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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. Founded in 1813, Colby's class of 2013 was the college's 200th, making a total of more than 25,000 living alumni.

Academia

Educators

Name Class Notability Reference
Martin Brewer Anderson 1840 President of the University of Rochester from 1853 to 1888
Theophilus C. Abbot 1845 President of State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) from 1862 to 1885
Shailer Mathews 1884 Dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School 1908-1933
Arthur J. Roberts 1890 President of Colby College, 1908-1927
Franklin W. Johnson 1891 President of Colby College, 1929-1942
Charles Huntington Whitman 1897 Chair of the Department of English at Rutgers University 1911-1937
Eleanor Duckworth 1957 Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education [1]
David G. Bromley 1963 Author and Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University
Thomas Easton 1966 Professor of Biology at Thomas College [2]
William "Bill" McKinney 1968 President and Professor of American Religion of Pacific School of Religion, 1996-2010 [3]
Ted Snyder (economist) 1975 Dean of Yale School of Management, Dean of University of Chicago Booth School of Business 2001-2010
Gregory Ciottone 1987 Professor and Director of the Disaster Medicine Fellowship Program at Harvard Medical School 2009–present [4]
Mark Panek 1990 Professor of English at the University of Hawaii [5]
David Roderick 1992 Assistant Professor of English at University of North Carolina at Greensboro [6]

Research and Scholarship

Name Class Notability Reference
Julius Dresser ex-1860 Philosopher
Charles Branch Wilson 1884 American scientist, marine biologist [7]
Fenwicke Holmes 1906 Author, Congregational minister, and Religious Science leader
Harold Calvin Marston Morse 1914 Mathematician
Doris Kearns Goodwin 1964 Presidential scholar and historian, notable works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time (1995) and Team of Rivals (2005)
Arthur G. Miller 1964 Professor in Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park
Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. 1970 Maine State Historian
Alan Taylor (historian) 1977 Scholar in early Colonial America history and Pulitzer Prize winner

Arts and entertainment

Name Class Notability Reference
Jack Levine 1946 American Painter [8]
Gordon W. Bowie 1965 Musician [9]
Rocco Landesman 1969 Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts
Tim O'Brien (musician) ex-1973 American country and bluegrass musician
Tom Silverman 1976 Founder of hip-hop record label Tommy Boy Entertainment
Arthur Levering 1976 American composer
Lincoln Peirce 1985 Cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Big Nate
Billy Bush 1994 Host of Let's Make a Deal, former host of Access Hollywood, and The Billy Bush Show [10]
Mike Daisy 1996 Monologuist, solo performer and author
Noah Charney 2002 Art historian, novelist, and founder of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA)

Athletics

Name Class Notability Reference
Frank Haggerty 1897 Head football coach at University of Akron, 1910 to 1914
Jack Coombs 1906 Two-time World Champion Major League Baseball Player, Manager (Philadelphia Phillies and Duke University)
Elbridge Ross 1935 Medalist at the 1936 Winter Olympics in hockey. [11]
Norm Gigon 1958 Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs [12]
Ed Phillips (pitcher) 1966 Major League Baseball pitcher for the 1970 Boston Red Sox
Jan Volk 1968 General Manager of the Boston Celtics 1984-1997
Steve Freyer 1968 President of Freyer Management Associates 1979-present; MLB and NHL agent [13]
Greg Cronin 1986 Assistant Coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs 2011–present
Mike McRae (baseball) 1981 Head coach of the Canisius Golden Griffins Baseball Team, 2005–present [14]
Eric DeCosta 1993 Assistant General Manager, Baltimore Ravens
Hilary Gehman 1993 Olympic Rower, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; World Rowing Championships Medalist [15]
Mark Jackson (American football coach) 1994 Senior associate athletic director for the University of Southern California
Meaghan Sittler 1998 Hockey Player for the Brampton Thunder and the United States women's national ice hockey team [16]
Courtney Kennedy 2001 Olympic Medalist on the United States women's national ice hockey team, 2002 & 2006

Business and Finance

Name Class Notability Reference
Albert Stone 1951 Owner of Sterilite [17]
Frank R. Wallace 1954 Owner of Integrated Management Associates
Lawrence Pugh 1956 former CEO of the VF Corporation
Peter H. Lunder 1956 former President of Dexter Shoe Company
Tom Whidden 1970 President of North Sails 1992–present [18]
Robert Diamond 1973 Former chief executive officer of Barclays Bank, Plc.
Eric S. Rosengren 1979 President and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Peter Dragone 1979 Co-inventor of the K-Cup, founder of Keurig, Inc., [19]
John Sylvan 1980 Co-inventor of the K-Cup, founder of Keurig, Inc., [20]
Dawn Sweeney 1981 President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Restaurant Association [21]

Literature

Name Class Notability Reference
Roland Gammon 1937 Religious author and ad-man
Thomas Savage (novelist) 1940 Novelist
Alvin Schwartz (children's author) 1949 Author of the series Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark [22]
Robert B. Parker 1954 Author of the Spenser detective novels
Joe Perham 1955 American humorist [23]
Annie Proulx 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain
Don J. Snyder 1968 American novelist and screenwriter [24]
Jeff Gottesfeld 1977 novelist Anne Frank and Me and screen/TV writer The Young and the Restless
Alan Taylor (historian) 1977 Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize winning author and historian specializing in early American history.
Jane Brox 1978 American author and 2007 Guggenheim Fellow [25]
Gerry Boyle 1978 Novelist and Colby English Professor
Geoffrey Becker 1980 American short story writer [26]
Linda Greenlaw 1983 Author of Hungry Ocean (captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail which went down in "The Perfect Storm" 1991)
Erika Mailman 1991 American author and journalist [27]
Cecily von Ziegesar 1992 Novelist, creator of "Gossip Girl" series
Stephanie Doyon 1993 American novelist, best known for The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole [28]
Sarah Langan 1996 Bram Stoker Award winning Novelist [29]
Drew Magary 1998 Writer for Deadspin and GQ Magazine, Author of The Postmortal and Someone Could Get Hurt [30]
Rosecrans Baldwin 1999 American novelist and essayist, co-founder of The Morning News
David Barr Kirtley 2000 Author

Media

Name Class Notability Reference
John Roderick (correspondent) 1937 Correspondent for the Associated Press
Dwight E. Sargent 1939 Editorial writer for the The New York Herald Tribune, 1951 Nieman Fellow
Stuart Rothenberg 1970 editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, CNN Political Analyst, and syndicated columnist
Dave Epstein 1986 Columnist, Television Meteorologist
Amy Walter 1991 Political Director ABC News, former House editor for the Cook Political Report, and current Editor in Chief of The Hotline
Dan Harris (television reporter) 1993 ABC News Anchor & Reporter
Billy Bush 1994 TV personality and nephew of President George H. W. Bush
Hannah Beech 1995 Journalist for Time Magazine
Sarah Lee (reporter) 1995 Washington DC news reporter
George Horace Lorimer Editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post

Politics and government

Name Class Notability Reference
Albert G. Jewett 1823 United States Chargé d'Affaires to Peru 1845-1847
Elijah P. Lovejoy 1826 Abolitionist
James Brooks (Whig) 1831 New York Congressman (1849–53; 1863–66; 1867–73)
Wyman B. S. Moor 1831 U.S Senator from Maine 1848, U.S. Representative from Maine [31]
James S. Wiley 1836 U.S. Representative from Maine 1847-1849 [32]
Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician) 1838 Civil War general, Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts
Edgar Harkness Gray 1838 Baptist clergyman and former Chaplain of the Senate
Stephen Coburn 1839 Maine Congressman (1860–61)
Leonard Swett c. 1840-45 close friend of President Lincoln and an organizer for the 1860 Chicago Republican National Convention
Benjamin White Norris 1843 U.S. Representative from Alabama 1868-1869
Mark H. Dunnell 1849 U.S. Representative from Minnesota
Isaac Smith Kalloch 1852 Baptist minister, founder and first president of Ottawa University, mayor of San Francisco, California
Seth L. Milliken 1852 U.S. Representative from Maine 1883-1897
Harris M. Plaisted 1853 Governor of Maine 1881-1883
Nelson Dingley, Jr. 1855 34th Governor of Maine 1874-1876, U.S. Representative from Maine 1881 – 1899 [33]
George A. Ramsdell ex-1857 46th Governor of New Hampshire 1897-1899 [34]
Alfred Eliab Buck 1859 Congressman from Alabama, 1869-1871; United States Ambassador to Japan, 1897 to 1902
Cyrus Hamlin (general) 1859 General in the Union Army [35]
Llewellyn Powers ex-1861 Governor of Maine 1901-1908 [36]
Bartlett Tripp ex-1861 Ambassador to Austria 1893-1897 [37]
Henry C. Merriam ex-1862 United States Army general awarded Medal of Honor
Richard C. Shannon 1862 United States Representative from New York 1895-1899, United States Minister to El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica [38]
Marcellus Stearns 1863 Governor of Florida 1874-1877 [39]
Forrest Goodwin 1880 United States Representative from Maine
Warren C. Philbrook 1882 Mayor of Waterville 1899-1900, Maine Attorney General 1909-10, Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court 1913 - 1928 [40]
Asher Hinds 1883 United States Representative from Maine
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 [41]
Holman Day 1887 Military secretary to the Governor of Maine John Fremont Hill 1901-1904
George Otis Smith 1893 Director of United States Geological Survey 1907-1922, first chairman of the Federal Power Commission
Hugh Dean McLellan 1895 Federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
John E. Nelson (Maine) 1898 United States Representative from Maine 1921-1933
Angier Goodwin 1902 President of the Massachusetts Senate, US Representative from Massachusetts
Charles P. Nelson (congressman) 1928 US Representative from Maine 1949-1957
Chester Earl Merrow 1929 U.S. Representative from New Hampshire 1943-1963
Edward Gurney 1935 US Senator from Florida (1969–1974)
Robert N. Anthony 1938 United States Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), 1965-1968 [42]
Rachel Bubar Kelly 1947 Prohibition Party candidate for United States Vice President
Robert S. Gelbard 1964 US Ambassador to Indonesia (1999–2001) and Bolivia (1988–1991)
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
Joseph Jabar 1968 Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 2009–present [43]
Patrick Duddy 1972 US Ambassador to Venezuela 2007-2010
Kenneth R. Melvin 1974 Circuit Court Judge and member of the Virginia House of Delegates [44]
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 [45]
Christopher Mellon 1980 Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 1989-1999
Thomas A. Betro 1981 former Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service 2006 - 2010
Paul Doyle (politician) 1985 Connecticut Senator from the Ninth District [46]
Sean McCormack 1986 Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and U.S. State Department Spokesman
Daniel K. Webster 1987 Massachusetts State Representatives, 2003-2013. [47]
J. Patrick O'Neill 1993 Representative in the Rhode Island State Representative 2005–present [48]
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

Others

Name Class Notability Reference
George Boardman (missionary) 1822 First Graduate of Colby College, Baptist Missionary
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 [49]
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 Chef and owner of wd~50 restaurant in New York City, featured as a judge on Top Chef
Tara Allain 2008 Miss Maine 2007

See also

Category:Colby College alumni

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