30 Notable alumni of Monmouth College
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Monmouth College is ranked #4,438 in the world and #1,154 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 notable alumni from Monmouth College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Monmouth College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Clarence F. Buck
1870-1944 (aged 74)
politician
businessperson
newspaper editor
Clarence Frank Buck was an American politician, newspaper editor, businessman, and farmer.
2. Mary G. Charlton Edholm
1854-1935 (aged 81)
journalist
writer
Mary Grace Edholm was an American reformer and journalist. She worked as a journalist for twenty years.
3. James R. Carpenter
1867-1943 (aged 76)
inventor
politician
James Ross Carpenter was a Wyoming politician and inventor who served in the Wyoming Senate as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his political career he helped in the founding and advertisement of multiple towns in Wyoming.
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4. William Medcalf Kinsey
1846-1931 (aged 85)
lawyer
judge
politician
William Medcalf Kinsey was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
5. Maurice H. Rees
1880-1945 (aged 65)
Maurice Holmes Rees was an American medical educator who served as Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Superintendent of the University of Colorado Hospital from 1920 to 1945.
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6. Reid K. Beveridge
1942-. (aged 84)
military officer
Reid Kyle Beveridge is a retired brigadier general in the National Guard of the United States.
7. James Montgomery Rice
1842-1912 (aged 70)
military personnel
politician
James Montgomery Rice was an American soldier (Colonel), lawyer, and member of the Illinois House of Representatives who contributed to the establishment of the United States National Guard.
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8. Ellen Diggs
1906-1998 (aged 92)
anthropologist
Ellen Irene Diggs was an American anthropologist, sociologist, and historian. She was the writer of a major contribution to African American history, Black Chronology: From 4,000 B.C. to the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Her academic work aimed to empower and visualize Afro-American chronology as a way to contest the idea that Africans and African Americans had no history and...
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9. Adelbert H. Roberts
1866-1937 (aged 71)
politician
Adelbert H. Roberts was an American politician and attorney who in 1924 became the first African American to serve in the Illinois Senate.
10. Karen Bush
1961-1965 (aged 4)
researcher
Karen Bush is an American biochemist. She is a professor of Practice in Biology Emerita at Indiana University Bloomington and served as the interim director of the Biotechnology program from 2019 to 2022. She worked in antibiotic drug discovery and drug development in the pharmaceutical industry for 35 years. Bush conducted research focusing on the activity of novel antimicrobial agents...
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11. H. L. Carnahan
1879-1941 (aged 62)
lawyer
politician
Herschel L. Carnahan was the 30th lieutenant governor of California, 1928–1931, serving under Governor C. C. Young. He was a Republican.
12. Enoch Albert Bryan
1855-1941 (aged 86)
school superintendent
teacher
writer
Enoch Albert Bryan was president of Vincennes University in Indiana from 1883 to 1893 and of Washington's land-grant institution, today called Washington State University, from 1893 to 1915. At the latter institution he was the third president but the first with a long tenure, following George Lilly, 1891–1892, and John W. Heston, 1892–1893.
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13. D. Everett Waid
1864-1939 (aged 75)
architect
Dan Everett Waid was a prominent 20th-century architect operating primarily in Illinois and New York. As chief architect for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (New York City), he and his partner designed the Home Office Building at 11 Madison Avenue along with dozens of other commercial, religious, residential and academic structures. He was appointed architect for the Board of Foreign...
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14. Robert H. Brink
1946-. (aged 80)
lawyer
politician
Robert Hendricks "Bob" Brink is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1998 to 2014, representing the 48th district in the Arlington and Fairfax County suburbs of Washington, D.C. He resigned to become deputy commissioner for aging services in the administration of Governor Terry McAuliffe.
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15. Charles F. Wishart
1870-1960 (aged 90)
Christian minister
Charles Frederick Wishart was a United States Presbyterian churchman who was President of the College of Wooster from 1919 to 1944. In 1923 he defeated William Jennings Bryan to become Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America at the height of the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy.
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16. Robert T. McLoskey
1907-1990 (aged 83)
politician
funeral director
Robert Thaddeus McLoskey was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
17. Lena Morrow Lewis
1868-1950 (aged 82)
suffragette
editor
newspaper editor
Martha Lena Morrow Lewis was an American orator, political organizer, journalist, and newspaper editor. An activist in the prohibition, women's suffrage, and socialist movements, Lewis is best remembered as a top female leader of the Socialist Party of America during that organization's heyday in the first two decades of the 20th century and as the first woman to serve on...
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18. Philip G. Killey
1941-. (aged 85)
military officer
Philip G. Killey was a United States Air Force officer. He attained the rank of major general, and served as Adjutant General of the South Dakota National Guard, Director of the Air National Guard and Commander of First Air Force.
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19. Earl W. Vincent
1886-1953 (aged 67)
lawyer
judge
politician
Earl W. Vincent was a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 9th congressional district in 1928–29, a delegate to the Republican State convention in 1930, and was appointed judge of the fifth judicial district of Iowa in February 1945.
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20. Charles A. Sprague
1887-1969 (aged 82)
publisher
editor
politician
Charles Arthur Sprague was the 22nd Governor of the US state of Oregon from 1939 to 1943. He was also the editor and publisher of the Oregon Statesman from 1929 to 1969. Sprague High School in Salem, Oregon is named after him.
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21. Danielle Nierenberg
1978-. (aged 48)
journalist
Danielle J. Nierenberg is an American activist, author and journalist.
22. Robert Hugo Dunlap
1920-2000 (aged 80)
military officer
Robert Hugo Dunlap was a United States Marine Corps major who received the Medal of Honor for heroism above and beyond the call of duty as a captain of a rifle company during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
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23. John Findley Wallace
1852-1921 (aged 69)
engineer
John Findley Wallace was an American engineer and administrator, best known for serving as chief engineer for construction of the Panama Canal between 1904 and 1905. He had previously gained experience in railroad construction in the American Midwest.
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24. Helen Wagner
1918-2010 (aged 92)
film actor
television actor
stage actor
Helen Losee Wagner was an American actress.
25. Harold Arthur Poling
1925-2012 (aged 87)
engineer
Harold Arthur "Red" Poling was an American automobile businessman who was CEO and chairman of Ford Motor Company from 1990 to 1993.
26. Richard Elihu Sloan
1857-1933 (aged 76)
lawyer
judge
politician
Richard Elihu Sloan was an American jurist and politician, who served as associate justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and as the 17th and final Governor of Arizona Territory. As an Associate Justice he served for 16 years, the longest service of any...
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27. Ilo Wallace
1888-1981 (aged 93)
politician
Ilo Wallace was the wife of Henry A. Wallace, the 33rd vice president of the United States. She was the second lady of the United States from 1941 until 1945. She was the sponsor of the battleship USS Iowa.
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28. Joe Tait
1937-2021 (aged 84)
sports journalist
Joseph George Tait is an English former professional footballer who last played as a centre back for National League North club Spennymoor Town.
29. James Stockdale
1923-2005 (aged 82)
military officer
aircraft pilot
politician
James Bond Stockdale was a U.S. Navy vice admiral, aviator, and Stoic philosopher who received the Medal of Honor in 1976 for his leadership as a POW for more than seven years during the Vietnam War.
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30. Mattie Hunter
1954-. (aged 72)
politician
Mattie Hunter is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 3rd district since 2003. She is the Senate secretary for the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus and the Senate majority caucus whip. Hunter is also the 20th Ward Democratic Committeewoman.
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