Following is a list of notable members of the American Whig–Cliosophic Society. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category.
Politics and government
editName | Known for | Affiliation |
---|---|---|
Samuel Alito | 110th Supreme Court Justice. | unknown, Class of 1972. President of the Whig-Clio Debate Panel.[1] |
John Beatty | Revolutionary War veteran, Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly. | Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society.[2] |
Hugh Henry Brackenridge | Coauthored the first American novel while at Princeton. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society.[3] |
William Bradford | Argued the first recorded case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Second Attorney General of the United States under George Washington. | Whig (founder), Class of 1772. Founded the American Whig Society.[4] |
James Buchanan | Senator, Secretary of State, Fifteenth President of the United States. | Whig (honorary), inducted 1820.[5][6] |
Aaron Burr | Revolutionary War veteran, New York Senator, third Vice-President of the United States. | Clio (founder), Class of 1772. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[4] |
Ted Cruz | Senator, Texas | Clio, Class of 1992. |
George M. Dallas | Senator from Pennsylvania, eleventh Vice-President of the United States. | Clio, Class of 1810.[7] |
Mitch Daniels | Forty-ninth Governor of Indiana. | unknown, Class of 1971.[8] |
Allen Welsh Dulles | Diplomat, second Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, first civilian CIA Director. | Whig, Class of 1914.[9] |
John Foster Dulles | As Secretary of State, one of the most famous diplomats of the 20th century. | Whig, Class of 1908.[10][11] |
Oliver Ellsworth | Founding Father, drafter of the Constitution, drafter of the Judiciary Act of 1789, third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. | Clio (founder), Class of 1766. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[4] |
Edward Everett | U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, the fifteenth Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1836.[5][12] |
John Henry | Senator, eighth Governor of Maryland. | Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society.[13] |
Andrew Jackson | Seventh President of the United States. | Whig (honorary), inducted 1838.[5] |
Thomas Kean | Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, forty-eighth Governor of New Jersey, chaired the 9/11 Commission. | unknown (presumed Clio), Class of 1957.[14] |
Light-Horse Harry Lee | Revolutionary War veteran, ninth Governor of Virginia, orator at George Washington’s funeral. Father of Robert E. Lee. | Whig (originally Clio), Class of 1773.[15] |
Henry Brockholst Livingston | Revolutionary War veteran, associate Supreme Court justice. | Whig, Class of 1774.[16] |
James Madison | The Federalist Papers co-author, Father of the United States Constitution, Co-Father of its Bill of Rights, fourth President of the United States. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society. |
Luther Martin | Founding Father, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, prominent Anti-Federalist. | Clio (founder), Class of 1766. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[17] |
James Monroe | Founding Father, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Fifth President of the United States. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1817.[5] |
Ralph Nader | Political activist, presidential candidate. | unknown, Class of 1955.[18] |
Aaron Ogden | United States senator, fifth governor of New Jersey. | Clio, Class of 1773.[16] |
William Paterson | Founding Father, signer of the Constitution, second governor of New Jersey, Supreme Court Justice. | Clio (founder), Class of 1763. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[4] |
Claiborne Pell | Senator (longest-serving senator in Rhode Island’s history), author of the Federal Pell Grant program. | unknown (presumed Whig), class of 1940.[19] |
Paul S. Sarbanes | Senator (longest-serving senator in Maryland’s history), co-sponsor of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act. | unknown, Class of 1954.[20] |
Adlai Stevenson II | Thirty-first governor of Illinois, fifth Ambassador to the United Nations (during the Cuban Missile Crisis), two-time presidential candidate. | Whig, Class of 1922.[21] |
Norman M. Thomas | Pacifist, six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. | Whig, Class of 1905.[22] |
Woodrow Wilson | Professor, thirteenth President of Princeton, thirty-fourth Governor of New Jersey, twenty-eighth President of the United States. Wilson delivered his famous speech, “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” as a representative of the American Whig Society.[23] | Whig (Speaker), Class of 1879. Speaker (president) of the American Whig Society, contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine. Later, as a professor, coached the Whig-Clio debate team.[17][24] |
William Wirt | Ninth Attorney General (longest serving in American history), arguing in Gibbons v. Ogden, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Worcester v. Georgia. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1819.[5] |
Charles W. Yost | U.S. Ambassador to Laos, Syria and Morocco, ninth Ambassador to the United Nations. | Whig, Class of 1928.[25] |
Academia
editName | Known for | Affiliation |
---|---|---|
Jeremiah Day | Fifth President of Yale University. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1817.[5] |
Samuel Eusebius McCorkle | A pioneer of public and private education in colonial and independent America, progenitor and inceptor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | Clio, class of 1772.[26] |
Eliphalet Nott | Fourth President of Union College. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1816.[5] |
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. | One of the most influential international relations scholars of the 20th century (pioneered the concept of soft power). | unknown, Class of 1958.[27] |
John Rawls | One of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century. | unknown, class of 1943. First treasurer of Whig-Clio’s Madison Debating Society.[28] |
Tapping Reeve | Founder of the first law school in the United States. | Clio (founder), Class of 1763. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[29] |
Samuel Stanhope Smith | Philosopher, seventh President of Princeton University. | Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society.[30] |
Woodrow Wilson | Professor, thirteenth President of Princeton, thirty-fourth Governor of New Jersey, twenty-eighth President of the United States. Wilson delivered his famous speech, “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” as a representative of the American Whig Society.[23] | Whig (Speaker), Class of 1879. Speaker (president) of the American Whig Society, contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine. Later, as a professor, coached the Whig-Clio debate team.[17][24] |
Literature and Journalism
editName | Known for | Affiliation |
---|---|---|
Hugh Henry Brackenridge | Coauthored the first American novel while at Princeton. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society.[3] |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | One of the most famous American authors of the 20th century. | Whig, Class of 1917. Contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine.[31][32] |
Philip Freneau | Coauthored the first American novel while at Princeton. The Poet of the American Revolution. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society.[4] |
Ramesh Ponnuru | Senior editor for the National Review. | Unknown, Class of 1995[33] |
Booth Tarkington | One of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. | unknown, Class of 1893. Contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine.[34] |
Mark Twain | One of the most influential American authors of the 19th century. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1901.[35] |
Stan Lee | Among the most influential creators of Comic Books. | Clio (honorary), inducted (unknown).[36] |
See also
editReferences
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- ^ "Daily Princetonian 23 February 1925 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ a b "Brackenridge, Hugh Henry". princeton.edu.
- ^ a b c d e "Daily Princetonian Special Class of 1991 Issue 27 July 1987 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ a b c d e f g Thomas Spencer Harding (1971). College literary societies: their contribution to higher education in the United States, 1815–1876. Pageant Press International. ISBN 9780818102028. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ Harding 1971, page 39
- ^ "Daily Princetonian – Special Class of 1979 Issue 25 July 1975 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ "Notable Alumni". princeton.edu. 2016-02-02.
- ^ "Daily Princetonian 31 March 1911 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ "Daily Princetonian 2 May 1905 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ "Daily Princetonian 19 May 1905 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ Harding 1971, page 40
- ^ "Daily Princetonian 23 February 1925 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ Alvin S. Felzenberg (12 May 2006). Governor Tom Kean: From the New Jersey Statehouse to the 9-11 Commission. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-3799-3. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ "Lee, Henry". princeton.edu.
- ^ a b "Culpable Carelessness.; COMMENCEMENT AT PRINCETON. Centennial of the Cliosophic Society-- Interesting Proceedings". The New York Times. 1865-06-29.
- ^ a b c "Daily Princetonian Special Class of 1971 Issue 15 June 1967 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ Nancy Bowen (1 April 2002). Ralph Nader: Man With a Mission. Millbrook Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-7613-2365-5. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ "Founder of Pell Grants dies at 90 - The Daily Princetonian". Archived from the original on 2009-01-22.
- ^ "Daily Princetonian 14 May 1952 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ "Daily Princetonian – Special Class of 1979 Issue 25 July 1975 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ "Daily Princetonian – Special Class of 1979 Issue 25 July 1975 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ a b "Alumni Princetonian 22 October 1896 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ a b McKean, Dayton D. (1930). "Woodrow Wilson as a debate coach". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 16 (4): 458–463. doi:10.1080/00335633009360910.
- ^ "Town Topics 12 June 1969 — Princeton Periodicals".
- ^ Harrison, Richard (1980). Princetonians, 1769–1775: A Biographical Dictionary. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 245. ISBN 9781400856527.
- ^ "Daily Princetonian 7 January 1958 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ "Daily Princetonian 12 April 1940 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ "Cliosophic Society Records (AC016) – Cliosophic Society Records". princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08.
- ^ "Daily Princetonian 11 December 1929 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ "Daily Princetonian 15 October 1913 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ "Daily Princetonian Special Class of 1971 Issue 15 June 1967 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2006/10/11/16144/ [dead link ]
- ^ "Daily Princetonian Special Class of 1971 Issue 15 June 1967 — Princeton Periodicals". princeton.edu.
- ^ "ONLY 368 SINS, SAYS MARK TWAIN". New York Sun. New York. 1901-05-10. p. 1. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
- ^ "Nerdist Podcast #14: Stan Lee". Nerdist.
External links
edit- Official website of Whig-Clio
- Notable Alumni page of Whig-Clio