# List of Norwich University alumni

Following is a list of notable alumni of Norwich University, private senior military college in Northfield, Vermont. The university was called The American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy from 1818 to 1834.

## Architecture

* William Rutherford Mead (non-degreed) – architect associated with the City Beautiful and Beaux Arts movements and partner in McKim, Mead, and White

## Business

* Bradley Birkenfeld 1988 – private banker and whistleblower about State Street Bank & Trust and the Swiss bank, UBS.
* Paul C. Cameron 1828 – co-builder of the North Carolina Railroad and justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court
* Orville Clark 182? – President of the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company and New York State Senate
* Grenville Dodge 1850 – chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad, Civil War General, US Congressman, and namesake of. Dodge City, Kansas.
* Robert Livingston Pell 1829 – farmer and landowner
* Junius Spencer Morgan (attended) – banker, financier, and the father of J. P. Morgan
* Harry Bates Thayer (attended 1875–1877) – president and chairman of the board of AT&T

## Education

* Patricia Aakhus – novelist and director of International Studies at the University of Southern Indiana
* Kenny Alexander 2019 (MA) – college system chancellor, and political science instructor at Tidewater Community College, Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegrates, and mayor of Norfolk, Virginia
* Alvan E. Bovay 1841 – co-founder of Ripon College and of the Republican Party
* Thomas J. Cutler 1988 – author, director of the Walbrook Maritime Academy, and associate editor of the United States Naval Institute
* Carlo D'Este 1958 – military historian, biographer,and lecturer at School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and General Staff College
* Tarak Nath Das – professor of political science at Columbia University
* Thomas Green Clemson 1824 – founder of Clemson University and US Ambassador to Belgium
* Roxane Gay – writer and professor at Eastern Illinois University, Purdue University, and Yale University
* Ernest N. Harmon (attended 1914) – president of Norwich University, major general, and commander of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Armored Division, and XXII Corps during World War II
* Robert F. McDermott (attended 1937–1939) – dean of faculty to the Air Force Academy, Brigadier General, and flew 61 combat missions during World War II in the European Theatre,
* Tracey Poirier 1996 – assistant vice president for student affairs at Norwich University and Brigadier General in the Vermont Army National Guard
* Andrea Talentino 2017 (MBA) – ninth president of Augustana College
* Marjorie Welish – poet and instructor at the Pratt Institute and Brown University.

## Engineering and science

* Edward Dean Adams 1864 – Founded and directed the Cataract Construction Company and developed the systems to produce electric power at Niagara Falls
* Richard E. Hayden 1968 – acoustics researcher and winner of the Wright Brothers Medal in 1973
* Frederick W. Lander 1852 – Surveyor of railroad routes and wagon trails in the Western American States and Brigadier General during the American Civil War
* Horatio Wright (attended 1834–1836) – Engineer for the Brooklyn Bridge and the Washington Monument, Chief of Engineers for the Army; Major General, commander with the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War, Commander of the Army of Texas
* Samuel T. Wellman 1866 – American steel industry pioneer and inventor

## Law

* Charles J. Adams 1939 – Vermont Attorney General
* F. Elliott Barber Jr. 1934 – Vermont Attorney General
* Luther Loren Baxter – Minnesota Senate, Minnesota House of Representatives, probate judge, United States Attorney, and county attorney for Carver County, Minnesota
* Thomas Bragg 1828 – Attorney General of the Confederate States, Governor of North Carolina from 1855 to 1859, and United States Senate
* Thaddeus M. Buczko – Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Auditor, and justice of the Essex County Probate and Family Court
* Paul C. Cameron 1828 – justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court and co-buiider of the North Carolina Railroad
* John P. Connarn 1941 – Vermont Attorney General, 1965–1967; Judge with the Vermont District Court from 1967 to 1985, and Vermont House of Representatives
* S. Park Coon – Attorney General of Wisconsin
* Jasper W. Gilbert 1832 – justice on the New York Supreme Court
* William Pitt Kellogg 1848 – Chief Justice of the Nebraska Territory Louisiana Senate, and Governor of Louisiana
* Jefferson P. Kidder 1834 – justice of territorial Supreme Court, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and United States House of Representatives for the Dakota Territory
* William Little Lee 1842 – Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Kingdom and privy counselor to Kamehameha III
* Michael Mori 1991 – lawyer of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Matthew Hicks and recipient of the American Civil Liberties Union's Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award
* Theodore Sedgwick 1826 – United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
* Burleigh F. Spalding 1877 – Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court and United States House of Representatives from North Dakota

## Literature and journalism

* Patricia Aakhus – novelist and director of International Studies at the University of Southern Indiana
* Sharifa Alkhateeb – journalist and editor
* Thomas J. Cutler 1988 – author, director of the Walbrook Maritime Academy, and associate editor of the United States Naval Institute
* William Richard Cutter – writer, historian, librarian, and genealogist
* Roxane Gay – writer and professor at Eastern Illinois University, Purdue University, and Yale University
* Marjorie Welish – Poet and instructor at Pratt Institute and Brown University.
* Rafael Enault – French writer and film director.
* Pierson "Pier" Mapes - 1959, President of NBC from 1982 - 1994.

## Military

* Fred Thaddeus Austin 1888 – Major General and U.S. Army Chief of Field Artillery
* Hiram Iddings Bearss (attended 1894–1895) – Brigadier General who Received the Medal of Honor during the Philippine–American War
* Francis William Billado 1933 – Major General and Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard
* James Vote Bomford 1828 – Brigadier General.in the U.S. Army
* Irving L. Branch 1934 – United States Air Force general
* John J. Broadmeadow 1983 – lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps
* Edward H. Brooks 1916 – Lieutenant General, Commander, VI Armored Corps during World War II; and commanding general, U.S. Army in the Caribbean
* James M. Burt 1939 – Received the Medal of Honor for he Battle of Aachen during World War II.
* Henry Stanton Burton (attended 1832–1835) – brevet brigadier general U. S. Army
* Thomas A. Bussiere 1985 - General in the United States Air Force, Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command
* Edward Byers 2016 – Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient
* Harold D. Campbell 1917 – United States Marine Corps major general
* George Colvocoresses 1831 – Commanded USS Saratoga during the Civil War
* George Partridge Colvocoresses 1866 – rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and Commandant of Cadets at the United States Naval Academy
* George A. Converse 1863 – Rear Admiral, notable naval engineer, and Chief of the Bureaus of Equipment, Ordnance, and Navigation
* Norman Cooling (attended 1986) – Brigadier General in the United States Marine Corps
* Reginald M. Cram 1936 – adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard
* Thomas Tingey Craven 1824 – U.S. Navy Admiral
* George Dewey (attended 1852–1854) – Admiral of the Navy, commanded the Navy's Asiatic Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.
* Grenville M. Dodge 1851 – major general, Commander of the Department of Missouri; and chief engineer of Union Pacific, and namesake of Dodge City, Kansas
* Donald E. Edwards 1959 – adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard
* Jesse Gove 1849 – colonel in the American Civil War
* Ernest N. Harmon (attended 1914) – major general, president of Norwich University, and Commander of the 1st Armored Division, 2nd Armored Division, and XXII Corps during World War II
* Richard W. Higgins – USAF pilot serving in Germany decorated by the German Air Force for saving civilians in an accident.
* Willie Johnston (attended, 1866–1868) – youngest recipient of the Medal of Honor
* Frederick W. Lander 1852 – brigadier general during the American Civil War and surveyor of railroad routes and wagon trails in the Far Wes
* Albert Martin – defender of the Alamo in 1836
* Robert F. McDermott (attended 1937–1939) – flew 61 combat missions during World War II in the European Theatre, dean of faculty to the Air Force Academy, and brigadier general.
* Robert H. Milroy 1843 – brigadier general, in command or present at the Union reverses of the Battle of McDowell, Battle of Cross Keys, and Battle of Second Winchester.
* Lewis Samuel Partridge 1838 – major general, adjutant general of the Vermont Militia
* Hiram Paulding 1822 – rear admiral, commander of the Navy's Home Squadron, and commandant of the New York Navy Yard
* Thomas Payne 2017 – member of U.S. Army Special Mission Unit who received the Medal of Honor for operations against ISIS in Iraq
* Samuel L. Pitkin 1823 – Adjutant General for the State of Connecticut
* Tracey Poirier 1996 – brigadier general, the first female general officer of the Vermont Army National Guard and assistant vice president for student affairs at Norwich University
* James Ezekiel Porter (attended 1863–1864) – officer in the 7th Cavalry from 1869 to 1876; killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
* David E. Quantock 1980 – Lieutenant General and Inspector General of the United States Army.
* Thomas E. G. Ransom (attended 1848–1850) – Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War
* Edmund Rice 1859 – brigadier general and recipient of the Medall of Honor for actions at the Battle of Gettysburg.
* William Huntington Russell 1828 – major general, commander of Connecticut state militia during the American Civil War; and founder of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University.
* Thomas O. Seaver 1859 – commanded the 3rd Vermont Infantry during the American Civil War; received the Medal of Honor
* Gordon R. Sullivan 1959 – general and Army Chief of Staff
* Frederick Townsend Ward (attended 1846–1848) – Soldier of fortune famous for his military victories for Imperial China during the Taiping Rebellion.
* James H. Ward 1823 – first commandant of the United States Naval Academy; first Union Naval officer killed in action during the American Civil War.
* Gideon Welles 1826 – served as United States Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson
* Isaac D. White (Class of 1952) – General United States Army, graduate of Norwich University, who commanded the U.S. Army, Pacific (USARPAC) from July 1957 to March 1961. He was commissioned in the cavalry in 1923 and went on to serve in World War II and the Korean War. Because of his extensive experience in tank warfare, at his retirement Armor magazine dubbed him "Mr. Armor".
* Seth Williams 1903 – quartermaster general of the Marine Corps and Major General
* Edward Bancroft Williston 1856 – brigadier general, received the Medal of Honor
* Leonard F. Wing Sr. (attended 1910–1914) – brigadier general and commander of 43rd Infantry Division during World War II.
* Henry Clay Wood 1856 – brigadier general, received the Medal of Honor
* Horatio Wright (attended 1834–1836) – engineer for the Brooklyn Bridge and the Washington Monument, Chief of Engineers for the Army; Major General, commander with the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War, Commander of the Army of Texas

## Politics

* Kenny Alexander 2019 (MA) – Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegrates, mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, college system chancellor, and political science instructor at Tidewater Community College
* David V. Anderson 1922 – Vermont Auditor of Accounts
* Luther Loren Baxter – Minnesota Senate, Minnesota House of Representatives, probate judge, United States Attorney, and county attorney for Carver County, Minnesota
* Portus Baxter 1824 – United States House of Representatives
* Alvan E. Bovay 1841 – co-founder of Republican Party and of Ripon College
* Dennis Bradley – Connecticut State Senate
* Thomas Bragg 1828 – Governor of North Carolina, United States Senate, and Attorney General of the Confederate States.
* Ansel Briggs 1820 – first governor of Iowa
* Francis K. Brooks 1967 – Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate
* George E. Bryant 1854 – Wisconsin State Senate
* Thaddeus M. Buczko – Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Auditor, and justice of the Essex County Probate and Family Court
* Asa Clapp 1823 – United States House of Representatives
* Orville Clark 182x ? – New York State Senate and president of the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company
* Thomas Green Clemson 1824 – US Ambassador to Belgium and founder of Clemson University
* George W. Clinton 1827 – Mayor of Buffalo
* Jay Collins – Florida Senate
* Charles A. Coolidge 1863 – United States Army brigadier general.
* John P. Connarn 1941 – Vermont House of Representatives; Vermont Attorney General, and judge in Vermont District Court
* Laurentino Cortizo – President of Panama, President of the National Assembly, and Minister of Agricultural and Livestock Development
* John J. Daley 1949 – lieutenant governor of Vermont, Vermont House of Representatives, and Mayor of Rutland
* Tarak Nath Das 1908 – co-founder of the Ghadar Party and Indian freedom fighter
* Moses M. Davis – Wisconsin Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly
* Dustin Allard Degree – Vermont General Assembly
* Brian Dempsey – Massachusetts House of Representatives
* Joseph H. Denny 1905 – Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate
* Charles D. Drake 1825 – United States Senate
* Ryland Fletcher 1824 – Governor of Vermont.
* Colonel Ernest Willard Gibson 1894 – United States Senate
* Colonel Ernest W. Gibson Jr. 1923 – United States Senate and Governor of Vermont
* Jason R. Holsman 2003 – Missouri Senate.
* William Pitt Kellogg 1848 – Louisiana State Senate, Governor of Louisiana, and Chief Justice of the Nebraska Territory
* Colin Kenny 1966 – Senate of Canada and adviser to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
* Jefferson P. Kidder 1834 – Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, United States House of Representatives for the Dakota Territory, and a justice of territorial Supreme Court.
* William Little Lee 1842 – Privy counselor to Kamehameha III and chief justice of Hawaiian Kingdom
* Caleb Lyon 1841 – Governor of the Idaho Territory and United States House of Representatives
* Horatio Seymour 1828 – Governor of New York and 1868 Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
* Charles A. Plumley 1896 – United States House of Representatives
* Paul N. Poirier 1970 –Vermont House of Representatives
* Edward Stanly 1829 – United States House of Representatives
* Burleigh F. Spalding 1877 –United States House of Representatives and Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court
* Sugiono – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia
* Gideon Welles 1826 – United States Secretary of the Navy

## Religion and nonprofits

* Gregory T. Bedell – Episcopal Bishop of Ohio
* William Griffith Wilson 1917 – co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous who was in the top 20 persons of the Time 100: Heroes and Icons in the 20th century.

## Sports

* Beau Almodobar – Professional football player
* Tom Aubrun – Professional ice hockey player
* Keith Aucoin 2001 – Professional ice hockey player.
* Andrew Bracy 2015 – professional lacrosse player with the New York Lizards
* Don Brown 1977 – college football coach
* Mike Brown 2000 – Academic All-American wrestler; professional Mixed Martial Artist, and WEC Featherweight Champion in 2008
* Emily Caruso 2000 – sport shooter, two-time Olympian and gold medalist, and college coach
* Amanda Conway 2020 – professional ice hockey player with the Connecticut Whale
* Jay Cottone (attended 1968 to 1970) – college football coach
* Dominick Dawes – college ice hockey coach and professional ice hockey player
* Long Ding – professional football player
* Allen Doyle 1971 – Golfer on the Champions Tour, U.S. Senior Open Champion in 2005 and 2006, and Senior PGA Champion in 1999
* Pierre Garçon – Professional football player
* Nikita Kashirsky – Professional ice hockey player
* Bill Kenney – college football coach
* Frank Liebel 1941 – Professional football player with the New York Giants and Chicago Bears
* Jim Luscinski – Professional football player
* Harold D. Martin – college football coach, and a Negro league baseball player.
* Kurtis McLean 2005 – Professional ice hockey player
* Bobby Murray – Professional baseball player
* Arlie Pond 1888–1890 – Major league pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles
* Frank Simonetti 1984 – Professional ice hockey player with the Boston Bruins
* Brent Thompson (1997) – college football coach