List of Dickinson College alumni

This is a list of Dickinson College alumni. This list covers alumni from the first graduating class in July 1787[1] to the present.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
  • "DNG" indicates that the alumni did not graduate.
  • A "—" indicates that the information is unknown.

Business

Alfred V. du Pont
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
John Curley
1960
 Former CEO of Gannett News Corporation [2]
Alfred V. du Pont
1818
 Head of the du Pont Company [3][4]
Stephen Duncan
1805
 Cotton planter in the South prior to the Civil War, and second largest slave owner in the country [5][6]
Judith R. Faulkner
1965
 Founder and CEO of Epic Systems [7]
Stephen Giannetti
1973
 Vice President and publisher of National Geographic magazine [7]
Justin Gold
2000
 Founder and CEO of Justin's natural and organic foods
David Hirshey
1971
 Vice President and Executive Editor at HarperCollins publishers [8]
John Carmichael Jenkins
1828
 Plantation owner [9][10][6][11]
Merkel Landis
1896
 Started the Christmas club savings program [12]
Andy MacPhail
1976
 Major League Baseball executive [13]
Amy Nauiokas
1994
 Founder and CEO of Archer Gray media production, finance, and venture capital company
Leon Rose
1983
 Sports agent for many successful athletes including LeBron James
Steve Smith
1992
 President and CEO of L.L.Bean

Arts and journalism

Rick Smolan
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Spencer Bailey
2008
 Editor-in-chief of Surface magazine [14]
Rick Fisher
1976
 Lighting designer, winner of 2009 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Musical for Billy Elliot the Musical
Kass Fleisher
1981
 Author
Adam Granduciel
2003
 Frontman, guitarist, and songwriter for the indie rock band The War on Drugs [15]
Jennifer Haigh
1990
 The New York Times best-selling author, winner of PEN/Hemingway Award [16]
Jennifer L. Holm
1990
 Historical author, wrote three Newbery Honor books [17]
Clarence Muse
1911
 Actor, director, composer, writer, and lawyer
Rosie O'Donnell
DNG
 Stand-up comedian, actress, singer, and media personality
Stuart Pankin
1968
 Television actor [18]
Jennifer Ringley
1997
 Creator of JenniCam.org [19]
Rick Smolan
1972
 Former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer [20]
Susan Stewart
1973
 Poet and literary critic, MacArthur Fellow, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award [21]
Charles Strum
1970
 Associate Managing Editor at The New York Times [22]

Academics and education

Henry Louis Baugher
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Henry Louis Baugher
1826
 President of Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Jeremiah Chamberlain
1814
 President of Centre College and the Centenary College of Louisiana [23][24]
Fred Pierce Corson
1917
 Twentieth president of Dickinson College; Bishop of the Methodist Church [25]
William Durden
1971
 President of Dickinson College [26]
John Goucher
1868
 Founder, President, and namesake of Goucher College
Francis Harvey Green
1893
 Chair of English at West Chester Normal School and Headmaster of the Pennington School [27]
Samuel Miller
1793
 Presbyterian professor at Princeton Theological Seminary
Chad Mirkin
1986
 George Rathmann Professor of Chemistry and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, recipient of the Linus Pauling Award, the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, and the William H. Nichols Medal Award
Elijah Barrett Prettyman
1848
 Second principal of the Maryland State Normal School, now Towson University [28][29]
Lisa Rossbacher
1978
 President of Humboldt State University
Susan Stewart
1973
 Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University

Government and public service

Spencer Fullerton Baird
James Buchanan
Jim Gerlach
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Spencer Fullerton Baird
1840
 U.S. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution [30]
Richard L. T. Beale
DNG
 U.S. Representative [31]
Joseph M. Belford
1871
 U.S. Representative [32]
John O. Bennett
DNG
 Former State Senator of New Jersey
James Buchanan
1809
 Fifteenth President of the United States [33]
John Creswell
1848
 U.S. Representative [34]
Harmar Denny
1813
 U.S. Representative [35]
Ninian Edwards
1792
 Third Governor of Illinois [36]
Richard H. Ellis
1941
 Former commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command
Clement Finley
1815
 10th Surgeon General of the United States Army
George Gekas
1952
 U.S. Representative [37]
Jim Gerlach
1977
 U.S. Representative [38]
Kermit Gosnell
1963
 Abortion clinic doctor [39]
Donald E. Graves
1953
 U.S. State Department Kremlinologist [40]
James C. Greenwood
1973
 U.S. Representative [41]
Robert Cooper Grier
1812
 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1846-1870 [42]
Peter Ihrie, Jr.
1815
 U.S. Representative [43]
John J. Jacob
1849
 Fourth Governor of West Virginia [44]
John E. Jones III
1977
 Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania [45]
James A. Kenney, III
1959
 Former Judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals [46]
Horatio Collins King
1858
 Judge advocate general for the New York National Guard, lawyer, and Civil War soldier
Edward Lucas
1809
 U.S. Representative [47]
Barry W. Lynn
1970
 Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Lewis Linn McArthur
DNG
 Oregon Supreme Court associate justice and newspaper publisher
Robert McClelland
1829
 U.S. Representative, Governor of Michigan, United States Secretary of the Interior [48]
Charles O'Neill
1840
 U.S. Representative [49]
Sylvia H. Rambo
1958
 Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; Chief Judge, 1992-1999
Stephen R. Reed
DNG
 Mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1982-2010
Bill Shuster
1983
 U.S. Representative [50]
Roger B. Taney
1795
 Fifth Chief Justice of the United States [51]
Philip Francis Thomas
1830
 Governor of Maryland, United States Secretary of the Treasury [52]
Lemuel Todd
1839
 US Representative from Pennsylvania [53]
William Wilkins
1892
 U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania [54]

Religion

George Washington Bethune
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
George Washington Bethune
1822
 Dutch Reformed minister and author
Joseph Clemens
1894
 U.S. Army chaplain, missionary and plant collector [55]
Moncure Conway
1849
 Minister, author, abolitionist [56]
George R. Crooks
1840
 Minister; editor of The Methodist; professor at Drew Theological Seminary
George David Cummins
1841
 Founder of Reformed Episcopal Church
William Perry Eveland
1892
 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church [57]
Frederick Brown Harris
1909
 Twice Chaplain of the United States Senate
Robert Samuel Maclay
1845
 Missionary who made pioneer contributions to the Methodist Episcopal missions in China, Japan and Korea
John Wesley Lord
1927
 Bishop of the Methodist Church; Vice President of the National Council of Churches

Sports

Chief Bender
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Chief Bender
1902
 Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
Bob Books
1926
 Football player
Joe Katchik
1954
 Football player

References

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  2. ↑ "John Curley Announces Retirement". Gannett. May 2, 2000. Archived from the original on September 9, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
  3. ↑ "Alfred V. du Pont". DuPont. Archived from the original on 2007-11-23. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
  4. ↑ Stephen Duncan, Class of 1805
  5. ↑ David G. Sansing, Sim C. Callon, Carolyn Vance Smith, Natchez: An Illustrated History, Plantation Pub. Co., 1992, p. 88
  6. 1 2 Blake, Tom (2004). "The Sixteen Largest American Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Schedules". Ancestry.com.
  7. 1 2 Ramsden, Ellen (February 11, 2005). "Alumnus Profile: Stephen Giannetti '73". The Dickinsonian. Archived from the original on September 18, 2006. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
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  9. ↑ JENKINS (JOHN CARMICHAEL) AND FAMILY PAPERS Archived 2014-04-19 at the Wayback Machine., Mississippi Department of Archives & History
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  56. ↑ http://archives.dickinson.edu/people/moncure-daniel-conway-1832-1907
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