List of College of the Holy Cross alumni

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This list of College of the Holy Cross alumni includes graduates and non-graduate, former students at the College of the Holy Cross. Since its founding in 1843 and its first commencement in 1849, Holy Cross has graduated 171 classes of students. As of the 2019-20 academic year, Holy Cross had approximately 38,511 alumni. [1]

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Artists, poets and authors

Business

Education

Professors and researchers

NameYear/DegreeNotabilityReference
John E. Brooks 1949President Emeritus of College of the Holy Cross and former President from 1970 to 1994, noted for introducing co-education at the college in 1972; member of Religious Studies faculty
Robert L. Devaney 1969Professor of mathematics at Boston University; research interests include complex dynamical systems, chaos, fractals
David Granfield 1943Professor Emeritus at Catholic University Law School in Washington DC; noted as a canon lawyer for his exposition of the Catholic Church's view on abortion
Jane M. Hawkins 1976Professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; research interests include ergodic theory, smooth dynamical systems, complex dynamics, and computer generated graphics images related to nonpolynomial dynamics
Patrick Francis Healy 1850first African American to earn a Ph.D. and former President of Georgetown University
Traugott Lawler 1958 medievalist scholar; expert on William Langland; emeritus professor of English at Yale University
Timothy Leary 1942 LSD-pioneering Harvard professor; attended Holy Cross before transferring to West Point
Joseph McCartin 1981professor of history at Georgetown University; 2003 Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University
James McCarthy 1971President of Suffolk University in Boston
Paul Reiss 195214th president of Saint Michael's College, professor and author
Robert K. Wright Jr. 1968military historian and author

Arts and Entertainment

Law, politics, and public service

United States federal and state court justices

NameYear/DegreeNotabilityReference
Andrew Augustine Caffrey 1941United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961
Francis Patrick O'Connor 1950appointed by Governor Edward King in 1981, served 16 years on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Christopher Droney 1976United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Second Circuit; nominated by President Barack Obama in 2012
Conrad K. Cyr 1953Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
John J. Farley, III 1964Founding Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; nominated by President George H. W. Bush in 1989
J. Philip Calabrese 1993Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr. 1941United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966
John J. Gibbons 1947former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit [14]
John Greaney 1961Associate Justice for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Director of the Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy at Suffolk University Law School
Edward Francis Harrington 1955United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987
James Patrick Leamy 1912United States District Judge for the District of Vermont; nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940
Richard J. Leon 1971United States District Judge for the District of Columbia; nominated by President George W. Bush in 2002
William T. McCarthy 1905United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Harry S. Truman
Edward McEntee 1928Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Matthew Francis McGuire 1921United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Harry S. Truman in 1949
Clarence Thomas 1971 Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court; nominated by President George H. W. Bush in 1990

Executive branch and United States Cabinet members

Members of the United States Congress

Senators

NameYear/DegreeNotabilityReference
Robert P. Casey Jr. 1982United States Senator for Pennsylvania, served as Pennsylvania Treasurer [15]
Peter Welch 1969United States Senator for Vermont, served as United States Representative for Vermont's at-large district from 2007 to 2023
John A. Durkin 1959United States Senator for New Hampshire from 1975 to 1980
Thomas A. Burke 1920United States Senator for Ohio, served as the 48th mayor of Cleveland; namesake of Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport
Maurice J. Murphy 1950United States Senator for New Hampshire
David I. Walsh 1893United States Senator for Massachusetts; Massachusetts' first Irish Catholic governor

Representatives

NameYear/DegreeNotabilityReference
Tim Bishop 1972United States Representative from New York's 1st congressional district [16]
William P. Connery Jr. 1920United States Representative from Massachusetts
Joseph Daniel Early 1955United States Representative from Massachusetts' 3rd congressional district from 1975 to 1993
Mark DeSaulnier 1974United States Representative from California
Ambrose Kennedy 1897United States Representative from Rhode Island
James B. Longley Jr. 1973United States Representative from Maine's 1st congressional district
Martin B. McKneally 1937United States Representative from New York
Michael R. McNulty 1969United States Representative [17]
James P. Moran Jr. 1967United States Representative [18]
Frank William Towey Jr. 1916United States Representative from New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1937 to 1939

United States governors

Ambassadors and other diplomats from the United States

Foreign Government officials

Military

NameYear/DegreeNotabilityReference
Barry M. Costello 1973 United States Navy Commander, United States Third Fleet [25]
Peter H. Daly 1977 United States Navy Vice Admiral (Ret.) and CEO of the United States Naval Institute
Michael A. Healy Prep 1849–1854Captain, United States Revenue Cutter Service (predecessor of United States Coast Guard), first United States Government ship commander with African-American ancestry
William J. McCarthy 1976Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force, United States Navy
Bruce E. MacDonald 1978Rear Admiral, Judge Advocate General, United States Navy [26] [27]
Bernard E. Trainor 1951retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General, bestselling author, and military analyst for NBC
Kevin Sandkuhler 1975lawyer, retired Brigadier General in the United States Marine Corps
Anthony T. Shtogren 1940retired United States Air Force Major General

Media and communication

Religion

NameYear/DegreeNotabilityReference
Most Rev. James Augustine Healy , D.D.1849first African American bishop in the United States
Most Rev. Frederick Anthony Donaghy , M.M., D.D.1925Maryknoll missionary to China who became the first bishop of Wuzhou; his brother, William A. Donaghy, S.J., served as the president of Holy Cross [28]
Rev. William O'Malley, S.J.1953prolific author and teacher of theology at Fordham University; famous for his role in The Exorcist
Msgr. Peter Vaghi 1970pastor of the Church of the Little Flower in Bethesda, Maryland and chaplain of The John Carroll Society in Washington, D.C.

Science, technology, and medicine

Sports

Baseball

Basketball

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Bob Cousy
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Jehyve Floyd

Football

Ice hockey

Other sports

Notable Holy Cross faculty

Presidents of the College

OrderNamePosition(s)Joined CollegeAscended presidencyLeft/retiredAlumnus/na?Reference
1 Rev. Thomas F. Mulledy, S.J. President184318431845no [33]
2 Rev. James A. Ryder, S.J. President18451848 [33]
3 Rev. John Early, S.J. President18481851 [33]
4 Rev. Anthony F. Ciampi, S.J. President18511854 [33]
5 Rev. Peter J. Blenkinsop, S.J. President18541857 [33]
6 Rev. Anthony F. Ciampi, S.J. President18571861 [33]
7 Rev. James Clark, S.J. President18611867
8 Rev. Robert W. Brady, S.J. President18671869
9 Rev. Anthony F. Ciampi, S.J. President18691873
10 Rev. Joseph B. O'Hagan, S.J. President18731878
11 Rev. Edward D. Boone, S.J. President18781883
12 Rev. Robert W. Brady, S.J. President18831887
13 Rev. Samuel Cahill, S.J. President18871889
14 Rev. Michael O'Kane, S.J. President18891893
15 Rev. Edward A. McGurk, S.J. President18931895
16 Rev. John F. Lehy, S.J. President18951901
17 Rev. Joseph F. Hanselman, S.J. President19011906
18 Rev. Thomas E. Murphy, S.J. President19061911
19 Bishop Joseph N. Dinand, S.J. President19111918
20 Rev. James J. Carlin, S.J. President19181924
21 Bishop Joseph N. Dinand, S.J. President19241927
22 Rev. John M. Fox, S.J. President19271933
23 Rev. Francis J. Dolan, S.J. President19331939
24 Rev. Joseph R.N. Maxwell, S.J. President19391945
25 Rev. William J. Healy, S.J. President19451948
26 Rev. John A. O'Brien, S.J. President19481954
27 Rev. William A. Donaghy, S.J. President19541960
28 Rev. Raymond J. Swords, S.J. President19601970
29 Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J. President19701994
30 Rev. Gerard Reedy, S.J. President19941998
Frank Vellaccio, Ph.D. Acting President19982000
31 Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. President20002012 [34]
32 Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J. President2012

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