Name
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Known for
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Affiliation
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Samuel Alito
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110th Supreme Court Justice.
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unknown, Class of 1972. President of the Whig-Clio Debate Panel.[1]
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John Beatty
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Revolutionary War veteran, Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly.
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Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society.[2]
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Hugh Henry Brackenridge
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Coauthored the first American novel while at Princeton. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice.
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Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society.[3]
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William Bradford
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Argued the first recorded case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Second Attorney General of the United States under George Washington.
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Whig (founder), Class of 1772. Founded the American Whig Society.[4]
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James Buchanan
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Senator, Secretary of State, Fifteenth President of the United States.
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Whig (honorary), inducted 1820.[5][6]
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Aaron Burr
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Revolutionary War veteran, New York Senator, third Vice-President of the United States.
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Clio (founder), Class of 1772. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[4]
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Ted Cruz
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Senator, Texas
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Clio, Class of 1992.
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George M. Dallas
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Senator from Pennsylvania, eleventh Vice-President of the United States.
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Clio, Class of 1810.[7]
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Mitch Daniels
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Forty-ninth Governor of Indiana.
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unknown, Class of 1971.[8]
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Allen Welsh Dulles
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Diplomat, second Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, first civilian CIA Director.
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Whig, Class of 1914.[9]
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John Foster Dulles
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As Secretary of State, one of the most famous diplomats of the 20th century.
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Whig, Class of 1908.[10][11]
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Oliver Ellsworth
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Founding Father, drafter of the Constitution, drafter of the Judiciary Act of 1789, third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Clio (founder), Class of 1766. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[4]
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Edward Everett
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U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, the fifteenth Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State.
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Clio (honorary), inducted 1836.[5][12]
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John Henry
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Senator, eighth Governor of Maryland.
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Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society.[13]
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Andrew Jackson
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Seventh President of the United States.
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Whig (honorary), inducted 1838.[5]
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Thomas Kean
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Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, forty-eighth Governor of New Jersey, chaired the 9/11 Commission.
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unknown (presumed Clio), Class of 1957.[14]
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Light-Horse Harry Lee
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Revolutionary War veteran, ninth Governor of Virginia, orator at George Washington’s funeral. Father of Robert E. Lee.
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Whig (originally Clio), Class of 1773.[15]
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Henry Brockholst Livingston
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Revolutionary War veteran, associate Supreme Court justice.
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Whig, Class of 1774.[16]
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James Madison
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The Federalist Papers co-author, Father of the United States Constitution, Co-Father of its Bill of Rights, fourth President of the United States.
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Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society.
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Luther Martin
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Founding Father, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, prominent Anti-Federalist.
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Clio (founder), Class of 1766. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[17]
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James Monroe
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Founding Father, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Fifth President of the United States.
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Clio (honorary), inducted 1817.[5]
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Ralph Nader
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Political activist, presidential candidate.
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unknown, Class of 1955.[18]
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Aaron Ogden
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United States senator, fifth governor of New Jersey.
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Clio, Class of 1773.[16]
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William Paterson
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Founding Father, signer of the Constitution, second governor of New Jersey, Supreme Court Justice.
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Clio (founder), Class of 1763. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[4]
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Claiborne Pell
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Senator (longest-serving senator in Rhode Island’s history), author of the Federal Pell Grant program.
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unknown (presumed Whig), class of 1940.[19]
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Paul S. Sarbanes
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Senator (longest-serving senator in Maryland’s history), co-sponsor of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act.
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unknown, Class of 1954.[20]
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Adlai Stevenson II
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Thirty-first governor of Illinois, fifth Ambassador to the United Nations (during the Cuban Missile Crisis), two-time presidential candidate.
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Whig, Class of 1922.[21]
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Norman M. Thomas
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Pacifist, six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
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Whig, Class of 1905.[22]
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Woodrow Wilson
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Professor, thirteenth President of Princeton, thirty-fourth Governor of New Jersey, twenty-eighth President of the United States. Wilson delivered his famous speech, “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” as a representative of the American Whig Society.[23]
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Whig (Speaker), Class of 1879. Speaker (president) of the American Whig Society, contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine. Later, as a professor, coached the Whig-Clio debate team.[17][24]
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William Wirt
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Ninth Attorney General (longest serving in American history), arguing in Gibbons v. Ogden, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Worcester v. Georgia.
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Clio (honorary), inducted 1819.[5]
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Charles W. Yost
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U.S. Ambassador to Laos, Syria and Morocco, ninth Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Whig, Class of 1928.[25]
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