List of Norwich University alumni

Following is a list of notable alumni of Norwich University, private senior military college in Northfield, Vermont. The university was called The American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy from 1818 to 1834.

Architecture

• William Rutherford Mead (non-degreed) – architect associated with the City Beautiful and Beaux Arts movements and partner in McKim, Mead, and White

Business

• Bradley Birkenfeld 1988 – private banker and whistleblower about State Street Bank & Trust and the Swiss bank, UBS.
• Paul C. Cameron 1828 – co-builder of the North Carolina Railroad and justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court
• Orville Clark 182? – President of the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company and New York State Senate
• Grenville Dodge 1850 – chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad, Civil War General, US Congressman, and namesake of. Dodge City, Kansas.
• Robert Livingston Pell 1829 – farmer and landowner
• Junius Spencer Morgan (attended) – banker, financier, and the father of J. P. Morgan
• Harry Bates Thayer (attended 1875–1877) – president and chairman of the board of AT&T

Education

• Patricia Aakhus – novelist and director of International Studies at the University of Southern Indiana
• Kenny Alexander 2019 (MA) – college system chancellor, and political science instructor at Tidewater Community College, Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegrates, and mayor of Norfolk, Virginia
• Alvan E. Bovay 1841 – co-founder of Ripon College and of the Republican Party
• Thomas J. Cutler 1988 – author, director of the Walbrook Maritime Academy, and associate editor of the United States Naval Institute
• Carlo D'Este 1958 – military historian, biographer,and lecturer at School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and General Staff College
• Tarak Nath Das – professor of political science at Columbia University
• Thomas Green Clemson 1824 – founder of Clemson University and US Ambassador to Belgium
• Roxane Gay – writer and professor at Eastern Illinois University, Purdue University, and Yale University
• Ernest N. Harmon (attended 1914) – president of Norwich University, major general, and commander of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Armored Division, and XXII Corps during World War II
• Robert F. McDermott (attended 1937–1939) – dean of faculty to the Air Force Academy, Brigadier General, and flew 61 combat missions during World War II in the European Theatre,
• Tracey Poirier 1996 – assistant vice president for student affairs at Norwich University and Brigadier General in the Vermont Army National Guard
• Andrea Talentino 2017 (MBA) – ninth president of Augustana College
• Marjorie Welish – poet and instructor at the Pratt Institute and Brown University.

Engineering and science

• Edward Dean Adams 1864 – Founded and directed the Cataract Construction Company and developed the systems to produce electric power at Niagara Falls
• Richard E. Hayden 1968 – acoustics researcher and winner of the Wright Brothers Medal in 1973
• Frederick W. Lander 1852 – Surveyor of railroad routes and wagon trails in the Western American States and Brigadier General during the American Civil War
• Horatio Wright (attended 1834–1836) – Engineer for the Brooklyn Bridge and the Washington Monument, Chief of Engineers for the Army; Major General, commander with the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War, Commander of the Army of Texas
• Samuel T. Wellman 1866 – American steel industry pioneer and inventor

Law

• Charles J. Adams 1939 – Vermont Attorney General
• F. Elliott Barber Jr. 1934 – Vermont Attorney General
• Luther Loren Baxter – Minnesota Senate, Minnesota House of Representatives, probate judge, United States Attorney, and county attorney for Carver County, Minnesota
• Thomas Bragg 1828 – Attorney General of the Confederate States, Governor of North Carolina from 1855 to 1859, and United States Senate
• Thaddeus M. Buczko – Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Auditor, and justice of the Essex County Probate and Family Court
• Paul C. Cameron 1828 – justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court and co-buiider of the North Carolina Railroad
• John P. Connarn 1941 – Vermont Attorney General, 1965–1967; Judge with the Vermont District Court from 1967 to 1985, and Vermont House of Representatives
• S. Park Coon – Attorney General of Wisconsin
• Jasper W. Gilbert 1832 – justice on the New York Supreme Court
• William Pitt Kellogg 1848 – Chief Justice of the Nebraska Territory Louisiana Senate, and Governor of Louisiana
• Jefferson P. Kidder 1834 – justice of territorial Supreme Court, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and United States House of Representatives for the Dakota Territory
• William Little Lee 1842 – Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Kingdom and privy counselor to Kamehameha III
• Michael Mori 1991 – lawyer of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Matthew Hicks and recipient of the American Civil Liberties Union's Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award
• Theodore Sedgwick 1826 – United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
• Burleigh F. Spalding 1877 – Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court and United States House of Representatives from North Dakota

Literature and journalism

• Patricia Aakhus – novelist and director of International Studies at the University of Southern Indiana
• Sharifa Alkhateeb – journalist and editor
• Thomas J. Cutler 1988 – author, director of the Walbrook Maritime Academy, and associate editor of the United States Naval Institute
• William Richard Cutter – writer, historian, librarian, and genealogist
• Roxane Gay – writer and professor at Eastern Illinois University, Purdue University, and Yale University
• Marjorie Welish – Poet and instructor at Pratt Institute and Brown University.
• Rafael Enault – French writer and film director.
• Pierson "Pier" Mapes - 1959, President of NBC from 1982 - 1994.

Military

• Fred Thaddeus Austin 1888 – Major General and U.S. Army Chief of Field Artillery
• Hiram Iddings Bearss (attended 1894–1895) – Brigadier General who received the Medal of Honor during the Philippine–American War
• Francis William Billado 1933 – Major General and Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard
• Brian Bisacre 1989 - Brigadier General, Commandant US Army Military Police School and Deputy Provost Marshal, U.S. Army.
• James Vote Bomford 1828 – Brigadier General in the U.S. Army
• Irving L. Branch 1934 – United States Air Force general
• John J. Broadmeadow 1983 – lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps
• Edward H. Brooks 1916 – Lieutenant General, Commander, VI Armored Corps during World War II; and commanding general, U.S. Army in the Caribbean
• James M. Burt 1939 – Received the Medal of Honor for the Battle of Aachen during World War II.
• Henry Stanton Burton (attended 1832–1835) – brevet brigadier general U. S. Army
• Thomas A. Bussiere 1985 - General in the United States Air Force, Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command
• Edward Byers 2016 – Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient
• Harold D. Campbell 1917 – United States Marine Corps major general
• George Colvocoresses 1831 – Commanded USS Saratoga during the Civil War
• George Partridge Colvocoresses 1866 – rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and Commandant of Cadets at the United States Naval Academy
• George A. Converse 1863 – Rear Admiral, notable naval engineer, and Chief of the Bureaus of Equipment, Ordnance, and Navigation
• Norman Cooling (attended 1986) – Brigadier General in the United States Marine Corps
• Reginald M. Cram 1936 – adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard
• Thomas Tingey Craven 1824 – U.S. Navy Admiral
• George Dewey (attended 1852–1854) – Admiral of the Navy, commanded the Navy's Asiatic Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.
• Grenville M. Dodge 1851 – major general, Commander of the Department of Missouri; and chief engineer of Union Pacific, and namesake of Dodge City, Kansas
• Donald E. Edwards 1959 – adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard
• Jesse Gove 1849 – colonel in the American Civil War
• Ernest N. Harmon (attended 1914) – major general, president of Norwich University, and Commander of the 1st Armored Division, 2nd Armored Division, and XXII Corps during World War II
• Richard W. Higgins (attended, class of 1944) – USAF pilot decorated by German Air Force for saving civilians in an accident.
• Willie Johnston (attended, 1866–1868) – youngest recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Frederick W. Lander 1852 – brigadier general during the American Civil War and surveyor of railroad routes and wagon trails in the Far Wes
• Albert Martin – defender of the Alamo in 1836
• Robert F. McDermott (attended 1937–1939) – flew 61 combat missions during World War II in the European Theatre, dean of faculty to the Air Force Academy, and brigadier general.
• Robert H. Milroy 1843 – brigadier general, in command or present at the Union reverses of the Battle of McDowell, Battle of Cross Keys, and Battle of Second Winchester.
• Lewis Samuel Partridge 1838 – major general, adjutant general of the Vermont Militia
• Hiram Paulding 1822 – rear admiral, commander of the Navy's Home Squadron, and commandant of the New York Navy Yard
• Thomas Payne 2017 – member of U.S. Army Special Mission Unit who received the Medal of Honor for operations against ISIS in Iraq
• Samuel L. Pitkin 1823 – Adjutant General for the State of Connecticut
• Tracey Poirier 1996 – brigadier general, the first female general officer of the Vermont Army National Guard and assistant vice president for student affairs at Norwich University
• James Ezekiel Porter (attended 1863–1864) – officer in the 7th Cavalry from 1869 to 1876; killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
• David E. Quantock 1980 – Lieutenant General and Inspector General of the United States Army.
• Thomas E. G. Ransom (attended 1848–1850) – Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War
• Edmund Rice 1859 – brigadier general and recipient of the Medall of Honor for actions at the Battle of Gettysburg.
• William Huntington Russell 1828 – major general, commander of Connecticut state militia during the American Civil War; and founder of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University.
• Thomas O. Seaver 1859 – commanded the 3rd Vermont Infantry during the American Civil War; received the Medal of Honor
• Eric Slover – Army helicopter pilot awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the 2026 United States intervention in Venezuela.
• Gordon R. Sullivan 1959 – general and Army Chief of Staff
• Frederick Townsend Ward (attended 1846–1848) – Soldier of fortune famous for his military victories for Imperial China during the Taiping Rebellion.
• James H. Ward 1823 – first commandant of the United States Naval Academy; first Union Naval officer killed in action during the American Civil War.
• Gideon Welles 1826 – served as United States Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson
• Isaac D. White (Class of 1952) – Armor officer who commanded U.S. Army, Pacific (USARPAC) from July 1957 to March 1961.
• Seth Williams 1903 – quartermaster general of the Marine Corps and Major General
• Edward Bancroft Williston 1856 – brigadier general, received the Medal of Honor
• Leonard F. Wing Sr. (attended 1910–1914) – brigadier general and commander of 43rd Infantry Division during World War II.
• Henry Clay Wood 1856 – brigadier general, received the Medal of Honor
• Horatio Wright (attended 1834–1836) – engineer for Brooklyn Bridge and Washington Monument; US Army Chief of Engineers; Commander of Union Army's Army of Texas

Politics

• Kenny Alexander 2019 (MA) – Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegrates, mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, college system chancellor, and political science instructor at Tidewater Community College
• David V. Anderson 1922 – Vermont Auditor of Accounts
• Luther Loren Baxter – Minnesota Senate, Minnesota House of Representatives, probate judge, United States Attorney, and county attorney for Carver County, Minnesota
• Portus Baxter 1824 – United States House of Representatives
• Alvan E. Bovay 1841 – co-founder of Republican Party and of Ripon College
• Dennis Bradley – Connecticut State Senate
• Thomas Bragg 1828 – Governor of North Carolina, United States Senate, and Attorney General of the Confederate States.
• Ansel Briggs 1820 – first governor of Iowa
• Francis K. Brooks 1967 – Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate
• George E. Bryant 1854 – Wisconsin State Senate
• Thaddeus M. Buczko – Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Auditor, and justice of the Essex County Probate and Family Court
• Asa Clapp 1823 – United States House of Representatives
• Orville Clark 182x ? – New York State Senate and president of the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company
• Thomas Green Clemson 1824 – US Ambassador to Belgium and founder of Clemson University
• George W. Clinton 1827 – Mayor of Buffalo
• Jay Collins – Lieutenant Governor of Florida
• Charles A. Coolidge 1863 – United States Army brigadier general.
• John P. Connarn 1941 – Vermont House of Representatives; Vermont Attorney General, and judge in Vermont District Court
• Laurentino Cortizo – President of Panama, President of the National Assembly, and Minister of Agricultural and Livestock Development
• John J. Daley 1949 – lieutenant governor of Vermont, Vermont House of Representatives, and Mayor of Rutland
• Tarak Nath Das 1908 – co-founder of the Ghadar Party and Indian freedom fighter
• Moses M. Davis – Wisconsin Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly
• Dustin Allard Degree – Vermont General Assembly
• Brian Dempsey – Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Joseph H. Denny 1905 – Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate
• Charles D. Drake 1825 – United States Senate
• Ryland Fletcher 1824 – Governor of Vermont.
• Colonel Ernest Willard Gibson 1894 – United States Senate
• Colonel Ernest W. Gibson Jr. 1923 – United States Senate and Governor of Vermont
• Jason R. Holsman 2003 – Missouri Senate.
• William Pitt Kellogg 1848 – Louisiana State Senate, Governor of Louisiana, and Chief Justice of the Nebraska Territory
• Colin Kenny 1966 – Senate of Canada and adviser to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
• Jefferson P. Kidder 1834 – Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, United States House of Representatives for the Dakota Territory, and a justice of territorial Supreme Court.
• Robert M. Lawton 1952 – New Hampshire House of Representatives, and founder of Funspot
• William Little Lee 1842 – Privy counselor to Kamehameha III and chief justice of Hawaiian Kingdom
• Caleb Lyon 1841 – Governor of the Idaho Territory and United States House of Representatives
• Horatio Seymour 1828 – Governor of New York and 1868 Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
• Charles A. Plumley 1896 – United States House of Representatives
• Paul N. Poirier 1970 –Vermont House of Representatives
• Edward Stanly 1829 – United States House of Representatives
• Burleigh F. Spalding 1877 –United States House of Representatives and Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court
• Sugiono – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia
• Gideon Welles 1826 – United States Secretary of the Navy

Religion and nonprofits

• Gregory T. Bedell – Episcopal Bishop of Ohio
• William Griffith Wilson 1917 – co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous who was in the top 20 persons of the : Heroes and Icons in the 20th century.

Sports

• Beau Almodobar – professional football player
• Ted Arcidi - powerlifting/bench press world record holder
• Tom Aubrun – professional ice hockey player
• Keith Aucoin 2001 – professional ice hockey player.
• Andrew Bracy 2015 – professional lacrosse player with the New York Lizards
• Don Brown 1977 – college football coach
• Mike Brown 2000 – Academic All-American wrestler; professional Mixed Martial Artist, and WEC Featherweight Champion in 2008
• Emily Caruso 2000 – sport shooter, two-time Olympian and gold medalist, and college coach
• Amanda Conway 2020 – professional ice hockey player with the Connecticut Whale
• Jay Cottone (attended 1968 to 1970) – college football coach
• Dominick Dawes – college ice hockey coach and professional ice hockey player
• Long Ding – professional football player
• Allen Doyle 1971 – golfer on the Champions Tour, U.S. Senior Open Champion in 2005 and 2006, and Senior PGA Champion in 1999
• Pierre Garçon – professional football player
• Nikita Kashirsky – professional ice hockey player
• Bill Kenney – college football coach
• Frank Liebel 1941 – professional football player with the New York Giants and Chicago Bears
• Jim Luscinski – professional football player
• Harold D. Martin – college football coach, and a Negro league baseball player.
• Kurtis McLean 2005 – professional ice hockey player
• Bobby Murray – professional baseball player
• Arlie Pond 1888–1890 – Major league pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles
• Frank Simonetti 1984 – professional ice hockey player with the Boston Bruins
• Brent Thompson (1997) – college football coach

References

External links

• Official website