Name Year College or University Notability References Bushrod Washington 1778 College of William & Mary John Heath 1779 College of William & Mary Richard Bland Lee 1780 College of William & Mary John Marshall 1780 College of William & Mary James Kent 1781 Yale College Stephen Van Rensselaer 1782 Harvard University [ 1] John Quincy Adams 1787 Harvard University Eli Whitney 1792 Yale College David Sherman Boardman 1792 Yale College Joseph Story 1798 Harvard University Oliver Ellsworth 1799 Yale College Daniel Webster 1801 Dartmouth College John Calhoun 1804 Yale College Levi Woodbury 1809 Dartmouth College Samuel Morse 1810 Yale College William H. Prescott 1814 Harvard University Joseph Tracy 1814 Dartmouth College William H. Seward 1819 Union College Rufus Choate 1819 Dartmouth College Nathaniel Hawthorne 1824 Bowdoin College Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1825 Bowdoin College Salmon Portland Chase 1826 Dartmouth College William Strong 1828 Yale College Ralph Waldo Emerson 1828 Harvard University [ 2] Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1829 Harvard University Lorenzo Langstroth 1831 Yale College Asa Fowler 1833 Dartmouth College Timothy P. Redfield 1836 Dartmouth College Morrison Remick Waite 1837 Yale College Chester A. Arthur 1848 Union College William S. Clark 1848 Amherst College Timothy Dwight V 1848 Yale College Joshua Chamberlain 1852 Bowdoin College Joseph H. Choate 1852 Harvard University Melville Weston Fuller 1853 Bowdoin College George Shiras Jr 1853 Yale College David Josiah Brewer 1856 Yale College Henry Billings Brown 1856 Yale College James A. Garfield 1856 Williams College John B. Hinkson 1860 Lafayette College Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1861 Harvard University George Moulton Carpenter 1864 Brown University William T. Sherman 1866 Dartmouth College [ 3] Henry Adams 1872 Harvard University [ 4] Henry James 1872 Harvard University [ 5] William Henry Moody 1876 Harvard University Robert Peary 1877 Bowdoin College William Howard Taft 1878 Yale College John Dewey 1879 University of Vermont Theodore Roosevelt 1880 Harvard University Charles Evans Hughes 1881 Brown University Edward Bouchet 1874 Yale College John Hessin Clarke 1877 Case Western Reserve University Henry Clay Folger 1879 Amherst College George Santayana 1886 Harvard University Henry Stimson 1888 Yale University Bernard Baruch 1889 City College of New York Benjamin Cardozo 1889 Columbia College W. E. B. Du Bois 1890 Fisk University Bainbridge Colby 1890 Williams College Henrietta Swan Leavitt 1892 Radcliffe College Edward E. Wilson 1892 Williams College Learned Hand 1893 Harvard University Alexander Meiklejohn 1893 Brown University Andrew Sledd 1894 Randolph-Macon College Harlan Fiske Stone 1894 Amherst College Owen Roberts 1895 University of Pennsylvania John Barlow 1895 Brown University Louis Brandeis 1895 Harvard University [ 6] Caroline Ransom Williams 1896 Mount Holyoke College [ 7] John D. Rockefeller Jr. 1897 Brown University [ 8] Richard B. Carter 1898 Harvard University Mary Annette Anderson 1899 Middlebury College John Gresham Machen 1901 Johns Hopkins University Felix Frankfurter 1902 City College of New York Elihu Root 1903 Hamilton College Stanley King 1903 Amherst College John J. Tigert 1904 Vanderbilt University Booker T. Washington 1904 Harvard University [ 9] Jessie Redmon Fauset 1905 Cornell University Christine Iverson Bennett 1907 University of Michigan [ 10] Ernest Everett Just 1907 Dartmouth College John J. Parker 1907 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill William Burke Belknap 1908 Yale College John Foster Dulles 1908 Princeton University John Hall Wheelock 1908 Harvard University Owen Brewster 1909 Bowdoin College Harold Hitz Burton 1909 Bowdoin College Walter Lippmann 1909 Harvard University Harold Medina 1909 Princeton University C.T. Wang 1910 Yale University Paul Douglas 1913 Bowdoin College Jane Barus 1913 Smith College Katharine Lambert Richards Rockwell 1913 Smith College Pearl Buck 1914 Randolph-Macon Woman's College James Bryant Conant 1914 Harvard University Carroll A. Edson 1914 Dartmouth College Hu Hsen-Hsu 1914 University of California, Berkeley [ 11] Dean Acheson 1915 Yale University Archibald MacLeish 1915 Yale University Charles Hamilton Houston 1915 Amherst College Alfred Kinsey 1916 Bowdoin College Robert Frost 1916 Harvard University [ 12] Irwin Edman 1917 Columbia University Jarvis Offutt 1917 Yale University Thomas Granville Pullen Jr. 1917 College of William & Mary Oliver Waterman Larkin 1918 Harvard University Paul Robeson 1919 Rutgers University [ 13] K. K. Chen 1920 University of Wisconsin-Madison William O. Douglas 1920 Whitman College Percy Lavon Julian 1920 DePauw University David E. Lilienthal 1920 DePauw University Countee Cullen 1922 New York University Henry Friendly 1923 Harvard University Nathan F. Leopold 1923 University of Chicago Herbert Brownell Jr. 1924 University of Nebraska Grayson L. Kirk 1924 Miami University J. Robert Oppenheimer 1925 Harvard University [ 14] Alger Hiss 1926 Johns Hopkins University Martin Dobelle 1926 Fordham University Joseph J. Spengler 1927 Ohio State University George H. Hitchings 1927 University of Washington Mildred Grosberg Bellin 1928 Smith College Grace Hopper 1928 Vassar College John C. Stennis 1928 University of Virginia Carl Sandburg 1928 Harvard University [ 15] Leroy Anderson 1929 Harvard University Harry Blackmun 1929 Harvard University Paul S. Dunkin 1929 DePauw University Margaret Burnham Geddes 1929 Vassar College James Michener 1929 Swarthmore College Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. 1929 Washington & Lee University William Fields Carter 1930 University of Richmond Virginia state delegate [ 16] Nelson Rockefeller 1930 Dartmouth College Jonas Salk 1930 City College of New York Carl Albert 1931 University of Oklahoma Dean Rusk 1931 Davidson College Fred Sington 1931 University of Alabama Edward H. Levi 1932 University of Chicago Eugene O'Neill Jr. 1932 Yale University Eugene V. Rostow 1932 Yale University Barry Wood 1932 Harvard University Paul Weston (as Paul Wetstein)1933 Dartmouth College Frank Oppenheimer 1933 Johns Hopkins University John Howard 1934 Case Western Reserve University Daniel Boorstin 1934 Harvard University Richard Helms 1935 Williams College T. S. Eliot 1935 Harvard University Samuel Belkin 1935 Brown University Milton Babbitt 1936 New York University Ed Muskie 1936 Bates College Robert McNamara 1936 University of California Berkeley Alan Lomax 1936 University of Texas Potter Stewart 1937 Yale University Byron White 1937 University of Colorado Caspar Weinberger 1938 Harvard University Doris Grumbach 1939 New York University John L. Loos 1939 University of Nebraska Nile Kinnick 1939 University of Iowa Wilma Dykeman 1940 Northwestern University Orville Freeman 1940 University of Minnesota Bernard Epstein 1940 New York University Ella T. Grasso 1940 Mount Holyoke College Allen Ludden 1940 University of Texas Robie Macauley 1941 Kenyon College Ruth Barcan Marcus 1941 New York University Wade H. McCree 1941 Fisk University William Kunstler 1941 Yale University John Paul Stevens 1941 University of Chicago Betty Friedan 1942 Smith College Carl W. Gottschalk 1942 Roanoke College Jade Snow Wong 1942 Mills College George C. Baldwin 1943 Kalamazoo College James F. Howard Jr. 1943 Yale University Phyllis Schlafly 1943 Washington University in St. Louis Cid Corman 1945 Tufts University Frank Church 1947 Stanford University Jack St. Clair Kilby 1947 University of Illinois Peter D. Lax 1947 New York University Tom Lehrer 1947 Harvard University Robert Bork 1948 University of Chicago George H. W. Bush 1948 Yale University Edward D. White Jr. 1948 Columbia University Martin Lewis Perl 1948 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn William Rehnquist 1948 Stanford University Judith Tobin 1948 Mount Holyoke College Brock Adams 1949 Washington University in St. Louis Bill Naito 1949 Reed College Edward O. Wilson 1949 University of Alabama Jane Dempsey Douglass c. 1950s Syracuse University Henry Kissinger 1950 Harvard University Marv Levy 1950 Coe College William Dickey 1951 Reed College Ursula K. Le Guin 1951 Radcliffe College Susan Sontag 1951 University of Chicago Arlen Specter 1951 University of Pennsylvania David Lee 1952 Harvard University Arthur Levitt 1952 Williams College Stephen Sondheim 1952 Williams College John Shelby Spong 1952 University of North Carolina Guido Calabresi 1953 Yale University Clive Davis 1953 New York University Ronald Dworkin 1953 Harvard University John Hope Franklin 1953 Fisk University [ 17] Fredric Jameson 1953 Haverford College [ 18] Paul Donnelly Paganucci 1953 Dartmouth College Thomas R. Pickering 1953 Bowdoin College Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1954 Cornell University Sheldon Glashow 1954 Cornell University Richard Lugar 1954 Denison University Victor Navasky 1954 Swarthmore College Joan Rivers 1954 Barnard College John Updike 1954 Harvard University Steven Weinberg 1954 Cornell University Franklin M. Fisher 1955 Harvard University Ralph Nader 1955 Princeton University Reynolds Price 1955 Duke University John L. Hall 1956 Carnegie Mellon University Gloria Steinem 1956 Smith College Akira Iriye 1957 Haverford College Elizabeth Dole 1958 Duke University Anthony Kennedy 1958 Stanford University Kris Kristofferson 1958 Pomona College Joseph Nye 1958 Princeton University Paul Comi 1958 University of Southern California Robert Coleman Richardson 1958 Virginia Tech Stephen Breyer 1959 Stanford University Francis Ford Coppola 1959 Hofstra University John W. Dower 1959 Amherst College Bob Graham 1959 University of Florida Robert Nozick 1959 Columbia University Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. 1959 Cornell University Richard Posner 1959 Yale University Richard Lindzen 1960 Harvard University Robert E. Rubin 1960 Harvard University David H. Souter 1960 Harvard University Daniel Gillespie 1960 Rice University Lester Thurow 1960 Williams College Fay Vincent 1960 Williams College Sheldon Goldman 1961 New York University Elizabeth Parr-Johnston 1961 Wellesley College Pat Schroeder 1961 University of Minnesota David Souter 1961 Harvard University Lamar Alexander 1962 Vanderbilt University Tom Brokaw 1962 University of South Dakota Lynne Cheney 1962 Colorado College Robert Christgau 1962 Dartmouth College Edward Ng 1962 University of Minnesota Barack Obama Sr. 1962 University of Hawaii Daniel C. Tsui 1962 Augustana College David L. Boren 1963 Yale University Richard Epstein 1963 Columbia University David Satcher 1963 Morehouse College John Edgar Wideman 1963 University of Pennsylvania James Woolsey 1963 Stanford University David Boies 1964 University of Redlands Michael Crichton 1964 Harvard University Leonard Bernstein 1964 Harvard University [ 8] Joseph Lieberman 1964 Yale University Angela Davis 1965 Brandeis University Carl Gershman 1965 Yale University [ 19] [ 20] Terrence Malick 1965 Harvard University Walter Murch 1965 Johns Hopkins University W. Taylor Reveley III 1965 Princeton University Paul Wellstone 1965 University of North Carolina William Weld 1966 Harvard University Philip Lader 1966 Duke University George Smoot 1966 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jane Harman 1966 Smith College John Postlethwait 1966 Purdue University Douglas D. Osheroff 1967 California Institute of Technology Richard Blumenthal 1967 Harvard University Janet Yellen 1967 Brown University Bill Clinton 1968 Georgetown University Michio Kaku 1968 Harvard University John C. Mather 1968 Swarthmore College Henry Paulson 1968 Dartmouth College Isaac Asimov 1972 Boston University [ 9] Laurie Anderson 1969 Barnard College Jon Corzine 1969 University of Illinois Hugh David Politzer 1969 University of Michigan Frank J. Fabozzi 1969 City University of New York E. Annie Proulx 1969 University of Vermont Steven Chu 1970 University of Rochester Frank Easterbrook 1970 Swarthmore College Mazie Hirono 1970 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Frank Wilczek 1970 University of Chicago David Rubenstein 1970 Duke University Louis Freeh 1971 Rutgers University Michael Katze 1971 Boston University Mike Nifong 1971 University of North Carolina Chuck Schumer 1971 Harvard University Pat Quinn 1971 Georgetown University Roger Tsien 1971 Harvard University Nadine Strossen 1972 Radcliffe College Samuel Alito 1972 Princeton University Robert B. Laughlin 1972 University of California Berkeley Jeffrey K. Tulis 1972 Bates College Benazir Bhutto 1973 Radcliffe College Jeb Bush 1973 University of Texas E.J. Dionne 1973 Harvard University Rita Dove 1973 Miami University John N. Kennedy 1973 Vanderbilt University Paul Alan Levy 1973 Reed College Austin Ligon 1973 University of Texas Renée Montagne 1973 University of California Berkeley Diana Nyad 1973 Lake Forest College Carl Wieman 1973 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Glenn Close 1974 College of William & Mary Christie Hefner 1974 Brandeis University Mark E. Kalmansohn c. 1974 University of California, Los Angeles Condoleezza Rice 1974 University of Denver Ben Bernanke 1975 Harvard University Susan Collins 1975 St. Lawrence University Griffith R. Harsh 1975 Harvard University Harold Hongju Koh 1975 Harvard University Gale Norton 1975 University of Denver Robert Zoellick 1975 Swarthmore College Michael Burns 1976 University of California, Los Angeles actor and historian Lawrence B. Lindsey 1976 Bowdoin College Jack A. Goldstone 1976 Harvard University Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt 1976 Johns Hopkins University John G. Roberts 1976 Harvard University Sonia Sotomayor 1976 Princeton University Joseph C. Nuesse 1976 Catholic University of America Mark Warner 1977 George Washington University Michael Stuart 1977 DePauw University [ 21] Jeffrey Vitter 1977 University of Notre Dame Dale Archer 1978 Tulane University Maurice Berger 1978 Hunter College Karen Hughes 1978 Southern Methodist University David Addington 1978 Georgetown University Paula Franzese 1979 Barnard College Debra Lehrmann 1979 University of Texas at Austin David Merritt 1979 University of Santa Clara Mary Lambeth Moore 1980 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stavros Lambrinidis 1984 Amherst College Jennifer Granholm 1980 University of California, Berkeley Michael R. Barratt 1981 University of Washington Lynn Barry 1981 College of William & Mary Nicholas D. Kristof 1981 Harvard University Elena Kagan 1981 Princeton University I Michael Leitman 1981 Boston University Eliot Spitzer 1981 Princeton University Matthew Kramer 1981 Cornell University Jill Zimmerman 1981 Purdue University George Stephanopoulos 1982 Columbia University Kateryna Yushchenko 1982 Georgetown University Patrick Fitzgerald 1982 Amherst College David Duchovny 1982 Princeton University [ 22] Jeffrey W. Legro 1982 Middlebury College Jean Rhodes 1983 University of Vermont Christopher Eisgruber 1983 Princeton University Miguel Estrada 1983 Columbia University Dinesh D'Souza 1983 Dartmouth College Christiane Amanpour 1983 University of Rhode Island [ 23] Lisa Randall 1984 Harvard University Lee Siegel 1984 Columbia University Eric Allin Cornell 1985 Stanford University Ken Stern 1985 Haverford College Daniel Pearl 1985 Stanford University Carol Queen 1985 University of Oregon Anne Applebaum 1986 Yale University Jeff Bezos 1986 Princeton University Sabine Hyland 1986 Cornell University Susan Rice 1986 Stanford University Rafael Resendes 1987 University of California, Berkeley Laura J. Snyder 1987 Brandeis University Paul Clement 1988 Georgetown University Neil Gorsuch 1988 Princeton University KellyAnne Conway 1989 Trinity Washington University Eudora Welty 1989 Millsaps College [ 9] Ashley Judd 1990 University of Kentucky Rosa Brooks 1990 Harvard University Joshua Redman 1991 Harvard University Paul Adelstein 1991 Bowdoin College Peter R. Orszag 1991 Princeton University Carson Kressley 1991 Gettysburg College Jimmy Carter 1991 Kansas State University [ 24] Dena Grayson 1991 University of Florida Julie Story Byerley 1992 Rhodes College Doris Eaton Travis 1992 University of Oklahoma Danielle Allen 1993 Princeton University Benjamin Radford 1993 University of New Mexico Stephanie Herseth Sandlin 1993 Georgetown University Amit Mehta 1993 Georgetown University Bobby Jindal 1993 Brown University Teresa N. Washington 1993 Fisk University author, academic, activist Matt Sherman 1994 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Amy Coney Barrett 1994 Rhodes College Robb LaKritz 1994 University of Michigan Burton Rocks 1994 Stony Brook University Mamphela Ramphele 1994 Harvard University [ 25] James Kerwin 1995 Texas Christian University Griff Aldrich 1996 Hampden-Sydney College Matthew Kleban 1996 Reed College Andrew Mueller 1996 University of California, Santa Cruz Dan O'Brien 1996 Middlebury College playwright Emily Bergl 1997 Grinnell College Richard Carrier 1997 University of California, Berkeley Susan Haack 1997 University of Miami [ 26] Peyton Manning 1997 University of Tennessee [ 27] Michael Schur 1997 Harvard University Ro Khanna 1998 University of Chicago [ 28] [ 29] Kerry Washington 1998 George Washington University Sufjan Stevens 1998 Hope College Brad Delson 1999 University of California, Los Angeles Rita Ng 2000 Stanford University [ 30] Heidi Cruz 2000 Claremont McKenna College [ 31] Holly A. Thomas 2000 Stanford University [ 32] Brianna Keilar 2001 University of California, Berkeley Josh Hawley 2002 Stanford University Pete Buttigieg 2004 Harvard University [ 33] Ben Shapiro 2004 University of California, Los Angeles Rivers Cuomo 2006 Harvard University Oludamini Ogunnaike 2007 Harvard University [ 34] Vivek Ramaswamy 2007 Harvard University Isaiah Andrews 2009 Yale College Lena Park 2010 Columbia University Kurt Hugo Schneider 2010 Yale University Annie E. Clark 2011 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tamar Kaprelian 2016 Columbia University Sylvia Swayne 2019 University of Alabama Amanda Gorman 2020 Harvard University 
