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.

  • "DNG" indicates that the alumnus did not graduate.
  • A "—" indicates that the information is unknown.

Business

Alfred V. du Pont
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Henry Clarke
1955
 Built the Klondike brand and expanded it nationally
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 Faulkner
1965
 Founder and CEO of Epic Systems [7]
David Hirshey
1971
 Vice president and executive editor of HarperCollins publishers [8]
John Carmichael Jenkins
1828
 Plantation owner, medical doctor and horticulturalist [9]
Andy MacPhail
1976
 Major League Baseball executive [10]
Amy Nauiokas
1994
 Founder and CEO of Archer Gray media production, finance, and venture capital company
Leon Rose
1983
 President of the New York Knicks

Arts and journalism

Rick Smolan
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Spencer Bailey
2008
 Editor-in-chief of Surface magazine [11]
Brock Clarke
1990
 Author [12]
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 [13]
Jennifer Haigh
1990
 The New York Times best-selling author, winner of PEN/Hemingway Award [14]
Jennifer L. Holm
1990
 Historical author, wrote three Newbery Honor books [15]
Kim Min-soo
2018
 Beauty pageant winner, Miss Korea 2018
George B. Murphy Jr.
1926
 Newspaper editor, journalist, publicist, advertiser, and civil rights leader; editor-in-chief at The Washington Afro-American [16]
Clarence Muse
1911
 Actor, director, composer, and writer
Rosie O'Donnell
DNG
 Stand-up comedian, actress, singer, and media personality
Stuart Pankin
1968
 Film and television actor [17]
Esther Popel
1919
 First Black female graduate of Dickinson, African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance, activist, and educator
Jennifer Ringley
1997
 Creator of JenniCam.org [18]
James R. Shepley
1939 (DNG)
 Time, Life journalist, later president of Time Inc., received honorary degree in 1959 [19][20]
Richard Sher
1970
 Producer, creator and host of Says You! [21]
Rick Smolan
1972
 Former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer [22]
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 [23]
Charles Strum
1970
 Associate managing editor at The New York Times [24]

Academics and education

Henry Louis Baugher
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Neal B. Abraham
1972
 Professor of Physics at Bryn Mawr College, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College at DePauw University, and executive director of the Five College Consortium
Henry Louis Baugher
1826
 President of Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Jeremiah Chamberlain
1814
 2nd president of Centre College and the Centenary College of Louisiana [25][26]
Thomas Nelson Conrad
1857
 Third president of Virginia Tech, then known as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College
Fred Pierce Corson
1917
 Twentieth president of Dickinson College; bishop of the Methodist Church [27]
William Durden
1971
 President of Dickinson College [28]
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 [29]
Linda Dalrymple Henderson
1969
 David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Austin
Helen Schaeffer Huff
1903
 Among the first women to receive a PhD in physics from a US institution
Louis E. McComas
1866
 Professor of International Law at Georgetown University Law Center
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 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine, Wilhelm Exner Medal, William H. Nichols Medal, Dan David Prize, Linus Pauling Award, and American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal
Elijah Barrett Prettyman
1848
 Second principal of the Maryland State Normal School, now Towson University [30][31]
Lisa Rossbacher
1978
 President of Humboldt State University
Lawrence Shapiro
1984
 Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susan Stewart
1973
 Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and professor of English at Princeton University
Marvin Wolfgang
1948
 Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania
John C. Young
1823
 Fourth president of Centre College [32]

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 [33]
Charles J. Baker
1841
 Ex-officio mayor of Baltimore [34]
Mark A. Barnett
1985
 Judge of the United States Court of International Trade
Daniel Moore Bates
1839
 Secretary of state of Delaware and US attorney for the district of Delaware
Richard L. T. Beale
DNG
 U.S. representative [35]
Joseph M. Belford
1871
 U.S. representative [36]
John O. Bennett
DNG
 Former state senator of New Jersey
William H. Bright Jr.
1984
 Associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
James Buchanan
1809
 Fifteenth president of the United States [37]
William W. Caldwell
1948
 Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Philip L. Cannon
1870 (DNG)
 Lieutenant governor of Delaware (1901–1905) [38]
William Creighton Jr.
1795
 United States representative from Ohio; judge of the United States District Court for the District of Ohio
John Creswell
1848
 United States senator, U.S. representative; U.S. Postmaster General, first member of Congress to propose a constitutional amendment banning slavery [39][40]
Harmar Denny
1813
 U.S. representative [41]
John D. C. Duncan Jr. Maryland state delegate and state senator [42]
Ninian Edwards
1792
 Third governor of Illinois, United States senator from Illinois [43]
Powhatan Ellis
1810
 United States senator from Mississippi; judge of the United States District Court for the District of Mississippi
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 P. Fisher
1838
 United States representative from Delaware; judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
George Gekas
1952
 U.S. representative [44]
Jim Gerlach
1977
 U.S. representative [45]
John Bannister Gibson
1800
 Pennsylvania supreme court justice and chief justice [46]
Kermit Gosnell
1963
 Former abortion doctor convicted of murder [47]
Donald E. Graves
1953
 U.S. State Department Kremlinologist [48]
James C. Greenwood
1973
 U.S. representative [49]
Robert Cooper Grier
1812
 Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1846–1870 [50]
Thomas B. Hayward
—
 Member of the Maryland House of Delegates [51]
Peter Ihrie, Jr.
1815
 U.S. representative [52]
John J. Jacob
1849
 Fourth governor of West Virginia [53]
John E. Jones III
1977
 Former judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and 30th president of Dickinson College [54]
James A. Kenney, III
1959
 Former judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals [55]
Horatio Collins King
1858
 Judge advocate general for the New York National Guard, lawyer, and Civil War soldier, received the Medal of Honor
Charles B. Lore
1852
 U.S. representative, attorney general of Delaware, chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court
Edward Lucas
1809
 U.S. representative [56]
Barry W. Lynn
1970
 Executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
James William Marshall
1848
 U.S. Postmaster General [57][40]
Lewis Linn McArthur
DNG
 Oregon Supreme Court associate justice and newspaper publisher
Robert McClelland
1829
 U.S. representative, governor of Michigan, U.S. secretary of the interior [58]
Louis E. McComas
1866
 United States senator from Maryland; United States representative from Maryland; judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
David Oh
1982
 First Asian-American elected to the Philadelphia City Council
Charles O'Neill
1840
 U.S. representative [59]
J. Smith Orrick Maryland state delegate [60]
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
Jeffrey L. Schmehl
1977
 Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Bill Shuster
1983
 U.S. representative [61]
Abraham Herr Smith
1840
 U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district 1873–1885 [62]
George W. Smith
1949
 U.S. Marine major general [63]
Zatae Leola Longsdorff Straw
1887
 First woman to graduate from Dickinson, physician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, president of the New Hampshire Department of the American Legion Auxiliary, first woman to serve as president of the American Medical Society
Richard Barclay Surrick
1960
 Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Roger B. Taney
1795
 Fifth chief justice of the United States [64]
Philip Francis Thomas
1830
 Governor of Maryland, U.S. secretary of the treasury [65]
Lemuel Todd
1839
 U.S. representative from Pennsylvania [66]
Emanuel Mac Troutman
1934
 Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Hoge Walker
1787
 Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Isaac Wayne
1792
 U.S. congressman, Pennsylvania state representative, Pennsylvania state senator [67]
Ross Wilkins
1816
 Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
William Wilkins
1802
 U.S. representative, U.S. senator, secretary of war, and judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania [68]
Lindsey Williams
2005
 Pennsylvania state senator [69]
Stanley Zeigler 1971 Maine state representative [70]

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 [71]
Moncure Conway
1849
 Minister, author, abolitionist [72]
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 [73]
Frederick Brown Harris
1909
 Twice chaplain of the United States Senate
John Swanel Inskip
1835 (DNG)
 Minister, evangelist, president of the National Holiness Association
John Wesley Lord
1927
 Bishop of the Methodist Church, vice president of the National Council of Churches
Robert Samuel Maclay
1845
 Missionary who made pioneer contributions to the Methodist Episcopal missions in China, Japan and Korea

Sports

Chief Bender
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Bull Behman
1923
 NFL player with the Frankford Yellow Jackets and AFL player with the Philadelphia Quakers
Chief Bender
1902
 Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
Bob Books
1926
 NFL player with the Frankford Yellow Jackets
John Carroll Head basketball coach of the Boston Celtics and the University of Duquesne
Bob Chesney
2000
 Head football coach of the UCLA Bruins
Steve Hoffman
1980
 NFL coach with the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys
Joe Katchik
1954
 AFL player with the New York Titans
Frank Mount Pleasant
1910
 US Olympic track & field athlete, 1904 Summer Olympics and 1908 Summer Olympics, first Native American to graduate from Dickinson
Hikaru Nakamura
DNG
 Chess player, Grandmaster, streamer
Len Supulski
1943
 NFL player with the Philadelphia Eagles

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