List of Phillips Exeter Academy people

The following is a list of notable alumni from Phillips Exeter Academy.

1790s

Lewis Cass (1792) - Secretary of State
Nathaniel Upham (1793) - United States Representative from New Hampshire.
Samuel Conner (1794) - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts^{[citation needed]}
Daniel Webster (1796) - U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, born in New Hampshire

John Adams Dix (1810) - Secretary of the Treasury, Senator from New York, Governor of New York
George Bancroft (1811) - Historian, Secretary of Navy, and founder of the United States Naval Academy.

Franklin Pierce (1820) - 14th U.S. President
Alpheus Felch (c. 1822) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Michigan
John Parker Hale (c. 1824) - U.S. Representative, Senator, abolitionist from New Hampshire

Amos Tappan Akerman (c.1839) - U.S. Attorney General, 1870-1872, not listed in Alumni Records[1]

Robert Todd Lincoln (1860) - Son of President Abraham Lincoln, US Secretary of War.
John Edwards Leonard (1863) - U.S. Representative from Louisiana^{[citation needed]}
Emmanuel Sullavou (1867) - 2nd African American to Graduate from Harvard ^[1]

Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr. (c. 1870) - Entrepreneur, Son of President Ulysses S. Grant, not listed in Alumni Records
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874) - president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) from 1906-1907

Amos Alonzo Stagg (1880) - "Grandfather of Football"
Gifford Pinchot (1885) - First Chief Forester of the US Forest Service
George Higgins (1887) - U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
Thomas Lamont (1888) - Partner and chairman of Board of Directors of J.P. Morgan & Co..
Booth Tarkington (1889) - Winner, Pulitzer Prize, not listed in Alumni Records

Pierre S. du Pont (1930) - President of DuPont, manager of General Motors
Hamilton Webb (1931) - Highly decorated Brigadier General
Germain Glidden (1932) Artist and squash player
Adolph Coors III (1933) - Businessman
Richard French (1933) - Celebrated Musicologist and Yale Professor
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1933) - Historian
Richard Bolling (c. 1934) - U.S. Representative from Missouri
Joseph Coors (1935) - C.E.O., Coors Brewing Company
Hugh Gregg (1935) - Governor of New Hampshire, father of Senator Judd Gregg, Class of 1965
Alden Todd (1935) - Writer
James T. Aubrey, Jr. (c. 1936), President of CBS and MGM
Lex Barker (1938) - Actor
Nicholas Katzenbach (1938) - Former U.S. Attorney General and Vice-President of IBM

Pierre S. du Pont, IV (1952) - Governor of Delaware
Stanford Phelps (1952) - Former President and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Life Advisors and U.S. Life Income Fund
Christopher Jencks (1954) - Harvard professor, writer, author of "The Exeter Syndrome: Dissatisfaction, Delinquency, Despair, and Departure"
Joseph Nadeau (1955) - Senior Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (1954) - Senator from West Virginia
Stewart Brand (1956) - Editor, author, Internet pioneer
H. John Heinz III (1956) - Senator from Pennsylvania
John Negroponte (1956) - The first Director of National Intelligence
Peter Benchley (1957)- Journalist, Presidential Speech Writer, Author and Screenwriter (Jaws)
Tim Wirth (1957) - U.S. Representative and Senator from Colorado, current head of the United Nations Foundation
John M. Walker, Jr. (1958) - Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
David Rockefeller, Jr. (1959) - Philanthropist and businessman, descendant of John D. Rockefeller
Morris S. Arnold (1959) - U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Daniel Dennett (1959) - Philosopher
Benno Schmidt (1959) - Educator

Charles C. Krulak (1960) - 31st Commandant of the U.S Marine Corps
John Irving (1961) - Author
Judd Gregg (1965) - Senator from New Hampshire, son of Hugh Gregg, Governor of New Hampshire, class of 1935
Kent Conrad (1966) - Senator from North Dakota
David Eisenhower (1966) - grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States
Fred Grandy (1966) - Actor
Lawrence Lasker (1967) – Producer and screenwriter of Sneakers

Joyce Maynard (1971) - Author
Benmont Tench (1971) - Musician and Producer
Ned Lamont (1972) - businessman, former Democratic nominee for Senator from Connecticut in 2006
Larry Lavin (1972) - Notorious cocaine dealer
Brooks D. Simpson (1975) - Historian
Suzy Welch (1977) - Journalist, author, married to former GE CEO Jack Welch
Catherine Disher (1978) – Actress
Andrew Sudduth (1979) - Olympic athlete (Rowing, men's eight, silver, 1984, single scull, 6th, 1988)
Michael Cerveris (1979) - Broadway and Movie Actor

Paul Klebnikov (1981) - Journalist
Greg Daniels (1981) - Producer, including (The Simpsons), adapted U.S. version of The Office from the BBC version
Dan Brown (1982) - Bestselling author (The Da Vinci Code)
Gwynneth (Hardesty) Coogan (1983) - Olympic athlete (10,000 m, 1992)
Adam Guettel (1983) Musical Theater Composer, Composed The Light in the Piazza Winner of 6 Tony Awards
Chang-Rae Lee (1983) - Author
Kenji Yoshino (1987) - Law school professor, author
China Forbes (1988) - Musician (Lead singer of Pink Martini)

Michael Crowley (1990) - Journalist
Alessandro Nivola (1990) - Actor
Jedediah Purdy (1992) - Author, law school professor
John Forté (1993) - Musician
Ted Zagat (1993) - President, Zagat Survey
Sloan DuRoss (1995) Olympic Rower 2004, Men's Quadruple Sculls^{[citation needed]}
Win Butler (1998) - Musician (Lead singer of Arcade Fire)
Mike Blomquist (1999) - U.S. National Team (Rowing), 2006 Men's 8+, Gold Medal 2006 World Championships^{[citation needed]}