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List of Phillips Exeter Academy people

The following is a list of notable faculty, trustees, and alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire, founded in 1781.

Founder

  • John Phillips – founder of Phillips Exeter; president of board of trustees 1781–1795

Principals

Notable faculty members and trustees

  • John Pickering – federal judge, impeached for drunkenness; trustee 1781–1782
  • Paine Wingate – New Hampshire delegate to the Continental Congress; U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; trustee 1787–1809
  • Nicholas Emery – judge on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court; assistant teacher 1797
  • Daniel Dana – president of Dartmouth College; instructor 1789–91; board of trustees 1809–1843
  • John Taylor Gilman – delegate to the Continental Congress; governor of New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1795–1827
  • Ashur Ware – federal judge; instructor 1804–1805
  • Nathan Hale – editor and publisher; introduced regular editorial commentary; instructor 1805–1807
  • Alexander Hill Everett – diplomat and politician; assistant teacher 1807
  • Nathan Lord – president of Dartmouth College; faculty 1809–1812
  • Henry Ware Jr. – mentor to Ralph Waldo Emerson; instructor, 1812–1814
  • James Walker – president of Harvard University; faculty 1814–1815
  • William Bourne Oliver Peabody – minister and author; assistant instructor 1817
  • Ebenezer Adams – first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy
  • Nathaniel Appleton Haven – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1828–1830
  • Jeremiah Smith – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; judge; governor of New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1830–1842
  • Francis Bowen – philosopher, writer, and educationalist; faculty 1833–1835
  • Joseph Gibson Hoyt – chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis; faculty 1840–1858
  • Andrew Preston Peabody – Unitarian clergyman and author; board of trustees, 1843–1885
  • Amos Tuck – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; founder of the Republican Party; board of trustees 1853–1879
  • George A. Wentworth – author of textbooks on mathematics; faculty 1857–1892; board of trustees 1899–1906
  • Robert Franklin Pennell – scholar and classicist; faculty 1871–1882
  • Charles H. Bell – governor of New Hampshire; trustee 1879–1883
  • George Lyman Kittredge – faculty 1883–1887
  • T.A. Dwight Jones – faculty
  • H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell – director of scholarships
  • Robert H. Bates – mountaineer; faculty
  • Donald B. Cole – historian; faculty 1947–1988
  • Dandridge MacFarlan Cole – aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author; faculty 1949–1953, physics and astronomy
  • Winthrop Jordan – historian; faculty member in history department 1955–1960
  • Frederick Buechner – writer; theologian; Religion and English faculty and school minister 1958–1967
  • Cabot Lyford – sculptor; faculty 1963–1986
  • Michael S. Greco – president of American Bar Association; faculty 1965–1968
  • George Crowe – ice hockey coach; faculty 1969–1975
  • David P. Robbins – mathematician; faculty 1972–1977
  • Dolores Kendrick – Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia; faculty 1972–1993
  • Dan Brown – New York Times bestselling author; faculty 1993
  • Michael Golay – historian; faculty 1999–present
  • Gwynneth Coogan – U.S. Olympian; faculty 2002–present
  • Todd Hearon – faculty 2003–present
  • Olutoyin Augustus – Nigerian hurdler; instructor in physical education 2011–2021
  • Thomas W. Simpson – faculty 2008–present
  • Willie Perdomo – current instructor in English

Notable alumni

1780s

1790s

1800s

1810s

1820s

  • John P. Hale (1820) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; abolitionist; Free Soil candidate for U.S. president; ambassador to Spain
  • Franklin Pierce (1820) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; 14th president of the United States
  • Alpheus Felch (1821) – U.S. senator from Michigan; governor of Michigan
  • Josiah S. Little (1821) – speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
  • Ephraim Peabody (1821) – Unitarian minister; abolitionist
  • John Langdon Sibley (1821) – librarian of Harvard University
  • Alfred W. Craven (1822) – civil engineer; founding member and president of the American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Thomas Tingey Craven (1822) – rear admiral, United States Navy
  • George Yeaton Sawyer (1822) – lawyer and politician, justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
  • Samuel Foster Haven (1823) – archeologist, anthropologist
  • Richard Hildreth (1823) – historian, political theorist
  • John Hodgdon (1823) – president of the Maine State Senate; mayor of Dubuque, Iowa
  • Forrest Shepherd (1823) – geologist
  • George Bradburn (1824) – politician and Unitarian minister in Massachusetts
  • Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (c. 1824) – U.S. representative from Maine
  • Edward Henry Durell (1826) – mayor of New Orleans, federal judge
  • Henry Francis Harrington (1828) – editor of the Boston Herald
  • Theodore Howard McCaleb (1828) – federal judge; president of the University of Louisiana
  • Francis Bowen (1829) – philosopher, writer, educationalist
  • Benjamin Butler (1829) – Civil War general (Union); U.S. representative from Massachusetts; governor of Massachusetts
  • Edward Fox (1829) – federal judge
  • Timothy Roberts Young (1829) – U.S. representative from Illinois
  • Charles Turner Torrey (1829) – abolitionist; convicted of stealing slaves, died in prison
  • Jeffries Wyman (1829) – naturalist and anatomist
  • Morrill Wyman (1829) – physician and social reformer

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2010s

References

Further reading

  • Harris, Bernard C.; Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni-Alumnae, A Listing of the Trustees, Principals, Members of the Faculty Emeriti, and All Living Alumni and Alumnae ; Harris Publishing Company (White Plaines, New York), 19th Edition, PAH-W121-1M-18.1V