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]
Name | Year/Degree | Notability | Reference |
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John E. Brooks | 1949 | President 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 | 1969 | Professor of mathematics at Boston University; research interests include complex dynamical systems, chaos, fractals | |
David Granfield | 1943 | Professor 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 | 1976 | Professor 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 | 1850 | first 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 | 1981 | professor of history at Georgetown University; 2003 Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University | |
James McCarthy | 1971 | President of Suffolk University in Boston | |
Paul Reiss | 1952 | 14th president of Saint Michael's College, professor and author | |
Robert K. Wright Jr. | 1968 | military historian and author |
Name | Year/Degree | Notability | Reference |
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Andrew Augustine Caffrey | 1941 | United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961 | |
Francis Patrick O'Connor | 1950 | appointed by Governor Edward King in 1981, served 16 years on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | |
Christopher Droney | 1976 | United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Second Circuit; nominated by President Barack Obama in 2012 | |
Conrad K. Cyr | 1953 | Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit | |
John J. Farley, III | 1964 | Founding judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; nominated by President George H. W. Bush in 1989 | |
J. Philip Calabrese | 1993 | Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | |
Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr. | 1941 | United States district judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 | |
John J. Gibbons | 1947 | former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit | [14] |
John Greaney | 1961 | Associate 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 | 1955 | United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 | |
James Patrick Leamy | 1912 | United States District Judge for the District of Vermont; nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 | |
Richard J. Leon | 1971 | United States District Judge for the District of Columbia; nominated by President George W. Bush in 2002 | |
William T. McCarthy | 1905 | United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Harry S. Truman | |
Edward McEntee | 1928 | Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. | |
Matthew Francis McGuire | 1921 | United 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 |
Name | Year/Degree | Notability | Reference |
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Robert P. Casey Jr. | 1982 | United States senator for Pennsylvania, served as Pennsylvania treasurer | [15] |
Peter Welch | 1969 | United States senator for Vermont, served as United States representative for Vermont's at-large district from 2007 to 2023 | |
John A. Durkin | 1959 | United States senator for New Hampshire from 1975 to 1980 | |
Thomas A. Burke | 1920 | United States senator for Ohio, served as the 48th mayor of Cleveland; namesake of Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport | |
Maurice J. Murphy | 1950 | United States senator for New Hampshire | |
David I. Walsh | 1893 | United States senator for Massachusetts; Massachusetts' first Irish Catholic governor |
Name | Year/Degree | Notability | Reference |
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Tim Bishop | 1972 | United States representative from New York's 1st congressional district | [16] |
William P. Connery Jr. | 1920 | United States representative from Massachusetts | |
Joseph Daniel Early | 1955 | United States representative from Massachusetts' 3rd congressional district from 1975 to 1993 | |
Mark DeSaulnier | 1974 | United States representative from California | |
Ambrose Kennedy | 1897 | United States representative from Rhode Island | |
James B. Longley Jr. | 1973 | United States representative from Maine's 1st congressional district | |
Martin B. McKneally | 1937 | United States representative from New York | |
Michael R. McNulty | 1969 | United States representative | [17] |
James P. Moran Jr. | 1967 | United States representative | [18] |
Frank William Towey Jr. | 1916 | United States representative from New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1937 to 1939 |
Name | Year/Degree | Notability | Reference |
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Barry M. Costello | 1973 | United States Navy commander, United States Third Fleet | [25] |
Peter H. Daly | 1977 | United States Navy vice admiral (retired) and CEO of the United States Naval Institute | |
Michael A. Healy | Prep 1849–1854 | Captain, United States Revenue Cutter Service (predecessor of United States Coast Guard), first United States Government ship commander with African-American ancestry | |
William J. McCarthy | 1976 | Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force, United States Navy | |
Bruce E. MacDonald | 1978 | Rear admiral, judge advocate general, United States Navy | [26] [27] |
Bernard E. Trainor | 1951 | retired Marine Corps lieutenant general, bestselling author, and military analyst for NBC | |
Kevin Sandkuhler | 1975 | lawyer, retired brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps | |
Anthony T. Shtogren | 1940 | retired United States Air Force major general |
Name | Year/Degree | Notability | Reference |
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Most Rev. James Augustine Healy , D.D. | 1849 | first African American bishop in the United States | |
Most Rev. Frederick Anthony Donaghy , M.M., D.D. | 1925 | Maryknoll missionary to China who became the first bishop of Wuzhou; his brother, William A. Donaghy, S.J., served as the president of Holy Cross | [32] |
Rev. William O'Malley, S.J. | 1953 | prolific author and teacher of theology at Fordham University; famous for his role in The Exorcist | |
Msgr. Peter Vaghi | 1970 | pastor of the Church of the Little Flower in Bethesda, Maryland and chaplain of The John Carroll Society in Washington, D.C. |
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