 Many City College alumni have become civil servants, including three of the 10 individuals currently representing the state of Maryland in the U.S. Congress — Congressman Elijah Cummings, Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, (also former County Executive of surrounding suburban Baltimore County), and Senator Ben Cardin. Among graduates with significant military service are two Commandants of the U.S. Coast Guard - Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard and Admiral J. William Kime, as well as 2nd Lieutenant Jacob Beser of the U.S. Army Air Corps the only individual at the end of World War II to serve on both atomic bomb missions over Japan, on the B-29 bomber planes, the "Enola Gay", when it dropped the device "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, and second plane "Bocks Car" when it dropped the "Fat Man" bomb on Nagasaki in August 1945, and was one of the very few crewmen who had an inkling of atomic energy theory. In addition, three City College alumni are also recipients of the congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award.
