19 Notable alumni of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
Updated: June 16, 2026 EliteDegrees
Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School is ranked #6,890 in the world and #1,774 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. James Monroe Taylor
1848-1916 (aged 68)
university president
Baptist minister
James Monroe Taylor was a Baptist minister who was the fourth president of Vassar College.
2. George Fisher Linfield
1846-1890 (aged 44)
priest
The Rev. George Fisher Linfield was an American clergyman and educator. Linfield College (now Linfield University) in McMinnville, Oregon, was named in his honor.
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3. William Cleaver Wilkinson
1833-1920 (aged 87)
pastor
poet
literary critic
writer
university teacher
William Cleaver Wilkinson, D.D. was a Baptist preacher, professor of theology, professor of poetry, and literary figure. He popularized the "Three W's and the Five W's".
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4. Wayland Hoyt
1838-1910 (aged 72)
civil servant
Wayland Hoyt was an American Baptist minister and author.
5. George Ripley Bliss
1816-1893 (aged 77)
academic
George Ripley Bliss was an American cleric and educator. He served twice as president of Bucknell University.
6. Henry Kirke Porter
1840-1921 (aged 81)
politician
Henry Kirke Porter was an American businessman and politician. Porter served as U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 31st congressional district as an Independent Republican from 1903 to 1905.
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7. Joseph K. Dixon
1856-1926 (aged 70)
filmmaker
lecturer
anthropologist
pastor
photographer
Joseph Kossuth Dixon was an American clergyman, lecturer and photographer who led the Wanamaker expeditions visiting indigenous peoples of the United States.
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8. Augustus Hopkins Strong
1836-1921 (aged 85)
theologian
Augustus Hopkins Strong was a Baptist minister and theologian who lived in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His most influential book, Systematic Theology, proved to be a mainstay of Baptist theological education.
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9. Lorraine K. Potter
1946-. (aged 80)
military officer
Lorraine Kay Potter is a former Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force and was the first female chaplain in the United States Air Force.
10. Walter Rauschenbusch
1861-1918 (aged 57)
university teacher
theologian
missionary
Walter Rauschenbusch was an American theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. Rauschenbusch was a key figure in the Social Gospel and single tax movements that flourished in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was also the maternal grandfather of the influential philosopher Richard Rorty and the great-grandfather of Paul...
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11. Samuel B. McKinney
1926-2018 (aged 92)
civil rights advocate
pastor
Samuel Berry McKinney was an American Christian pastor and Civil Rights leader. He was the pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle for four decades. He attended the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, and he served on the Seattle Human Rights Commission.
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12. Howard Thurman
1900-1981 (aged 81)
educator
theologian
writer
philosopher
religious leader
Howard Washington Thurman was an American author, philosopher, minister, theologian, Christian mystic, educator, and civil rights leader.
13. Charles Augustus Strong
1862-1940 (aged 78)
psychologist
Charles Augustus Strong was an American philosopher and psychologist. He spent the earlier part of his career teaching in the United States, but after his wife died, in 1906 he settled with their daughter in Italy, near Florence. Between 1918 and 1936 he wrote most of his works there.
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14. James A. Forbes
1935-. (aged 91)
theologian
religious leader
James Alexander Forbes Jr. is the Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church, an interdenominational church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. He was the first African American minister to lead this multicultural congregation, and served it for 18 years.
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15. James E. Cheek
1932-2010 (aged 78)
educator
theologian
James Edward Cheek was president of Howard University from 1968 to 1989. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
16. Ernest DeWitt Burton
1856-1925 (aged 69)
professor
editor
university teacher
theologian
Ernest DeWitt Burton was an American biblical scholar who served as the third president of the University of Chicago from 1923 to 1925.
17. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
1890-1976 (aged 86)
religious leader
university president
teacher
clergyman
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson was an American educator and pastor. He served as the first African-American president of Howard University, from 1926 until 1960. Johnson has been considered one of the three leading African-American preachers of the early 20th-century, along with Vernon Johns and Howard Thurman.
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18. Channing E. Phillips
1928-1987 (aged 59)
Christian minister
civil rights advocate
university teacher
politician
Channing Emery Phillips was an American minister, civil rights leader, and social activist based in Washington, D.C. In 1968, he was the first African American in history to be placed in nomination for president of the United States by a major political party.
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19. David Crockett Graham
1884-1961 (aged 77)
scientific collector
curator
anthropologist
David Crockett Graham was a polymath American Baptist minister and missionary, educator, author, archaeologist, anthropologist, naturalist and field collector in the Province of Sichuan (formerly spelled Szechwan) during the Chinese Republican Era, from 1911 to 1948. He was a 32nd degree Mason, and a past master of the Szechwan Lodge No. 112. From 1921 to 1942, Graham collected and sent to...
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