# List of Marietta College alumni

Marietta College is a private liberal arts college in Marietta, Ohio. Following are some of its notable alumni.

## Art

| Name | Class | Major | Notability | References |
| Theodore Earl Butler | | | American impressionist | |
| Charles L. Peterson | | | Artist | |

## Business

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Henry M. Dawes | 1896 | | President of Pure Oil Company of United States Comptroller of the Currency |
| Douglas Putnam | 1859 | | President of Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad Co. and Ashland Coal & Iron Railway; U.S. Army colonel and member of Ulysses S. Grant's staff |
| Mike Salvino | 1987 | Industrial Engineering | President and chairperson of DXC Technology |

## Clergy

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Obed Dickinson | | Congregational minister and abolitionist |
| Dean Hess | 1941 | Clergyman, soldier, and humanitarian |
| Edward Marsden | | Minister and missionary to the Tlingit community of Saxman |
| John Poage Williamson | | Missionary to the Lower Sioux Agency and Crow Creek Indian Reservation; South Dakota House of Representatives |

## Education

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Kenneth P. Bogart | 1965 | Mathematics | Mathematician and professor at Dartmouth College |
| Edmund Burke Fairfield | | | Chancellor of the University of Nebraska and Lieutenant governor of Michigan |
| John Fantuzzo | | | Professor of Human Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Child Research Center |
| Doug La Follette | 1963 | Chemistry | Academic, environmental scientist, and Secretary of State of Wisconsin |
| Scott Lephart | | Sports Medicine | Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences and sports medicine scholar |
| John Nesselroade | | | Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and adjunct professor of human development at Pennsylvania State University |
| Elsie Eaton Newton | | | Dean of Women at Marietta and educator with the United States Indian Service |
| Wilbur Schramm | 1928 | | Academic and founding father of the Communication Studies discipline |

## Entertainment

| Name | Class | Major | Notability | References |
| Nick Gehlfuss | 2007 | | Actor | |
| Gary Kott | 1969 | | Award-winning television and advertising writer, and producer | |

## Law

| Name | Class | Notability |
| James H. Brown | | Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia |
| Martin Dewey Follett | | Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court |
| Joseph McCormick | | Ohio Attorney General, lawyer, and participant in the second Ohio Constitutional Convention |
| Chuck McRae | | Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi |
| Steven Sadow | | Criminal defense attorney |
| John Elbert Sater | | District judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio |
| Riley E. Stratton | | Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court |
| Joseph G. Wilson | 1846 | Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court and United States House of Representatives |

## Literature and journalism

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Kathy Brodsky | 1967 | Author and poet |
| Rich Galen | 1968 | Columnist, press secretary, and Republican strategist |
| Joyce Harrington | 1953 | Novelist |
| Joy Williams | 1963 | Novelist, short story writer, and essayist |

## Military

| Name | Class | Major | Notability | References |
| Douglas Putnam | 1859 | | U.S. Army colonel and member of Ulysses S. Grant's staff, president of Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad Co. and Ashland Coal & Iron Railway; | |
| Walter Cowen Short | 1888 | | U.S. Army Brigadier General | |

## Politics

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Edward H. Allen | | Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri |
| Ray Barnhart | 1959 | Federal Highway Administration director and Texas House of Representatives |
| James Capehart | | United States House of Representatives |
| Eldon Jacob Crull | 1881 | Montana House of Representatives |
| Beman Gates Dawes | | United States House of Representatives |
| Charles G. Dawes | 1884 | U.S. Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, and ambassador |
| Henry M. Dawes | | United States Comptroller of the Currency and president of Pure Oil Company |
| Rufus Dawes | | United States House of Representatives |
| Frank Deem | | West Virginia Senate and West Virginia House of Delegates |
| Edmund Burke Fairfield | | Lieutenant governor of Michigan and Chancellor of the University of Nebraska |
| John F. Follett | | United States House of Representatives |
| Glen Gainer Jr. | | State Auditor of West Virginia |
| William Irwin | 1848 | Governor of California |
| Carte Goodwin | 1996 | United States Senate |
| Amy Grady | | West Virginia Senate |
| Doug La Follette | | Secretary of State of Wisconsin, academic, and environmental scientist |
| Isaac Naylor | | Mayor of Dallas |
| Henry S. Neal | | United States House of Representatives |
| C. William O'Neill | 1938 | Governor of Ohio |
| John Patterson | | Ohio House of Representatives |
| Joel Pritchard | | United States House of Representatives and Lieutenant Governor of Washington |
| John M. Stowell | | Wisconsin State Assembly and Mayor of Milwaukee |
| Willard Warner | 1845 | United States Senate |
| Albert B. White | | Governor of West Virginia |
| Wilbur M. White | | United States House of Representatives |
| John Poage Williamson | | South Dakota House of Representatives and Lower Sioux Agency and Crow Creek Indian Reservation missionary |
| Joseph G. Wilson | 1846 | United States House of Representatives and justice on the Oregon Supreme Court |

## Science and medicine

| Name | Class | Major | Notability | References |
| Richard M. Krause | 1947 | Biology | Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, physician, microbiologist, and immunologist | |
| F. Story Musgrave | 1960 | Chemistry | NASA astronaut and shuttle pilot | |

## Sports

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Dale E. Chadwick | | | College football coach and collegiate athletic director |
| W. D. Chadwick | | | Coach of college football, baseball, and basketball and athletics administrator |
| Dane Dastillung | | | Professional football player |
| Matt DeSalvo | 2002 | Environmental Science | Professional baseball player with the New York Yankees |
| Mel Doherty | | | Professional football player-coach |
| Ban Johnson | 1887 | | Founder of baseball's American League |
| Terry Mulholland | 1985 | | Professional baseball player |
| Don Schaly | 1959 | | ABCA Hall of Fame member, all-time winningest baseball coach in Division III |
| John Strotbeck | 1979 | | U.S. Olympic rower |
| Kent Tekulve | 1969 | | Professional baseball player with the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| Jim Tracy | 1978 | | Former Major League Baseball manager with the Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers |
| Bob Walsh | 1962 | Journalism | Sports executive, television producer, and marketing executive |

## Other

| Name | Class | Major | Notability | References |
| Andrea Parhamovich | 2000 | | National Democratic Institute employee killed in Baghdad, Iraq on January 17, 2007 | |
| Walter E. Webbe | | | Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States | |