page_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people
section_title: 1900s
hierarchical_section_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people / Notable alumni / 1900s
caption_attribution_description: English: General Edwin F. Harding, commanding general of the 32nd Infantry Division
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: Arthur Nash (1900) – architect
  Myron E. Witham (1900) — All-American football player; football coach at Purdue and the University of Colorado
  Swinburne Hale (1901) — civil rights attorney; a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; poet
  James Hogan (1901) – All-American football player
  Walter Nelles (1901) – a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
  Foster Rockwell (1901) – All-American football player; football coach at Yale and Navy; won national championship coaching at Yale; hotelier
  Ralph B. Strassburger (1901) – businessman, thoroughbred owner and breeder
  Joseph Gilman (1902) – All-American football player, businessman
  Samuel M. Harrington (1902) — brigadier general
  J. W. Knibbs (1902) – football player; football coach at University of California, Berkeley
  James Cooney (1903) – All-American football player
  Sterling Dow (1903) – American classical archaeologist and epigrapher
  Nicholas V. V. Franchot II (1903) – businessman and New York State politician
  Hugo W. Koehler (1903) — U.S. Navy commander; military attaché to Russia
  Samuel Abraham Marx (1903) – architect and interior designer
  Jay R. Benton (1904) – Massachusetts Attorney General
  Edwin F. Harding (1904) – U.S. Army major general, Commander of 32nd Infantry Division during WW II
  Howard Jones (1904) – football coach; won national championships coaching Yale and USC
  T. A. Dwight Jones (1904) – All-American football player; Yale football coach
  Jim McCormick (1904) – All-American football player; football coach at Princeton
  F. Harold Van Orman (1904) – Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
  Harrie B. Chase (1905) – federal judge
  Richard Grozier (1905) – owner, publisher, and editor of The Boston Post; responsible for exposing Charles Ponzi
  Roger Sherman Hoar (1905) – lawyer, politician, science fiction author
  William Rand (1905) – Olympic athlete (1908, 110m hurdles)
  Thomas C. Coffin (1906) – U.S. representative from Idaho
  Haniel Long (1906) – poet, novelist, publisher and academic
  Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1906) – U.S. Secretary of Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt (did not graduate)
  Andrew Tombes (1906) – comedian and character actor
  Justin Woodward Harding (c. 1907) – federal judge; trial judge at Nuremberg
  Ed Wheelan (1907) – cartoonist
  Robert Benchley (1908) – author; member of original staff of The New Yorker; actor
  Frank M. Dixon (c. 1908) – Governor of Alabama; a founder of the States' Rights Party ("Dixiecrats")
  Arthur Bluethenthal (1909) – All-American football player; decorated World War I pilot
  John Paul Jones – Olympic runner and baseball player (1912); world record holder in the mile run
caption: Edwin F. Harding
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