Four Presidents of the United States have had connections to Princeton. Princeton alumni and former students have served as heads of government in Bangladesh, Belgium, New South Wales (Australia), Peru, Senegal, and South Korea.
Name | Affiliation | Notability | Refs |
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Fakhruddin Ahmed | PhD 1975 | Chief Advisor of the caretaker government (interim prime minister) of Bangladesh, 2007–09. Governor of Bangladesh Bank, 2001–05. | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
Chung Un-chan | PhD 1978 | Prime Minister of South Korea, 2009–10. | [5] [6] |
Grover Cleveland | F 1899–1908, T 1901–08 | 22nd and 24th President of the United States, 1885–89, 1893–97. Governor of New York, 1883–85. | [7] |
John F. Kennedy | Att 1935 | 35th President of the United States, 1961–63. U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1953–60. U.S. Navy officer during World War II. | [8] [9] |
James Madison | B 1771, Princeton's first GS | Fourth President of the United States, 1809–17. Secretary of State, 1801–09. "Father of the U.S. Constitution". | [10] [11] |
Christopher Minns | MPP 2013 | 47th Premier of New South Wales, 2023–. | [12] |
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski | MPA 1961 | 66th President of Peru, 2016–2018. Prime Minister of Peru, 2005–06. Deputy Director-General of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, 1967–69. Minister of Energy and Mines, 1980–82. Minister of Economy and Finance, 2001–02, 2004–05. | [13] [14] |
Syngman Rhee | PhD 1910 | First President of South Korea, 1948–60. | [15] |
Idrissa Seck | Att | Prime Minister of Senegal, 2002–04. | [16] [17] |
Woodrow Wilson | B 1879, Pres 1902–10 | 28th President of the United States, 1913–21. Governor of New Jersey, 1911–13. | [18] |
Paul van Zeeland | PhD 1921 | Prime minister of Belgium, 1936–37. | [19] |
Three Vice Presidents of the United States and one Vice-President of Kenya have attended Princeton.
Name | Affiliation | Notability | Refs |
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John C. Breckinridge | Att | Vice President of the United States, 1857–61. U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1861. Confederate States Secretary of War, 1865. | [20] |
Aaron Burr | B 1772 | Vice President of the United States, 1801–05. U.S. Senator from New York, 1791–97. | [21] |
George M. Dallas | B 1810 | Vice President of the United States, 1845–49. U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1831–33. Ambassador to Russia, 1837–39. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1856–61. | [22] |
Josephat Karanja | PhD 1962 | Vice-President of Kenya, 1988–89. | [23] |
This lists Cabinet members and other senior ministers to national governments. Most associated with Princeton have been members of the Cabinet of the United States, but Princetonians have also served in the Cabinets of Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Mexico, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Turkey. John C. Breckinridge served in the Cabinet of the Confederate States of America, the nation proclaimed by the rebelling Southern states during the American Civil War.
This is a list of people associated with Princeton who have held senior positions within central banks. Several Princetonians have held senior positions within the Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the United States; two (Ben Bernanke and Paul Volcker) have served as Chairman. Another, Nicholas Biddle, served as President of the Second Bank of the United States. Several have served in non-U.S. central banks, as well.
Name | Affiliation | Notability | Refs |
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Fakhruddin Ahmed | PhD 1975 | Governor of Bangladesh Bank, 2001–05. Chief Advisor of the caretaker government (interim prime minister) of Bangladesh, 2007–09. | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
Ben Bernanke | F 1985–2002 | Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 2006–2014. Member of the Federal Reserve Board, 2002–05. Chair of the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisors, 2005–06. | [30] |
Nicholas Biddle | B 1801 | President of the Second Bank of the United States, 1822–39. | [117] |
Alan Blinder | B 1967, F 1971– | Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, 1994–96. | [118] |
David Dodge | PhD 1972 | Governor of the Bank of Canada, 2001–08. | [119] |
W. Braddock Hickman | F | President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 1963–70. | [120] |
Paul Jenkins | GS 1982–83 | Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, 2003–10. | [121] |
Narayana Kocherlakota | B 1983 | President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2009–2015. | [122] |
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski | MPA 1961 | Deputy Director-General of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, 1967–69. Minister of Energy and Mines, 1980–82. Minister of Economy and Finance, 2001–02, 2004–05. Prime Minister of Peru, 2005–06. 66th President of Peru, 2016–2018. | [13] [14] |
Loretta Mester | PhD 1985 | President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 2014–. | [123] |
Rakesh Mohan | AM 1974, PhD 1977 | Deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, 2002–04, 2005–06. | [124] [125] |
Jerome Powell | B 1975 | Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 2018–. Member of the Federal Reserve Board, 2012–. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, 1992–1993. | [126] |
Frederick H. Schultz | B 1952 | Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, 1979–82. | [127] |
Jeremy Stein | B 1983 | Member of the Federal Reserve Board, 2012–2014. | [128] |
Lars E. O. Svensson | F 2001–09 | Deputy Governor of the Riksbank (Bank of Sweden), 2007–. | [129] |
Paul Volcker | B 1949, F 1974–75 | Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979–87. Vice Chairman, 1975–79. | [130] |
Zhu Min | MPA 1988 | Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China, 2009–10. International Monetary Fund: Special Advisor to the Managing Director, 2010–11. Deputy Managing Director, 2011–. | [131] [132] [133] |
The Governor of New Jersey is an ex officio Trustee of the University. [134] Only Governors with another connection to Princeton are included in this list. Princetonians have served as governors of 23 of the 50 U.S. states.
In the "Notes" column, Governors of U.S. states who also served in Congress represented the same states they governed unless otherwise specified.
Name | Affiliation | State/Province | Service | Notes | Refs |
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Nathaniel Alexander | B 1776 | North Carolina | 1805–07 | U.S. Representative, 1803–05. | [135] |
Joseph Alston | Att 1795–96 | South Carolina | 1812–14 | [136] [137] | |
Samuel Ashe | Att | North Carolina | 1795–98 | [138] | |
Dewey F. Bartlett | B 1942 | Oklahoma | 1967–71 | U.S. Senator, 1973–79. | [139] |
Joseph Bloomfield | T 1793–1801, 1819–23 | New Jersey | 1801–12 | U.S. Representative, 1817–21. | [140] [141] |
Willie Blount | Att | Tennessee | 1809–15 | [142] | |
Kit Bond | B 1960 | Missouri | 1973–77, 1981–85 | U.S. Senator, 1987–2011. | [143] [144] |
Gerard Brandon | Att | Mississippi | 1825–26, 1826–32 | [145] | |
Brendan Byrne | B 1949 | New Jersey | 1974–82 | [146] | |
William Cahill | F 1974–78 | New Jersey | 1970–74 | U.S. Representative, 1959–70. | [147] |
Alfred Colquitt | B 1844 | Georgia | 1876–80 | U.S. Representative, 1853–55. Confederate major general in the Civil War. U.S. Senator, 1883–94. | [148] |
Prentice Cooper | B 1917 | Tennessee | 1939–45 | [149] | |
George W. Crawford | B 1820 | Georgia | 1843–47 | U.S. Secretary of War, 1849–50. | [45] |
Mitch Daniels | B 1971 | Indiana | 2005–13 | Office of Management and Budget director, 2001–03. | [46] [47] |
William Richardson Davie | B 1776 | North Carolina | 1798–99 | [150] | |
Mahlon Dickerson | B 1789 | New Jersey | 1815–17 | U.S. Senator, 1817–33. Secretary of the Navy, 1834–38. | [50] |
John Drayton | Att | South Carolina | 1800–02, 1808–10 | [151] | |
James H. Duff | B 1904 | Pennsylvania | 1947–51 | U.S. Senator, 1951–57. | [152] |
Pierre S. du Pont IV | B 1956 | Delaware | 1977–85 | U.S. Representative, 1971–77. | [153] |
Peter Early | B 1792 | Georgia | 1813–15 | U.S. Representative, 1803–07. | [154] |
Henry W. Edwards | B 1797 | Connecticut | 1833–34, 1835–38 | U.S. Representative, 1819–23. U.S. Senator, 1823–27. | [155] |
Bob Ehrlich | B 1979 | Maryland | 2003–07 | U.S. Representative, 1995–2003. | [156] |
John Forsyth | B 1799 | Georgia | 1827–29 | U.S. Representative, 1813–18. U.S. Senator, 1818–19, 1829–34. Secretary of State, 1834–41. | [56] |
Daniel Fowle | B 1851 | North Carolina | 1889–91 | [157] | |
William B. Giles | B 1781 | Virginia | 1827–30 | U.S. Representative, 1790–98, 1801–03. U.S. Senator, 1804–15. | [158] |
Robert Stockton Green | B 1850 | New Jersey | 1887–89 | U.S. Representative, 1885–87. | [159] |
Daniel Haines | B 1820 | New Jersey | 1844–45, 1848–51 | [160] | |
Thomas Henderson | B 1761 | New Jersey | 1793 or 1794 | [161] [162] | |
John Henry | B 1769 | Maryland | 1797–98 | U.S. Senator, 1789–97. | [163] |
James Iredell | B 1806 | North Carolina | 1828 | U.S. Senator, 1828–31. | [164] |
Thomas Kean | B 1957 | New Jersey | 1982–90 | Chair of the 9/11 Commission. | [165] |
Blair Lee III | B 1938 | Maryland | 1977–79 | Acting Governor during Marvin Mandel's term. | [166] |
Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee III | B 1773, AM 1776 | Virginia | 1792–95 | American Revolutionary War cavalry officer. | [167] |
Morgan Lewis | B 1773 | New York | 1804–07 | [168] | |
John L. Manning | Att | South Carolina | 1852–54 | [169] | |
Alexander Martin | B 1756 | North Carolina | 1781–84, 1789–92 | Acting Governor, 1781–82. U.S. Senator, 1793–99. | [170] |
James G. Martin | PhD 1960 | North Carolina | 1985–93 | [171] | |
James McDowell | B 1817 | Virginia | 1843–46 | U.S. Representative, 1846–51. | [172] |
Patrick Noble | B 1806 | South Carolina | 1838–40 | [173] | |
Aaron Ogden | B 1773, T 1803–39 | New Jersey | 1812 | U.S. Senator, 1802–03. | [174] |
Joel Parker | B 1839 | New Jersey | 1863–66, 1872–75 | [175] | |
William Paterson | B 1763 | New Jersey | 1791–93 | U.S. Senator, 1789–90. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1793–1806. | [176] |
William Pennington | B 1813 | New Jersey | 1837–43 | U.S. Representative, 1859–61. Speaker, 1859–61. | [177] |
Andrew Pickens | Att | South Carolina | 1816–18 | [178] | |
Jared Polis | B 1996 | Colorado | 2019– | U.S. Rep, 2009–2019 | [179] |
James Pollock | B 1831 | Pennsylvania | 1855–58 | U.S. Representative, 1844–49. | [180] |
Thomas Pratt | Att | Maryland | 1845–48 | U.S. Senator, 1850–55, 1855–57. | [181] |
Rodman Price | Att | New Jersey | 1854–57 | U.S. Representative, 1851–53. | [182] |
Thomas Riggs Jr. | B 1894 | Alaska | 1918–21 | [183] | |
John Rutherfoord | B 1810 | Virginia | 1841–42 | [184] [185] | |
Whitemarsh Seabrook | B 1812 | South Carolina | 1848–50 | [186] | |
Samuel Southard | B 1804 | New Jersey | 1832–33 | U.S. Senator, 1821–23, 1833–42. Secretary of the Navy, 1823–29. | [101] |
Eliot Spitzer | B 1981 | New York | 2007–08 | [187] | |
Samuel Sprigg | B 1806 | Maryland | 1819–22 | [185] | |
Ingram Stainback | B 1907 | Hawaii | 1942–51 | [188] [189] | |
Adlai Stevenson II | B 1922 | Illinois | 1949–52 | Democratic candidate for President of the United States, 1952, 1956, 1960. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1961–65. | [190] |
David Stone | B 1788 | North Carolina | 1808–10 | U.S. Representative, 1799–1801. U.S. Senator, 1801–07, 1813–14. | [191] |
Bob Taft | MPA 1967 | Ohio | 1999–2007 | [19] [192] | |
John Taylor | B 1790 | South Carolina | 1826–28 | U.S. Representative, 1807–10. U.S. Senator, 1810–16. | [193] |
Isaac Tichenor | B 1775 | Vermont | 1797–1807, 1808–09 | U.S. Senator, 1796–97, 1815–21. | [194] |
George Troup | B 1797 | Georgia | 1823–27 | U.S. Representative, 1807–15. U.S. Senator, 1816–18, 1829–33. | [195] |
William Henry Vanderbilt III | Att | Rhode Island | 1939–41 | [185] [196] | |
George White | B 1895 | Ohio | 1931–35 | U.S. Representative, 1911–15, 1917–19. Chair of the Democratic National Committee, 1920–21. | [197] |
G. Mennen Williams | B 1933 | Michigan | 1949–61 | U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, 1968–69. | [198] |
Woodrow Wilson | B 1879, Pres 1902–10 | New Jersey | 1911–13 | President of the United States, 1913–21. | [18] |
John Gilbert Winant | Att, AM 1925 | New Hampshire | 1925–27, 1931–35 | First chairman of the Social Security Board, 1935–37. U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1941–46. | [199] [200] [201] [202] |
This section lists people not listed in prior sections. It includes members of legislatures other than the U.S. Congress, judges and other legal officials, diplomats, sub-Cabinet officials, activists, royalty, and other figures in politics and government.
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