Member of Parliament

• William Traven Aitken, University of Toronto, 1924. MP for Bury St. Edmonds 1950-1964. Died in office.

Prime Minister

• William Lyon Mackenzie King
  William Lyon Mackenzie King
  William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926; from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930; and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948...
  
  , University of Toronto
  Toronto
  Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
  
  , 1893. Prime Minister of Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  , 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1939-1945.

Supreme Court

• Ian Binnie
  Ian Binnie
  William Ian Corneil Binnie was a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, serving from 1998 to 2011. Of the justices appointed to the Supreme Court in recent years, he is one of the few to have never sat as a judge prior to his appointment.- Personal life and career as lawyer :Binnie was...
  
  , McGill University, 1960. Justice of Canadian Supreme Court from 1987 to present.

Members of Federal Parliament

• Ronald George Atkey, University of Western Ontario, 1960. MP for St. Paul's, 1972–1974, 1979–1980. Minister of Employment and Education.
• Loran Ellis Baker
  Loran Ellis Baker (politician)
  Loran Ellis Baker was a Canadian politician. He attended Bishop's College School and McGill University where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society. Baker was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the election of 1945 as a Member of the Liberal Party in the riding of...
  
  , McGill University, 1923. MP for Shelburne-Yarmouth-Clare, 1945-1949.
• Brooke Claxton
  Brooke Claxton
  Brooke Claxton, PC, DCM, KC was a Canadian veteran of World War I, federal Minister of National Health and Welfare and Minister of National Defence.-Early life:...
  
  , McGill University, 1919. MP for St. Lawrence-St. George, 1940-1954. Minister of Health. Minister of National Defense.
• William Herbert Jarvis, University of Western Ontario, 1950. MP for Perth-Wilmot, 1972-1984. National President of Progressive-Conservative Party.
• Denton Massey
  Denton Massey
  Denton Massey was a Canadian engineer, Anglican priest and politician.Born in Toronto, Ontario, the grandson of the founder of the Massey agricultural manufacturing company, Hart Massey, he attended St...
  
  , University of Toronto, 1919. MP for Toronto-Greenwood, 1935-1946. Officer, Order of the British Empire
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
  , 1946.
• Dr. Wilfrid Laurier McDougald
  Wilfrid Laurier McDougald
  Wilfrid Laurier McDougald was a Canadian senator.Born in Alexandria, Ontario, he was educated at McGill University and Queen's University and practiced medicine in Montreal...
  
  , McGill University. 1903. Canadian Senate 1926-1942.
• Walter George Mitchell
  Walter George Mitchell
  Walter George Mitchell was a Canadian lawyer and politician.Born in Danby, Quebec, the son of William Mitchell, a Canadian senator, and Dora Godard, Mitchell was educated at the Montreal High School, Bishop's College, and McGill University where he received a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1901...
  
  , McGill University, 1899. MP for St. Antoine, 1921-1924.
• William Pate Mulock
  William Pate Mulock
  William Pate Mulock, PC was a Canadian politician.-Biography:William Pate Mulock was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Cawthra Mulock and Adèle Baldwin Falconbridge. His father died in New York City during the influenza outbreak in 1918...
  
  , University of Toronto, 1915. MP for York North, 1934-1945. Postmaster General of Canada
  Postmaster General of Canada
  The Postmaster General of Canada was the Canadian cabinet minister responsible for the Post Office Department . In 1851, management of the post office was transferred from Britain to the provincial governments of the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward...
  
  , 1940-1945.
• Terrance P. O'Connor, University of Western Ontario, 1960. MP for Halton, 1972-1974.
• David Vaughan Pugh
  David Vaughan Pugh
  David Vaughan Pugh was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Okotoks, Alberta and became a barrister and solicitor and insurance agent by career....
  
  , University of Toronto, 1934. MP for Okanagan Boundary, 1958-1968.
• Robert Douglas George Stanbury, University of Western Ontario, 1949. MP for York-Scarborough, 1965-1977. Minister of National Revenue.
• Michael Holcombe Wilson, University of Toronto, 1955. MP for Etobicoke Centre, 1978-1993. Minister of State for International Trade, 1979–1980; Minister of Finance, 1984–1991; Minister of International Trade, 1991–1993; Minister of Industry, Science & Technology, 1991–1993. He introduced the unpopular Goods and Services Tax
  Goods and Services Tax
  A goods and services tax or value added tax is a tax on exchanges.By country:*Goods and Services Tax *Goods and Services Tax *Goods and Services Tax *Goods and Services Tax...
  
   in 1990. Chancellor of University of Trinity College
  University of Trinity College
  The University of Trinity College, informally referred to as Trin, is a college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1851 by Bishop John Strachan. Trinity was intended by Strachan as a college of strong Anglican alignment, after the University of Toronto severed its ties with the Church of...
  
  , Toronto, 200?-present. Appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada
  Order of Canada
  The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...
  
   in 2003. Appointed Canada's Ambassador to the United States, March, 2006.

Provincial Premiers

• Donald Ross Getty
  Don Getty
  Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...
  
  , University of Western Ontario, 1953. MLA
  Member of the Legislative Assembly
  A Member of the Legislative Assembly or a Member of the Legislature , is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to the legislature or legislative assembly of a sub-national jurisdiction....
  
   for Strathcona West, 1967–1971; Edmonton West, 1971–1979; Stettler, 1989-1993. Premier of Alberta, 1985-1993. Officer of the Order of Canada
  Order of Canada
  The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...
  
  , 1998 and recipient of the Alberta Order of Excellence
  Alberta Order of Excellence
  The Alberta Order of Excellence is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Alberta. Instituted in 1979 when Lieutenant Governor Frank C...
  
  , 1999.

Diplomatic Corps

• Robert R. Fowler, McGill University, 1962. Deputy Minister for National Defense, 1986-1995. Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations, 1995-2000. President of the U. N. Security Council. Ambassador to Italy, 2000-2006.
• William Duncan Herridge
  William Duncan Herridge
  William Duncan Herridge, PC, KC, MC, DSO was a Canadian politician and diplomat.He was the son of Reverend William T...
  
  , University of Toronto, 1905. Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, 1931-1935. Mastermind of the Canadian version of the New Deal, 1935.
• Andrew George Latta McNaughton, McGill University, 1905. First Canadian Ambassador to the UN, 1950.
• Michael Holcombe Wilson, University of Toronto, 1955. Ambassador to the United States, March, 2006–2009.
• Humphrey Hume Wrong, University of Toronto, 1911. Permanent Delegate to the League of Nations, 1937-1946. Ambassador to the United States, 1946-1953. Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1953-1954.

Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)

• Ian Thompson Strachan, University of Toronto, 1919. MPP for St. George, 1934-1943. Government Chief Whip
  Chief Whip
  The Chief Whip is a political office in some legislatures assigned to an elected member whose task is to administer the whipping system that ensures that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires.-The Whips Office:...
  
  , 1937-1943.

Member of the Legislative Assembly (Alberta)

• Donald Ross Getty
  Don Getty
  Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...
  
  , University of Western Ontario, 1953. See Canadian Politics and Law: Provincial Premiers

Senior Provincial Courts

• Hugh Farthing
  Hugh Farthing
  Hugh Cragg Farthing was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1930 until 1935 representing the electoral district of Calgary....
  
  , McGill University, 1909. Justice, Supreme Court of Alberta.
• Frederick Drummond Hogg, University of Toronto, 1897. Justice, Supreme Court of Ontario, 1935-1945. Justice, Ontario Court of Appeal, 1945-1957.
• Arthur Courtney Kingstone, University of Toronto, 1892. Justice, Ontario Supreme Court.
• Errol Malcolm McDougall, McGill University, 1900. Justice, Quebec Court of Appeal, 1942-1949.
• Philip Edward MacKenzie, University of Toronto, 1892. Justice, Saskatchewan Court of Appeals, 1927-1946.
• John Wilson Morden, University of Toronto, 1952. Associate Chief Justice, Ontario Court of Appeal, 1978-2003.
• Kenneth Gibson Morden, University of Toronto, 1928. Justice, Ontario Court of Appeal, 1957-.
• John Parker
  John Parker
  John Parker may refer to:*John Parker , English-born merchant, politician and judge*John Parker , senior member of the judiciary during the interregnum, father of the Bishop of Oxford Samuel Parker...
  
  , University of Toronto, 1934. Justice, Territorial Court of the Yukon.

Executive Branch

• William John Bennett, Williams College, 1962. U. S. Secretary of Education, 1985–1988 and Drug Czar, 1989-1990. Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1881-1985. Chairman, Republican National Committee.
• James Fowler Dwight, Williams College, 1845. Assistant U. S. Attorney in charge of final elimination of the slave trade, 1857.
• Francis Ellington Leupp, Williams College 1866. U. S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1905-1909.
• Ganson Purcell
  Ganson Purcell
  Ganson Purcell served as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1942 and 1946 and also served as a member from 1941-1946.Williams College, 1927...
  
  , Williams College, 1924. Chairman, Security and Exchange Commission, 1942-1946.

Congress

• Thomas Allen, Union College, 1832. U.S. Representative from Missouri, 2nd District, 1881-1882 Railroad President. Built first railroad west of the Mississippi. (Died in office).
• Leander Babcock
  Leander Babcock
  Leander Babcock was a Democratic United States Representative for the 23rd district of New York. He was born in Paris, New York in 1811. Babcock first attended Hamilton College and then transferred to Union College where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society and was elected to Phi Beta...
  
  , Union College, 1828. U.S. Representative from New York, 23rd District, 1851-1853.
• Charles Lewis Beale
  Charles Lewis Beale
  Charles Lewis Beale was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....
  
  , Union College, 1842. U.S. Representative from New York, 12th District, 1859-1861.
• Gabriel Bouck
  Gabriel Bouck
  Gabriel Bouck was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin. He also served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and as the state's attorney general.-Early years:...
  
  , Union College, 1846. Wisconsin State Attorney General, 1858-1860. U.S. Representative from Wisconsin, 6th District, 1877-1881.
• Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Hobart College, 1844. Wisconsin State Senator 1868-1869. U.S. Representative from Wisconsin, 1877-1883 (5th District) and 1885-1887 (2nd District); U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1889–1902; U.S. Consul General in Havana, 1902–1903; U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 1903-1906 (resigned). See Armed Forces
• John M. Carroll
  John M. Carroll
  John Michael Carroll was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He was born on April 27, 1823. He graduated from Fairfield Seminary and Union College in 1846, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1848 he was...
  
  , Union College, 1845. U.S. Representative from New York, 18th District, 1871-1873.
• Charles T. Dunwell
  Charles T. Dunwell
  Charles Tappan Dunwell was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Newark, New York, Dunwell moved with his parents to Lyons, New York, in 1854.He attended the Lyons Union School....
  
  , Cornell University, 1870. U.S. Representative from New York, 3rd District, 1903-1908 (Died in office).
• Rodney Frelinghuysen
  Rodney Frelinghuysen
  Rodney P. Frelinghuysen is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1995. He is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life, education and career:...
  
  , Hobart College, 1969. New Jersey General Assembly, 1983-1994. U.S. Representative from New Jersey, 11th District, 1995–present.
• Lewis Henry
  Lewis Henry
  Lewis Henry was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Henry was born in Elmira, New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1909, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society and president of the Quill and Dagger society. He received a law degree...
  
  , Cornell University, 1905. U.S. Representative from New York, 37th District, 1922-1923.
• Levi Augustus Mackey, Union College, 1835. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 20th District, 1875-1879.
• Jesse O. Norton
  Jesse O. Norton
  Jesse Olds Norton was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Bennington, Vermont, Norton attended Bennington Academy was graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1835. Norton was a charter member of The Kappa Alpha Society and was awarded membership in Phi Beta Kappa...
  
  , Williams College, 1833. U.S. Representative from Illinois, 11th District, 1853–1857, 1863-1865.
• Edward Overton Jr., Princeton, 1854. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 15th District, 1877-1881.
• Charles Edward Pearce
  Charles Edward Pearce
  Charles Edward Pearce was a United States Congressman from Missouri. He was born in Whitesboro, Oneida County, New York. He attended Fairfield Seminary and graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1863, where he been a member of The Kappa Alpha Society...
  
  , Union College, 1861. U.S. Representative from Missouri, 12th District, 1897-1901.
• Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809-1873)
  Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809-1873)
  Rufus Wheeler Peckham was a judge and congressman from New York, and the father of a U.S. Supreme Court justice.-Biography:...
  
  , Union College, 1826. U.S. Representative from New York, 14th District, 1853–1855; Justice of the New York Supreme Court, 1861–1869; Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, 1870-1873 (died in office).
• John B. Steele
  John B. Steele
  John Benedict Steele was a U.S. Representative from New York in the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  , Williams College, 1835. U.S. Representative from New York, 1861-65 (11th District 1861-63, 13th District 1863-65).

U.S. Senate

• James Dixon
  James Dixon
  James Dixon was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut.-Biography:Born in Enfield, Connecticut, Dixon pursued preparatory studies, and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1834, where he had been a charter member of The Kappa Alpha Society. He was...
  
  , Williams College, 1833. U.S. Representative from Connecticut, 1st District, 1845–1849; Connecticut State Senate, 1st District, 1849; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1857-1869.
• Preston King
  Preston King
  Preston King was a United States Representative and Senator from New York.- Biography :Born in Ogdensburg, New York, he pursued classical studies and graduated from Union College in 1827, where he was an early member of The Kappa Alpha Society. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He...
  
  , Union College, 1826. U.S. Representative from New York, 18th District, 1843–1847, 1849–1853; U.S. Senator from New York, 1857-1863. Principal organizer of the Republican Party.

State Legislative Leaders

• Samuel Bancroft Bird, Cornell University, 1917. Majority Leader of Delaware House of Representatives, 1944-1946.
• Gabriel Bouck
  Gabriel Bouck
  Gabriel Bouck was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin. He also served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and as the state's attorney general.-Early years:...
  
  , Union College, 1846. Speaker, Wisconsin Assembly.
• John Peter Jackson Jr, Princeton University, 1853. Speaker, New Jersey Assembly, 1863.
• Dr. Charles Abner Phelps, Union College, 1839. Speaker, Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1856. President, Massachusetts Senate, 1858.
• John Arnold Tibbits, Williams College, 1860. Speaker, Connecticut House of Representatives, 1886.

Governors

• Herbert James Hagerman
  Herbert James Hagerman
  Herbert James Hagerman was an American attorney, was the Governor of the New Mexico Territory from 1906 to 1907....
  
  , Cornell University, 1890. Second secretary, U.S. Embassy to Russia, 1898–1901; presented the Order of St. Anne (Russia) by the Czar, 1901; Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1906-07.
• Henry Martyn Hoyt
  Henry M. Hoyt
  Henry Martyn Hoyt, Sr. was the 18th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883, as well as a general in the Union army during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...
  
  , Williams College, 1849. Governor of Pennsylvania, 1879-83.
• Carlton Skinner
  Carlton Skinner
  Carlton S. Skinner was the first civilian governor of Guam and a prominent advocate for the integration of the United States Armed Forces...
  
  , Wesleyan University (as a local). First civilian Territorial Governor of Guam, 1949-1953. "The George Washington of Guam."
• Wade Warren Thayer, Hobart College, 1891. Acting Governor of Hawaii. Attorney General of Hawaii. Territorial Secretary of Hawaii.
• Horace White
  Horace White
  Horace White was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was the 37th Governor of New York in 1910.-Life:...
  
  , Cornell University, 1883. Member of the New York State Senate, 1896–1908; Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1909–1910; Governor of New York, 1910-1911.

State and Territorial Executive Branches

• William Fessenden Allen
  William Fessenden Allen
  William Fessenden Allen was an American businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii and Republic of Hawaii.-Life:William Fessenden Allen was born December 19, 1831 in Bangor, Maine.His mother was Sarah Elizabeth Fessenden....
  
  , Williams College, 1848. Collector General of Customs, Kingdom of Hawaii, 1864-1883. Privy Council, Kingdom of Hawaii. Member, Advisory Council and Constitutional Convention, Republic of Hawaii.
• Gabriel Bouck
  Gabriel Bouck
  Gabriel Bouck was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin. He also served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and as the state's attorney general.-Early years:...
  
  , Union College, 1846. Attorney General of Wisconsin, 1858-1860.
• Theodore P. Gilman
  Theodore P. Gilman
  Theodore P. Gilman was an American banker and politician.-Life:He was the son of Winthrop Sargent Gilman and Abia Swift Lippincott Gilman. He graduated from Williams College in 1862, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society, and graduated A.M. in 1865. He married Elizabeth Drinker Paxson...
  
  , Williams College, 1862. Comptroller of New York State, 1909. Drafted the original proposal for the legislation that created the Federal Reserve Banking System.
• Rev. Fletcher John Hawley, Union College, 1838. President, Colonial Council of Danish West Indies (now U. S. Virgin Islands).
• Nelson K. Hopkins
  Nelson K. Hopkins
  Nelson Kerr Hopkins was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of General Timothy Soveral Hopkins and Nancy Ann Hopkins . Hopkins attended Fredonia Academy and Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in preparation for college...
  
  , Union College, 1841. Comptroller of New York, 1871-1875.
• Frederick Harvey Jackson, Cornell University, 1869. Lt. Governor of Rhode Island, 1904-1907.
• Abraham Lansing
  Abraham Lansing
  -Life:Born in Albany, Albany County, New York, Lansing was a grandson of state Treasurer Abraham G. Lansing, and son of Christopher Yates Lansing and Caroline Mary Thomas Lansing . Chancellor John Lansing, Jr. was his great-uncle, Gerrit Y. Lansing was his uncle. Lansing attended The Albany...
  
  , Williams College, 1852. Treasurer of New York, 1874.
• Wheeler Hazard Peckham
  Wheeler Hazard Peckham
  Wheeler Hazard Peckham was an American lawyer from New York and a failed nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States. His father, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, was also a lawyer, and a New York Court of Appeals judge and congressman. His brother, also named Rufus Wheeler Peckham, was also a New...
  
  , Union College, 1851. Appointed New York City District Attorney by Governor Grover Cleveland, 1884. Prosecuted New York Mayor Abraham Hall and "Boss" Tweed of Tammany Hall for corruption. Appointed to United States Supreme Court in 1894 by President Grover Cleveland. Not confirmed by U. S. Senate.
• Henry Rufus Pierson, Union College, 1843. Chancellor of the University of New York, 1881-1889.
• Edward Regan, Hobart College, 1949. Comptroller of New York State, 1978-1993. President, Baruch College, 2000-2004.
• Clark Williams
  Clark Williams
  Myron Clark Williams was an American banker and politician.-Life:...
  
  , Williams College, 1888. Superintendent of Banking of New York, 1907-1909. Comptroller of New York, 1909-1911.

U.S. Supreme Court

• Ward E. Hunt, Union College, 1828. Founder of the New York Republican Party, 1856. Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1872-1882.

Senior State Courts

• James Denison Colt, Williams College, 1836. Justice, Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 1865–1866, 1868-1881.
• Francis R. E. Cornell
  Francis R. E. Cornell
  Francis Russell Edward Cornell was an American lawyer, politician, and judge.-Biography:Cornell was born in 1821 in Coventry in Chenango County, New York. He graduated from Union College in 1842 where he had been a member of The Kappa Alpha Society and studied law before being admitted to the bar...
  
  , Union College 1840. Attorney General of Minnesota, 1868-1874. Justice, Supreme Court of Minnesota, 1875-1881.
• George Franklin Danforth, Union College, 1838. Justice, New York Court of Appeals, 1879-1889.
• John Augustine Dooley III, Union College, 1962. Justice, Supreme Court of Vermont.
• Hulbert Fellows Fairchild, Williams College, 1836. Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas, 1860.
• Frank H. Hiscock
  Frank H. Hiscock
  Frank Harris Hiscock was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1917 to 1926.- Biography :...
  
  , Cornell University, 1871. Justice, New York Supreme Court, 1896-1906. Justice New York Court of Appeals, 1906-1926. Chief Judge of New York, 1916-1926. Chairman of the Board, Cornell University, 1917-1939.
• Levi Hubbell
  Levi Hubbell
  Levi Hubbell was a United States politicianBorn in Ballston, New York, Hubbell graduated from Union College in 1827 and was admitted to the New York Bar. Hubbell was adjutant general of the New York Militia and was elected to the New York Assembly. In the 1840s, Hubbell moved to Wisconsin Territory...
  
  , Union College, 1825. Chief Justice of Wisconsin, 1853-1856.
• Ward E. Hunt, Union College, 1828. Chief Justice, New York Court of Appeals, 1865-1872.
• John Hanson Kennard, University of Virginia, 1857. Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana 1870.
• Charles B. Lawrence, Union College, 1840. Chief Justice of Illinois, 1864-1873.
• Rufus Wheeler Peckham
  Rufus Wheeler Peckham
  Rufus Wheeler Peckham was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1895 until 1909. He was known for his strong use of substantive due process to invalidate regulations of business and property. Peckham's namesake father was also a lawyer and judge, and a congressman...
  
  , Union College, 1826. Justice, Supreme Court of New York, 1859-1870. Justice, New York Court of Appeals, 1870-1873.
• John Knickerbocker Porter, Union College, 1835. Justice, New York Court of Appeals, 1864-1868.
• Algernon Sidney Randolph, Union College, 1828. Chief Justice of Mississippi.
• Clarence John Shearn, Cornell University, 1886. Justice, New York Appellate Division, 1916-1919. He had been the 1908 nominee of the Independence League for Governor of New York.
• John Wells, Williams College, 1838. Justice, Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 1866-1875.

Non-Elective Politics

• Augustus Schell
  Augustus Schell
  Augustus Schell was a New York politician and lawyer. He was Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1872 to 1876.-Biography:...
  
  , Union College, 1830. Leader in Democratic Party politics. Chairman, New York State Democratic Party, 1853-1856. Chairman, Democratic Party National Committee, 1860 and 1872-1876. Succeeded "Boss" Tweed as head of Tammany Hall in 1872 after ousting Tweed over the "Tweed Ring" Scandals. Ran for Governor of New York, 1852. Ran for Mayor of New York City, 1878. Collector of the Port of New York, 1857-1861. Principal associate of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt as he built his railroad empire.

Canada

• George Edwin Beament, Brigadier General (CAN), Appointed OBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
   and Recipient of Croix de guerre
  Croix de guerre
  The Croix de guerre is a military decoration of France. It was first created in 1915 and consists of a square-cross medal on two crossed swords, hanging from a ribbon with various degree pins. The decoration was awarded during World War I, again in World War II, and in other conflicts...
  
   (avec palme); University of Toronto, 1929.
• Ian Hugh Cumberland, Brigadier General (CAN), Appointed OBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
   and Recipient of DSO
  Distinguished Service Order
  The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
  
  ; University of Toronto, 1927.
• Douglas Gordon Cunningham
  Douglas Gordon Cunningham
  Brigadier General Douglas Gordon Cunningham CBE DSO ED QC was born in Kingston, Ontario . He was the son of Arthur Breden Cunningham and Katherine Cunningham of Kingston. He was educated at Kingston Collegiate, Upper Canada College in Toronto, Ontario. He graduated from the Royal Military College...
  
  , Brigadier General (CAN), Appointed CBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
  , Recipient of DSO
  Distinguished Service Order
  The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
  
  , ED and QC; University of Toronto, 1930.
• Andrew Eastman Duncanson, Brigadier General (CAN), Appointed CBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
   in 1946, Recipient of DSO
  Distinguished Service Order
  The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
  
  , VD
  Volunteer Decoration
  The Volunteer Officers' Decoration was created by Royal Warrant under command of Queen Victoria on 25 July 1892 to reward 'efficient and capable' officers of the Volunteer Force who had served for twenty years...
  
   and three times MID; University of Toronto, 1907.
• Clarence Churchill Mann, Vice Chief of the General Staff, Canadian Army HQ, Appointed CBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
  , Recipient of DSO
  Distinguished Service Order
  The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
  
  , Appointed Commander of the Order of Orange Nassau and Officer of the Legion of Merit
  Legion of Merit
  The Legion of Merit is a military decoration of the United States armed forces that is awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements...
  
  ; University of Toronto, 1923.
• Wilfrid Mavor, Brigadier General (CAN), Appointed CBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
  , Recipient of MC
  Military Cross
  The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and other ranks of the British Armed Forces; and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries....
  
   and ED; University of Toronto, 1919. Wounded four times and gassed during World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
  .
• Harold French McDonald, General Officer
  General
  A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
  
   (CAN), Commanding Military District No. 13 (Canada), Recipient of DSO
  Distinguished Service Order
  The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
  
  , KCMG and the Order of St. Anne (Russia: 2nd Class with Swords); McGill University, 1903. Wounded at Ypres
  First Battle of Ypres
  The First Battle of Ypres, also called the First Battle of Flanders , was a First World War battle fought for the strategic town of Ypres in western Belgium...
  
  , 1914 and lost left arm at Pozieres
  Battle of Pozières
  The Battle of Pozières was a two week struggle for the French village of Pozières and the ridge on which it stands, during the middle stages of the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Though British divisions were involved in most phases of the fighting, Pozières is primarily remembered as an Australian battle...
  
  , 1916.
• Andrew George Latta McNaughton, Lieutenant General (CAN), Recipient of PC
  Queen's Privy Council for Canada
  The Queen's Privy Council for Canada ), sometimes called Her Majesty's Privy Council for Canada or simply the Privy Council, is the full group of personal consultants to the monarch of Canada on state and constitutional affairs, though responsible government requires the sovereign or her viceroy,...
  
  , CH
  Order of the Companions of Honour
  The Order of the Companions of Honour is an order of the Commonwealth realms. It was founded by King George V in June 1917, as a reward for outstanding achievements in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry or religion....
  
  , CB
  Order of the Bath
  The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
  
  , CMG, DSO
  Distinguished Service Order
  The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
  
  , CD
  Canadian Forces Decoration
  The Canadian Forces Decoration is a Canadian award bestowed upon members of the Canadian Forces who have completed twelve years of military service, with certain conditions. By convention, it is also given to the Governor General of Canada upon his or her appointment as viceroy, which includes the...
  
  ; McGill University, 1905. Chief of the General Staff, 1929–1935; Minister of National Defence 1944-1945 (resigned); First Canadian Ambassador to the UN, 1950. Wounded at Ypres
  Second Battle of Ypres
  The Second Battle of Ypres was the first time Germany used poison gas on a large scale on the Western Front in the First World War and the first time a former colonial force pushed back a major European power on European soil, which occurred in the battle of St...
  
   1915. Inventor of the "box barrage" artillery firing system, 1918 & the Cathode-ray direction finder (the forerunner to radar), 1926.
• Charles Alexander Phipps Murison, Major General (GB), Recipient of the MC
  Military Cross
  The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and other ranks of the British Armed Forces; and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries....
  
   and twice MID; McGill University, 1912. Wounded at Barakli Dzoma, 1917.
• Christopher Vokes
  Christopher Vokes
  Major General Christopher Vokes CB, CBE, DSO, CD was a Canadian soldier.-Family:Born in Armagh, Ireland, the son of a British officer, Major Frederick Patrick Vokes and Elizabeth Vokes, who came to Canada in 1910. Major Frederick Patrick Vokes was the engineering officer at the Royal Military...
  
  , Major General (CAN); McGill University, 1926.
• Gordon Dorward deSalaberry Wotherspoon, Brigadier General (CAN), Recipient of DSO
  Distinguished Service Order
  The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
  
   and Netherland's Bronze Lion.

United States

• Edward Clifford Anderson Jr, University of Virginia, 1857. Brigadier General, Confederate States Army.
• William B. Barton, Princeton, 1853. Brigadier General, Union Army.
• Josiah Grahme Bellows, Williams, 1860. Brigadier General, New Hampshire Militia.
• Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General (U.S.); Hobart College, 1844. See American Politics and Law: Congress
• Allen Fraser Clark Jr, Wesleyan University (as a local). Brigadier General, U. S. Army.
• Edward Peck Curtis
  Edward Peck Curtis
  Major General Edward Peck Curtis began his career as a lieutenant in World War I. His six aerial victories made him a flying ace.Born in Rochester, New York, Edward Peck Curtis was a graduate of St. Georges School, Newport, Rhode Island...
  
  , Williams College, 1914. Major General, U. S. Army Air Force, World War II. Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Force in Europe.
• Hasbrouck Davis, Williams College, 1842. Brigadier General, Union Army.
• Clinton Goodloe Edgar, Cornell University, 1893. Brigadier General, U. S. Army.
• John Scott Gilbert, Union College, 1833. Brigadier General, Louisiana Militia.
• Henry Martyn Hoyt, Williams College, 1849. Brigadier General, Union Army.
• James McCredie Irish, Rear Admiral (U.S.); Hobart College, 1903.
• Joseph Lovell
  Joseph Lovell
  Dr. Joseph Lovell was the 8th Surgeon General of the United States Army, ,-Family:Lovell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of James S. and Deborah Lovell...
  
  , Williams, 1841. General, Confederate States Army.
• Ranald S. Mackenzie
  Ranald S. Mackenzie
  Ranald Slidell Mackenzie was a career United States Army officer and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, described by General Ulysses S. Grant as its most promising young officer...
  
  , Williams College, 1856. Major General, Union Army.
• James Brady Mitchell, Cornell University, 1891. Brigadier General, U. S. Army, World War I. Chief of Staff, U. S. Army Headquarters, London.
• Albert James Myer, Brigadier General (U.S.); Hobart College, 1845. "Father of Army Signal Corps" and founder of the U.S. Weather Bureau
• Amasa Junius Parker, Union, 1860. Major General, New York National Guard.
• Charles Eskridge Saltzman, Cornell University, 1920. Major General, U. S. Army, World War II. President, West Point Alumni Association. U. S. Assistant and Under Secretary of State.
• Daniel Schermerhorn Printup, Union College, 1845. Brigadier General, Confederate States Army.
• Jesse C. Smith, Brigadier General, Union Army.
• John Converse Starkweather
  John Converse Starkweather
  John Converse Starkweather was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...
  
  , Union, 1846. Brigadier General, Union Army.
• Ebenezer Warren Sturdevant, Union College, 1828. Major General, Pennsylvania Militia.
• John Fondey Townsend, Union College, 1826. Major General, New York Militia.
• James R. Tryon
  James R. Tryon
  James Rufus Tryon was a medical doctor serving in the United States Navy during and after the American Civil War, who went on to become Surgeon General of the United States Navy.-Biography:...
  
  , Rear Admiral (U.S.); Union College, 1855. Surgeon General of the U. S. Navy. See Medicine
• Guido Fridolin Verbeck Jr, Cornell University, 1933. Brigadier General, U. S. Marine Corps, World War II.
• Samuel Sumner Verbeck, Cornell University, 1934. Brigadier General, New York National Guard.
• Harry Richards Van Liew, Brigadier General (U.S. Marines); Hobart College, 1926.
• James Harrison Williams, University of Virginia, 1857. Brigadier General, Virginia Militia.

Religion

• Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert, Union College, 1910. General Secretary, Federal Council of Churches, then National Council of Churches, 1921-1954. One of the principal organizers, World Council of Churches.
• Bishop Albert Arthur Chambers, Hobart College 1925. Episcopal Bishop of Springfield, Illinois. Organizer of conservative Anglican Church in North America and successor groups.
• Bishop William Bradfird Turner Hastings, Union College, 1938. Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut.
• Bishop Frederic Zadock Rooker, Union College, 1880. private Chamberlain to Pope Leo XIII.
• Bishop Gary Frederick Woolsey, University of Western Ontario, 1965. Anglican Bishop of Athabasca. National Director, Anglican Fellowship of Prayer.

Education

• Alfred Amos Abbott, Union College, 1841. President, Peabody Institute.
• Samuel Rogers Adams, Wesleyan University (as a local). President, Moore's Hill College.
• Donald Kinney Angell, University of Pennsylvania, 1927. Secretary of the University of Pennsylvania, 1946-1951. Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania, 1956-.
• James Phinney Baxter III
  James Phinney Baxter III
  James Phinney Baxter III was an American historian, educator and academic. He won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for history, for his book Scientists Against Time...
  
  , Williams College, 1913. President, Williams College, 1937-1961. Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography...
  
  .
• Edgar Frederick Beckham, Wesleyan University (as a local). Associate Provost, Wesleyan University, 1969-1973. Dean of the College, Wesleyan University, 1973-1990. Chairman, Connecticut Board of Education, 1992-1995.
• Charles Wilfrid Brennan, Lehigh University, 1960. Dean of Lehigh University.
• Dr. Alan Emerson Cameron, McGill University, 1908. President, Nova Scotia Technical College, 1947-1957.
• Paul Ansel Chadbourne, Williams College, 1846. President, University of Massachusetts, 1867 and 1882-1883. President, University of Wisconsin, 1868-1870. President, Williams College, 1872-1881.
• Charles F. Chandler
  Charles F. Chandler
  Charles Frederick Chandler was an American chemist, best known for his regulatory work in public health, sanitation, and consumer safety in New York City, as well as his work in chemical education—first at Union College and then, for the majority of his career, at Columbia University where he...
  
  , Union College, 1958. Organizer and first President of the American Chemical Society. President, New York College of Pharmacy, 1867-1898.
• Peter Clark
  Peter Clark
  Peter Clark may refer to:* Peter Clark , retired English professional footballer* Peter Clark , British historian* Peter D. Clark , Canadian politician...
  
  , Union College, 1826. President, Washington College (MD), 1828-1831.
• Dr. David Copeland, Wesleyan University (as a local). President, Hillsboro College.
• Dr. Thomas Frederick Crane
  Thomas Frederick Crane
  Thomas Frederick Crane was an American folklorist, academic and lawyer.He studied law at Princeton, earned his undergraduate degree in 1864, and in 1867 graduated with an A.M. After graduation, he studied law at Columbia Law School but moved to Ithaca when a relative there became ill...
  
  , Cornell University, 1868. Dean, Cornell University, 1896-1909. Acting President, Cornell University, 1899 and 1912.
• Amos Dean
  Amos Dean
  Amos Dean was the first President of the University of Iowa, serving from 1855-1859....
  
  , Union College, 1826. Organizer Albany Medical College, 1838. Organizer, Albany Law School, 1851. President, Albany Law School, 1851-1868. Founder, Young Men's Association for the Mutual Improvement of Albany and the Albany Library.. Manager, Albany Normal School (now SUNY Albany). Founding President, University of Iowa, 1855-1859.
• Rev. Frederick Dean, Union College 1833. President, Poydras College, 1850-1851.
• Gordon P. Eaton
  Gordon P. Eaton
  Gordon Pryor Eaton is an American geologist. Eaton was born in Dayton, Ohio. He currently resides in Reston, Virginia, with his wife, Virginia. They have two grown children.-Life and career:...
  
  , Wesleyan University (as a local). Provost and Academic Vice President, Texas A&M University, 1983-1986. President, Iowa State University, 1986-1990. Director, Lamont-Doherty Laboratory, 1990-1994. Director, United States Geological Survey, 1994-1997.
• William D. Gurowitz, Cornell University, 1980. Director Chemistry Department, Cornell University, 1968-1971. Vice President for Campus Affairs, Cornell University, 1971-1990.
• John Cummings Hetherston, University of Pennsylvania, 1945. Secretary of the University of Pennsylvania, 1956-. Vice President for Planning, University of Pennsylvania.
• Rev. Telfair Hodgson, Princeton University, 1855. Vice-Chancellor (President), University of the South.
• Henry Hopkins
  Henry Hopkins
  Henry Hopkins may refer to:*Henry Hopkins Sibley , American general*Henry Hopkins , American clergyman & educator, president of Williams College*Henry Hopkins , American art curator and educator...
  
  , Williams College, 1856. President Williams College, 1902-1908.
• Thomas Hun, Union College, 1825. Organizer, Albany Medical College, 1838 and Professor 1839-1858.
• Rev. Francis Theodore Ingalls, Williams College, 1863. President Drury College, 1887-1892.
• Lewis Melvin Johnson, Williams College, 1857. President New Jersey State Normal School (now The College of New Jersey).
• Dr. Matias Perez y Ponce, Wesleyan University (as a local). President, Cagayan Teachers College (Philippine Islands), 1948-1980.
• Rev. Joshua Phelps, Union College, 1833. President Alexander College, 1853–1857.
• Rev. Eliphalet Nott Potter, Union College, 1858. President, Union College 1871-1884. President, Hobart College, 1884-1896. President, Cosmopolitan University.
• Rev. Villeroy Dibble Reed, Union College, 1833. President, Alexander College, 1857-1861.
• Edward V. Regan, Hobart College, 1949. President, Jerome Levy Economics Institute, 1993-2000. President, Baruch College, 2000-2004.
• Rev. William Charles Roberts, Princeton University, 1853. President, Lake Forest University, 1886-1892. President, Central University of Kentucky, 1898-1903.
• Dr. Robert A. Rosenbaum, Wesleyan University (as a local). Dean of the Sciences, Wesleyan University, 1963-1965. Provost, Wesleyan University, 1965-1970. Academic Vice President, Wesleyan University, 1967-1970. Acting President, Wesleyan University, 1970. Chancellor, Wesleyan University, 1970-1973. Chairman, Project to Increase Mastery of Mathematics and Science (PIMMS).
• Dr. Charles Jones Ashmead Schaeffer, Union College, 1865. President Iowa State University, 1887-1898.
• Laurenus Clark Seelye
  Laurenus Clark Seelye
  Laurenus Clark Seelye , known as L. Clark Seelye, was the first president of Smith College, serving from 1873-1910. He graduated from Union College in 1857 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and membership in The Kappa Alpha Society. Seelye later studied at Andover Theological Seminary and the...
  
  , Union College, 1855. First President, Smith College, 1873-1910.
• James Leonard Thayer, University of Western Ontario, 1954. President Neuchatel Junior College (Switzerland).
• James Etherington Trimble, Williams College 1854. President, Farmersville College, 1859-1862.
• Rev. Edward Jefferson Willis, Williams College, 1840. Founding President, Alderson-Broaddus College 1876-1887. President Shelby College, 1887.
• Leonard Woods
  Leonard Woods
  Leonard Woods was an American theologian. He was widely known for upholding orthodox Calvinism over Unitarianism....
  
  , Union College, 1826. President, Bowdoin College, 1839-1866.

Medicine

• James Collip
  James Collip
  James Bertram Collip, Ph.D. was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin. He served as the Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University from 1928-1941 and Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario from 1947-1961, where he was a charter member of The Kappa Alpha...
  
  , University of Western Ontario, 1948. Discoverer of cortisone
  Cortisone
  Cortisone is a steroid hormone. It is one of the main hormones released by the adrenal gland in response to stress. In chemical structure, it is a corticosteroid closely related to corticosterone. It is used to treat a variety of ailments and can be administered intravenously, orally,...
  
   and co-discoverer of insulin
  Insulin
  Insulin is a hormone central to regulating carbohydrate and fat metabolism in the body. Insulin causes cells in the liver, muscle, and fat tissue to take up glucose from the blood, storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle....
  
  . Chairman, Canadian Research Council. Shared John James Richard Macleod
  John James Richard Macleod
  John James Rickard Macleod FRS was a Scottish physician and physiologist. He was noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin and awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery.-Biography:...
  
   portion of the 1923 Nobel Prize
  Nobel Prize
  The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
  
   for medicine.
• William Lawerence Estes Jr., Lehigh University, 1901. President of the American College of Surgeons, 1957-1958.
• James R. Tryon
  James R. Tryon
  James Rufus Tryon was a medical doctor serving in the United States Navy during and after the American Civil War, who went on to become Surgeon General of the United States Navy.-Biography:...
  
  , Union College, 1855. Surgeon General of the United States Navy
  Surgeon General of the United States Navy
  The Surgeon General of the United States Navy is the senior-most medical corps officer in the United States Navy.- Establishment of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery :...
  
   1893-1899 (retired). See Armed Forces
• Nathan Bristol Van Etten, Cornell University, 1885. President, American Medical Association.

Sciences and engineering

• Frederick Walker Baldwin, University of Toronto, 1900. As member of Alexander Graham Bell's Aerial Experiment Association made the first public flight in American aviation on March 12, 1908. Director, Graham Bell Labs.
• Charles Brady King
  Charles Brady King
  ]]Charles Brady King was an American engineer & entrepreneur remembered as an automotive pioneer, artist, etcher, musician, poet, architect, mystic, industrialist and inventor....
  
  , Cornell University, 1887. Designer of the pneumatic hammer. Designer of first automobile in Detroit.
• John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
  John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
  John Alexander Douglas McCurdy was a Canadian aviation pioneer and the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1947 to 1952. -Early years:...
  
  , University of Toronto, 1902. Aviator with Alexander Graham Bell's Aerial Experiment Association. Organizer of the Canadian aviation industry. Lieutenant Governor, Nova Scotia.
• Lewis Henry Morgan, Union College, 1839. "Father of the Science of Anthropology
  Anthropology
  Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
  
  " Morgan's theories of historical development were the basis for Marx and Engels (according to Marx and Engels). President, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1879.

Arts and humanities

• Oliver Bronson Capen, Hobart College, 1898. Publisher and author.
• Hume Cronyn
  Hume Cronyn
  Hume Blake Cronyn, OC was a Canadian actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside his second wife, Jessica Tandy.-Early life:...
  
  , McGill University, 1930. Actor. Was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
  
   in 1944.
• Thomas Jefferson Farnham, Union College, 1831. Leader of one of the earliest overland expeditions to explore the American West. His books were influential in opening the Oregon Trail and California.
• Nathan Fillion
  Nathan Fillion
  Nathan Fillion is a Canadian actor, currently starring as Richard Castle on the ABC series Castle. He is also known for his portrayal of the lead role of Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the television series Firefly and its feature film continuation, Serenity.He has acted in traditionally distributed...
  
   University of Alberta, 1994 - Saving Private Ryan, Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, One Life to Live, Lost, Serenity, Desperate Housewives, Firefly, Slither.
• Theodore P. Gilman
  Theodore P. Gilman
  Theodore P. Gilman was an American banker and politician.-Life:He was the son of Winthrop Sargent Gilman and Abia Swift Lippincott Gilman. He graduated from Williams College in 1862, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society, and graduated A.M. in 1865. He married Elizabeth Drinker Paxson...
  
  , Williams College, 1862. From 1898 to 1908 presented the plans that Congress adopted to establish the Federal Reserve Banking System.
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow
  Fitz Hugh Ludlow
  Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as “Fitzhugh Ludlow,” was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best-known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater ....
  
  , Union College, 1856. Author and editor.
• Raymond Hart Massey, University of Toronto, 1914. Actor. Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor
  Academy Award for Best Actor
  Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
  
   in 1940.
• Christopher McDonald
  Christopher McDonald
  Christopher McDonald is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore, Tappy Tibbons in Requiem for a Dream, and Mel Allen in the HBO film 61*.-Personal life:...
  
  , Hobart College, 1977. Has acted in over 85 films along with numerous television and theater productions, commonly known for his character "Shooter McGavin" in Happy Gilmore
  Happy Gilmore
  Happy Gilmore is a 1996 sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and produced by Robert Simonds for Universal Studios. It stars Adam Sandler as the title character, an unsuccessful ice hockey player who discovers a talent for golf. The screenplay was written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy...
  
   (1996).
• Ronald D. Moore
  Ronald D. Moore
  Ronald Dowl Moore is an American screenwriter and television producer best known for his work on Star Trek and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series, for which he won a Peabody Award for creative excellence in 2005 and an Emmy Award in 2008.-Early life and...
  
  , Cornell University, 1984. Writer and Producer of TV and film. Notably Star Trek and the remake of Battlestar Galactica. Two-time winner of Hugo Award
  Hugo Award
  The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...
  
   for Excellence in Science Fiction.
• Earl A. Powell III, Williams College, 1963. Currently the Director of the National Gallery of Art
  National Gallery of Art
  The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
  
  , in Washington, DC.
• Archibald Rutledge
  Archibald Rutledge
  Archibald Hamilton Rutledge was an American poet and educator, the first South Carolina poet laureate from 1934 to 1973. He wrote over 50 books and many poems, usually about his hunting and life experiences in South Carolina.-Biography:...
  
  , Union College, 1905. Poet-laureate of South Carolina, author of Home by the River.
• Naren Shankar
  Naren Shankar
  Naren Shankar is a writer, producer and director of several television series. As a writer Shankar has contributed with works for Farscape, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Night Visions, The Outer Limits, The Chronicle, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, seaQuest 2032, and Star Trek: Voyager.After...
  
  , Cornell University, 1981. Writer/Editor/Producer for television. Science Consultant, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Writer/Editor, Star Trek: Next Generation. Writer, The Outer Limits and Farscape. Executive Producer, CSI. Winner Emmy Award. Nominee for two additional Emmy Awards. Winner, Writers' Guild of Canada Award.
• Leland Stowe
  Leland Stowe
  Leland Stowe was a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist noted for being one of the first to recognize the expansionist character of the German Nazi regime.- Biography :...
  
  , Wesleyan University (as a local). Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, 1930. Runner-up for a second Pulitzer in 1940, as war correspondent in World War II.
• Dr. Lawrence Rogers Thompson, Wesleyan University (as a local). 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Biography of Robert Frost. Professor of English, Princeton University.
• John Kirk Train Varnedoe, Williams College, 1964. Former Chief Curator of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art
  Museum of Modern Art
  The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
  
  , New York City, 1988-2001. Was dubbed “the most powerful man in the modern art world,” by Newsweek before his death in 2003.
• David Wilson
  David Wilson
  -In arts and literature:*Sir David M. Wilson , British archaeologist and Director of the British Museum*David Henry Wilson , English writer*David Niall Wilson , American writer of horror, science fiction, and fantasy fiction...
  
  , Union College, 1838. Author. His Autobiography of Solomon Northrup was second only to Uncle Tom's Cabin, in popularizing the anti-slavery movement.
• James N. Wood
  James N. Wood
  James Nowell Wood was an American museum director who spent 25 years as head of the Art Institute of Chicago and later served as head of the J. Paul Getty Trust, starting in 2006.Wood was born in Boston on March 20, 1941...
  
  , Williams College, 1960. Former President and Director of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Art Institute of Chicago
  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
  
  , 1980-2004.

Business

• Adolph Coors III
  Adolph Coors III
  Adolph Coors III was the grandson of Adolph Coors and heir to the Coors beer empire.-Biography:He was born on January 12, 1916 and attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire...
  
  , Cornell University
  Cornell University
  Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
  
  , 1934. Executive Coors Brewing.
• Joseph Coors
  Joseph Coors
  Joseph Coors, Sr. , was the grandson of Adolph Coors and president of Coors Brewing Company. -Birth and education:...
  
  , Cornell University, 1936. Executive, Coors Brewing.
• Verschoyle Philip Cronyn, University of Western Ontario, 1948. Former Director of John Labatt Ltd. Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario, 1961-1967. Brother of Hume Cronyn
  Hume Cronyn
  Hume Blake Cronyn, OC was a Canadian actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside his second wife, Jessica Tandy.-Early life:...
  
   and cousin of Arthur Labatt
  Arthur Labatt
  Arthur Sackville Labatt, OC is a great-grandson of John Labatt, founder of the Labatt brewery. Until recently he was the chancellor of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada....
  
  .
• Arthur Labatt
  Arthur Labatt
  Arthur Sackville Labatt, OC is a great-grandson of John Labatt, founder of the Labatt brewery. Until recently he was the chancellor of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada....
  
  , McGill University
  McGill University
  Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
  
  , 1953. Founder of Trimark Investment Management, currently the Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario
  University of Western Ontario
  The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...
  
   and Officer of the Order of Canada
  Order of Canada
  The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...
  
   in 1996.
• Jervis Langdon Jr, Cornell University, 1923. General Consel, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1956-1961. President, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1961-1964. President, Rock Island Railroad, 1964-1970. President Penn Central Railroad, 1970-1976. Trustee, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain
  Mark Twain
  Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
  
  ) Estate.
• William "Bill" Scandling
  William Scandling
  William F. "Bill" Scandling was an American businessman and philanthropist who was one of the founders of Saga Corporation, a multi-billion dollar food service and restaurant company. Scandling donated money to his alma mater Hobart and William Smith Colleges...
  
  , Hobart College
  Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  Hobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, are together a liberal arts college offering Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Teaching degrees. In athletics, however, the two schools compete with separate teams, known as the Hobart Statesmen and the...
  
  , 1946. Founder of the college meal plan, at one time was the king of the food service industry, and founder of Saga Corporation (sold to Marriott Corp., 1986).
• Augustus Schell
  Augustus Schell
  Augustus Schell was a New York politician and lawyer. He was Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1872 to 1876.-Biography:...
  
  , Union College
  Union College
  Union College is a private, non-denominational liberal arts college located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents. In the 19th century, it became the "Mother of Fraternities", as...
  
  , 1830. Railroad magnate and the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
  Democratic National Committee
  The Democratic National Committee is the principal organization governing the United States Democratic Party on a day to day basis. While it is responsible for overseeing the process of writing a platform every four years, the DNC's central focus is on campaign and political activity in support...
  
  , 1860 and 1872–1876

Sports

• Donald Getty, University of Western Ontario, 1953. Canadian Football League, 1955-1960.
• John Douglas Gray, University of Western Ontario, 1950. Canadian Football League, 1951-1955.
• Merle Gulick
  Merle Gulick
  Merle Gulick was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1965....
  
  , Hobart College, 1927. All-American in Football and Lacrosse. College Football Hall of Fame. Chairman, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Board of Trustees, 1950-1961.
• Rev. Donald Bruce MacDonald, University of Toronto, 1892. President Canadian Amateur Athletic Union, 1919-1921. Chairman Board of Governors, University of Toronto, 1906-1941.
• Douglas Albert MacKenzie, University of Western Ontario, 1957. Canadian Football, 1959.
• Richard William Duncan Pound
  Dick Pound
  Richard William Duncan Pound, is a Canadian lawyer, partner of the law firm Stikeman Elliott, the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency based in Montreal, and former chancellor of McGill University...
  
  , McGill University, 1957. Former Olympic athlete (1960); Gold, Silver and Bronze medalist at the 1962 Commonwealth Games
  Commonwealth Games
  The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....
  
  ; Canadian champion (1958, 1960, 1961 and 1962); Secretary General of the Canadian Olympic Committee
  Canadian Olympic Committee
  The Canadian Olympic Committee - COC is the private, non-profit organization representing Canadian athletes in the International Olympic Committee and the Pan American Games. It was formally recognized by the IOC in 1907. The COC also represents the selection of Canadian cities in their bid for...
  
  , 1968–1976; President of the Canadian Olympic Committee, 1977–1982; International Olympic Committee member (IOC), 1978–present; Vice-President of the IOC, 1987–1991 and 1996–2000; Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency
  World Anti-Doping Agency
  The World Anti-Doping Agency , , is an independent foundation created through a collective initiative led by the International Olympic Committee . It was set up on November 10, 1999 in Lausanne, Switzerland, as a result of what was called the "Declaration of Lausanne", to promote, coordinate and...
  
   (WADA), 1999–present; Chancellor of McGill University, 1999–present; Officer of the Order of Canada
  Order of Canada
  The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...
  
  , 1992 and Officer of the National Order of Quebec
  National Order of Quebec
  The National Order of Quebec, termed officially in French as l'Ordre national du Québec, and in English abbreviation as the Order of Quebec, is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Quebec...
  
  , 1993.
• Dr. Ted Nicholas Roman, University of Western Ontario, 1955. Canadian Football League, 1959.
• Dave Sapunjis
  Dave Sapunjis
  David B. Sapunjis is a former wide receiver for the Calgary Stampeders from 1990-1996. Sapunjis won the CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award two times and was the Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian three times. He played college football at the University of Western Ontario where he was also a...
  
  , University of Western Ontario, 1989. CFL Stampeders, 1990-1997. All-Canadian All-Stars. Most Valuable Canadian in Three Grey Cups.
• Clinton Wyckoff, Cornell University, 1892. All-American in Football, 1895. College Football Hall of Fame.