List of Colby College alumni
Civil War General and Governor of Massachusetts Benjamin Franklin Butler , class of 1838
This list of Colby College alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, current students, and honorary degree recipients of Colby College . Colby, which was founded in 1813, has a total of more than 25,000 living alumni.[citation needed ]
Academia
Educators
Research and scholarship
Arts and entertainment
Athletics
Business and finance
Literature
Politics and government
Members of the United States Congress
Name
Class
Notability
Reference
Virgil D. Parris
ex-1827
U.S. Representative from Maine 1837–1840
[ 47]
Daniel T. Jewett
ex-1830
U.S. Senator from Missouri 1870–1871
[ 47]
James Brooks (Whig)
1831
U.S. Representative from New York 1849–1853, 1863–1866, 1867–1873
Wyman B. S. Moor
1831
U.S. Senator from Maine 1848, Maine Attorney General 1844-1847
[ 48]
James S. Wiley
1836
U.S. Representative from Maine , 1847-1849
[ 48]
Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician)
1838
U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1867–1875, 1877–1879, Civil War general, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts
Stephen Coburn
1839
U.S. Representative from Maine , 1861
Benjamin White Norris
1843
U.S. Representative from Alabama , 1868-1869
Mark H. Dunnell
1849
U.S. Representative from Minnesota 1871–1883, 1889-1891
Seth L. Milliken
ex-1852
U.S. Representative from Maine 1883-1897
Nelson Dingley Jr.
1855
U.S. Representative from Maine 1881–1899, 34th Governor of Maine 1874-1876
[ 48]
Alfred Eliab Buck
1859
U.S. Representative from Alabama 1869–1871, United States Ambassador to Japan , 1897 to 1902
Richard C. Shannon
1862
U.S. Representative from New York 1895–1899, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to El Salvador , Nicaragua , and Costa Rica 1891-1893
[ 49]
Forrest Goodwin
1880
U.S. Representative from Maine , 1913
Asher Hinds
1883
U.S. Representative from Maine , 1911-1917
John E. Nelson (Maine)
1898
U.S. Representative from Maine , 1921-1933
Angier Goodwin
1902
U.S. Representative from Massachusetts , 1943-1955
Charles P. Nelson (congressman)
1928
U.S. Representative from Maine , 1949-1957
Chester Earl Merrow
1929
U.S. Representative from New Hampshire , 1943-1963
Edward Gurney
1935
U.S. Senator from Florida (1969–1974)
United States Federal and State Court Judges
United States Governors
Name
Class
Notability
Reference
Albert G. Jewett
1823
United States Chargé d'Affaires to Peru 1845-1847
Elijah P. Lovejoy
1826
Abolitionist
Manly B. Townsend
1828
Maine State Senator
[ 56]
Edgar Harkness Gray
1838
Baptist clergyman and former Chaplain of the Senate
Leonard Swett
c. 1840-45
close friend of President Lincoln and an organizer for the 1860 Chicago Republican National Convention
Josiah Hayden Drummond
1846
16th Attorney General of Maine , 1860-1863
Isaac Smith Kalloch
1852
Baptist minister, founder and first president of Ottawa University , mayor of San Francisco, California
Cyrus Hamlin (general)
1859
General in the Union Army
[ 57]
Bartlett Tripp
ex-1861
Ambassador to Austria 1893-1897
[ 48]
Henry C. Merriam
ex-1862
United States Army general awarded Medal of Honor
Edwin Francis Lyford
1877
Massachusetts State Senator, 1894
[ 58]
Herbert Lord
1884
Director of the United States Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget ), 1922-1929
Byron Boyd
1886
Secretary of State of Maine , 1897 to 1907
[ 59]
Holman Day
1887
Military secretary to the Governor of Maine John Fremont Hill , 1901-1904
Merton L. Miller
1890
Acting Chief of the Ethnological Survey for the Philippine Islands
George Otis Smith
1893
Director of United States Geological Survey , 1907–1922, first chairman of the Federal Power Commission
Robert N. Anthony
1938
United States Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) , 1965-1968
[ 60]
Rachel Bubar Kelly
1947
Prohibition Party candidate for United States Vice President
Robert S. Gelbard
1964
United States Ambassador to Bolivia (1988–1991) and United States Ambassador to Indonesia (1999–2001)
Peter D. Hart
1964
founder of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a political polling organization
Pete Rouse
1968
Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama , former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, former Chief of Staff to Tom Daschle
Patrick Duddy
1972
United States Ambassador to Venezuela 2007-2010
Arthur L. Bell
1974
Maine state representative
[ 61]
David Lemoine
1978
State Treasurer of Maine 2005-2010
David Linsky
1979
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Peter Forman
1980
Minority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives , 1991-1995
[ 62]
Christopher Mellon
1980
Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence , 1989-1999
Thomas A. Betro
1981
Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service 2006 - 2010
Daniel Shagoury
1982
Maine House of Representatives
[ 63]
Dana Hanley
1984
Member of the Maine Senate , 1992-1996
[ 64]
Paul Doyle (politician)
1985
Connecticut Senator from the Ninth District
[ 65]
Sean McCormack
1986
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and U.S. State Department Spokesman
Daniel K. Webster
1987
Massachusetts State Representatives, 2003-2013
[ 66]
Michael Marcello
1990
Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 2009–present
[ 67]
J. Patrick O'Neill
1993
Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 2005–present
[ 68]
Andrew Monroe Rice
1996
2008 Democratic nominee, candidate, United States Senate (Oklahoma) (lost to Senator James Inhofe)
Devin Beliveau
2001
Maine State Representative from District 151, 2010-2012
Linwood E. Palmer Jr.
Maine Legislator, Candidate, Maine Governor, 1978
Daniel T. Jewett
Republican US Senator (Missouri) 1870–71, Missouri State Representative
Elizabeth Hanson
2002
CIA Officer killed in the Camp Chapman attack , Afghanistan
Lot M. Morrill
U.S. Senator (1861–69), Governor of Maine (1857–1861), Treasury Secretary (1876–77)
Brendan Crighton
2005
Massachusetts State Senator, 2018-Present
[ 69]
Charles L. Phillips
1878
U.S. Army brigadier general
[ 70] [ 71]
Others
Name
Class
Notability
Reference
George Boardman (missionary)
1822
First Graduate of Colby College , Baptist missionary
Horace G. Cates
Los Angeles County, California, coroner
[ 72]
Mary Caffrey Low
1875
Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority
Elizabeth Gorham Hoag
Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority
Ida Fuller
Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority
Frances Elliott Mann Hall
Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority
Louise Helen Coburn
Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority
Arthur B. Patten
1890
United States Congregational Church clergyman
Bern Porter
1932
Artist and scientist
[ 73]
Stephen Sternberg
1941
Pathologist and author
Myron "Pinky" Thompson
1950
Trustee of the Bishop Estate (now known as Kamehameha Schools ), President of the Polynesian Voyaging Society
Riki Ott
1976
Marine toxicologist oil spill expert
Savas (Zembillas) of Pittsburgh
1979
Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh
Wylie Dufresne
1992
Chef and owner of wd~50 restaurant in New York City, featured as a judge on Top Chef
Tara Allain
2008
Miss Maine 2007
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