This is a partial list of those who attended Albany Law School. Alumni are categorized by each alumnus or alumna's most distinguishing accomplishments.
Academics
edit- Alicia Ouellette, professor at Albany Law School
- Russell Conwell, founder and first president of Temple University
- James A. MacAlister, former president of Drexel University[1]
- Patricia Salkin, Dean and Professor of Law, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Judges
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- Orion M. Barber, Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
- Francis Bergan, former associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals
- David Josiah Brewer, former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- John B. Cassoday, former Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Amaro Cavalcanti, former justice of the Supreme Court of Brazil, former Justice of the International Court of Justice at the Hague, former mayor of Rio de Janeiro, author of Brazilian Constitution of 1891
- Lawrence H. Cooke, former Chief Judge of New York State
- Richard J. Daronco, former United States Judge for the Southern District of New York
- Richard K. Eaton, Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade
- Michael J. Garcia, associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals, former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
- Domenick L. Gabrielli, associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals
- James Gibson, former associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals
- Victoria A. Graffeo, former associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals
- Warner A. Graham, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[2]
- James Stuart Holden, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont
- Robert H. Jackson, former U.S. Attorney General, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
- John Franklin Kinney, County Court Judge, founding member of the Knights of Columbus and City of Rochester Bar Association.
- Moses A. Luce, Judge of the County Court of San Diego, Medal of Honor recipient
- James Loren Martin, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont
- Thomas James McAvoy, Senior United States Judge for the Northern District of New York
- David Myers, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
- Alton B. Parker, former Chief Judge of New York State; Candidate for President of the United States
- Percival L. Shangraw, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (1958-1972), Chief Justice (1972-1974)[3]
- Charles J. Siragusa, Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
- Milford K. Smith, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[4]
- Leslie Stein, associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals
- Owen P. Thompson, former judge of the Seventh Judicial District of Illinois
- Bartlett Tripp, former Chief Justice of the Dakota Territory, former United States Ambassador to Austria
- Irving G. Vann, former associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals
- Wheelock G. Veazey, Vermont Supreme Court Justice, Interstate Commerce Commission member, Medal of Honor recipient
Politicians
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- Warren M. Anderson, New York State Senate Majority Leader
- John Mosher Bailey, former U.S. Congressman
- Brian Barnwell, New York State Assembly
- James K. Batchelder, Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives
- William Beidelman, former Mayor of Easton, Pennsylvania
- Stephen S. Blake, former New York State Assemblyman
- Alexander Campbell Botkin, Lieutenant Governor of Montana[5]
- M. William Bray, Lieutenant Governor of New York[6]
- Chauncey W. Brownell, President pro tempore of the Vermont State Senate, Secretary of State of Vermont
- William T. Byrne, former U.S. Congressman
- Kevin Cahill, New York State Assemblyman
- Joseph L. Carrigg, former U.S. Congressman
- W. Sterling Cole, former U.S. Congressman
- Edwin H. Conger, former U.S. Congressman and former Ambassador to Mexico
- Andrew Cuomo, former New York State Attorney General, former Governor of New York State.[7]
- James H. Davidson, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (1897–1913, 1917–1918).
- Nathan F. Dixon III, U.S. senator from Rhode Island[8]
- Mary Donohue, former Lieutenant Governor of New York State
- Ralph A. Foote, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
- Washington Gardner, former U.S Congressman and former Secretary of State of Michigan
- Henry R. Gibson, former U.S. Congressman
- Martin H. Glynn, former governor of the State of New York
- Roger W. Hulburd, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
- Charles Kellogg, former New York state senator
- Carleton J. King, former U.S. Congressman
- Abraham Lansing, New York State Treasurer; State Senate. Delegate to International Conference for Codification of the Law of Nations
- Mike LiPetri, former New York State Assemblyman
- William Paine Lord, 9th Governor of Oregon
- David O'Brien Martin, former U.S. Congressman
- Joseph Homan Manley, leader of the Republican National Committee and Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
- Robert C. McEwen, former U.S. Congressman
- William McKinley, 25th President of the United States
- William E. Miller, former U.S. Congressman, candidate for Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Republican National Committee
- John Morgan, former Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Dalwin J. Niles, former Judge of the Fulton County Family Court and member of the New York State Senate
- Howard C. Nolan Jr., former member of the New York State Senate
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne, former U.S. Congressman and Major General of the National Guard
- Amasa J. Parker Jr., former New York Assemblyman and Senator
- Frederick Walker Pitkin, 2nd Governor of Colorado
- Jeanine Pirro, former Westchester County District Attorney, television host, author, and former New York State judge and politician
- Harris M. Plaisted, former governor of Maine
- Redfield Proctor, former Governor of Vermont, Secretary of War, United States Senator
- John Raines, former U.S. Congressman, New York State Assemblyman, New York State Senator, and Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York
- Frederick M. Reed, Vermont Attorney General[9]
- Joshua S. Salmon, represented the 4th congressional district of New Jersey from 1902 to 1903.[10]
- John L. Sampson, former Chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee, New York State Senator
- Hiram Y. Smith, former U.S. Congressman
- Dean P. Taylor, former U.S. Congressman
- Michele Titus, New York State Assembly
- James Manning Tyler, U.S. Congressman from Vermont
- William Freeman Vilas, former U.S. Senator
- Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, former governor of Iowa
- Mary Beth Walsh, New York State Assembly
- Lovely A. Warren, Mayor of Rochester, New York
- Frank L. Wiswall, New York State Assembly, New York State Senate
- Lee Zeldin, former U.S. Congressman
Practitioners
edit- Stephen F. Brown, Union Army officer in the American Civil War
- James Campbell Matthews, First African American to graduate from law school in New York State[11]
- Wheeler Hazard Peckham, former nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States
- David Soares, Albany County District Attorney
- Mark Zaid, national security law expert
Other
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- John Sanford Barnes, Navy officer, naval historian
- Jessica Bird, novelist
- Barry M. Costello, Navy admiral
- Charles Crozat Converse, composer
- Marvin Dana, author and magazine editor
- Kim Gannon, songwriter
- Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, attorney, business executive, Union Army officer who attained the rank of brigadier general brevet.[12]
- Kristopher B. Jones, founder of Pepperjam and ReferLocal.com
- Megyn Kelly, news anchor, Fox News Channel
- Barry Kramer, pro basketball player and jurist
- Richard Parsons, Chairman & former CEO of Time Warner; interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers
- George W. Peckham, entomologist
- Morris Silverman, philanthropist and businessman
- Kate Stoneman, first woman admitted to the New York State Bar
References
edit- ^ McDonald, Edward D.; Edward M. Hinton (1942). Drexel Institute of Technology 1891 – 1941. Haddon Craftsmen, Inc. p. 32. ISBN 1-4067-6374-8.
- ^ Cutler, William Richard (1914). New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial. Vol. 3. New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 1468.
- ^ "Obituary, Percival Lee Shangraw". Burlington Free Press. Burlington, VT. December 19, 1988. p. 2B – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Vt. Supreme Court Justices to be Honored in Albany". Bennington Banner. Bennington, VT. May 25, 1967. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Frankenburger, David Bower (1902), General Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of the University of Wisconsin, 1849–1902, Madison, Wisconsin: Madison Press, p. 48, OCLC 27790325, retrieved October 29, 2010
- ^ "Local Items: M. William Bray". Chateaugay Record and Franklin County Democrat. July 25, 1913. p. 1.
- ^ Sorkin, Andrew Ross. "Andrew Cuomo Joins Law Practice in New York", The New York Times, February 17, 2001. Accessed November 3, 2007. "Andrew Cuomo, 43, who received his law degree from Albany Law School in 1982, practiced law first as an assistant district attorney and then in private practice until 1988."
- ^ Historian of the United States Senate. "Biography, Nathan Fellows 1847–1897". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, DC: United States Senate. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
- ^ "Obituary, Frederick M. Reed, 1924-2012". Meaningfulfunerals.net/. 2012.
- ^ Joshua S. Salmon biography, United States Congress. Accessed August 11, 2007.
- ^ J. Clay Smith, Jr., "Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer 1841–1914", 421 (1999).
- ^ Voorhees, Oscar McMurtrie (January 1, 1916). "In Memoriam, Thomas Hamlin Hubbard". The Phi Beta Kappa Key. Vol. 2, no. 10. Somerville, NJ: Unionist-Gazette Association. p. 490.