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Yale College
Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887. The name now refers to the undergraduate part of the university. Each undergraduate student is assigned to one of 12 residential colleges.
The current residential college system was instituted in 1933 through a grant by Yale...
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Steve Greenberg
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John Lindsay
John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician,lawyer and broadcaster who was a U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City, candidate for U.S. President and regular guest host of Good Morning America substituting...
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- 1944
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Charles Green Shaw
Charles Green Shaw (1 May 1892—2 April 1974) was an American painter and writer.
A significant figure in American abstract art, Shaw enjoyed a varied career as a writer and illustrator, poet, modernist painter, and collector. Born to a wealthy...
End Date:
- 1914
Roger McNamee
Roger McNamee is a Managing Director and
Co-Founder of Elevation Partners. Prior to Elevation, Roger was a
co-founder of Silver Lake Partners, the leading private equity fund
focused on technology and related growth industries. He was a member of...
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Vincent Scully
Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr. (born 1920) is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject. Architect Philip Johnson once described Scully as "the most influential...
End Date:
- 1940
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Richard Hall
End Date:
- 1975
Jeremiah Mason
Jeremiah Mason (Lebanon, Connecticut, April 27, 1768 - Boston, Massachusetts, October 14, 1848) was a United States Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Lebanon, Connecticut, son of Jeremiah Mason (Norwalk, Connecticut, February 22, 1729/1730 –...
William Pitt Lynde
William Pitt Lynde (December 16, 1817–December 18, 1885) was an American lawyer and politician from Wisconsin who served in Congress.
Lynde was born in Sherburne, New York. He graduated from Yale College in 1838 and Harvard Law School in 1841 and...
John Davis
John Davis (January 13, 1787 – April 19, 1854) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician.
John Davis was born on January 13, 1787 in Northborough, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1812, where he was one of the four founding...
Theodore Sedgwick
Theodore Sedgwick (May 9, 1746 – January 24, 1813), a Delegate, a Representative, and a United States Senator from Massachusetts and the fifth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, was born in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Sedgwick...
Isaac C. Bates
Isaac Chapman Bates (1779-1845) was an American politician from Massachusetts.
He was born in Granville, Massachusetts, on January 23, 1779, and graduated from Yale College in 1802. He practiced law in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1808.
He was a...
Othniel Charles Marsh
Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West.
Marsh was born in Lockport, New York, in the United States...
Robert C. Weber
Bob Weber is IBM’s Senior Vice President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs, and General Counsel.
End Date:
- 1972
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis (August 7, 1811 – August 15, 1889) was an American mathematician.
Loomis was born in Willington, Connecticut in 1811. He graduated at Yale College in 1830, was a tutor there for three years, 1833-36 and then spent the next year in...
Clarence Dutton
Clarence Edward Dutton (May 15, 1841 – January 4, 1912) was an American geologist and US Army officer. Dutton was born in Wallingford, Connecticut on May 15, 1841. He graduated from Yale College in 1860 and took postgraduate courses there until 1862...
Robert Morse
End Date:
- 1977
Russell K. Osgood
Russell King Osgood is the twelfth president of Grinnell College (1998-present) and professor of history and political science. He is a legal scholar and holds a B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. In 2003, Russell Osgood was the highest paid...
Sid Lovett
Sid Lovett is a Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing the Grafton 8th District since 2006. He earlier served from 1994-1998 and 2000-2002.
Alfred B. Kittredge
Alfred Beard Kittredge (March 28, 1861 – May 4, 1911) was a United States Senator from South Dakota. Born in Nelson, New Hampshire, he attended the public schools and graduated from Yale College in 1882 and from the Yale Law School in 1885. He was...
Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman during 1949–1953, he played a central role in defining American...
Henry L. Stimson
Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Secretary of State and Governor-General of the Philippines. A conservative Republican, he is best known for managing the U.S....
Judah P. Benjamin
Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born a British subject in the West Indies, became a citizen of the United States and then the Confederate States of America. After the collapse of the...
Simeon Eben Baldwin
Simeon Eben Baldwin (February 5, 1840 – January 30, 1927), jurist, law professor and governor of Connecticut, was the son of jurist, Connecticut governor and U.S. Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin and Emily Pitkin Perkins. He was born in New Haven,...
Roger Sherman Baldwin
Roger Sherman Baldwin (January 4, 1793 – February 19, 1863) was an American lawyer involved in the Amistad case, who later became governor of Connecticut and United States Senator.
He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, entered Yale College at the...
George Edmund Badger
George Edmund Badger (April 17, 1795 – May 11, 1866) was a Whig U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina.
Badger was born on April 17, 1795 in New Bern, North Carolina. Following a partial college education at Yale University, he studied law...
William Samuel Johnson
William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819) was an early American statesman who was notable for signing the United States Constitution, for representing Connecticut in the United States Senate, and for serving as president of Columbia University.
Born in...
William M. Evarts
William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as US Secretary of State, US Attorney General and US Senator from New York. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of author, editor...
Truman Handy Newberry
Truman Handy Newberry (November 5, 1864 – October 3, 1945) was a U.S. businessman and political figure. He served as the Secretary of Navy between 1908 and 1909. He was a U.S. Senator from Michigan between 1919 and 1922.
Newberry was born in Detroit...
Francis Granger
Francis Granger (December 1, 1792 – August 31, 1868) was a Representative from New York. He was the son of Gideon Granger, another Postmaster General, and the first cousin of Amos P. Granger.
Granger was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and pursued...
Orris S. Ferry
Orris Sanford Ferry (August 15, 1823 – November 21, 1875) was a Republican American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was also a general in the Union Army...
Francis Gillette
Francis Gillette (December 14, 1807 – September 30, 1879) was a politician from Connecticut, USA. He was the father of playwright William Gillette and politician and editor Edward H. Gillette.
Born in Old Windsor, Connecticut (today part of the town...
Truman Smith
Truman Smith (November 27, 1791 – May 3, 1884) was a politician, lawyer and judge from Connecticut. He was the nephew of Nathaniel Smith and Nathan Smith.
Born in Roxbury, Connecticut, Smith completed preparatory studies and graduated from Yale...
William H. Hunt
William Henry Hunt (June 12, 1823 – February 27, 1884) was the United States Secretary of the Navy under President James Garfield and briefly under President Chester A. Arthur.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Hunt studied law at Yale. He...
William B. Washburn
William Barrett Washburn (January 31, 1820–October 5, 1887) was an American politician from Massachusetts, serving in the United States House of Representatives and as Governor of Massachusetts. Born in 1820 in Winchendon, Massachusetts, he was the...
Samuel Dickinson Hubbard
Samuel Dickinson Hubbard (August 10, 1799 – October 8, 1855) was born in Middletown, Connecticut. He pursued classical studies at Yale College and graduated in 1819. He practiced law from 1823 to 1837. He then found work in manufacturing.
Hubbard...
Fred Dubois
Fred Thomas Dubois (May 29, 1851 in Palestine, Illinois – February 14, 1930 in Washington, D.C.) was a controversial American politician who served two terms in the United States Senate from Idaho. He was best-known for his opposition to the gold...
Samuel A. Foot
Samuel Augustus Foot (November 8, 1780 - September 15, 1846; his surname is also spelled Foote) was Governor of Connecticut as well as a United States Representative and Senator. Born in Cheshire, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale College in 1797,...
Alfred Hayes
Alfred Hayes, Jr. (July 4, 1910 – October 21, 1989) was an American banker and an expert in international finance. Hayes was known as a conservative money manager who took a strong stand against inflation. He also had a reputation as a lightning...
B. Gratz Brown
Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 – December 13, 1885) was a Senator, Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party Vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of 1872.
Brown was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in...
Ray Price
Raymond "Ray" Price (born 1930) was the chief speechwriter of U.S. President Richard Nixon, working on both inaugural addressess, his resignation speech, and Gerald Ford's pardon speech.
Born in New York, USA, he graduated from Yale University in...
Howard Koh
Howard Kyongju Koh (Hangul: 고경주, Hanja: 高京柱; born March 15, 1952) is the 14 United States Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), after being nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the...
Ellen L. Weintraub
Ellen L. Weintraub is a member of the United States Federal Election Commission.
She received a recess appointment to the Commission on December 6, 2002, and took office on December 9, 2002. She was renominated on January 9, 2003, and confirmed by...
William Lyman
William Lyman (December 7, 1755 – September 22, 1811) was an American politician from Northampton, Massachusetts. Lyman was born in Northampton, Massachusetts to Captain William and Jemima (Sheldon) Lyman. Lyman attended Yale College, graduating in...
Joseph Barker
Joseph Barker (October 19, 1751 – July 5, 1815) was an American Congregationalist minister who represented Massachusetts's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from March 1805 to March 1809.
Born in Branford,...
Ray L. Heffner
Raymond Lorenzo Heffner (born May 7, 1925 in Durham, North Carolina) served in the United States Navy during World War II. Heffner is a 1948 graduate of Yale College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the Elizabethan Club, and Scroll and Key....
Samuel S. Conner
Samuel Shepard Conner (ca. 1783 – December 17, 1820) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Conner attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1794. He was graduated from Yale College in 1806. He...
Charles Stetson
Charles Stetson was a United States Representative from Maine, and the eldest member of a powerful Bangor political family. He was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire on November 2, 1801, but moved with his parents to Hampden, Maine in 1802. His...
Dr. Paul J. Turek
Paul J Turek (born July 8, 1960, Manchester, Connecticut) is an American physician and surgeon, men's reproductive health specialist, and businessman.
Paul J. Turek was born in Manchester, Connecticut to immigrant parents. His mother was the...
James Lanman
James Lanman (June 13, 1769 – August 7, 1841) was an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the United States Senate.
James Lanman was the eldest of the seven children of Peter Lanman Jr., of Norwich, Connecticut and Sarah...
William K. Lanman
Colonel William Kelsey Lanman Jr., (October 9, 1904 - March 27, 2001) was a notable benefactor of Yale University. He served as an aviator in the United States Marine Corps from 1935 to 1955, and later took up real estate and investment management....
John Woodworth
John Woodworth (November 12, 1768 Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York - June 1, 1858 Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and member of the Woodworth political family.
John was born in 1768, the son of future New York State Senator Robert...
Barnabas Bidwell
Barnabas Bidwell (August 23, 1763 – July 27, 1833) was a dual Canadian and American politician of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.
Bidwell was born to Adonijah Bidwell and Jemima Devotion in Township No. 1 (now Monterey, Massachusetts), and...
John Reed, Sr.
John Reed, Sr. (November 11, 1751 – February 17, 1831) was a Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in Framingham, Massachusetts, Reed moved with his parents to Titicut Parish, in the northwestern part of Middleboro, Massachusetts in 1756. He...
Dwight Foster MA
Dwight Foster (1828–April 18, 1884) graduated from Yale College 1848, was a member of Skull & Bones and was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts the following year. He served as Massachusetts Attorney General, 1861–1864; and a justice of the...
Steve Charnovitz
Steve Charnovitz (born 1953) is a scholar of public international law, living in the United States. He teaches at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, and is best known for his writings on the linkages between trade and...
Samuel J. Heyman
Samuel J. Heyman (March 1, 1939 - November 7, 2009) was an American businessman, corporate raider, hedge fund owner, and philanthropist. He was best known for his longtime chairmanship of the GAF Materials Corporation and International Specialty...
