Indiana University
- George Lenczowski - political scientist and longtime professor at University of California, Berkeley
- Cheng Li - director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution
- Edwin Chesley Estes Lord - geology
- Arthur Marder - naval historian
- Robert G. Miner
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty - post-colonial feminist theorist
- John Monteith - first president of the University of Michigan
- Howard Nemerov - poet, twice Poet Laureate of the United States
- Edward North - Greek
- Gail R. O'Day - religion
- C. Stanley Ogilvy - mathematics
- Margo Okazawa-Rey
- Robert L. Paquette - history
- Boyd Crumrine Patterson - mathematics
- C. H. F. Peters (1813âÂÂ1890) - professor of astronomy
- Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz - classics
- Duncan Rice - principal of the University of Aberdeen; former Vice-Chancellor of New York University
- David P. Robbins - mathematician
- Oren Root (1803âÂÂ1885) - son of Elihu Root and father of Elihu Root and Oren Root Jr., professor of mathematics, 1849âÂÂ1881; Hamilton graduate
- Oren Root Jr. - older brother of Elihu Root, Presbyterian minister and professor of mathematics and natural sciences; formerly professor of English at the University of Missouri; Hamiton registrar for many years
- Bernie Sanders - visiting professor of sociology at Hamilton during the spring of 1990, where he taught two courses; later U.S. senator from Vermont
- Clinton Scollard - poet
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - gender theorist and cultural critic
- Ty Seidule - history
- Charles Henry Smyth, Jr. - geologist
- David R. Stone - history
- Leo Strauss - political philosopher and classicist
- Theodore Strong - mathematics
- Orest Subtelny - scholar of Ukrainian history
Presidents of Hamilton College
- Azel Backus, 1812âÂÂ16
- Henry Davis, 1817âÂÂ33
- Sereno Edwards Dwight, 1833âÂÂ35
- Joseph Penney, 1835âÂÂ39
- Simeon North, 1839âÂÂ57
- Samuel Ware Fisher, 1858âÂÂ66 - son of clergyman Samuel Fisher
- Samuel Gilman Brown, 1866âÂÂ81
- Henry Darling (1824âÂÂ1891), 1881âÂÂ91 - graduated from Amherst College and Auburn Theological Seminary, pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Albany
- Melancthon Woolsey Stryker, class of 1872, 1892âÂÂ1917
- Frederick Carlos Ferry, 1917âÂÂ38
- William Harold Cowley, 1938âÂÂ44
- David Worcester, 1945âÂÂ47
- Thomas Brown Rudd, 1947âÂÂ49
- Robert Ward McEwen, 1949âÂÂ66
- Richard Watrous Couper, 1966âÂÂ68 (acting)
- John Wesley Chandler, 1968âÂÂ73
- Samuel Fisher Babbitt, 1968âÂÂ78 (Kirkland College)
- J. Martin Carovano, 1974âÂÂ88
- Harry C. Payne, 1988âÂÂ93
- Eugene M. Tobin, 1993âÂÂ2003
- Joan Hinde Stewart, 2003âÂÂ2016
- David Wippman, 2016âÂÂ2024
- Steven Tepper, 2024âÂÂ
Notable commencement speakers and honored guests
Commencement speakers
Source:
Sacerdote Great Names Series
Since 1996, Hamilton College has hosted the Sacerdote Great Names Series, bringing prominent public figures, intellectual leaders, and entertainers to campus. Below is a list of previous guests:
References