Name |
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] |
Name |
Known for |
Affiliation |
Jeremiah Day |
Fifth President of Yale University. |
Clio (honorary), inducted 1817.[5] |
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.[26] |
John Rawls |
One of the most influential political philosopher of the 20th century. |
unknown, class of 1943. First treasurer of Whig-Clio’s Madison Debating Society.[27] |
Tapping Reeve |
Founder of the first law school in the United States. |
Clio (founder), Class of 1763. Founded the Cliosophic Society.[28] |
Samuel Stanhope Smith |
Philosopher, seventh President of Princeton University. |
Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society.[29] |
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] |