Harvard University and Ivy League: Behind the Scenes

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

& IVY LEAGUE

BEHIND THE SCENES

By William P. Litynski

Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass (left) chats with Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger at a dinner on January 25, 2008. Richard N. Haass and Lee C. Bollinger are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, an internationalist organization in New York City. (Photo: Flickr)

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In June of 2001, the four living Harvard presidents gathered at Loeb House before the 350th Commencement. Standing are (left to right): Derek Bok, Lawrence H. Summers, and Neil L. Rudenstine. Seated is Nathan Pusey. (Photo: Staff photo by Jon Chase/Harvard University)

Harvard University President Lawrence Summers shakes hands with David Rockefeller at Harvard University on December 9, 2004.

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At the COUR dinner Friday, Harvard University President Drew G. Faust (right) and Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 (left) flank David Rockefeller ’36, whose $100 million gift was announced that morning.(Photo: The Crimson Magazine/Harvard University)

New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller (left) and Cornell University President James A. Perkins (right) shake hands during ceremonies on campus at Cornell University in 1966 at the College of Agriculture. (Photo: Cornell University)

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Lawrence Summers (left), former President of Harvard University, and Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates (right) sit on stage during commencement ceremonies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 7, 2007. Gates, who enrolled at Harvard in a pre-law program in 1973 and left in his junior year, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. (Getty Images)

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Drew Gilpin Faust (right) accepts a gift of two University seals from former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers during ceremonies installing her as the 28th President of Harvard University at the Tercentenary Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 12, 2007. (Reuters)

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Andrew Carnegie chats with Princeton University President Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University. Dean Andrew F. West and former President of the United States Grover Cleveland are seen walking behind Carnegie and Wilson.(Source: Andrew Carnegie by Joseph Frazier Wall)

Photo shows the dedication ceremony for the Cleveland Memorial Tower which was dedicated in a ceremony on October 22, 1913, at which former President William Howard Taft was the principal speaker. Also shown is John Grier Hibben (1861-1933), who was President of Princeton University from 1912 to 1932. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and New York Times, Oct. 19, 1913)(Photo: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress)

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is flanked by Yale University President James R. Angell (left) and Harvard University James B. Conant (right), appears at Yale University to receive an honorary degree in 1934. Angell and Conant were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. (Source: A Yale Album: The Third Century, p. 150)

Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill (left) and Harvard University President James B. Conant are seen wearing cap and gown at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. in 1943. (Photo: Ralph Morse/Life Magazine)

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Harvard University President James B. Conant walks with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Harvard University in 1943.

Harvard University President Nathan Pusey (left) shakes hands with former Harvard University President James B. Conant at Harvard University in 1964. Nathan Pusey and James B. Conant were members of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The only known photograph of five Harvard presidents. Left to right, Josiah Quincy (1829-1845), Edward Everett (1846-1849), Jared Sparks (1849-1853), James Walker (1853-1860), and Cornelius Conway Felton (1860-1862). Photographer unknown. (Photo: Wikimedia)

Summers is greeted in the Loeb House by current President Neil L. Rudenstine. (Staff photo by Rose Lincoln)(Source: Harvard University)

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Pervez Musharraf, the dictator of Pakistan, speaks to guests about his vision of Pakistan in the 21st century as Joseph Nye (left), Dean of Kennedy School of Government, listens at the Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 8, 2002. (Photo By Douglas McFadd/Getty Images)

John H. Coatsworth (left), Dean of School of International Affairs at Columbia University, shakes hands with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after speaking at Columbia University in New York City on September 24, 2007. John H. Coatsworth is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. (Getty Images)

Left photo: Former President Bill Clinton (left), Allan Rosenfield (center), and Columbia University President Lee Bollinger meet together at Columbia University in 2006. (Photo: Columbia University)

Right photo: Former Vice President Al Gore (right) with Columbia University President George Rupp during a campus visit.(Photo: Columbia University)

From left to right: Richard Holbrooke, President Rupp, Pamela Harriman, Strobe Talbott and Ambassador George Kennan. Photo Credit: Joe Pineiro. (Photo: Columbia University)

Right photo: Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger (left) walks with former Brown University president Vartan Gregorian.

Left photo: From left to right: Former Mayor of New York City David Dinkins, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, President of Columbia University Lee Bollinger, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and U.S. Institute of Peace President Richard Solomon.(Photo: United States Institute of Peace)

Right photo: (Left to right) Dean of Woodrow Wilson School Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilgman, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and Princeton Professor John Ikenberry smile for the camera during a meeting at Princeton University in February 2006. (Photo: Princeton University)

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Brown University President Ruth Simmons and American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault smile for the camera in New York City on November 12, 2007. Ruth Simmons and Kenneth Chenault are members of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Brown University President Ruth Simmons (left) chats with NBC journalist Tom Brokaw. (Photograph by Nike Zachmanoglou)(Source: Carnegie Corporation of New York)

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Left to right: Adlai E. Stevenson, Columbia University President Grayson Kirk, Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother), West Germany’s Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren prepare to receive a degree at Columbia University in 1954.

Indonesia’s dictator Sukarno is shown being invested by Dean Harry J. Carman of Columbia University with the hood of the degree of Doctor of Laws in ceremonies at Columbia University in New York City on May 24, 1956. Left to right: Dean Carman, Sukarno, and Dr. Grayson Kirk, President of Columbia University. (Bettmann/CORBIS)

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Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (right) speaks to a crowd at the farewell dinner for retiring Yale President Charles Seymour (left) in February 1950. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Charles Seymour were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. (Photo: Herbert Gehr/Time Life)

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of Columbia University, appears with Columbia University’s Board of Trustees. CBS Chairman William S. Paley is standing in the rear, fifth from right. (Source: As It Happened: A Memoir by William S. Paley)

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (right) appears with Pakistan’s dictator Pervez Musharraf (left).(Photo: http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticle/15685)

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Former Harvard University President A. Lawrence Lowell (front row, left) walks with Harvard University President James B. Conant (front row, center) at Harvard University in 1938. Lowell and Conant were members of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Harvard University President James B. Conant (center) appears with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President Karl T. Compton (left) and financier Bernard Baruch. Conant and Compton were members of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Harvard University President James B. Conant walks with Frederick L. Hovde (left) and Carroll L. Wilson (right) in 1941. All three men were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hovde was a Rhodes Scholar. Frederick L. Hovde would serve as President of Purdue University from 1946 to 1971. Carroll L. Wilson would serve as a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and as a director of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1964 to 1979.

Gathered at a buffet luncheon in New York City on April 16, 1948 which followed the dedication of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, largest of its kind in the world, are (left to right): Charles Kettering, member of the Board of Trustees; Alfred P. Sloan, chief financial contributor and Board Chairman; James B. Conant, President of Harvard University and a board member, and Karl T. Compton, President of MIT and also a board member. Sloan, Conant, and Compton were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. (Bettmann/CORBIS)

President Dwight D. Eisenhower meets with his advisory group on Presidential awards for Meritorious Civilian Service on September 19, 1956. From bottom to top left to right: Princeton University President Dr. Harold W. Dodds, President Dwight Eisenhower; Dr. Leonard Carmichael; Mr. Homer Brinkley; Rockefeller University President Dr. Detlev Bronk; Dr. John Nicholas Brown; Dr. Arthur Compton; Hon. Walter Gifford; Dr. Ernest Hopkins; Mr. Ralph MacGill; Dr. James L. McRill; Mr. Whitalaw Reid. Dodds, Eisenhower, Bronk, Gifford, and Reid were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. (Bettmann/CORBIS)

Vannevar Bush (left) watches President Harry S. Truman (center) present a Medal of Merit and Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster to Harvard University President James B. Conant (right) on May 27, 1948. (Photo: Harry S. Truman Presidential Library)

At a March 1971 dinner at the Harvard Club, Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey (center) talks with Harvard President-elect Bok (left) and Harvard President Emeritus Conant. (Gazette file photo)

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Princeton University President Robert F. Goheen, center, poses with honorary degree recipients at the school's 219th commencement exercises, in this June 14, 1966 file photograph. From left to right: Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, retiring director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Commander Charles Conrad, Jr., U.S. Navy, astronaut on Gemini V and command pilot for the upcoming Gemini XI; John W. Gardner, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; and Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach, U.S. Attorney General.(Associated Press photo by Anthony Camerano)

Left photo: Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, greets Woodrow Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter (right) and Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman. (Photo: Princeton University)

Right photo: Princeton University graduates (from left to right) Frank Carlucci, Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro, George P. Shultz, and James A. Baker III smile for the camera.

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President Ronald Reagan poses with his Cabinet on January 20, 1984. (Photo: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)

Front row: Donald Regan (HARVARD), Secretary of the Treasury; Vice President George H.W. Bush (YALE); President Ronald Reagan; George Shultz (PRINCETON), Secretary of State; Caspar Weinberger (HARVARD), Secretary of Defense

Second row: Terrel Bell, Secretary of Education; Jeane Kirkpatrick (COLUMBIA), U.S. Representative to the United Nations; David Stockman, Director, Office of Management & Budget; William French Smith (Harvard Law School), U.S. Attorney General; Elizabeth Dole (Harvard Law School), Secretary of Transportation; Donald P. Hodel (HARVARD), Secretary of Energy; Margaret Heckler, Secretary of Health & Human Services

Third row: John Block, Secretary of Agriculture; Raymond Donovan, Secretary of Labor; Malcolm Baldrige (YALE), Secretary of Commerce; Samuel Pierce (CORNELL), Secretary of Housing & Urban Development; William Clark, Secretary of the Interior; William J. Casey, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Edwin Meese III (YALE), Counselor to the President; William Brock, U.S. Trade Representative

American ambassadors to major European countries held another conference with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House in Washington, D.C. on December 6, 1938. The subject discussed was not made public by the White House. Left to right: William C. Bullitt (B.A. Yale 1912), U.S. Ambassador to France; Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (A.B. Harvard 1914); U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany HUGH R. WILSON (B.A. Yale 1906), and William Phillips (A.B. Harvard 1900), U.S. Ambassador to Fascist Italy. All four men in this photo were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hugh R. Wilson was a member of Skull & Bones, a secret society at Yale University. William C. Bullitt was a member of Scroll & Key, a secret society at Yale University. William Phillips was a member of the Porcellian Club, a fraternity at Harvard University.(Photo: Harris & Ewing Collection/Library of Congress)http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009012237/?sid=8799ebba1c8fa99f0125d5ce03a9c914

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Nelson Rockefeller (left): Big Man on Campus at Dartmouth College.(Source: Nelson Rockefeller: A Biography by Joe Alex Morris)

Barack Obama (center, holding a baton): Big Man on Campus at Harvard Law School

The Ivy League Fist Bump: President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama graduated from Harvard Law School.

The Ivy League Grin: President Barack Obama attended Columbia University and Harvard Law School while designated Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor attended Princeton University and Yale Law School.

Prominent Harvard University Undergraduate Students

August Belmont Jr.A.B. Harvard 1874

Head of August Belmont & Co., bankers, New York

City (1890-1924)

J.P. “Jack” Morgan Jr.A.B. Harvard 1889

Chairman of the board of J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.

(1913-1943)

Thomas W. LamontA.B. Harvard 1892


(1943-1948)

George WhitneyA.B. Harvard 1907


(1950-1955)

James H. PerkinsA.B. Harvard 1898

Chairman of the board of National City Bank of New

York (1933-1940)

Clarence DillonA.B. Harvard 1905

Chairman of Dillon, Read & Co.

Winthrop W. AldrichA.B. Harvard 1907LL.B. Harvard 1910Chairman of Chase

National Bank(1934-1953)

C. Douglas DillonB.A. Harvard 1931

Chairman of the board of Dillon, Read & Co. (1946-

1953); Secretary of the Treasury (1961-1965)

David RockefellerB.S. Harvard 1936

Chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank

(1969-1981)

Lewis T. PrestonB.A. Harvard 1951

Chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co.

[Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York]

(1980-1989)

James P. WarburgA.B. Harvard 1917

Vice Chairman of the board of Bank of

Manhattan

Frederick M. Warburg A.B. Harvard 1919

Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (1931-1973)

Henry S. MorganA.B. Harvard 1923

Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc. (1928-1935)

Donald T. ReganB.A. Harvard 1940

Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch & Co. (1973-

1981); Secretary of the Treasury (1981-1985)

Robert E. RubinB.A. Harvard 1960

Co-Chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1990-1992); Secretary of the Treasury

(1995-1999)

William PhillipsA.B. Harvard 1900

U.S. Ambassador to Fascist Italy (1936-1941)

Joseph C. GrewA.B. Harvard 1902

U.S. Ambassador to Imperial Japan

(1932-1941)

Franklin D. RooseveltA.B. Harvard 1904

President of the United States (1933-1945)

Francis BiddleA.B. Harvard 1909;LL.B. Harvard 1911

U.S. Attorney General(1941-1945)

Sumner WellesA.B. Harvard 1914

Under Secretary of State (1937-1943)

Leland HarrisonA.B. Harvard 1907

U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1937-1947)

Thomas H. McKittrickA.B. Harvard 1911

President of the Bank for International Settlements

(1940-1946)

Joseph P. KennedyA.B. Harvard 1912

U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1938-1940)

Lincoln MacVeaghA.B. Harvard 1913

U.S. Minister to Greece (1933-1941, 1943-1947)

Leverett SaltonstallA.B. Harvard 1914

Governor of Massachusetts

(1939-1945)

Cass CanfieldA.B. Harvard 1919

President of Harper & Brothers (1931-1945)

Roger Nash BaldwinA.B. Harvard 1904

Founder and Director of American Civil Liberties

Union (1917-1950)

James B. ConantA.B. Harvard 1913;Ph.D. Harvard 1916President of Harvard

University (1933-1953)

Wallace Brett Donham A.B. Harvard 1898;LL.B. Harvard 1901

Dean of Harvard Business School (1919-1942)

Learned HandA.B. Harvard 1893;LL.B. Harvard 1896

Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second

Circuit (1924-1951)

T.V. SoongA.B. Harvard 1915

Foreign Minister of the Republic of China

(1942-1945)

Shigeaki Ikeda[formerly Seihin Ikeda]

A.B. Harvard 1895Governor of the Bank of Japan (1937); Finance

Minister of Japan(1938-1939)

Ernst “Putzi” HanfstaenglA.B. Harvard 1909

Adolf Hitler’s personal adviser

J. Robert Oppenheimer A.B. Harvard 1925

Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory

(1943-1945);Atomic bomb scientist

Walter S. GiffordA.B. Harvard 1905

President of American Telephone and Telegraph Co. [AT&T] (1925-1948)

Charles J. BonaparteA.B. Harvard 1871

U.S. Attorney General (1906-1909); Secretary of

the Navy (1905-1906)

William Henry MoodyB.A. Harvard 1876

U.S. Attorney General (1904-1906)

Theodore RooseveltB.A. Harvard 1880


George von L. MeyerA.B. Harvard 1879

Secretary of the Navy (1909-1913); Postmaster

General of the United States (1907-1909)

John Davis LongB.A. Harvard 1857

Secretary of the Navy (1897-1902)

William A. RichardsonB.A. Harvard 1843;LL.B. Harvard 1846

Secretary of the Treasury (1873-1874)

Charles DevensB.A. Harvard 1838;LL.B. Harvard 1840


Robert Todd LincolnB.A. Harvard 1864Secretary of War

(1881-1885)

Ebenezer R. HoarB.A. Harvard 1835;LL.B. Harvard 1839


William Crowninshield Endicott

B.A. Harvard 1847Secretary of War

(1885-1889)

Dwight F. DavisB.A. Harvard 1900Secretary of War

(1925-1929)

Sinclair WeeksB.A. Harvard 1914

Secretary of Commerce (1953-1958)

Charles Francis Adams III B.A. Harvard 1888;LL.B. Harvard 1892


Ogden L. MillsA.B. Harvard 1904


Charles S. FairchildB.A. Harvard 1863;LL.B. Harvard 1865


Neil H. McElroyB.A. Harvard 1925

Secretary of Defense (1957-1959); Chairman of

Proctor & Gamble Co. (1959-1972)

Christian A. HerterA.B. Harvard 1915Secretary of State

(1959-1961)

John F. KennedyB.S. Harvard 1940


Robert F. KennedyB.A. Harvard 1948


Paul H. NitzeB.A. Harvard 1928


Edmund PlattA.B. Harvard 1888

Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve

(1920-1930)

Charles S. HamlinA.B. Harvard 1883

Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1914-1916)

Frederic A. DelanoA.B. Harvard 1885

Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve

(1914-1916)

Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. B.A. Harvard 1871,LL.B. Harvard 1874,Ph.D. Harvard 1876

U.S. Senator(R-Mass., 1893-1924)

Jerome D. GreeneA.B. Harvard 1896

Secretary of the Rockefeller Foundation

(1913-1917)

Joseph Hodges Choate B.A. Harvard 1852;LL.B. Harvard 1854U.S. Ambassador to

Great Britain (1899-1905); Vice President of

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

(1911-1917)

Charlemagne TowerB.A. Harvard 1872

U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1902-1908); Treasurer of Carnegie

Endowment for International Peace

(1912-1923)

Abbott Lawrence Lowell A.B. Harvard 1877;LL.B. Harvard 1880President of Harvard


Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. B.A. Harvard 1861;LL.B. Harvard 1866Justice of the U.S.

Supreme Court(1902-1932)

Nicholas LongworthB.A. Harvard 1891U.S. Congressman

(R-Ohio, 1903-1913, 1915-1931)

James Brown ScottA.B. Harvard 1890

Secretary of Carnegie Endowment for

International Peace (1910-1940)

Sidney Edward Mezes A.B. Harvard 1890;Ph.D. Harvard 1893President of the City College of New York

(1914-1927)

Garrett DroppersA.B. Harvard 1887

U.S. Minister to Greece (1914-1920)

Moorfield StoreyA.B. Harvard 1866

President of the National Association for the

Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

(1910-1929)

W.E.B. Du BoisA.B. Harvard 1890;Ph.D. Harvard 1895

Director of Publications, NAACP (1910-1932)

Elliot L. RichardsonB.A. Harvard 1941

U.S. Attorney General (1973); U.S. Ambassador

to Great Britain(1975-1976)

Caspar WeinbergerB.A. Harvard 1938

U.S. Secretary of Defense (1981-1987); Secretary of

Health, Education, and Welfare (1973-1975)

Henry KissingerB.A. Harvard 1950

Ph.D. Harvard 1954U.S. Secretary of State

(1973-1977)

James R. Schlesinger

B.A. Harvard 1950U.S. Secretary of Defense (1973-1975); Secretary of

Energy (1977-1979)

Tom RidgeB.A. Harvard 1967

Secretary of Homeland Security (2003-2005)

Donald P. HodelB.A. Harvard 1957

Secretary of Energy (1982-1985); Secretary of the Interior (1985-1989)

John G. Roberts Jr.B.A. Harvard 1976,J.D. Harvard 1979

Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court(2005-present)

Al Gore Jr.B.A. Harvard 1969

Vice President of the United States(1993-2001)

Franklin D. RainesB.A. Harvard 1971;J.D. Harvard 1976

Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae (1999-2004)

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. B.A. Harvard 1924

U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam (1963-

1964, 1965-1967)

Alanson B. HoughtonA.B. Harvard 1886

U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1922-1925);

U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1925-1929)

W. Cameron ForbesA.B. Harvard 1892

U.S. Ambassador to Imperial Japan

(1930-1932)

Walworth BarbourB.A. Harvard 1930

U.S. Ambassador to Israel (1961-1973)

Charles E. BohlenA.B. Harvard 1927

U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1953-1957)

Arthur A. HartmanB.A. Harvard 1944

U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union (1981-1987)

Perry BelmontA.B. Harvard 1872U.S. Congressman

(Democrat-New York, 1881-1888)

Robert BaconA.B. Harvard 1880

U.S. Ambassador to France (1909-1912)

H. Percival DodgeA.B. Harvard 1892

U.S. Minister to Yugoslavia [Serbia]

(1919-1926)

Peter Augustus JayA.B. Harvard 1900

U.S. Minister to Romania (1921-1925)

William A.M. BurdenA.B. Harvard 1927

U.S. Ambassador to Belgium (1959-1961)

James F. CollinsB.A. Harvard 1961

U.S. Ambassador to Russia (1996-2001)

David H. SouterB.A. Harvard 1961,LL.B. Harvard 1966Justice of the U.S.


John D. Rockefeller IVB.A. Harvard 1961

U.S. Senator(Democrat-West Virginia,

1985-present)

Anthony LakeB.A. Harvard 1961

National Security Advisor (1993-1997)

Timothy E. WirthB.A. Harvard 1961

U.S. Senator (1987-1993); Under Secretary of

State for Global Affairs (1994-1997)

Keith P. EllisonB.A. Harvard 1972

Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern

District of Texas [Houston] (1999-present)

Jamie GorelickB.A. Harvard 1972;J.D. Harvard 1975

Member of 9/11 Commission; Deputy U.S.

Attorney General(1994-1997)

Nadine StrossenB.A. Harvard 1972;J.D. Harvard 1975

President of American Civil Liberties Union

(1991-2008)

James H. MaloneyB.A. Harvard 1972U.S. Congressman

(Democrat-Connecticut, 1997-2003)

Peter OlsonB.A. Harvard 1972

Chairman and CEO of Random House, Inc.

(1998-2008)

Susan Laura CarneyB.A. Harvard 1973;J.D. Harvard 1977

Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2011-present)

Roger W. Ferguson Jr. B.A. Harvard 1973;Ph.D. Harvard 1981Vice Chairman of the

Federal Reserve(1999-2006)

Alan S. “Al” FrankenB.A. Harvard 1973

U.S. Senator(D-Minn., 2009-present)

William KristolB.A. Harvard 1973;Ph.D. Harvard 1979Editor of The Weekly

Standard

James B. SteinbergB.A. Harvard 1973

Deputy Secretary of State (2009-2011)

James C. MorphyB.A. Harvard 1976,J.D. Harvard 1979

Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1986-present)

Amy Berman JacksonB.A. Harvard 1976,J.D. Harvard 1979

Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of

Columbia (2011-present)

John L. ThorntonB.A. Harvard 1976

President of Goldman Sachs & Co. (1999-2003)

Nicholas LemannB.A. Harvard 1976

Dean of Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia


David W. LeebronB.A. Harvard 1976;J.D. Harvard 1979President of Rice

University [Houston, Texas] (2004-present)

Katharine WeymouthB.A. Harvard 1988Publisher of The Washington Post(2008-present)

James A. HimesB.A. Harvard 1988U.S. Congressman

(Democrat-Connecticut, 2009-present)

Mark J. CarneyB.A. Harvard 1988

Governor of the Bank of England (2013-present)

F. Whitten PetersB.A. Harvard 1968

Secretary of the Air Force (1997-2001)

Angel TaverasB.A. Harvard 1992

Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island

(2011-present)

Charles SchumerB.A. Harvard 1971;J.D. Harvard 1974

U.S. Senator(D-New York, 1999-pres.)

David B. VitterB.A. Harvard 1983

U.S. Senator(R-Louisiana, 2005-pres.)

Edward “Ted” Kennedy B.A. Harvard 1956

U.S. Senator(D-Mass., 1962-2009)

Thomas E. PetriB.A. Harvard 1962;J.D. Harvard 1965U.S. Congressman

(R-Wisconsin, 1979-pres.)

Barney FrankB.A. Harvard 1962;J.D. Harvard 1977U.S. Congressman

(D-Mass., 1981-2013)

Richard BlumenthalB.A. Harvard 1967

U.S. Senator (Democrat-Connecticut, 2011-pres.);

Attorney General of Connecticut (1991-2011)

Elliott AbramsB.A. Harvard 1969;J.D. Harvard 1973

Asst. Sec. of State for International Organization

Affairs (1981-1985)

Daniel EllsbergB.A. Harvard 1952;Ph.D. Harvard 1962

Pentagon Paper leaker

Richard N. GardnerB.A. Harvard 1948

U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1993-1997)

Nicholas PlattB.A. Harvard 1957

U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1987-1991)

James Guy Tucker Jr. B.A. Harvard 1964

Governor of Arkansas (1992-1996)

Phil BredesenB.A. Harvard 1967

Governor of Tennessee (2003-2011)

William F. WeldB.A. Harvard 1966


(1991-1997)

Deval PatrickB.A. Harvard 1978

Governor of Massachusetts(2007-present)

John Fife Symington III B.A. Harvard 1968

Governor of Arizona (1991-1997)

Nathan M. PuseyB.A. Harvard 1928;Ph.D. Harvard 1937President of Harvard


Lincoln GordonB.A. Harvard 1933President of Johns Hopkins University

(1967-1971)

Courtney Craig Smith B.A. Harvard 1938;Ph.D. Harvard 1944

President of Swarthmore College (1953-1969)

John BrademasB.A. Harvard 1949

President of New York University (1981-1991)

James O. FreedmanB.A. Harvard 1957

President of Dartmouth College (1987-1998)

Joab Langston Thomas B.A. Harvard 1955;Ph.D. Harvard 1959

President of the University of Alabama (1981-1988)

David B. FrohnmayerB.A. Harvard 1962

President of University of Oregon (1994-2009)

David W. OxtobyB.A. Harvard 1972

President of Pomona College [Claremont,

California] (2003-present)

Louis H. PollakB.A. Harvard 1943

Dean of Yale Law School (1965-1970)

Robert C. PostB.A. Harvard 1969;Ph.D. Harvard 1980

Dean of Yale Law School (2009-present)

Joseph E. JohnsonB.S. Harvard 1927;Ph.D. Harvard 1943

President of Carnegie Endowment for


Martin FeldsteinB.A. Harvard 1961

President of National Bureau of Economic

Research (1977-1982, 1984-2008)

Peter C. Goldmark Jr. B.A. Harvard 1962

President of Rockefeller Foundation (1988-1997)

Walter IsaacsonB.A. Harvard 1974President of Aspen

Institute (2003-present)

Luis A. UbinasB.A. Harvard 1989President of Ford

Foundation(2008-2013)

Robert W. SarnoffB.A. Harvard 1939

Chairman of the board and CEO of RCA

(1970-1975)

Sumner RedstoneB.A. Harvard 1944;LL.B. Harvard 1947

Chairman of the board of Viacom (1987-present)

Peter R. KannB.A. Harvard 1964

Chairman of Dow Jones & Co. (1991-2007)

Donald E. GrahamB.A. Harvard 1966

Chairman and CEO of The Washington Post Co.

(1993-present)

Boisfeuillet Jones Jr.B.A. Harvard 1968;J.D. Harvard 1974

Publisher and CEO of The Washington Post

(2000-2008)

Harvard Graduates in the Obama Administration

Shaun DonovanB.A. Harvard 1987

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

(2009-present)

Arne DuncanB.A. Harvard 1987U.S. Secretary of

Education (2009-present)

Jacob J. LewB.A. Harvard 1978

Secretary of the Treasury (2013-present)

Penny PritzkerB.A. Harvard 1981U.S. Secretary of

Commerce(2013-present)

Sylvia Mathews BurwellB.A. Harvard 1987Director of Office of

Management and Budget (2013-present)

Donald H. GipsB.A. Harvard 1982

U.S. Ambassador to South Africa (2009-2013)

Philip D. MurphyB.A. Harvard 1979

U.S. Ambassador to Germany (2009-2013)

Rosa Gumataotao Rios B.A. Harvard 1987

Treasurer of the United States (2009-present)

Barry B. WhiteB.A. Harvard 1964;J.D. Harvard 1967

U.S. Ambassador to Norway (2009-present)

Matthew Winthrop Barzun B.A. Harvard 1993

U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (2013-pres.);

U.S. Ambassador to Sweden (2009-2011)

Cameron Forbes KerryB.A. Harvard 1972

General Counsel of U.S. Department of Commerce

(2009-present)

Daniel B. PonemanB.A. Harvard 1978;J.D. Harvard 1984

Deputy U.S. Secretary of Energy (2009-present)

Cecilia RouseB.A. Harvard 1986;Ph.D. Harvard 1992

Member of the Council of Economic Advisers

(2009-2011)

Alan D. BersinB.A. Harvard 1968

Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border

Protection (2010-2011)

Michele FlournoyB.A. Harvard 1983

Under U.S. Secretary of Defense for Policy

(2009-2012)

Harvard Class of 1975

Ben S. BernankeB.A. Harvard 1975


Lloyd C. BlankfeinB.A. Harvard 1975J.D. Harvard 1978

Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs(2006-present)

Michael ChertoffB.A. Harvard 1975;J.D. Harvard 1978

Secretary of Homeland Security (2005-2009)

Douglas J. FeithB.A. Harvard 1975

Under U.S. Secretary of Defense for Policy

(2001-2005)

John B. HessB.A. Harvard 1975

M.B.A. Harvard 1977Chairman and CEO of

Hess Corporation[oil company]

(1995-present)

Harold Hongju KohB.A. Harvard 1975;J.D. Harvard 1980

Dean of Yale Law School (2004-2009);

Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State

(2009-2013)

David T. EllwoodB.A. Harvard 1975,Ph.D. Harvard 1981

Dean of John F. Kennedy School of Government at

Harvard University(2004-present)

Karen Gordon MillsB.A. Harvard 1975;

M.B.A. Harvard 1977Administrator of U.S.

Small Business Administration(2009-2013)

Timothy Seymour Black B.A. Harvard 1975

Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern

District of Ohio(2010-present)

James F. “Jeff” Strnad IIB.A. Harvard 1975

Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law at Stanford University

(2003-present)

Cass R. SunsteinB.A. Harvard 1975,J.D. Harvard 1978

Administrator of Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs(2009-2012)

Michael Martin Wiseman B.A. Harvard 1975,J.D. Harvard 1978

Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1985-present)

George R. Bason Jr.B.A. Harvard 1975,J.D. Harvard 1978

Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1986-present)

Samuel DimonB.A. Harvard 1975

Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1993-present)

Richard W. SheproB.A. Harvard 1975;J.D. Harvard 1979

Partner of Mayer Brown [law firm in Chicago]

(c.1981-present)

Early Harvard University Graduates

John AdamsB.A. Harvard 1755


Samuel AdamsB.A. Harvard 1740


(1794-1797)

John HancockB.A. Harvard 1754


(1780-1785, 1787-1793)

Robert Treat PaineB.A. Harvard 1749Attorney General of

Massachusetts(1777-1790)

Jonathan Trumbull Sr.B.A. Harvard 1727

Governor of Connecticut (1776-1784)

William WilliamsB.A. Harvard 1751

Member of the Continental Congress

(Connecticut, 1776-1777)

Francis DanaB.A. Harvard 1762

Member of the Continental Congress (Massachusetts, 1777-

1778, 1784)

Elbridge T. GerryB.A. Harvard 1762

Vice President of the U.S. (March 4, 1813-November

23, 1814)

William EustisB.A. Harvard 1772

U.S. Secretary of War (March 7, 1809-January

13, 1813)

Laban Wheaton

B.A. Harvard 1774U.S. Congressman

(F-Mass., 1809-1817)

William HarrisB.A. Harvard 1786

President of Columbia University (1811-1829)

John Thornton Kirkland B.A. Harvard 1789

President of Harvard University (1810-1828)

Christopher GoreB.A. Harvard 1776

U.S. Senator(F-Mass., 1813-1816)

Levi Lincoln Sr.B.A. Harvard 1772


James LloydB.A. Harvard 1787

U.S. Senator(Federalist-Mass., 1808-

1813, 1822-1826)

Thomas W. Thompson B.A. Harvard 1786

U.S. Senator(F-New Hampshire,

1814-1817)

Timothy PickeringB.A. Harvard 1763

U.S. Secretary of State (1795-1800)

Rufus KingB.A. Harvard 1777

U.S. Senator(Federalist-New York,

1789-1796; 1813-1825)

Perez Morton

B.A. Harvard 1771Attorney General of


Harrison Gray OtisB.A. Harvard 1783

U.S. Senator(F-Mass, 1817-1822)

George BancroftB.A. Harvard 1817;

Ph.D. Gottingen 1820U.S. Minister to Prussia

(1867-1871) and Germany (1871-1874)

Caleb CushingB.A. Harvard 1817U.S. Congressman


Joseph CoolidgeB.A. Harvard 1817

Partner of Russell & Co. opium syndicate

(1834-1840)

Samuel A. EliotB.A. Harvard 1817Mayor of Boston

(1837-1839)

Alva WoodsB.A. Harvard 1817

inaugural President of the University of Alabama

(1831-1837)

Joseph StoryB.A. Harvard 1798

Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1811-1845)

Josiah QuincyB.A. Harvard 1790

President of Harvard University (1829-1845);

U.S. Congressman(F-Mass., 1805-1813)

Edward EverettB.A. Harvard 1811

Ph.D. Gottingen 1817U.S. Minister to Great

Britain (1841-1845); Gov. of Massachusetts

(1836-1840)

Robert Charles Winthrop B.A. Harvard 1828U.S. Congressman

(Whig-Massachusetts, 1840-1842, 1842-1850)

Leverett SaltonstallB.A. Harvard 1802U.S. Congressman

(Whig-Massachusetts, 1838-1843)

Robert Rantoul Jr.B.A. Harvard 1826

Member of Massachusetts State Board of Education

(1837-1842)

Lemuel ShawB.A. Harvard 1800Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of


John Quincy AdamsB.A. Harvard 1787

President of the United States (1825-1829); U.S.

Secretary of State(1817-1825)

Robert W. BarnwellB.A. Harvard 1821

President of University of South Carolina

(1835-1841)

Charles Gordon AthertonB.A. Harvard 1822U.S. Congressman

(Democrat-New Hampshire, 1837-1843)

Jared SparksA.B. Harvard 1815


James WalkerA.B. Harvard 1814


Cornelius Conway FeltonA.B. Harvard 1827


Thomas HillA.B. Harvard 1843


Charles William EliotA.B. Harvard 1853


Prominent Harvard University Graduate Students

Barack ObamaJ.D. Harvard 1991

President of the United States (2009-present)

George W. BushM.B.A. Harvard 1975


Pierre E. TrudeauM.A. Harvard 1945

Prime Minister of Canada (1968-1979, 1980-1984)

Carlos SalinasPh.D. Harvard 1978President of Mexico

(1988-1994)

Felipe CalderonHarvard 2000

President of Mexico (2006-present)

G. Stanley HallPh.D. Harvard 1878President of Clark


Ralph J. BunchePh.D. Harvard 1934

Undersecretary-General of the United Nations

(1968-1971)

Harry Dexter WhitePh.D. Harvard 1935

Co-Founder of the World Bank and International

Monetary Fund

Gabriel HaugePh.D. Harvard 1947

Chairman of the board of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. (1971-1979)

Anthony M. SolomonPh.D. Harvard 1950President of Federal

Reserve Bank of New York (1980-1985)

Zbigniew BrzezinskiPh.D. Harvard 1953


Leslie H. GelbPh.D. Harvard 1964

President of the Council on Foreign Relations

(1993-2003)

Neil L. RudenstinePh.D. Harvard 1964President of Harvard


Ruth J. SimmonsPh.D. Harvard 1973President of Brown


Lawrence SummersPh.D. Harvard 1982


Prominent Harvard University Graduate Students: Harvard Law School

Louis BrandeisLL.B. Harvard 1877Justice of the U.S.


Felix FrankfurterLL.B. Harvard 1906Justice of the U.S.


George L. HarrisonLL.B. Harvard 1913

President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New

York (1928-1940)

Robert A. TaftLL.B. Harvard 1913

U.S. Senator (1939-1953)

Dean G. AchesonLL.B. Harvard 1918


John J. McCloyLL.B. Harvard 1921


(1955-1961)

Alger HissLL.B. Harvard 1929

President of Carnegie Endowment for


Philip L. GrahamLL.B. Harvard 1939

Publisher of The Washington Post

(1946-1961)

Ralph NaderLL.B. Harvard 1958

Green Party presidential candidate

Michael DukakisJ.D. Harvard 1960


(1975-1979, 1983-1991)

Anthony M. KennedyJ.D. Harvard 1961Justice of the U.S.

Supreme Court(1988-present)

Bob GrahamLL.B. Harvard 1962U.S. Senator (1987-2005); Governor of Florida (1979-1987)

Janet RenoLL.B. Harvard 1963


Stephen BreyerLL.B. Harvard 1964Justice of the U.S.


Bruce E. BabbittLL.B. Harvard 1965

Secretary of the Interior (1993-2001)

Kenneth I. ChenaultJ.D. Harvard 1976

Chairman and CEO of American Express Co.

(2001-present)

Robert ZoellickJ.D. Harvard 1981

President of the World Bank (2007-2012)

Alberto GonzalesJ.D. Harvard 1982


Eliot SpitzerJ.D. Harvard 1984

Governor of New York (2007-2008)

Elena KaganJ.D. Harvard 1986Justice of the U.S.


Prominent Harvard University Graduate Students: Harvard Business School

Robert S. McNamaraM.B.A. Harvard 1939Secretary of Defense

(1961-1968); President of World Bank (1968-1981)

John C. WhiteheadM.B.A. Harvard 1947Partner of Goldman

Sachs; Deputy Secretary of State (1985-1989)

John L. WeinbergM.B.A. Harvard 1950Senior Chairman of

Goldman Sachs(1990-2001)

Nicholas F. BradyM.B.A. Harvard 1954

Secretary of the Treasury (1988-1993); Chairman of

Dillon, Read & Co.

William H. DonaldsonM.B.A. Harvard 1958

Chairman of New York Stock Exchange

(1991-1995)

James D. WolfensohnM.B.A. Harvard 1959


James D. Robinson IIIM.B.A. Harvard 1961Chairman and CEO of American Express Co.

(1977-1993)

Barbara Hackman Franklin

M.B.A. Harvard 1964U.S. Secretary of

Commerce (1992-1993)

Charles O. RossottiM.B.A. Harvard 1964

Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service

(1997-2002)

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.M.B.A. Harvard 1965Chairman and CEO of IBM; Chairman of The

Carlyle Group

Michael R. BloombergM.B.A. Harvard 1966

Mayor of New York City (2002-present)

L. Paul Bremer IIIM.B.A. Harvard 1966

U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands (1983-1986);

U.S. Proconsul to Iraq

Henry M. Paulson Jr.M.B.A. Harvard 1970Chairman and CEO of

Goldman Sachs; Secretary of the Treasury

(2006-2009)

Mitt RomneyM.B.A. Harvard 1975


(2003-2007)

W. James McNerney Jr.M.B.A. Harvard 1975Chairman and CEO of

The Boeing Co.(2005-present)

E. Stanley O’NealM.B.A. Harvard 1978Chairman and CEO of

Merrill Lynch (2003-2007)

Elaine ChaoM.B.A. Harvard 1979

U.S. Secretary of Labor (2001-2009)

John A. ThainM.B.A. Harvard 1979Former Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch

James L. “Jamie” DimonM.B.A. Harvard 1982

Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase(2007-present)

Jeffrey R. ImmeltM.B.A. Harvard 1982Chairman and CEO of General Electric Co.

(2001-present)

Princeton University Prominent Alumni

Government Officials:

John Foster DullesA.B. Princeton 1908Secretary of State

(1953-1959)

Allen W. DullesA.B. Princeton 1914

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

(1953-1961)

Woodrow WilsonA.B. Princeton 1879


Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. A.B. Princeton 1893

Director of the U.S. Mint (1909-1910);U.S.

Congressman (R-Mass., 1921-1936)

William E. ColbyA.B. Princeton 1940

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

(1973-1976)

Frank C. CarlucciA.B. Princeton 1952Secretary of Defense

(1987-1989)

James A. Baker IIIA.B. Princeton 1952

Secretary of State (1989-1992); Secretary of the Treasury (1985-1988)

George P. ShultzA.B. Princeton 1942

Secretary of State (1982-1989); Secretary of the Treasury (1972-1974)

Donald H. RumsfeldA.B. Princeton 1954Secretary of Defense

(1975-1977, 2001-2006)

Thomas KeanA.B. Princeton 1957

Governor of New Jersey (1982-1990)

Norman ArmourA.B. Princeton 1909U.S. Ambassador to

Argentina (1939-1944)

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. A.B. Princeton 1922

U.S. Representative to the United Nations

(1961-1965)

George F. KennanA.B. Princeton 1925

U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1952)

Jacob D. BeamA.B. Princeton 1929

U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1969-1973)

Harlan ClevelandA.B. Princeton 1938

U.S. Representative to NATO (1965-1969)

Roland S. MorrisA.B. Princeton 1896U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1917-1920)

John Van A. MacMurray A.B. Princeton 1902U.S. Ambassador to

Turkey (1936-1941); U.S. Minister to China (1925-

1929)

W. Walton ButterworthA.B. Princeton 1925U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1962-1968)

J. Stapleton RoyA.B. Princeton 1956U.S. Ambassador to Communist China

(1991-1995)

Frank G. Wisner IIA.B. Princeton 1961U.S. Ambassador to

Egypt (1986-1991); U.S. Ambassador to India

(1994-1997)

Mahlon PitneyA.B. Princeton 1879Justice of the U.S.


John Marshall Harlan II A.B. Princeton 1920Justice of the U.S.


Samuel AlitoA.B. Princeton 1972Justice of the U.S.


Sonia SotomayorA.B. Princeton 1976Justice of the U.S.


Elena KaganA.B. Princeton 1981Justice of the U.S.

Supreme Court(2010-present); Dean of

Harvard Law School (2003-2009)

Charles W. YostA.B. Princeton 1928

U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1954-1956)

Cameron R. HumeA.B. Princeton 1968U.S. Ambassador to

South Africa (2001-2004); U.S. Ambassador to

Indonesia (2007-2010)

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach

A.B. Princeton 1945U.S. Attorney General

(1964-1966)

Robert S. Mueller IIIA.B. Princeton 1966Director of Federal

Bureau of Investigation(2001-2013)

Howard Alexander Smith A.B. Princeton 1901

U.S. Senator (Republican-New Jersey, 1944-1959)

Claiborne PellA.B. Princeton 1940

U.S. Senator (Democrat-Rhode Island, 1961-1997)

John C. DanforthA.B. Princeton 1958

U.S. Senator (Republican-Missouri, 1976-1995)

Bill FristA.B. Princeton 1974U.S. Senate Majority Leader (2003-2007)

Bill BradleyA.B. Princeton 1965

U.S. Senator (Democrat-New Jersey, 1979-1997)

Paul SarbanesA.B. 1954

U.S. Senator (Democrat-Maryland, 1977-2007)

Mitch DanielsA.B. Princeton 1971Governor of Indiana

(2005-present)

Eliot SpitzerA.B. Princeton 1981


Richard RiordanA.B. Princeton 1952

Mayor of Los Angeles (1993-2001)

James A.S. LeachA.B. Princeton 1964U.S. Congressman

(R-Iowa, 1977-2007)

Christopher S. “Kit” Bond A.B. Princeton 1960

U.S. Senator (Republican-Missouri, 1987-2011)

Businessmen, Bankers, and Journalists:

Gordon S. Rentschler A.B. Princeton 1907


York [New York City] (1940-1948)

John L. WeinbergA.B. Princeton 1947Partner of Goldman,

Sachs & Co. [New York City] (1956-1990); Senior

Chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1990-2001)

Paul A. VolckerA.B. Princeton 1949

Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987);

President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York [New York City]

(1975-1979)

John P. BirkelundA.B. Princeton 1952

Chairman and CEO of Dillon, Read & Co. [New

York City](1988-1993)

John F. McGillicuddyA.B. Princeton 1952

Chairman of Manufacturers Hanover

Trust Co. [New York City](1979-1991)

James T. Aubrey, Jr.A.B. Princeton 1941

President of CBS (1959-1965); President of MGM

studios (1969-1973)

Eric SchmidtB.S. Princeton 1976

Chairman and CEO of Google Inc.

(2001-present)

Norman R. AugustineB.S. Princeton 1957

Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin

(1995-1997)

Steve ForbesA.B. Princeton 1970Publisher of Forbes

magazine

Alan S. BlinderA.B. Princeton 1967Vice Chairman of the

Federal Reserve(1994-1996)

C.D. JacksonA.B. Princeton 1924

Publisher of Life magazine

Hamilton Fish Armstrong A.B. Princeton 1916

Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1928-1972)

Raymond B. FosdickA.B. Princeton 1905

President of The Rockefeller Foundation

(1936-1948)

John B. OakesA.B. Princeton 1934

Editorial Page Editor of The New York Times

(1961-1977)

Henry R. LabouisseA.B. Princeton 1926Executive Director of UNICEF (1965-1979)

Frank Pace Jr.A.B. Princeton 1933Chairman of General

Dynamics Corp. (1959-1962); Secretary of the

Army (1950-1953)

Bruce K. MacLauryA.B. Princeton 1953

President of the Federal Reserve Bank of

Minneapolis (1971-1977)

John D. Rockefeller III B.S. Princeton 1929

Chairman of The Rockefeller Foundation

(1952-1971)

Charlie GibsonA.B. Princeton 1965

Anchor of ABC World News Tonight(2006-2009)

Meg WhitmanA.B. Princeton 1977

President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard(2011-present)

College Presidents and Miscellaneous:

John G. HibbenA.B. Princeton 1882

President of Princeton University (1912-1932)

Livingston FarrandA.B. Princeton 1888President of Cornell


Robert F. GoheenA.B. Princeton 1940;Ph.D. Princeton 1948President of Princeton University (1957-1972)

James M. HesterA.B. Princeton 1945

President of New York University (1962-1975)

William E. StevensonA.B. Princeton 1922President of Oberlin College (1946-1959)

Steven G. PoskanzerA.B. Princeton 1980President of Carleton

College (2010-present)

W. Taylor Reveley IIIA.B. Princeton 1965

President of College of William and Mary

(2008-present)

Don Michael RandelA.B. Princeton 1962;Ph.D. Princeton 1967

President of University of Chicago (2000-2006)

Neil L. RudenstineA.B. Princeton 1956President of Harvard


George E. RuppA.B. Princeton 1964


Edward W. SaidA.B. Princeton 1957

Professor of English and Humanities at Columbia University (1970-2003)

Anne-Marie Slaughter A.B. Princeton 1980

Dean of Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton


Joseph S. Nye Jr.A.B. Princeton 1958

Dean of John F. Kennedy School of Government at

Harvard University(1995-2004)

Michael H. SchillA.B. Princeton 1980Dean of University of Chicago Law School

(2010-present)

Edward W. BarrettA.B. Princeton 1932

Dean of Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia


Queen Noor of Jordan [Lisa Halaby]

A.B. Princeton 1974Queen of The Hashemite

Kingdom of Jordan

Michelle ObamaA.B. Princeton 1985

First Lady of the United States (2009-present)

Peter R. OrszagA.B. Princeton 1991

Director of the Office of Management and Budget

(2009-2010)

Norman M. ThomasA.B. Princeton 1905

Socialist Party presidential candidate

Ralph NaderA.B. Princeton 1955

Green Party presidential candidate

Early Princeton University Graduates

Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee

A.B. Princeton 1773Governor of Virginia

(1791-1794)

James ManningA.B. Princeton 1762

inaugural President of Brown University

(1765-1791)

James MadisonA.B. Princeton 1771President of the U.S.

(1809-1817); U.S. Sec. of State (1801-1809)

William PatersonA.B. Princeton 1763Justice of the U.S.


Oliver EllsworthA.B. Princeton 1766

Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

(1796-1800)

Rev. John EwingA.B. Princeton 1754

Provost of the University of Pennsylvania

(1779-1802); Professor of Natural Philosophy at Univ. of Pennsylvania

(1762-1778)

John Blair SmithA.B. Princeton 1773

President of Hampden-Sydney College

(1779-1789)

Samuel Stanhope Smith A.B. Princeton 1769

President of Princeton University (1795-1812); inaugural President of

Hampden-Sydney College (1775-1779)

Richard StocktonA.B. Princeton 1748

Member of the Continental Congress (1776); Signer of the

Declaration of Independence

Benjamin RushA.B. Princeton 1760

Member of the Continental Congress

(1776-1777); Signer of the Declaration of Independence

George W. CampbellA.B. Princeton 1794

U.S. Minister to Russia (1818-1821)

Robert SmithA.B. Princeton 1781

Secretary of the Navy (1801-1809); Secretary of

State (1809-1811)

Edward LivingstonA.B. Princeton 1781

Secretary of State (1831-1833); Mayor of New York

City (1801-1803)

George M. DallasA.B. Princeton 1810Vice President of the

United States(1845-1849)

George M. BibbA.B. Princeton 1792


Richard RushA.B. Princeton 1797

Secretary of the Treasury (1825-1828); U.S.

Minister to Great Britain (1817-1825)

John ForsythA.B. Princeton 1799


Aaron Burr Jr.A.B. Princeton 1772Vice President of the


Nicholas BiddleA.B. Princeton 1801

President of the Second Bank of the United States

(1823-1836)

Jonathan DaytonA.B. Princeton 1776

U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Jersey, 1799-1805)

Columbia University Alumni

Harold BrownB.A. Columbia 1945

U.S. Secretary of Defense (1977-1981)

Michael MukaseyB.A. Columbia 1963


Barack ObamaB.A. Columbia 1983

President of the United States (2009-present)

Eric HolderB.A. Columbia 1973

U.S. Attorney General (2009-present)

Arthur F. BurnsB.A. Columbia 1925


Oscar S. StrausB.A. Columbia 1871

U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor

(1906-1909)

Nicholas Murray Butler B.A. Columbia 1882


William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan

B.A. Columbia 1905Director of Office of

Strategic Services (OSS) (1942-1945)

Arthur Hays Sulzberger B.S. Columbia 1913

Chairman of the board of The New York Times Co.

(1957-1968)

William G. Brady Jr.B.A. Columbia 1908


York (1948-1952)

Norman DorsenB.A. Columbia 1950

President of American Civil Liberties Union

(1976-1991)

Franklin A. ThomasB.A. Columbia 1956

President of Ford Foundation (1979-1996)

Benjamin J. Buttenwieser B.A. Columbia 1919

Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [bank in New York

City] (1932-1977)

Dov S. ZakheimB.A. Columbia 1970

Comptroller of the U.S. Department of Defense

(2001-2004)

William P. BarrB.A. Columbia 1971


DeWitt ClintonB.A. Columbia 1786

Mayor of New York City (1803-1807, 1808-1810,

1811-1815)

John JayB.A. Columbia 1764


(1789-1795)

Alexander HamiltonB.A. Columbia 1774


Daniel D. TompkinsB.A. Columbia 1795


John SlidellB.A. Columbia 1810

U.S. Senator (Democrat-Louisiana, 1853-1861); Confederate Envoy to France (1861-1865)

James T. ShotwellPh.D. Columbia 1903President of Carnegie

Endowment for International Peace

(1949-1950)

(Lt. Gen.) Brent Scowcroft Ph.D. Columbia 1967

National Security Advisor (1975-1977, 1989-1993)

Jeane J. KirkpatrickPh.D. Columbia 1968U.S. Representative to

the United Nations(1981-1985)

Judith RodinPh.D. Columbia 1970

President of the Rockefeller Foundation

(2005-present)

Madeleine K. AlbrightPh.D. Columbia 1976


Franklin MacVeaghLL.B. Columbia 1864


Henry Morgenthau Sr.LL.B. Columbia 1877

U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire

(December 11, 1913-February 1, 1916)

Charles Evans Hughes LL.B. Columbia 1884


(1930-1941)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg LL.B. Columbia 1959

Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court(1993-present)

Lee C. BollingerJ.D. Columbia 1971

President of Columbia University (2002-present)

Warren E. BuffettM.S. Columbia 1951

Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Alfred A. KnopfB.A. Columbia 1912Founder of Alfred A.

Knopf, Inc. Publishers

Armand HammerB.S. Columbia 1919

Chairman of the board and CEO of Occidental

Petroleum Corp.(1957-1990)

George Stephanopoulos B.A. Columbia 1982

Anchor of Good Morning America on ABC(2010-present)

Henry R. KravisM.B.A. Columbia 1969

Senior Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts

& Co.

Prominent Dartmouth College Graduates

Daniel WebsterA.B. Dartmouth 1801

U.S. Senator(Whig-Mass., 1827-1841,

1845-1850)

Levi WoodburyA.B. Dartmouth 1809


Salmon P. ChaseA.B. Dartmouth 1826


(1864-1873)

Rufus ChoateA.B. Dartmouth 1819

U.S. Senator(Whig-Mass., 1841-1845)

Thaddeus StevensA.B. Dartmouth 1814U.S. Congressman

(Whig/Republican-Penn., 1849-1853, 1859-1868)

James W. GrimesA.B. Dartmouth 1836

U.S. Senator(R-Iowa, 1859-1869)

John WentworthA.B. Dartmouth 1836

Mayor of Chicago(1857-1858, 1860-1861)

Benjamin F. FlandersA.B. Dartmouth 1842

Mayor of New Orleans (1870-1872)

John Dudley Philbrick A.B. Dartmouth 1842

Superintendent of Public Schools of Boston

(1856-1874, 1875-1878)

Sylvanus ThayerA.B. Dartmouth 1807

Superintendent of U.S. Military Academy

(1817-1833)

Redfield ProctorA.B. Dartmouth 1851

U.S. Senator (Republican-Vermont, 1891-1908)

Beardsley RumlB.S. Dartmouth 1915

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New

York (1941-1946); Treasurer of R.H. Macy & Co. [Macy’s department

store] (1934-1945)

John Sloan DickeyA.B. Dartmouth 1929

President of Dartmouth College (1945-1970)

Nelson A. Rockefeller A.B. Dartmouth 1930Vice President of the


Paul E. TsongasA.B. Dartmouth 1962

U.S. Senator (Democrat-Mass., 1979-1985)

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.A.B. Dartmouth 1963Chairman and CEO of

IBM (1993-2002); Chairman of the Carlyle

Group (2003-2008)

Jeffrey R. ImmeltA.B. Dartmouth 1978Chairman and CEO of General Electric Co.

(2001-present)

Robert B. ReichA.B. Dartmouth 1968

U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993-1997)

Henry PaulsonA.B. Dartmouth 1968


Timothy F. GeithnerA.B. Dartmouth 1983


Prominent Brown University Graduates

Jonathan MaxcyA.B. Brown 1787

President of University of South Carolina

(1804-1820)

James FennerA.B. Brown 1789

Governor of Rhode Island (1807-1811, 1824-1831,

1843-1845)

Horace MannA.B. Brown 1819

U.S. Congressman(Whig-Mass., 1848-1853)

William Learned Marcy A.B. Brown 1808


Pendleton MurrahA.B. Brown 1848

Governor of Texas [Confederate](1863-1865)

James Burrill AngellA.B. Brown 1849

President of University of Michigan (1871-1909)

John HayA.B. Brown 1858


William H.P. FaunceA.B. Brown 1880

President of Brown University (1899-1929)

Charles Evans Hughes A.B. Brown 1881


(1930-1941)

Theodore F. GreenA.B. Brown 1887

Governor of Rhode Island (1933-1937); U.S.

Senator (D-Rhode Island, 1937-1961)

Frederic M. SackettA.B. Brown 1890

U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1930-1933)

Alexander Meiklejohn A.B. Brown 1893

President of Amherst College (1912-1924)

John D. Rockefeller Jr.A.B. Brown 1897

Chairman of the board of The Rockefeller

Foundation (1917-1940)

Thomas J. Watson Jr.A.B. Brown 1937

Chairman and CEO of IBM (1961-1971)

Willard C. ButcherA.B. Brown 1947


(1981-1990)

Richard C. HolbrookeA.B. Brown 1962

U.S. Representative to the United Nations

(1999-2001)

Janet L. YellenA.B. Brown 1967

Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve(2010-present)

Lincoln D. ChafeeA.B. Brown 1975

U.S. Senator (Republican-Rhode Island, 1999-

2007); Governor of Rhode Island (2011-present)

Jim Yong KimA.B. Brown 1982

President of Dartmouth College (2009-2012); President of the World Bank (2012-present)

Bobby JindalB.S. Brown 1991

Governor of Louisiana (2008-present)

Cornell University Alumni

Edward M. House(undergraduate 1877-

1880, dropped out)Co-Founder, Council on Foreign Relations (1921)

Arthur H. DeanB.A. Cornell 1921

Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New

York City] (1929-1976)

Barber B. Conable Jr. B.A. Cornell 1942


Ruth Bader GinsburgB.A. Cornell 1954Justice of the U.S.


Sanford I. WeillB.A. Cornell 1955

Chairman (1998-2006) and CEO (1998-2003) of

Citigroup

Stephen FriedmanB.A. Cornell 1959

Chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1990-1994)

Janet RenoB.A. Cornell 1960


Paul D. WolfowitzB.A. Cornell 1965


Sandy BergerB.A. Cornell 1967


Stephen J. HadleyB.A. Cornell 1969


Prominent Members of Quill & Dagger (senior society at Cornell University)

Prominent members of Quill & Dagger include Paul D. Wolfowitz, Sandy Berger, Stephen Friedman, Stephen J. Hadley, and Barber B. Conable Jr.

Prominent Presidents of Harvard University

Charles Chauncy, Increase Mather, Benjamin Wadsworth, Edward Holyoke

John Thornton Kirkland, Josiah Quincy, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks

James Walker, Cornelius Conway Felton, Thomas Hill, Charles William Eliot, Abbott Lawrence Lowell

James B. Conant, Nathan M. Pusey, Derek Bok, Neil L. Rudenstine, Lawrence H. Summers, Drew Gilpin Faust

University Hall at Harvard University, with the statue of John Harvard in front of the building. (Photo: Flickr)

Harvard Law School (Photo: Flickr)

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Harvard Yard

Widener Library at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard Business School (Photo: Flickr)

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Yale Law School (Photo: Wikimedia)

Yale University (Photo: Flickr)

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Nassau Hall at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey (Photo: Flickr)

Whitman College at Princeton University (Photo: Flickr)

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Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey (Photo: Flickr)

Butler Library at Columbia University in New York City (Photo: Flickr)

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Columbia Graduate School of Journalism

Columbia University Library at Columbia University in New York City

Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (Photo: Cornell University)

University Hall, Brown University (Photo: Flickr)

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Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A. (Photo: Flickr)


Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton

Dartmouth College, Brown University, Cornell University

University of Pennsylvania

EXTRA NOTABLE COLLEGE ALUMNI:University of Chicago Alumni

Katharine Graham, Peter G. Peterson, David Rockefeller, Zalmay Khalilzad, Paul Wolfowitz, Ahmed Chalabi

Jon Corzine, David M. Rubenstein, Beardsley Ruml, Clifton R. Wharton Jr., John D. Ashcroft, Ramsey Clark

Johns Hopkins University Alumni

Timothy F. Geithner, Michael R. Bloomberg, Alger Hiss, John Dewey, Woodrow Wilson, Samuel J. Palmisano

Georgetown University Alumni

(Gen.) James L. Jones, Bill Clinton, George J. Tenet, Robert M. Gates, William J. McDonough, (Sen.) George J. Mitchell

Stanford University Alumni

Harry Dexter White, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Herbert Hoover, William H. Rehnquist, Sandra Day O’Connor, Stephen G. Breyer

Warren Christopher, William J. Perry, R. James Woolsey, Susan E. Rice, Carla A. Hills, Dianne Feinstein

University of California at Berkeley Alumni

Earl Warren, Allan Sproul, John Alex McCone, Robert McNamara, W. Michael Blumenthal, Eric Schmidt

Glenn T. Seaborg, John Kenneth Galbraith, Dale R. Corson, (Sen.) William F. Knowland, Robert G. Sproul, Jennifer Granholm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Alumni

Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Ben S. Bernanke, Benjamin Netanyahu, Stanley Fischer, George P. Shultz, Lawrence Summers

Amherst College Alumni

Frank J. Goodnow, Dwight W. Morrow, John J. McCloy, Lewis W. Douglas, William H. Webster, John M. Deutch

New York University Alumni

Richard S. Fuld Jr., Alan Greenspan, Larry Silverstein, Abraham H. Foxman, Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Jacob K. Javits

Northwestern University Alumni

George W. Ball, Dick Gephardt, Rod Blagojevich, Rahm Emanuel, George S. McGovern, Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

University of Pennsylvania Alumni

Drew Gilpin Faust, Judith Rodin, Thomas S. Gates Jr., George W. Wickersham, William S. Paley, Ronald S. Lauder

Swarthmore College Alumni

Detlev W. Bronk, Clark Kerr, Michael Dukakis, Kermit Gordon, Richard W. Lyman, Robert Zoellick

Documents

Harvard University and Ivy League: Behind the Scenes