The list of Harvard University people includes notable graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with Harvard University. For a list of notable non-graduates of Harvard, see notable non-graduate alumni of Harvard. For a list of Harvard's presidents, see President of Harvard University.

Seven Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University. These include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, George W. Bush, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt. Bush and Hayes graduated from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, respectively, while the others graduated from Harvard College. Some fifty Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the University. It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome.

Alumni

Nobel laureates

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Philip W. Anderson (born 1923)	College 1943; Ph.D. 1949	Physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics winner (1977)	[1]
Christian B. Anfinsen (1916-1995)	Ph.D. 1943	Biochemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (1972)	[2]
Percy W. Bridgman (1882-1961)	College 1904; A.M. 1905; Ph.D. 1908; Professor	Physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics winner (1946)	[3]
Ralph Bunche (1904-1971)	A.M. 1928; Ph.D. 1934	Diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize winner (1950)	[4]
Donald J. Cram (1919-2001)	Ph.D. 1947	Chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (1987)	[5]
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)	College 1909; A.M. 1910; Ph.D. 1914	Poet; Nobel Prize in Literature winner (1948)	[6]
John Franklin Enders (1897-1985)	Ph.D. 1930	Scientist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner (1954)	[7]
Walter Gilbert (born 1932)	College 1953; professor	Molecular biologist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (1980)	[8]
Sheldon Lee Glashow (born 1932)	Ph.D. 1959; professor	Physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics winner (1979)	[9]
Roy J. Glauber (born 1925)	College 1946; Ph.D. 1949; Professor	Physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics winner (2005)	[10]
Dudley R. Herschbach (born 1932)	A.M. 1956; Ph.D. 1958; Professor	Chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (1986)	[11]
Roald Hoffman (born 1937)	Ph.D. 1962	Chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (1981)	[12]
H. Robert Horvitz (born 1947)	A.M. 1972; Ph.D. 1974	Biologist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner (2002)	[13]
Jerome Karle (born 1918)	A.M. 1938	Physical Chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (1985)	[14]
Henry Kissinger (born 1923)	College 1950; A.M. 1952; Ph.D. 1954; Professor	United States Secretary of State, National Security Advisor; Nobel Peace Prize winner (1973)	[15]
William S. Knowles (born 1917)	College 1939	Chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (2001)	[16]
Roger D. Kornberg (born 1947)	College 1967	Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (2006)	[17]
David Morris Lee (born 1931)	College 1952	Physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics (1996)	[18]
Merton Miller (1923-2000)	College 1944	Economist; Nobel Prize in Economics winner (1990)	[19]
George Minot (1885-1950)	College 1908; Medical 1912	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner (1934)	[20]
David A. Morse (1907-1990)	Law 1932	Nobel Peace Prize winner (1969)	[21]
Ben Roy Mottelson (born 1926)	Ph.D. 1950	Physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics winner (1975)	[22]
William P. Murphy (1892-1987)	Medical 1922	Physician; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner (1934)	[23]
Joseph E. Murray (born 1919)	Medical 1943	Surgeon; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner (1990)	[24]
E.M. Purcell (1912-1997)	A.M.; Ph.D.; Professor	Physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics winner (1952)	[25]
Theodore W. Richards (1868-1928)	Ph.D. 1888; Professor	Chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (1914)	[26]
Frederick C. Robbins (1916-2003)	Medical 1940	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner (1954)	[27]
Paul Samuelson (born 1915)	A.M. 1936; Ph.D. 1941	Economist; Nobel Prize in Economics winner (1970)	[28]
Vernon L. Smith (born 1927)	Ph.D. 1955	Economist; Nobel Prize in Economics winner (2002)	[29]
Robert M. Solow (born 1924)	College 1947; A.M. 1949; Ph.D. 1951	Economist; Nobel Prize in Economics winner (1987)	[30]
A. Michael Spence (born 1943)	Ph.D. 1972	Economist; Nobel Prize in Economics winner (2001)	[31]
William Howard Stein (1911-1980)	College 1933	Biochemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (1972)	[32]
James B. Sumner (1887-1955)	College 1910; Ph.D. 1914	Chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner (1946)	[33]
E. Donnall Thomas (born 1920)	College 1941; A.M. 1943; Ph.D. 1946	Physician; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner (1990)	[34]
James Tobin (1918-2002)	College 1939; A.M. 1940	Economist; Nobel Prize in Economics winner (1981)	[35]
Thomas H. Weller (born 1915)	Ph.D. 1940	Virologist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner (1954)	[36]
Kenneth G. Wilson (born 1936)	College 1956	Physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics winner (1956)	[37]
John H. van Vleck (1899-1980)	Ph.D. 1922; Professor	Physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics winner (1977)	[38]
Harold E. Varmus (born 1939)	A.M.	Scientist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner (1989)	[39]

Pulitzer Prize winners

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Henry Adams (1838-1918)	College 1858; Professor	Historian; novelist	[40]
John Coolidge Adams (born 1947)	College 1969; A.M. 1971	Composer	[41]
James Agee (1909-1955)	College 1932	Novelist, screenwriter	[42]
Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)	College 1912	Poet, writer	[43]
John Ashbery (born 1927)	College 1949	Poet	[44]
Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984)	College 1917	Theater critic	[45]
Bernard Bailyn (born 1922)	A.M. 1947; Ph.D. 1953; Professor 1961-	Historian	[46]
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004)	College 1934	Historian, Librarian of Congress	[47]
Elliot Carter (born 1908)	College 1932	Composer	[48]
Jared Diamond (born 1937)	College 1958	Author, biologist	[49]
Susan Faludi (born 1959)	College 1981	Author, journalist	[50]
Ellen Goodman (born 1941)	Radcliffe 1963	Boston Globe columnist	[51]
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943)	Ph.D. 1968	Historian, author	[52]
Linda Greenhouse (born 1947)	College 1968	New York Times Journalist	[53]
David Halberstam (1934-2007)	College 1955	Author	[54]
John Harbison (born 1938)	College 1960	Composer	[55]
Charles Krauthammer (born 1950)	Medical 1975	Washington Post columnist	[56]
Nicholas D. Kristof (born 1959)	College 1981	New York Times columnist	[57]
Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006)	College 1926; A.M. 1927	Poet, U.S. Poet Laureate	[58]
Oliver Larkin (1896-1970)	College 1918	Art historian	[59]
Anthony Lewis (born 1927)	College 1948	New York Times columnist	[60]
J. Anthony Lukas (1933-1997)	College 1955	journalist	[61]
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)	Law 1919	Poet, writer	[62]
Paul Moravec (born 1957)	College 1980	Composer, professor	[63]
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976)	College 1908; Ph.D. 1912; Professor	Historian	[64]
Samantha Power (born 1970)	Law 1999; Professor	Writer	[65]
David E. Sanger (born 1960)	College 1982	Journalist	[66]
Sydney Schanberg (born 1934)	College 1955	Journalist	[67]
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007)	College 1938; professor	Historian, advisor to John F. Kennedy	[68]
Neil Sheehan (born 1936)	College 1958	Journalist	[69]
George Weller (1907-2002)	College 1929	Journalist	[70]
Theodore White (1915-1986)	College 1938	Journalist	[71]
Gordon S. Wood (1933)	A.M. 1959; Ph.D. 1964	Historian, Professor	[72]

Science, Technology, Medicine, and Mathematics

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Roger Adams (1889-1971)	College 1909, Ph.D. 1912	Pioneering organic chemist	[73]
James Gilbert Baker (1914-2005)	Ph.D. 1942	Astronomer, optician	[74]
Dan Bricklin (born 1951)	Business 1979	Creator of VisiCalc	[75]
Thomas H. Clark (1893–1996)	College 1917; A.M. 1921; Ph.D. 1923	Geologist; One of the top Canadian scientists of the 20th Century; Thomasclarkite	[76]
Stephen Cook	S.M. 1962; Ph.D. 1966	Computer scientist	[77]
Don Coppersmith	S.M. 1975; Ph.D. 1977	Computer scientist	[78]
Leda Cosmides (born 1957)	College 1979; Ph.D. 1985	Evolutionary psychologist	[79]
Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936)	Ph.D. 1962	Chemist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/96	[80]
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958)	College 1980	Astrophysicist, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Televsion Host	[81]
E.B. Dreyer (born 1957)	Medical 1984, Ph.D. 1984	Ophthalmology scientist; glaucoma scholar
Paul Farmer (born 1959)	Medical 1988; Ph.D. 1990; Professor	Founder of Partners in Health	[82]
Rabab Fetieh (born 1954)	Dental 1987	First Saudi Arabian female orthodontist
Paul Graham (born 1964)	S.M. 1988; Ph.D. 1990	Computer programmer and essayist
Brian Greene (born 1963)	College 1984	Famous in the world of String Theory; Columbia University Professor	[83]
G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924)	Ph.D. 1878	First president of APA and Clark University	[84]
Heisuke Hironaka (1931-)	Ph.D. 1960; Professor	Mathematician; Fields Medal winner	[85]
Ernest Ingersoll (1852—1946)		naturalist, writer and explorer
Thomas Jaggar	Ph.D. 1897	Geologist, founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory	[86]
William James (1842-1910)	Medical 1869	Philosopher; psychologist; gave name to William James Hall	[87]
Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956)	Sc.D. 1919	Sexologist	[88]
Holbrook Mann MacNeille (1907-1973)	Ph.D. 1935	Mathematician	[89]
Scott McNealy (born 1954)	College 1976	Co-founder and chairman of Sun Microsystems	[90]
Marvin Minsky (born 1927)	College 1950	Computer scientist	[91]
Sylvanus G. Morley (1883-1948)	College 1908	Mayanist scholar and archaeologist	[92]
Robert Tappan Morris (born 1965)	College 1987; S.M. 1993; Ph.D. 1999	CS professor at MIT, creator of the first computer worm
David Mumford (born 1937)	College 1957; Ph.D. 1961	Mathematician; Fields Medal winner	[93]
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)	College 1925	Physicist, "father of the atomic bomb"	[94]
Tim O'Reilly	College 1975	Founder of O'Reilly Media	[95]
George Parkman (1790-1849)	Medical 1813	Physician	[96]
Charles Peirce (1839-1914)	College 1859	Philosopher; Mathematician	[97]
Mark Plotkin (born 1955)	Extension 1979	Ethnobotanist; founder of Amazon Conservation Team	[98]
Daniel Quillen (born 1940)	College 1961; Ph.D. 1964	Mathematician; Fields Medal winner	[99]
Stuart A. Rice (born 1932)	A.M. 1954; Ph.D. 1955	Physical chemist at The University of Chicago	[100]
Richard Stallman (born 1953)	College 1974	Founder of the Free Software Foundation	[101]
John Tooby	Ph.D. 1985	Anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist
Edward Osborne Wilson (born 1929)	Ph.D. 1955; professor	Biologist	[102]
Charles F. Winslow (1811-1877)	Medical 1834	Physician, diplomat, and atomic theorist	[103]
John Winthrop (1714-1779)	College 1732; professor	Astronomer; Mathematician	[104]
Chauncey Wright (1830-1875)	College 1852	Mathematician, philosopher, professor	[105]

Business

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835-1915)	College 1856	President of Union Pacific Railroad	[106]
Marcus Agius (born 1946)	Business 1972	Chairman, Barclays PLC	[107]
Steve Ballmer (born 1956)	College 1977	President and CEO of Microsoft	[108]
Lloyd Blankfein	College 1975; Law 1978	CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs	[109]
Doug Carlston	College 1970; Law 1975	Co-founder of Brøderbund Software	[110]
Howard L. Clark, Sr.	Law	former ceo (1960-1977) American Express	[111]
Victor Fung (born 1945)	Ph.D. 1971	Chairman of Li & Fung group of companies	[112]
Trip Hawkins (born 1953)	College	Founder of Electronic Arts and the 3DO Company	[113]
Whipple V. N. Jones (1909-2001)	College 1932, Business	Founder of Aspen Highlands
Jeff Kindler	Law 1980	CEO of Pfizer	[114]
John Loeb (1902-1996)	College 1924	Financier	[115]
Stanley Marcus (1905-2002)	Business 1926	President and CEO, Neiman Marcus department stores	[116]
Douglas McGregor (1906-1964)	A.M. 1933; Ph.D. 1935	Management theorist	[117]
James McNerney (born 1949)	Business 1975	Chairman and CEO of Boeing	[118]
George W. Merck (born 1894)	College 1915	Industrialist; president of Merck & Co.	[119]
David Morgan (born 1947)	Ph.D	CEO of Westpac
Stan O'Neal	Business 1978	CEO and Chairman of Merrill Lynch	[120]
Sumner Redstone (born 1923)	College 1944; Law 1947	Chairman and CEO of Viacom	[121]
Fred Reichheld (born 1952)	College 1974; Business 1978	Author of bestselling business books	[122]
David Rockefeller (born 1916)	College 1936	Banker; Philanthropist; Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank	[123]
Steve Schwarzman (born 1947)	Business 1972	Billionaire, owner of Blackstone Group	[124]
Jeffrey Skilling (born 1953)	Business 1979	CEO of Enron	[125]
William H Sumner (1780-1861)	College 1799	Developed East Boston	[126]
Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (born 1938)	Business 1964	Tamil Malaysian businessman and philanthropist	[127]
Harry Elkins Widener (1885-1912)	College 1907	Harvard's Widener Library is named after him, died in the sinking of the Titanic	[128]
Moses Znaimer (born 1942)	A.M.	Canadian media mogul	[129]

Law and politics

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and other heads of state

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
John Adams (1735-1826)	College 1755	President of the United States	[130]
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)	College 1787	President of the United States	[131]
Ban Ki-Moon (born 1944)	KSG 1984	Secretary-General of the United Nations	[132]
Benazir Bhutto (born 1953)	College 1973	Prime Minister of Pakistan	[133]
George W. Bush (born 1946)	Business 1975	President of the United States	[134]
Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (born 1962)	KSG 2000	President of Mexico	[135]
Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj (Elbegdorj Tsakhia) (born 1963)	KSG 2002	Prime Minister of Mongolia	[136]
Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814)	College 1762	Vice President of the United States	[137]
Al Gore (born 1948)	College 1969	Vice President of the United States	[138]
Rutherford Hayes (1822-1893)	Law 1845	President of the United States	[139]
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)	College 1940	President of the United States; gave name to Kennedy School of Government	[140]
Lee Hsien Loong (born 1952)	KSG 1980	Prime Minister of Singapore	[141]
William Lyon Mackenzie King (born 1874)	A.M. 1898; Ph.D. 1909	Prime Minister of Canada	[142]
Miguel de la Madrid (born 1934)	A.M. 1965	President of Mexico	[143]
Fan Noli (1882-1965)	College 1912	Writer, Regent and Prime Minister of Albania	[144]
Andreas Papandreou (1919-1996)	A.M. 1942; Ph.D. 1943; lecturer and associate professor	Prime Minister of Greece	[145]
Syngman Rhee (1875-1965)	A.M. 1909	President of South Korea	[146]
Eduardo Rodríguez (born 1956)	KSG 1988	Interim President of Bolivia; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bolivia	[147]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)	College 1904	President of the United States	[148]
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)	College 1880	President of the United States	[149]
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born 1948)	KSG 1973; A.M. 1976; Ph.D. 1978	President of Mexico	[150]
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf	KSG 1971	President of Liberia	[151]
Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000)	A.M. 1945	Prime Minister of Canada	[152]
Donald Tsang (born 1944)	KSG 1982	Chief Executive of Hong Kong	[153]
Alvaro Uribe (born 1953)	Extension 1993	President of Colombia	[154]

Supreme Court Justices

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Harry Blackmun (1908-1999)	College 1929; Law 1932	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[155]
Louis Brandeis (1856-1941)	Law 1877	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[156]
William J. Brennan (1906-1997)	Law 1931	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[157]
Stephen Breyer (born 1938)	Law 1964	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[158]
Harold Burton (1888-1964)	Law 1912	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[159]
Benjamin Curtis (1809-1874)	College 1829; Law 1832	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[160]
William Cushing (1732-1810)	College 1751	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[161]
Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)	Law 1906	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[162]
Horace Gray (1828-1902)	College 1845; Law 1849	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[163]
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)	College 1861; Law 1866	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[164]
Anthony Kennedy (born 1936)	Law 1961	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[165]
William Moody (1853-1917)	College 1876	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[166]
Lewis Powell (1907-1998)	Law 1932	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[167]
William Rehnquist (1924-2005)	A.M. 1950	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[168]
John Roberts (born 1955)	College 1976; Law 1979	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[169]
Edward Sanford (1865-1930)	College 1885; A.M. 1889; Law 1889	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[170]
Antonin Scalia (born 1936)	Law 1960	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[171]
David Souter (born 1939)	College 1961; Law 1966	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[172]
Joseph Story (1779-1845)	College 1798; Professor	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[173]

U.S. Cabinet Secretaries

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Spencer Abraham (born 1952)	Law 1979	United States Secretary of Energy, United States Senator	[174]
Dean Acheson (1893-1971)	Law 1918	United States Secretary of State	[175]
Brock Adams (1927-2004)	Law 1952	United States Secretary of Transportation	[176]
Charles Francis Adams III (1866-1954)	College 1888; Law 1892	United States Secretary of the Navy	[177]
Bruce Babbitt (born 1938)	Law 1965	United States Secretary of the Interior, Governor of Arizona	[178]
Robert Bacon (1860-1919)	College 1880	United States Secretary of State	[179]
Joseph Barr (1918-1996)	A.M. 1941	United States Secretary of the Treasury	[180]
William Bennett (born 1943)	Law 1971	United States Secretary of Education, activist	[181]
Francis Biddle (1886-1968)	College 1909; Law 1911	United States Attorney General	[182]
Nicholas F. Brady (born 1930)	Business 1954	United States Secretary of the Treasury	[183]
Joseph Califano (born 1931)	Law 1955	United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	[184]
Elaine Chao (born 1953)	Business 1979	United States Secretary of Labor	[185]
Michael Chertoff (born 1953)	College 1975; Law 1978	United States Secretary of Homeland Security	[186]
Henry Cisneros (born 1947)	KSG 1973	United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	[187]
C. Douglas Dillon (1909-2003)	College 1931	United States Secretary of the Treasury	[188]
Edward Everett (1794-1865)	College 1811; A.M. 1814	United States Secretary of State	[189]
Barbara Hackman Franklin (born 1940)	Business 1964	United States Secretary of Commerce	[190]
Alberto Gonzales (born 1955)	Law 1982	United States Attorney General	[191]
Christian Herter (1895-1966)	College 1915	United States Secretary of State	[192]
Donald Hodel (born 1935)	College 1957	United States Secretary of the Interior, United States Secretary of Energy	[193]
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)	College 1948	United States Attorney General, United States Senator	[194]
Richard Kleindienst (1923-2000)	College 1947; Law 1950	United States Attorney General	[195]
Drew Lewis (born 1931)	Business 1955	United States Secretary of Transportation	[196]
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926)	College 1864	United States Secretary of War, son of Abraham Lincoln	[197]
Neil H. McElroy (1904-1972)	College 1925	United States Secretary of Defense	[198]
Robert McNamara (born 1916)	Business 1939	United States Secretary of Defense	[199]
Ogden Mills (1884-1937)	College 1904, Law 1907	United States Secretary of the Treasury	[200]
Richard Olney (1835-1917)	Law 1858	United States Secretary of State	[201]
Henry Paulson (born 1946)	Business 1970	United States Secretary of the Treasury	[202]
Timothy Pickering (1745-1829)	College 1763	United States Secretary of State, United States Secretary of War	[203]
Donald Regan (1918-2003)	College 1940	United States Secretary of the Treasury	[204]
Janet Reno (born 1938)	Law 1963	United States Attorney General	[205]
Elliot Richardson (1920-1999)	College 1941, Law 1947	United States Secretary of Defense, United States Attorney General	[206]
Tom Ridge (born 1946)	College 1967	United States Secretary of Homeland Security	[207]
Robert E. Rubin (born 1938)	College 1960	United States Secretary of the Treasury; Chairman of Citigroup	[208]
James Schlesinger (born 1929)	College 1950; A.M. 1952; Ph.D. 1956	United States Secretary of Defense, United States Secretary of Energy	[209]
William French Smith (1917-1990)	Law 1942	United States Attorney General	[210]
Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950)	A.M. 1889	United States Secretary of State, United States Secretary of War	[211]
Lawrence Summers (born 1954)	Ph.D. 1982; President (2001-2006); Professor	United States Secretary of the Treasury	[212]
Sinclair Weeks (1893-1972)	College 1914	United States Secretary of Commerce	[213]
Caspar Weinberger (1917-2006)	College 1938; Law 1941	United States Secretary of Defense	[214]
Willard Wirtz (born 1912)	Law 1937	United States Secretary of Labor	[215]

U.S. Senators

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Jeff Bingaman (born 1943)	College 1965	United States Senator	[216]
John Chafee (1922-1999)	Law 1950	United States Senator	[217]
Joseph Clark (1901-1990)	College 1923	United States Senator	[218]
Mike Crapo (born 1951)	Law 1977	United States Senator	[219]
John Culver (born 1932)	College 1954; Law 1962	United States Senator	[220]
Elizabeth Dole (born 1936)	A.M. 1960; Law 1965	United States Senator, U.S. presidential candidate	[221]
Thomas Eagleton (1929-2007)	Law 1953	1972 Democratic U.S. vice presidential nominee, United States Senator	[222]
Sam Ervin (1896-1985)	Law 1922	United States Senator	[223]
Russ Feingold (born 1953)	Law 1979	United States Senator	[224]
Hiram Fong (1906-2004)	Law 1935	United States Senator	[225]
Bill Frist (born 1952)	Medical 1978	United States Senator, Majority Leader	[226]
David Gambrell (born 1929)	Law 1952	United States Senator	[227]
Bob Graham (born 1936)	Law 1962	United States Senator, Governor of Florida, U.S. presidential candidate	[228]
Ernest Gruening (1887-1974)	College 1907; Medical 1912	United States Senator	[229]
Edward Gurney (1914-1996)	Law 1938	United States Senator	[230]
Floyd Haskell (1916-1998)	College 1937; Law 1941	United States Senator	[231]
William Hathaway (born 1924)	College 1949; Law 1953	United States Senator	[232]
H. John Heinz (1938-1991)	Business 1963	United States Senator	[233]
James Jeffords (born 1934)	Law 1962	United States Senator	[234]
Kenneth Keating (1900-1975)	Law 1923	United States Senator, U.S. presidential candidate	[235]
Edward Kennedy (born 1932)	College 1956	United States Senator, U.S. presidential candidate	[236]
Herbert Kohl (born 1935)	Business 1958	United States Senator	[237]
Carl Levin (born 1934)	Law 1959	United States Senator	[238]
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924)	College 1871; Law 1874; Ph.D. 1976	President pro tempore of the United States Senate	[239]
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902-1985)	College 1924	1960 Republican U.S. vice presidential nominee, United States Senator	[240]
Spark Matsunaga (1916-1990)	Law 1951	United States Senator	[241]
Barack Obama (born 1961)	Law 1991	United States Senator, U.S. presidential candidate	[242]
Claude Pepper (1900-1989)	Law 1924	United States Senator, U.S. Congressman	[243]
Larry Pressler (born 1942)	KSG 1971; Law 1971	United States Senator	[244]
William Proxmire (1915-2005)	Business 1940; A.M. 1949	United States Senator	[245]
Jack Reed (born 1949)	KSG 1973; Law 1982	United States Senator	[246]
Jay Rockefeller (born 1937)	College 1961	United States Senator	[247]
William Roth (1921-2003)	Business 1947; Law 1949	United States Senator	[248]
Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979)	College 1914; Law 1917	United States Senator	[249]
Paul Sarbanes (born 1933)	Law 1960	United States Senator	[250]
Harrison Schmitt (born 1935)	Ph.D. 1964	Astronaut, United States Senator	[251]
Charles Schumer (born 1950)	College 1971; Law 1974	United States Senator	[252]
Benjamin Smith II (1916-1991)	College 1939	United States Senator	[253]
Ted Stevens (born 1923)	Law 1950	President pro tempore of the United States Senate	[254]
Adlai Stevenson III (born 1930)	College 1952; Law 1957	United States Senator	[255]
Richard Stone (born 1928)	College 1949	United States Senator	[256]
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)	College 1830; Law 1833	United States Senator	[257]
John E. Sununu (born 1964)	Business 1991	United States Senator	[258]
Robert Taft (1889-1953)	Law 1913	United States Senator	[259]
Robert Taft Jr. (1917-1993)	Law 1942	United States Senator	[260]
David Vitter (born 1961)	College 1983	United States Senator	[261]
Tim Wirth (born 1939)	College 1961; Education 1964	United States Senator	[262]
Louis Wyman (1917-2002)	Law 1941	United States Senator	[263]

U.S. Governors

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá (born 1962)	Law 1987	Governor of Puerto Rico	[264]
Samuel Adams (1722-1803)	College 1740; A.M. 1743	Governor of Massachusetts, organizer of Boston Tea Party	[265]
Roger Branigin (1902-1975)	Law	Governor of Indiana	[266]
Phil Bredesen (born 1943)	College 1967	Governor of Tennessee	[267]
C. Farris Bryant (1914-2002)	Law 1938	Governor of Florida	[268]
Brendan Byrne (born 1924)	Law 1950	Governor of New Jersey	[269]
Jim Doyle (born 1945)	Law 1972	Governor of Wisconsin	[270]
Michael Dukakis (born 1933)	Law 1960	1988 Democratic U.S. presidential nominee, Governor of Massachusetts	[271]
Pierre S. du Pont, IV (born 1935)	Law 1963	Governor of Delaware, U.S. presidential candidate	[272]
Booth Gardner (born 1936)	Business 1963	Governor of Washington	[273]
Samuel Goddard (1919-2006)	College 1941	Governor of Arizona	[274]
Jennifer Granholm (born 1959)	Law 1987	Governor of Michigan	[275]
John Hancock (1737-1793)	College 1754	President of the Continental Congress, first Governor of Massachusetts	[276]
Linwood Holton (born 1923)	Law 1949	Governor of Virginia	[277]
Tim Kaine (born 1958)	Law 1983	Governor of Virginia	[278]
John King (1916-1996)	College 1938	Governor of New Hampshire	[279]
Frank Licht (1916-1987)	Law 1941	Governor of Rhode Island	[280]
John Davis Lodge (1903-1985)	College 1925; Law 1929	Governor of Connecticut	[281]
John Lynch (born 1952)	Business 1979	Governor of New Hampshire	[282]
Ray Mabus (born 1948)	Law 1976	Governor of Mississippi	[283]
Jim McGreevey (born 1957)	Education 1982	Governor of New Jersey	[284]
Deval Patrick (born 1956)	College 1978; Law 1982	Governor of Massachusetts	[285]
Endicott Peabody (1920-1997)	College 1942; Law 1948	Governor of Massachusetts	[286]
John H. Reed (born 1921)	Naval Supply 1944	Governor of Maine	[287]
Buddy Roemer (born 1943)	College 1964; Business 1967	Governor of Louisiana	[288]
Mitt Romney (born 1947)	Business 1975; Law 1975	Governor of Massachusetts, U.S. presidential candidate	[289]
Richard Snelling (1927-1991)	College 1948	Governor of Vermont	[290]
Eliot Spitzer (born 1959)	Law 1984	Governor of New York	[291]
Bruce Sundlun (born 1920)	Law 1949	Governor of Rhode Island	[292]
J. Fife Symington (born 1945)	College 1968	Governor of Arizona	[293]
Jonathan Trumbull (1710-1785)	College 1727; A.M. 1730	Governor of Connecticut	[294]
Jim Guy Tucker (born 1943)	College 1964	Governor of Arkansas	[295]
David Walters (born 1951)	Business 1975	Governor of Oklahoma	[296]
Mark Warner (born 1954)	Law 1980	Governor of Virginia, co-founder of Nextel	[297]
William Weld (born 1945)	College 1966; Law 1970	Governor of Massachusetts	[298]

U.S. House of Representatives Members

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Tom Allen (born 1945)	Law 1974	U.S. Congressman	[299]
John Anderson (born 1922)	Law 1949	U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Congressman	[300]
John Ashbrook (1928-1982)	College 1952	U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Congressman	[301]
John Barrow (born 1955)	Law 1979	U.S. Congressman	[302]
Anthony Beilenson (born 1932)	College 1954; Law 1957	U.S. Congressman	[303]
Doug Bereuter (born 1939)	Design 1966; KSG 1973	U.S. Congressman	[304]
John Brademas (born 1927)	College 1949	U.S. House Majority Whip	[305]
Tom Campbell (born 1952)	Law 1976	U.S. Congressman	[306]
Merrill Cook (born 1946)	Business 1971	U.S. Congressman	[307]
Jim Cooper (born 1954)	Law 1980	U.S. Congressman	[308]
Chris Cox (born 1952)	Business 1977; Law 1977	U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, U.S. Congressman	[309]
Artur Davis (born 1967)	College 1990; Law 1993	U.S. Congressman	[310]
Chet Edwards (born 1951)	Business 1981	U.S. Congressman	[311]
Barney Frank (born 1940)	College 1962; Law 1977	U.S. Congressman	[312]
Frederick Gillett (1851-1935)	Law 1877	Speaker of the House of Representatives	[313]
Fred Grandy (born 1948)	College 1970	Actor, U.S. Congressman	[314]
Jane Harman (born 1945)	Law 1969	U.S. Congresswoman	[315]
Katherine Harris (born 1957)	KSG 1997	U.S. Congresswoman, Florida Secretary of State during the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election recount	[316]
Brian Higgins (born 1959)	KSG 1996	U.S. Congressman	[317]
Elizabeth Holtzman (born 1941)	Radcliffe 1962; Law 1965	U.S. Congresswoman, District Attorney, New York Comptroller	[318]
Amory Houghton (born 1926)	College 1950; Business 1952	U.S. Congressman	[319]
Michael Huffington (born 1947)	Business 1971	U.S. Congressman, businessman and husband of Arianna Huffington	[320]
William J. Jefferson (born 1947)	Law 1972	U.S. Congressman	[321]
Nancy Johnson (born 1935)	Radcliffe 1957	U.S. Congresswoman	[322]
Barbara Kennelly (born 1936)	Business 1959	U.S. Congresswoman	[323]
Ron Kind (born 1963)	College 1985	U.S. Congressman	[324]
James G. King (1791-1853)	College 1810	U.S. Congressman	[325]