page_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people
section_title: 1940s
hierarchical_section_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people / Notable alumni / 1940s
caption_attribution_description: English: James Roderick Lilley (李洁明)
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable faculty, trustees, and alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire, founded in 1781.
context_section_description: George Christopher Archibald (1940) – British economist
  William J. Conklin (c. 1940) – architect, archeologist; designer of United States Navy Memorial, co-designer of Reston, Virginia
  Lloyd L. Duxbury (c. 1940) – Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
  Burke Marshall (1940) – U.S. Assistant Attorney General; head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Civil Rights Era
  Bud Palmer (1940) – professional basketball player (NY Knicks); jump shot pioneer; sportscaster; New York City Commissioner of Public Events
  Lloyd Shapley (1940) – winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics
  Harold R. Tyler Jr. (1940) – federal judge
  William C. Campbell (1941) – two-time president of the USGA; member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
  Neil MacNeil (1941) – journalist
  Anton Myrer (1941) – author of war novels
  Robert B. Choate Jr. (1942) – businessman and political activist
  Nathaniel Davis (1942) – career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Chile, and Switzerland
  William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. (1942) – classical archaeologist and architectural historian
  Thomas Ashley Graves Jr. (1942) – President of the College of William & Mary
  Lloyd Stephen Riford Jr. (1942) – New York State politician
  Bagley Wright (1942) — developer; investor; arts patron and fine art collector
  John G. King (1943) – physicist
  Roberts Bishop Owen (1943) – U.S. State Department legal advisor and diplomat
  Robert B. Rheault (1943) – U.S. military officer; conspirator in the Green Beret Affair; inspiration for Apocalypse Now
  Frederic M. Richards (1943) – biochemist and biophysicist
  Julian Roosevelt (1943) – Olympic sailor (1948, 1952–gold medal, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972)
  Roger Sonnabend (1943) – hotelier and businessman
  John Thomson (1943) – UK High Commissioner to India; UK Ambassador to the UN
  Gore Vidal (1943) – author
  Whitney Balliett (1944) – writer for The New Yorker
  Willis Barnstone (1944) – poet, memoirist, translator
  Robinson O. Everett (1944) – judge and law professor
  Kenneth W. Ford (1944) – physicist
  George Plimpton (1944) – author, editor, journalist, actor (expelled)
  Henry N. Cobb (1944) – architect and founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
  John Glenn Beall Jr. (1945) – U.S. representative from Maryland; U.S. senator from Maryland
  James P. Gordon (1945) – invented the Maser as a graduate student at Columbia University with Charles H. Townes (who was later awarded the Nobel Physics prize in 1964)
  Fred Kingsbury (1945) – Olympic rower (1948–bronze medal)
  John Knowles (1945) – author, A Separate Peace
  James R. Lilley (1945) – U.S. Ambassador to China
  William E. Schluter – New Jersey politician
  Charles W. Bailey II (1946) – political reporter, newspaper editor, political novelist (Seven Days in May)
  Theodore V. Buttrey Jr. (1946) – numismatist
  Michael Forrestal (1946) – government aide, legal advisor
  Will Holt (c. 1946) – singer, songwriter, librettist, lyricist
  Ramsay MacMullen (1946) – professor of history at Yale University
  Wallace Nutting (1946) – four-star general
  F. D. Reeve (1946) – author, poet, translator, editor
  Cervin Robinson (1946) – architectural photographer
  John Cowles Jr. (1947) – newspaper editor and publisher; philanthropist
  Bill Felstiner (1947) – socio-legal scholar
  Donald Hall (1947) – poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2006–2007
  Richard W. Murphy (1947) – diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia
  Glenn D. Paige (1947) – political scientist
  John Pittenger (c. 1947) – lawyer and academic
  Haviland Smith (1947) – C.I.A. station chief
  Herbert P. Wilkins (1947) – Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
  David Bevington (1948) – literary scholar
  Douglas M. Head (1948) – Attorney General of Minnesota
  Frederic B. Ingram (1948) – businessman
  Alan Trustman (1948) – screenwriter (The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs)
  Don Whiston (1948) – Olympic ice hockey player (1952–silver medal)
  Carlos Romero Barceló (1949) – Governor of Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the U.S. House of Representatives
  Adair Dyer (1949) – atto
caption: James R. Lilley
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