page_title: List of United States Military Academy alumni
section_title: Legislators
hierarchical_section_title: List of United States Military Academy alumni / Government / Legislators
caption_attribution_description: English: Henry Warner Slocum by Mathew Brady
context_page_description: The United States Military Academy is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Army. The Academy was founded in 1802 and is the oldest of the United States' five service academies. It is also referred to as West Point The Academy graduated its first cadet, Joseph Gardner Swift, in October 1802. Sports media refer to the Academy as "Army" and the students as "Cadets"; this usage is officially endorsed. The football team is also known as "The Black Knights of the Hudson" and "The Black Knights". A small number of graduates each year choose the option of cross-commissioning into the United States Air Force, United States Navy, or the United States Marine Corps. Before the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in 1955, the Academy was a major source of officers for the Air Force and its predecessors. Most cadets are admitted through the congressional appointment system. The curriculum emphasizes the sciences and engineering fields.
  The list is drawn from graduates, non-graduate former cadets, current cadets, and faculty of the Military Academy.
context_section_description: Daniel Azro Ashley Buck, class of 1808, U.S. Representative (1823–1825,1827–1829), Vermont
  Daniel Tunern, class of 1814, U.S. Representative, North Carolina (1827–1829)
  James Monroe, class of 1815, U.S. Representative (1839–1841), New York
  George Wurtz Hughes, class of 1827, U.S. Representative (1859–1861), Maryland
  Jefferson Davis, class of 1828. U.S. Representative (1845–1846) and Senator (1847–1853, elected but not seated 1875), Mississippi
  Alexander C.M. Pennington, class of 1828, represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1853–1857.
  Joseph E. Johnston, class of 1829, U.S. Representative, Virginia
  Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, class of 1831, U.S. Representative, New York
  Robert Milligan McLane, class of 1837, U.S. Representative, Maryland
  John B. S. Todd, class of 1837. U.S. Congressman, Dakota Territory (1861–1863,1864–1865)
  James Madison Leach, class of 1838, U.S. Representative, North Carolina
  Isaac Ingalls Stevens, class of 1839, U.S. Representative, Washington Territory
  Egbert Ludoricus Viele, class of 1847, U.S. Representative, New York
  Ambrose Burnside, class of 1847. U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1875–1881)
  Henry Warner Slocum, class of 1852. U.S. Representative, New York (1869–1873, 1883–1884)
  Henry A. du Pont, class of 1861. U.S. Senator, Delaware (1895–1896,1906–1917)
  Joseph Wheeler, class of 1859. U.S. Representative, Alabama (1881–1882, 1883, 1885–1900)
  Frank Obadiah Briggs, class of 1872, U.S. Senator, New Jersey
  Jesse Matlack Baker, class of 1873, Pennsylvania State Representative (1889-1892) and State Senator (1893-1897)
  Lawrence D. Tyson, class of 1883. U.S. Senator, Tennessee (1925–1929)
  Bertram Tracy Clayton, class of 1886. U.S. Representative, New York (1899–1901)
  Charles Henry Martin, class of 1887, U.S. Representative, Oregon
  Butler Ames, class of 1894, U.S. Representative, Massachusetts
  Frank Kowalski, class of 1930, U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
  Nile Soik, class of 1945, member of the Wisconsin State Legislature
  Howard Hollis Callaway, class of 1949, U.S. Representative, Georgia
  John Michael Murphy, class of 1950, U.S. Representative, New York
  Adam Benjamin Jr., class of 1958, U.S. Representative, Indiana (1977–82)
  Jack Reed, class of 1971. U.S. Representative (1991–1997), U.S. Senator (1997- ), Rhode Island
  John Shimkus, class of 1980. U.S. Representative, Illinois (1997- )
  Geoff Davis, class of 1981. U.S. Representative, Kentucky (2004- )
  Michael Pompeo, class of 1986. U.S. Representative, Kansas (2011-2017)
  Mark E. Green, class of 1986. U.S. Representative, Tennessee (2019-)
  Brett Guthrie, class of 1987. U.S. Representative, Kentucky (2009-)
  Warren Davidson, class of 1995. U.S. Representative, Ohio (2016-)
  Steve Watkins, class of 1999. U.S. Representative, Kansas (2018-)
caption: Henry Slocum
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