# List of American Whig–Cliosophic Society members

The American Whig–Cliosophic Society, is a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University. It is the oldest debate union in the United States. Following is a list of some of the notable members of the American Whig–Cliosophic Society

## Academia

| Name | Affiliation | Notability |
| Jeremiah Day | Clio (honorary), inducted 1817 | President of Yale University |
| Samuel Eusebius McCorkle | Clio, class of 1772 | Presbyterian preacher, teacher, and the interceptor and progenitor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, |
| Eliphalet Nott | Clio (honorary), inducted in 1816 | President of Union College |
| Joseph S. Nye, Jr. | Whig–Cliosophic, class of 1958 | Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, chair of the National Intelligence Council |
| John Rawls | Whig–Cliosophic, class of 1943 | professor of philosophy at Harvard University |
| Tapping Reeve | Clio (founder), Class of 1763 | Founder of the first law school in the United States |
| Samuel Stanhope Smith | Whig (founder), class of 1769 | President of Princeton University |

## Law

| Name | Affiliation | Notability |
| Samuel Alito | Whig–Cliosophic, Class of 1972 | Supreme Court of the United States associate justice |
| Hugh Henry Brackenridge | Whig (founder), Class of 1771 | Supreme Court of Pennsylvania justice; coauthored the first American novel |
| William Bradford | Whig (founder), Class of 1772 | United States Attorney General; argued the first recorded case before the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Oliver Ellsworth | Clio (founder), Class of 1766 | Chief Justice of the United States, Founding Father, drafter of the Constitution of the United States, drafter of the Judiciary Act of 1789 |
| Henry Brockholst Livingston | Whig, Class of 1774 | Supreme Court of the United States associate justice |
| William Paterson | Clio (founder), Class of 1763 | Supreme Court of the United States associate justice, Governor of New Jersey, Founding Father, and signer of the Constitution of the United States |
| William Wirt | Clio (honorary), inducted 1819 | United States Attorney General |

## Literature and journalism

| Name | Affiliation | Notability |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Whig, Class of 1917 | Author |
| Philip Freneau | Whig (founder), Class of 1771 | Co-authored the first American novel; the Poet of the American Revolution |
| Ramesh Ponnuru | Whig–Cliosophic, Class of 1995 | Senior editor for the National Review |
| Booth Tarkington | Whig–Cliosophic, Class of 1893 | Novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| Mark Twain | Clio (honorary), inducted 1901 | author and humorist |
| Stan Lee | Clio (honorary) | comic book writer and editor |

## Politics

| Name | Affiliation | Notability |
| John Beatty | Whig (founder), class of 1769 | Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly |
| James Buchanan | Whig (honorary), inducted 1820 | President of the United States, United States Senate, and United States Secretary of State |
| Aaron Burr | Clio (founder), Class of 1772 | Vice-President of the United States, Founding Father, United States Senate, and Attorney General of New York |
| Ted Cruz | Clio, Class of 1992 | United States Senate |
| George M. Dallas | Clio, Class of 1810 | Vice-President of the United States, United States Senate |
| Mitch Daniels | Whig–Cliosophic, Class of 1971 | Governor of Indiana |
| Allen Welsh Dulles | Whig, Class of 1914 | Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, Director of Central Intelligence, and member of the Warren Commission |
| John Foster Dulles | Whig, Class of 1908 | United States Secretary of State |
| Edward Everett | Clio (honorary), inducted 1836 | Governor of Massachusetts, United States Secretary of State, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, and U.S. Minister to Great Britain |
| John Henry | Whig (founder), class of 1769 | Governor of Maryland and United States Senate |
| Andrew Jackson | Whig (honorary), inducted 1838 | President of the United States |
| Thomas Kean | Clio, Class of 1957 | Governor of New Jersey, Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, and chair of the 9/11 Commission |
| Light-Horse Harry Lee | Whig (originally Clio), Class of 1773 | Governor of Virginia |
| James Madison | Whig (founder), Class of 1771 | President of the United States, Father of the Constitution of the United States, co-Father of its United States Bill of Rights, Founding Father, and co-author of The Federalist Papers |
| Luther Martin | Clio (founder), Class of 1766 | Founding Father and delegate to the Constitutional Convention |
| James Monroe | Clio (honorary), inducted 1817 | President of the United States, Founding Father, United States Secretary of State, and United States Secretary of War |
| Ralph Nader | unknown, Class of 1955 | Political activist involved in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes; presidential candidate |
| Aaron Ogden | Clio, Class of 1773 | Governor of New Jersey and United States Senate |
| William Paterson | Clio (founder), Class of 1763 | Governor of New Jersey, Supreme Court of the United States associate justice, Founding Father, and signer of the Constitution of the United States |
| Claiborne Pell | Whig, class of 1940 | United States Senate |
| Paul S. Sarbanes | Whig–Cliosophic, Class of 1954 | United States Senate |
| Adlai Stevenson II | Whig, Class of 1922 | Governor of Illinois and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations |
| Norman M. Thomas | Whig, Class of 1905 | Six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America |
| Woodrow Wilson | Whig, Class of 1879 Speaker (president) | President of the United States, Governor of New Jersey, and president of Princeton University |
| Charles W. Yost | Whig, Class of 1928 | U.S Ambassador to Laos, U.S. Ambassador to Syria, U.S. Ambassador to Morocco, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations |