EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

A part of Union University.

Location:
Schenectady, NY

Founding Date:
1795

Enrollment:
2200

Official Website:
http://www.union.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Neil Abercrombie	Politician	26-Jun-1938		Governor of Hawaii
Samuel Hopkins Adams	Journalist	26-Jan-1871	15-Nov-1958	The Great American Fraud
David Anderson	Diplomat	3-Jan-1937	4-Jul-1997	US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1981-85
Chester A. Arthur	Head of State	5-Oct-1829	18-Nov-1886	21st US President, 1881-85
Edward Bellamy	Author	26-Mar-1850	22-May-1898	Looking Backward
John Bigelow	Author	25-Nov-1817	19-Dec-1911	Ambassador to France, memoirist
Baruch S. Blumberg	Scientist	28-Jul-1925	5-Apr-2011	Hepatitis B vaccine
William Jennings Bryan	Politician	18-Mar-1860	26-Jul-1925	Prosecutor of the Scopes Monkey Trial
Arnold I. Burns	Attorney	14-Apr-1930	1-Oct-2013	Deputy US Attorney General, 1986-88
Joseph M. Carey	Politician	19-Jan-1845	5-Feb-1924	Governor of Wyoming, 1911-15
Orlow W. Chapman	Government	7-Jan-1832	19-Jan-1890	US Solicitor General, 1889-90
Robert F. Cummings, Jr.	Business	c. 1950		Senior Managing Director, GSC Group
Jeffrey DeMunn	Actor	25-Apr-1947		Citizen X
Klaus Eppler	Attorney	8-May-1930		Retired Partner, Proskauer Rose
Vic Fazio	Politician	11-Oct-1942		Congressman from California, 1979-99
Joel M. Flaum	Judge	26-Nov-1936		7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Raymond V. Gilmartin	Business	6-Mar-1941		CEO of Merck, 1994-2005
Gordon Gould	Physicist	17-Jul-1920	16-Sep-2005	Invented the laser, arguably
Robert R. Grusky	Business	19-Aug-1957		Hope Capital Management
Henry W. Halleck	Military	16-Jan-1815	9-Jan-1872	Commander of US Army, 1862-64
Robert Holland, Jr.	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Ben & Jerry's, 1995-96
Ward Hunt	Judge	14-Jun-1810	24-Mar-1886	US Supreme Court Justice, 1873-82
Preston King	Politician	14-Oct-1806	12-Nov-1865	US Senator, committed suicide
Randy Kuhl	Politician	19-Apr-1943		Congressman from New York, 2005-09
John P. Lewis	Economist	18-Mar-1921	19-May-2010	Council of Economic Advisers, 1963-64
William B. Marx, Jr.	Business	c. 1939		Former AT&T/Lucent EVP
Robert E. May	Historian	6-Jul-1943		The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire
Lewis Henry Morgan	Anthropologist	21-Nov-1818	17-Dec-1881	Ancient Society
J. Sterling Morton	Government	22-Apr-1832	27-Apr-1902	US Secretary of Agriculture, 1893-97
Robert P. Patterson	Judge	12-Feb-1891	22-Jan-1952	US Secretary of War, 1945-47
Martin L. Perl	Physicist	24-Jun-1927	30-Sep-2014	Discovered the tau lepton
Kevin M. Rampe	Attorney	c. 1966		Ex-President, Lower Manhattan Development Corp.
Dylan Ratigan	Journalist	19-Apr-1972		Co-Creator of Fast Money
Phil Alden Robinson	Film Director	1-Mar-1950		Field of Dreams
Ben Schwartz	Actor	15-Sep-1981		Rejected Jokes
William Henry Seward	Politician	16-May-1801	10-Oct-1872	Mastermind behind Seward's Folly
Steven J. Shapiro	Business	c. 1953		CFO of Burlington Resources, 2000-05
Alfred Sommer	Doctor	1942		SPH Dean at Johns Hopkins, 1990-2005
John C. Spencer	Politician	8-Jan-1788	18-May-1855	US Secretary of the Treasury, 1843-44
Adam Storke	Actor	18-Aug-1962		Mystic Pizza
Richard K. Templeton	Business	c. 1958		CEO of Texas Instruments
Lee Tracy	Actor	14-Apr-1898	18-Oct-1968	Crashing Hollywood
Binyavanga Wainaina	Author	18-Jan-1971		One Day I Will Write About This Place
Thomas A. Watson	Engineer	18-Jan-1854	13-Dec-1934	Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell
George Westinghouse	Inventor	6-Oct-1846	12-Mar-1914	Air brake and AC power
J. Ernest Wharton	Politician	4-Oct-1899	19-Jan-1990	Congressman from New York, 1951-65

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Manfred Jonas	Historian	9-Apr-1927	25-Aug-2013	Isolationism in America, 1935-1941
Paul LeClerc	Administrator	28-May-1941		CEO of New York Public Library
John P. Lewis	Economist	18-Mar-1921	19-May-2010	Council of Economic Advisers, 1963-64

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert F. Cummings, Jr.	Business	c. 1950		Senior Managing Director, GSC Group
Robert P. Patterson	Judge	12-Feb-1891	22-Jan-1952	US Secretary of War, 1945-47

COACHES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tom Cahill	Football	c. 1919	29-Oct-1992	Army Head Coach, 1966-73
John J. McLaughry	Football	8-Apr-1917	28-Nov-2007	Head Coach at Brown, 1959-66

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