Notable Alumni of Albany Law School [Sorted List]

1. Edward A. Everett

1860-. (aged 166)

lawyer politician

Edward A. Everett was an American politician and lawyer. As a member of the New York State Assembly from the Second District of St. Lawrence County, he chaired the Everett Commission.

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2. William J. Grattan

1876-1938 (aged 62)

politician

William J. Grattan was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

3. James K. Batchelder

1842-1925 (aged 83)

lawyer politician

James Kendrick Batchelder was a Vermont lawyer and politician.

4. Charles H. Porter

1833-1897 (aged 64)

lawyer politician

Charles Howell Porter was an attorney and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Virginia.

5. Roger W. Hulburd

1856-1944 (aged 88)

lawyer politician

Roger William Hulburd was an American attorney and politician who served as the 51st lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1917 to 1919.

6. James Loren Martin

1846-1915 (aged 69)

lawyer judge politician

James Loren Martin was an American lawyer, politician, and United States federal judge. The notable positions in which he served during his career included State's Attorney of Windham County, Vermont, Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, and United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of...

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7. Chauncey W. Brownell

1847-1938 (aged 91)

lawyer politician

Chauncey W. Brownell was a Vermont attorney and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate and Vermont Secretary of State.

8. William H. Holt

1842-1919 (aged 77)

lawyer judge

William Henry Holt was the first judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, as established by the Foraker Act of 1900. Holt was appointed to this position by President William McKinley, and served a single four-year term from 1900 to 1904.

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9. John B. Cassoday

1830-1907 (aged 77)

lawyer judge politician

John Bolivar Cassoday was an American lawyer, politician, and judge. He was the 9th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the 27th Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

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10. D. Cady Herrick

1846-1926 (aged 80)

lawyer judge

D-Cady Herrick was an American lawyer and politician.

11. Alexander Campbell Botkin

1842-1905 (aged 63)

lawyer politician

Alexander Campbell Botkin was a United States politician from Montana.

12. Joseph Homan Manley

1842-1905 (aged 63)

politician

Joseph Homan Manley was an American Republican Party official (chairman of the party's National Executive Committee 1894–96) and close associate of Maine Republican politician and presidential candidate James G. Blaine.

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13. Bryan F. Mahan

1856-1923 (aged 67)

lawyer politician

Bryan Francis Mahan was an American legislator and Representative from Connecticut.

14. Stephen W. Brennan

1893-1968 (aged 75)

lawyer judge

Stephen William Brennan was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York from 1942 to 1968 and Chief Judge from 1948 to 1963.

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15. Rollin B. Sanford

1874-1957 (aged 83)

lawyer politician

Rollin Brewster Sanford was a U.S. representative from New York.

16. John H. Camp

1840-1892 (aged 52)

lawyer politician

John Henry Camp was a U.S. Representative from New York.

17. John Mosher Bailey

1838-1916 (aged 78)

lawyer politician

John Mosher Bailey was an American lawyer, Civil War veteran, and politician who represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1878 to 1881.

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18. Alfred Orendorff

1845-1909 (aged 64)

lawyer politician

Alfred Orendorff was an Illinois lawyer and politician.

19. John Sanford Barnes

1836-1911 (aged 75)

military officer

John Sanford Barnes was a United States Navy officer and businessman and naval historian.

20. Joseph L. Carrigg

1901-1989 (aged 88)

lawyer politician

Joseph Leonard Carrigg was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

21. George N. Southwick

1863-1912 (aged 49)

politician

George Newell Southwick was an American journalist and politician from Albany, New York. A Republican, he was most notable for his service as a U.S. Representative from 1895 to 1911.

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22. Legrand W. Perce

1836-1911 (aged 75)

lawyer politician

Legrand Winfield Perce (June 19, 1836 – March 16, 1911) was a U.S. representative from Mississippi.

23. Enoch Foster

1839-1913 (aged 74)

lawyer judge

Enoch Foster was a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

24. James A. MacAlister

1840-1913 (aged 73)

educator

James A. MacAlister was a lawyer, school superintendent, and the first president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry.

25. Abraham X. Parker

1831-1909 (aged 78)

lawyer politician

Abraham X. Parker was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was most notable for his service in the New York State Assembly (1863–1864), the New York State Senate (1867–1871), and the United States House of Representatives (1881–1889).

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26. William Stiles Bennet

1870-1962 (aged 92)

lawyer judge politician

William Stiles Bennet was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York, serving five terms in the early 20th century. He was the father of Augustus Witschief Bennet.

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27. John Meredith Read, Jr

1837-1896 (aged 59)

historian author lawyer diplomat

John Meredith Read Jr. was a United States diplomat and author.

28. James Manning Tyler

1835-1926 (aged 91)

lawyer judge politician

James Manning Tyler was an American politician, lawyer and judge from Vermont. He served as a U.S. representative from Vermont for two terms from 1879 to 1883.

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29. Abraham Lansing

1835-1899 (aged 64)

lawyer politician

Abraham Lansing was an American lawyer and politician.

30. Joshua S. Salmon

1846-1902 (aged 56)

lawyer politician

Joshua S. Salmon was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district from 1899 to 1902.

31. Thomas Hamlin Hubbard

1838-1915 (aged 77)

lawyer

Thomas Hamlin Hubbard was a Union Army colonel from Maine during the Civil War who was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, United States Volunteers, for meritorious service. After the war, Hubbard was a lawyer, railroad executive, financier, businessman and philanthropist.

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32. James H. Davidson

1858-1918 (aged 60)

lawyer politician

James Henry Davidson was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He represented eastern Wisconsin for nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1897 to 1913, and from 1917 until his death in 1918. He was chairman of the House Committee on Railways and Canals from 1901 to 1911. Earlier in his career, he was...

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33. Wheelock G. Veazey

1835-1898 (aged 63)

lawyer judge politician

Wheelock Graves Veazey was an American attorney, judge, and government official. Veazey served as a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, and as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. During the American Civil War he received the United States military's highest decoration for bravery, the Medal of Honor.

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34. William Thomas Byrne

1876-1952 (aged 76)

lawyer politician

William Thomas Byrne was an attorney and politician from Albany, New York. He was most notable for his service in the New York State Senate (1923-1936) and a United States representative from New York (1937 until his death).

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35. Hiram Y. Smith

1843-1894 (aged 51)

lawyer politician

Hiram Ypsilanti Smith was a nineteenth-century Republican politician, lawyer and clerk from Iowa. For three months, he represented Iowa's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, after winning election to serve out the term of John A. Kasson following Kasson's appointment as U.S. Envoy to Germany.

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36. Andrew S. Draper

1848-1913 (aged 65)

politician

Andrew Sloan Draper was an American educator, author, and jurist.

37. William Howe Crane

1854-1926 (aged 72)

lawyer judge

William Howe Crane was an American lawyer. Born to Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane and Mary Helen Peck Crane, he was the fourth-oldest of nine surviving children—Mary Helen, George Peck, Jonathan Townley, William Howe, Agnes Elizabeth, Edmund Byran, Wilbur Fiske, Luther and Stephen. In 1880 he graduated from Albany Law School, after which he established a practice in Port Jervis, New...

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38. Henry W. Seymour

1834-1906 (aged 72)

politician

Henry William Seymour was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

39. Nathan F. Dixon III

1847-1897 (aged 50)

lawyer politician

Nathan Fellows Dixon III was a United States representative and Senator from Rhode Island.

40. Dean Park Taylor

1902-1977 (aged 75)

trustee lawyer director politician

Dean Park Taylor was an American attorney and politician from Troy, New York. A Republican, he was most notable for his service as a United States Congressman for 18 years (1943–1961) and chairman of the New York Republican State Committee (1953–1954).

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41. Charles H. Page

1843-1912 (aged 69)

lawyer politician

Charles Harrison Page was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.

42. Kristopher B. Jones

Kristopher B. Jones is an American author and businessman. He has founded several companies, including Pepperjam, ReferLocal.com, LSEO.com, and KBJ Capital. Jones is also the author of Search Engine Optimization: Your Visual Blueprint for Effective Internet Marketing.

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43. Carleton J. King

1904-1977 (aged 73)

lawyer judge politician

Carleton James King was an attorney and politician from Saratoga Springs, New York. A Republican, he was most notable for his service as District Attorney of Saratoga County, New York from 1950 to 1960, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1974.

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44. Bartlett Tripp

1839-1911 (aged 72)

diplomat lawyer judge

Bartlett Tripp was a diplomat, Chief Justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court, first professor of the University of South Dakota College of Law and first President of the South Dakota Bar Association.

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45. William T. Haines

1854-1919 (aged 65)

lawyer politician

William Thomas Haines was an American politician and the 49th governor of Maine.

46. Park Benjamin

1849-1922 (aged 73)

military officer lawyer writer

Park Benjamin was an American patent lawyer and writer. He was born in New York City, graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1867, resigned from the Navy in 1869, and graduated at the Albany Law School in the following year. He was associate editor of The Scientific American from 1872 to 1878 and subsequently edited Appleton's Cyclopedia of...

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47. George McClellan

1856-1927 (aged 71)

lawyer judge politician

George McClellan was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1913 to 1915.

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48. Robert C. McEwen

1920-1997 (aged 77)

lawyer politician

Robert Cameron McEwen was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

49. J. Ernest Wharton

1899-1990 (aged 91)

lawyer judge politician

James Ernest Wharton was an American attorney and politician. A Republican, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1951 to 1965.

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50. Bernard W. Kearney

1889-1976 (aged 87)

lawyer judge politician

Bernard William "Pat" Kearney was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. Kearney served on the U.S. House of Representatives' Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) during the Cold War.

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51. James Campbell Matthews

1844-1930 (aged 86)

judge

James Campbell Matthews was an Albany, New York attorney and judge. He was notable as the first African American law school graduate in New York. He was elected a municipal judge in the late 1890s, which was the highest judicial office attained by an African-American up to that time.

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52. John Joseph Mitchell

1873-1925 (aged 52)

lawyer politician

John Joseph Mitchell was a lawyer and politician.

53. Stephen F. Brown

1841-1903 (aged 62)

lawyer

Stephen F. Brown was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War. He became famous for entering the Battle of Gettysburg armed only with a camp hatchet. He soon acquired a sword and pistol from a Confederate he took prisoner. Brown distinguished himself in battle and aiding other soldiers.

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54. George M. Beebe

1836-1927 (aged 91)

lawyer judge politician

George Monroe Beebe was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1875 to 1879.

55. Jeffrey Pearlman

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

Jeffrey Hayes Pearlman is an Acting Supreme Court Justice in New York County and was formerly the director of the Authorities Budget Office

56. Frederick Townsend Martin

1849-1914 (aged 65)

writer

Frederick Townsend Martin was an American writer, advocate for the poor, and an acknowledged leader of society in New York. He was referred to as a "millionaire with a mission".

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57. Barry M. Costello

1951-. (aged 75)

military officer

Vice Admiral Barry Michael Costello is an American navy officer who served as commander of Third Fleet of the United States Navy from May 2005 to May 2007.

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58. Michele Titus

1969-. (aged 57)

politician

Michele R. Titus is an American politician and jurist from Queens, New York who has served as a New York City Civil Court Judge since January 2020. A Democrat, Titus previously represented District 31 in the New York State Assembly from 2002 to 2020.

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59. Michael William Bray

1889-1961 (aged 72)

lawyer politician

Michael William Bray was an American lawyer and politician. He was the lieutenant governor of New York from 1933 to 1938.

60. Llewellyn Powers

1836-1908 (aged 72)

lawyer politician

Llewellyn Powers was a U.S. representative from Maine and the 44th governor of Maine.

61. Richard S. Hartunian

1961-. (aged 65)

Richard S. Hartunian is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York from 2010 to 2017.

62. Harris M. Plaisted

1828-1898 (aged 70)

military officer politician lawyer editor journalist

Harris Merrill Plaisted was an attorney, politician, and Union Army officer from Maine. As colonel, he commanded the 11th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. After the war, he served as Maine Attorney General, a U.S. representative, and the 38th governor of Maine.

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63. William Paine Lord

1838-1911 (aged 73)

lawyer diplomat judge politician

William Paine Lord was an American Republican politician who served as the 9th governor of Oregon from 1895 to 1899. The Delaware native previously served as the 27th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, including three times as the chief justice of that court. After serving as governor he was appointed as an ambassador to Argentina and later helped to...

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64. William H. Clagett

1838-1901 (aged 63)

lawyer politician

William Horace Clagett was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from various places in the United States. He was the uncle of Samuel B. Pettengill.

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65. John Raines

1840-1909 (aged 69)

lawyer politician

John Raines was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He authored the 1896 Raines Law, which prohibited liquor sales on Sundays, except in hotels, which had the unintended consequence of fostering prostitution.

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66. Henry R. Gibson

1837-1938 (aged 101)

lawyer judge politician

Henry Richard Gibson was an American attorney and politician who represented Tennessee's 2nd district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1895 to 1905. He also served as a state chancery court judge, and was a delegate to Tennessee's 1870 constitutional convention. Outside politics he wrote and edited several books on federal and state law.

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67. Alicia Ouellette

university teacher jurist lawyer

Alicia Ouellette is an American academic who has served as the dean of the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College since January 2025.

68. Brian Barnwell

1986-. (aged 40)

politician

Brian Barnwell is an American lawyer and politician, who served as a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly. From January 2017 until December 2022, he represented Assembly District 30 in Queens; the district included Maspeth, Woodside, Middle Village, and portions of Astoria, Sunnyside, Elmhurst, Rego Park and Long Island City.

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69. David O'Brien Martin

1944-2012 (aged 68)

lawyer politician

David O'Brien Martin was an American lawyer, politician, and veteran of the Vietnam War who served six terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1981 to 1993.

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70. William Freeman Vilas

1840-1908 (aged 68)

lawyer politician

William Freeman Vilas was an American lawyer, politician, and United States Senator. In the U.S. Senate, he represented the state of Wisconsin for one term, from 1891 to 1897. As a prominent Bourbon Democrat, he was also a member of the cabinet of U.S. President Grover Cleveland, serving as the 33rd Postmaster General and the 17th Secretary of the Interior.

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71. Thomas Michael Whalen III

1934-2002 (aged 68)

politician

Thomas Michael Whalen III, also known as Tom Whalen, was an American attorney and politician, and a three-term mayor of Albany, New York, serving from 1983 to 1993. A native of Albany, he graduated from Manhattan College and Albany Law School.

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72. Philip Boyle

1961-. (aged 65)

politician

Philip Michael Boyle is an American politician and Long Island business leader who served as the Senator for the 4th District of the New York Senate from 2013 to 2022. He is a Republican. The district he represented includes the villages of Babylon, Brightwaters, Lindenhurst, Ocean Beach, Saltaire in Suffolk County on Long Island. After leaving the State Senate in...

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73. Kate Stoneman

1841-1925 (aged 84)

lawyer suffragette

Katherine Stoneman was an early 20th-century suffragist and the first woman admitted to the Bar Association in the State of New York.

74. Edwin Hurd Conger

1843-1907 (aged 64)

diplomat lawyer politician

Edwin Hurd Conger was an American Civil War soldier, lawyer, banker, Iowa congressman, and United States diplomat. As the United States' minister to China during the Boxer Rebellion, Conger, his family, and other western diplomatic legations were under siege in Beijing until rescued by the China Relief Expedition.

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75. William Sterling Cole

1904-1987 (aged 83)

investor lawyer teacher politician

William Sterling Cole was an American politician, lawyer, and civil servant who served as the first Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1957 to 1961. Before his appointment to the IAEA he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

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76. Frederick Walker Pitkin

1837-1886 (aged 49)

lawyer politician

Frederick Walker Pitkin was an American politician who served as the second Governor of the state of Colorado from 1879 to 1883. He was a member of the Republican Party.

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77. David Josiah Brewer

1837-1910 (aged 73)

judge lawyer writer

David Josiah Brewer was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1890 to 1910. An appointee of President Benjamin Harrison, he supported states' rights, opposed broad interpretations of Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce, and voted to strike down economic regulations that he felt infringed on the freedom of...

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78. Charles Crozat Converse

1832-1918 (aged 86)

lawyer composer

Charles Crozat Converse was an American attorney who also worked as a composer of church songs. He is notable for setting to music the words of Joseph Scriven to become the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus". Converse published an arrangement of "The Death of Minnehaha", with words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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79. Martin Henry Glynn

1871-1924 (aged 53)

lawyer journalist editor politician

Martin Henry Glynn was an American politician. He was the 40th governor of New York from 1913 to 1914, the first Irish American Roman Catholic head of government of what was then the most populated state of the United States. A Democrat, he signed a number of important reforms, including the direct primary and labor laws.

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80. John Franklin Fort

1852-1920 (aged 68)

lawyer diplomat judge politician

John Franklin Fort was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 33rd governor of New Jersey, from 1908 to 1911. His uncle, George Franklin Fort, was a Democratic governor of New Jersey from 1851 to 1854.

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81. Barry Kramer

1942-2025 (aged 83)

basketball player

Barry D. Kramer was an American professional basketball player, jurist and attorney. Kramer was named a first-team Parade All-American basketball player for Linton High School in Schenectady, New York, and a consensus first-team All-American playing collegiately for the NYU Violets. Following his playing career, he served as a trial court judge in the New York state court system.

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82. Fred Thiele

1953-. (aged 73)

lawyer politician

Frederick W. Thiele Jr. is an American politician who served in the New York State Assembly from the 1st district from 2013 to 2024 and the 2nd district from 1995 to 2012. Thiele was originally elected as a member of the Republican Party, but switched to the Independence Party of New York in 2009. He joined the Democratic Party after...

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83. Redfield Proctor

1831-1908 (aged 77)

lawyer politician

Redfield Proctor was a U.S. politician of the Republican Party. He served as the 37th governor of Vermont from 1878 to 1880, as the secretary of war from 1889 to 1891, and as a United States senator from Vermont from 1891 to 1908.

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84. Russell Conwell

1843-1925 (aged 82)

academic administrator lawyer writer Christian minister orator

Russell Herman Conwell was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, author, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple, and for his inspirational lecture, "Acres of Diamonds". He was born in South Worthington, Massachusetts.

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85. Lovely A. Warren

1977-. (aged 49)

politician

Lovely Ann Warren is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 69th mayor of Rochester, New York, from 2014 until her resignation in 2021. She was previously the President of the Rochester City Council. She was the first woman to serve as mayor of Rochester, as well as the second African-American after William A. Johnson Jr.

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86. Bonnie Jenkins

diplomat

Bonnie Denise Jenkins is an American diplomat who served as the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security in the Biden Administration. During the Obama administration, she was the U.S. Department of State's coordinator for threat reduction programs in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. She is currently the Shapiro Visiting Professor at George Washington University's...

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87. Tom Vilsack

1950-. (aged 76)

lawyer politician

Thomas James Vilsack is an American politician. He served as the 30th and 32nd United States Secretary of Agriculture from 2009 to 2017, during the Barack Obama administration, and again from 2021 to 2025 during the Joe Biden administration. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 40th Governor of Iowa from 1999 to 2007.

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88. William E. Miller

1914-1983 (aged 69)

lawyer politician

William Edward Miller was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from New York as a Republican. During the 1964 presidential election, he was the Republican nominee for vice president, the first Catholic nominated for the office by the Republican Party.

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89. Anthony Brindisi

1978-. (aged 48)

lawyer politician

Anthony Joseph Brindisi is an American lawyer and politician from the state of New York. He serves as a United States district judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. Brindisi served as the U.S. representative from New York's 22nd congressional district from 2019 to 2021. He represented New York's 119th Assembly District from...

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90. Alton B. Parker

1852-1926 (aged 74)

lawyer judge politician

Alton Brooks Parker was an American judge. He was the Democratic nominee in the 1904 United States presidential election, losing in a landslide to incumbent Republican Theodore Roosevelt.

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91. Jeanine Pirro

1951-. (aged 75)

news presenter lawyer prosecutor judge politician

Jeanine Ferris Pirro is an American television host, lawyer, and author who is serving as the United States attorney for the District of Columbia since May 2025. Pirro is a former judge, prosecutor, and politician in the state of New York.

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92. Lee Zeldin

1980-. (aged 46)

lawyer politician

Lee Michael Zeldin is an American politician who has been serving as the 17th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since January 29, 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he represented New York's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2023. From 2011 to 2014, Zeldin served as a member of the...

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93. Robert H. Jackson

1892-1954 (aged 62)

lawyer judge politician

Robert Houghwout Jackson was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941 until his death in 1954. He had previously served as United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, and is the only person to have held all three of those offices. Jackson was also notable for...

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94. Andrew Cuomo

1957-. (aged 69)

lawyer politician

Andrew Mark Cuomo is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in 2021 following numerous sexual misconduct allegations. A member of the Democratic Party, he is a son of former governor Mario Cuomo, and ran as an independent for mayor of New York City in the 2025 mayoral...

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95. Megyn Kelly

1970-. (aged 56)

talk show host news presenter political pundit journalist

Megyn Marie Kelly is an American journalist, attorney, political commentator, and media personality. She hosts The Megyn Kelly Show, a talk show and podcast that airs daily on SiriusXM's Triumph channel and has over 4 million subscribers on YouTube. Kelly previously worked at Fox News from 2004 to 2017, where she hosted programs including America Live and The Kelly File,...

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96. Washington Gardner

1845-1928 (aged 83)

university teacher lawyer politician

Washington Gardner was a lawyer, minister, politician and Civil War veteran from the U.S. state of Michigan.

97. James Buchanan

1982-. (aged 44)

politician

James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He also served as the 17th United States secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the U.S. Congress. Buchanan was an advocate for states' rights, particularly regarding slavery, and minimized the role of the federal government preceding...

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98. William McKinley

1843-1901 (aged 58)

statesperson lawyer politician

William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades. McKinley successfully led the U.S. in the Spanish–American War and oversaw a period of American expansionism, with the annexations...

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99. Joseph Benton Donley

1838-1917 (aged 79)

lawyer politician

Joseph Benton Donley was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

100. Michael J. Garcia

1961-. (aged 65)

prosecutor lawyer judge

Michael John Garcia is an American attorney and former government official. Since February 2016, he has served as an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, that state's highest court. He is a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (2005–2008). Between his service as United States Attorney and his appointment to the Court of...

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