Hartford Public High School

Hartford Public High School, in Hartford, Connecticut, was founded in 1638. It is the second-oldest public secondary school in the United States, after the Boston Latin School. It is part of the Hartford Public Schools district.

Notable alumni

• [mer MLB player
• Elyse Knox, class of 1935, actress, married Tom Harmon
• Bob Nash, class of 1968, basketball player
• Eddie A. Perez, class of 1976, Mayor of Hartford, 2001–2010
• Lindy Remigino, class of 1949, Olympic track athlete
• John Trumbull Robinson, US Attorney for the district of Connecticut
• Harold Rome, class of 1923, songwriter
• George Dudley Seymour, class of 1878, historian, attorney, planner
• Allan K. Smith , US Attorney for the district of Connecticut
• Marlon Starling, class of 1976, WBC & WBA Welterweight World Champion
• Griffin Alexander Stedman, Union Army Colonel in the Civil War
• Tony Todd, class of 1972, actor
• Kang Tongbi, Chinese feminist
• Les Payne, class of 1958, Pulitzer Prize winner, journalist
• Annie Eliot Trumbull, class of 1876, writer
• Laura Wheeler Waring, class of 1906, college teacher and artist of the Harlem Renaissance
• Henry Cooke White, class of 1882, artist, founder of the Hartford Colony
• Mary Rogers Williams, class of 1875, artist

See also

• List of the oldest public high schools in the United States

External links

• Hartford Public's homepage
• Notable alumni
• Hartford Public High School "Strategic School Profile 2005–2006", Connecticut Department of Education
• Hartford Public High School page at Great Schools