List of Colby College alumni

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]}

Civil War General and Governor of Massachusetts Benjamin Franklin Butler, class of 1838

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
Nathan Cook Brackett	1864 (transfer)	founder of Storer College and Bluefield State College
Edward Bennett Mathews (geologist)	1891	Professor of Mineralogy and Petrography at Johns Hopkins University
George Perley Phenix	1883	President of Hampton University, and teacher	[1]
Shailer Mathews	1884	Dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, 1908-1933
George Ricker Berry	1885	Semitic Scholar and Professor at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
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
Gordon Enoch Gates	1919	Head of Biology Department University of Yangon, 1921-1941	[2]
David G. Bromley	1963	Author and Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University
Jerrold Lee Shapiro	1964	Director of the Center for Professional Development at Santa Clara University	[3]
Thomas Easton	1966	Professor of Biology at Thomas College	[4]
William "Bill" McKinney	1968	President and Professor of American Religion of Pacific School of Religion, 1996-2010	[5]
Ted Snyder (economist)	1975	Dean of Yale School of Management, Dean of University of Chicago Booth School of Business 2001-2010
Gregory R. Ciottone	1987	Harvard Professor, pioneering physician in Counter-Terrorism Medicine, White House consultant	[6]
Mark Panek	1990	Professor of English at the University of Hawaii	[7]
David Roderick	1992	Assistant Professor of English at University of North Carolina at Greensboro	[8]

Research and scholarship

Name	Class	Notability	Reference
Julius Dresser	ex-1860	Philosopher
Charles Branch Wilson	1884	Scientist, marine biologist	[9]
Fenwicke Holmes	1906	Author, congregational minister, and religious science leader
Harold Calvin Marston Morse	1914	Mathematician
Paul Wallace Gates	1924	United States land policy historian and author	[10]
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
Craig A. Carlson	1986	Oceanographer

Arts and entertainment

Name	Class	Notability	Reference
Jack Levine	1946	Painter	[11]
Loring Buzzell	1948	Music publisher and record label executive	[12]
Gordon W. Bowie	1965	Musician	[13]
Rocco Landesman	1969	Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts
Kathy O'Dell	1973	art historian, theorist, curator, arts advocate, author
Tim O'Brien (musician)	ex-1973	Country and bluegrass musician
Tom Silverman	1976	Founder of hip-hop record label Tommy Boy Entertainment
Arthur Levering	1976	Composer
Lincoln Peirce	1985	Cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Big Nate
Daniel Raymont	1991	Hollywood character actor	[14]
Billy Bush	1994	Host of Access Hollywood, former host of Let's Make a Deal and The Billy Bush Show	[15]
Mike Daisey	1996	Monologuist, solo performer and author

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	[16]
Norm Gigon	1958	Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs	[17]
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
Sebsibe Mamo	1970	Ethiopian athlete; competed at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics	[16]
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	[18]
Eric DeCosta	1993	Executive Vice President and General Manager, Baltimore Ravens
Hilary Gehman	1993	Olympic rower, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; World Rowing Championships medalist	[16]
Brian O'Halloran (baseball)	1993	General Manager of the Boston Red Sox
Mark Jackson (American football coach)	1994	Athletic director for the Villanova University
Meaghan Sittler	1998	Hockey player for the Brampton Thunder and the United States women's national ice hockey team	[19]
Courtney Kennedy	ex-2001	Olympic medalist on the United States women's national ice hockey team, 2002 and 2006
Warner Nickerson	2005	Alpine skier	[20]
Dan Vassallo	2007	Distance runner	[21]

Business and finance

Name	Class	Notability	Reference
Ivory Quinby	1836	Businessman and philanthropist	[22]
J. Young Scammon	1869	Lawyer, banker, and newspaper publisher	[23]
Herbert Elijah Wadsworth	1892	Businessman
Albert Stone	1951	Owner of Sterilite	[24]
Frank R. Wallace	1954	Owner of Integrated Management Associates
Lawrence Pugh	1956	former CEO of the VF Corporation
Tom Whidden	1970	President of North Sails, 1992–present	[25]
Robert Diamond	1973	Former chief executive officer of Barclays Bank, Plc.
Edson Mitchell	1975	Director, Deutsche Bank	[26]
Eric S. Rosengren	1979	President and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Dawn Sweeney	1981	President and chief executive officer of the National Restaurant Association	[27]
Michael Federle	1981	Chief Executive Officer of the Forbes Media	[27]
Chip Smith	1991	Co-founder of The Glover Park Group
Jason J. Hogg	1993	Founder of Revolution Money	[28]
Mira Murati	2011	CTO and former interim CEO of OpenAI
Alice Mason		Manhattan real estate broker	[29][30]

Literature

Name	Class	Notability	Reference
William Hutchinson Rowe	c.1900	Historian and author	[31]
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	[32]
Robert B. Parker	1954	Author of the Spenser detective novels
Joe Perham	1955	Humorist	[33]
Annie Proulx	ex-1957	Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain
Don J. Snyder	1968	Novelist and screenwriter	[34]
Gregory White Smith	1973	Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga	[35]
Neil Raymond Ricco	1970s	Poet and writer	[36]
Jeff Gottesfeld	1977	novelist, Anne Frank and Me; 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	Author and 2007 Guggenheim Fellow	[37]
Geoffrey Becker	1980	Short story writer	[38]
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	Author and journalist	[39]
Cecily von Ziegesar	1992	Novelist, creator of Gossip Girl series
Stephanie Doyon	1993	Novelist, best known for The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole	[40]
Sarah Langan	1996	Bram Stoker Award-winning novelist	[7]
Drew Magary	1998	Writer for Deadspin and GQ magazine; author of The Postmortal and Someone Could Get Hurt	[41]
Rosecrans Baldwin	1999	Novelist and essayist, co-founder of The Morning News
David Barr Kirtley	2000	Science fiction author and co-founder of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy

Media

Name	Class	Notability	Reference
George Horace Lorimer	1898	Editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post
John Roderick (correspondent)	1937	Correspondent for the Associated Press
Dwight E. Sargent	1939	Editorial writer for The New York Herald Tribune, 1951 Nieman Fellow
Elliot G. Jaspin	1969	1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting	[42]
Stuart Rothenberg	1970	editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, CNN political analyst, and syndicated columnist
Ben Bradlee Jr.	1970	Investigative journalist and bestselling author	[43]
Robert S. Capers	1971	1992 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting	[44]
Stéphane Cornicard	1988	Film actor and director	[45]
Andrea Nix Fine	1991	Oscar winner, 2013 Best Documentary Short Subject	[46]
Amy Walter	1991	Political Director of ABC News, former house editor for the Cook Political Report, Editor in Chief of The Hotline
Dan Harris (journalist)	1993	ABC News anchor and 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
Matt Apuzzo	2000	2012 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting	[47]

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	[48]
Daniel T. Jewett	ex-1830	U.S. Senator from Missouri 1870–1871	[48]
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	[49]
James S. Wiley	1836	U.S. Representative from Maine, 1847-1849	[49]
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	[49]
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	[50]
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

Name	Class	Notability	Reference
Percival Bonney	1863	Maine Superior Court Judge, 1878-1906	[51]
Leslie C. Cornish	1875	Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 1917-1925
Warren C. Philbrook	1882	Mayor of Waterville 1899–1900, Maine Attorney General, 1909–10, Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 1913-1928	[52]
Hugh Dean McLellan	1895	Federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Nathaniel Tompkins	1903	Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 1945-1949	[53]
Joseph Jabar	1968	Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 2009–present	[54]
Kenneth R. Melvin	1974	Circuit Court Judge and member of the Virginia House of Delegates	[55]

United States Governors

Name	Class	Notability	Reference
Samuel Cony	ex-1829	31st Governor of Maine, 1864-1867	[56]
George A. Ramsdell	ex-1857	46th Governor of New Hampshire 1897-1899	[49]
Harris M. Plaisted	1853	Governor of Maine 1881-1883
Llewellyn Powers	ex-1861	Governor of Maine 1901-1908	[49]
Marcellus Stearns	1863	Governor of Florida 1874-1877	[49]
Janet T. Mills	ex-1965	Governor of Maine 2019–present	[49]

Other political and legal figures

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	[57]
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	[58]
Bartlett Tripp	ex-1861	Ambassador to Austria 1893-1897	[49]
Henry C. Merriam	ex-1862	United States Army general awarded Medal of Honor
Edwin Francis Lyford	1877	Massachusetts State Senator, 1894	[59]
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	[60]
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	[61]
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	[62]
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	[63]
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	[64]
Dana Hanley	1984	Member of the Maine Senate, 1992-1996	[65]
Paul Doyle (politician)	1985	Connecticut Senator from the Ninth District	[66]
Sean McCormack	1986	Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and U.S. State Department Spokesman
Daniel K. Webster	1987	Massachusetts State Representatives, 2003-2013	[67]
Michael Marcello	1990	Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 2009–present	[68]
J. Patrick O'Neill	1993	Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 2005–present	[69]
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	[70]
Charles L. Phillips	1878	U.S. Army brigadier general	[71][72]

Others

Name	Class	Notability	Reference
George Boardman (missionary)	1822	First Graduate of Colby College, Baptist missionary
Horace G. Cates		Los Angeles County, California, coroner	[73]
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	[74]
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

See also

• List of Colby College Faculty