Notable Alumni of New York Law School [Sorted List]

1. Thomas C. O'Sullivan

1858-1913 (aged 55)

politician

Thomas C. O'Sullivan was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

2. Clarence J. Shearn

1869-1953 (aged 84)

lawyer judge

Clarence John Shearn was a prominent New York City lawyer and judge and who served as president of the New York City Bar Association from 1935 to 1937.

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3. John S. Buttles

1877-1949 (aged 72)

lawyer politician

John S. Buttles was an American attorney and judge. He served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1937 to 1949.

4. Courtlandt Nicoll

1880-1938 (aged 58)

politician

Courtlandt Nicoll was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

5. Franklin William Fort

1880-1937 (aged 57)

lawyer politician

Franklin William Fort was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey for three terms from 1925 to 1931. He was the son of Governor of New Jersey John Franklin Fort.

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6. Westley Abbott

1877-1941 (aged 64)

lawyer

Charles Westley Abbott was an American college football coach and lawyer who served as the head football coach at the University of Virginia for one season in 1901, compiling a record of 8–2. He graduated from Yale University in 1899 and New York Law School in 1901, then practiced law in New York City as a firm member of Littlefield,...

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7. Richard F. McKiniry

1878-1950 (aged 72)

lawyer judge politician

Richard Francis Mckiniry was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. representative from New York from 1919 to 1921.

8. Amie Stepanovich

lawyer

Amie Stepanovich is a lawyer specializing in cybersecurity, privacy law and drone surveillance. She was the executive director of Silicon Flatirons, a research center at University of Colorado Boulder. from 2019 to 2021. She is vice-president of US policy at the Future of Privacy Forum.

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9. George William Burleigh

1870-1940 (aged 70)

lawyer

George William Burleigh Jr. was a director of the Lackawanna Steel Company and a Colonel in the New York National Guard who commanded the Ninth Coast Defense during World War I.

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10. Oscar W. Swift

1869-1940 (aged 71)

lawyer politician

Oscar William Swift was an American attorney and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New York.

11. Royal Hurlburt Weller

1881-1929 (aged 48)

lawyer politician

Royal Hurlburt Weller was an American politician and attorney who was a United States representative from New York from 1923 to 1929. He was assistant district attorney of New York County from 1911 to 1917.

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12. Harry H. Dale

1868-1935 (aged 67)

lawyer judge politician

Harry Howard Dale was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. representative from New York from 1913 to 1919.

13. Lloyd Carpenter Griscom

1872-1959 (aged 87)

diplomat lawyer

Lloyd Carpenter Griscom was an American lawyer, diplomat, and newspaper publisher.

14. Charles William Froessel

1892-1982 (aged 90)

military officer lawyer judge

Charles William Froessel was an American lawyer and politician.

15. George Henry Payne

1876-1945 (aged 69)

George Henry Payne was an author and publisher. He was the campaign manager for Theodore Roosevelt in the United States presidential election of 1912.

16. John E. Murray

1918-2008 (aged 90)

military personnel

John Einar Murray was a United States Army Major general, who served as Defense Attaché to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

17. Thomas Griffith Haight

1879-1942 (aged 63)

lawyer judge

Thomas Griffith Haight Sr. was an American circuit judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and earlier on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

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18. Frank A. Oliver

1883-1968 (aged 85)

lawyer judge politician

Frank Oliver was an American lawyer and politician who served 6 terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1923 to 1934.

19. James A. Foley

1882-1946 (aged 64)

lawyer judge politician

James Aloysius Foley was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

20. Charles F. X. O'Brien

1879-1940 (aged 61)

lawyer judge politician

Charles Francis Xavier O'Brien was an American Democratic Party politician. He served as U.S. Representative from New Jersey's 12th Congressional District from 1921 to 1925.

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21. Warren I. Lee

1876-1955 (aged 79)

lawyer politician

Warren Isbell Lee was a U.S. representative from New York.

22. James W. Husted

1870-1925 (aged 55)

lawyer politician

James William Husted was a politician elected to four succeeding terms as a U.S. Representative (1915–1923) from New York. He was an attorney who served in local offices, as well as president of the Peekskill Bank.

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23. Jill W. Smith

1953-. (aged 73)

philanthropist

Jill W. Smith is a philanthropist with a longstanding interest in advancing women's and girls’ education. She is the former Chair of the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women (JFEW), a 130-year-old institution providing educational scholarships to women in need of all religions and ethnicities. Smith has held the position since 2010 and has served as an active board member...

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24. Daniel Joseph Griffin

1880-1926 (aged 46)

lawyer politician

Daniel Joseph Griffin was a lawyer and Democratic politician from New York. He was a U.S. representative from 1913 through 1917.

25. Charles G. Bennett

1863-1914 (aged 51)

lawyer politician

Charles Goodwin Bennett was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York.

26. Elmer Hendrickson Geran

1875-1954 (aged 79)

lawyer politician

Elmer Hendrickson Geran was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1923 to 1925.

27. Philip Milledoler Brett

1871-1960 (aged 89)

Philip Milledoler Brett, Sr. was the thirteenth President of Rutgers University, serving in an acting capacity from 1930 to 1931.

28. Otto G. Foelker

1875-1943 (aged 68)

lawyer politician

Otto Godfrey Foelker was an American politician from New York.

29. Charles Dunsmore Millard

1873-1944 (aged 71)

lawyer judge politician

Charles Dunsmore Millard was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

30. William J. Tully

1870-1930 (aged 60)

politician

William John Tully was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

31. George Murray Hulbert

1881-1950 (aged 69)

lawyer judge politician

George Murray Hulbert was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who was a United States representative from New York and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in the early 20th century.

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32. Julius Miller

1880-1955 (aged 75)

lawyer judge politician

Julius Miller was a judge and politician in New York City. He was a public figure for four decades, serving as Manhattan Borough President from 1922 to 1930, and as a New York State Supreme Court judge from 1933 to 1950. He is best remembered for pushing through the West Side Elevated Highway from 72nd Street to the tip of...

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33. Frederick R. Lehlbach

1876-1937 (aged 61)

lawyer politician

Frederick Reimold Lehlbach was an American lawyer and politician. As a Republican, Lehlbach served as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district from 1915 to 1933 and as the representative from New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1933 to 1937. Lehlbach was also the nephew of Herman Lehlbach, a former U.S. Representative from New Jersey's 6th congressional district...

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34. Avery D. Andrews

1864-1959 (aged 95)

military personnel biographer

Avery D. Andrews was an officer in the United States Army and a corporate attorney and executive. He was most prominent for his service as a brigadier general on the staff of the American Expeditionary Forces headquarters during World War I.

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35. Edwin Borchard

1884-1951 (aged 67)

librarian

Edwin Montefiore Borchard was an American international legal scholar, jurist, and Sterling Professor at the Yale Law School. He was a leading advocate of innocence reform and compensation for victims of wrongful conviction as well as the use of declaratory judgments. His work in international law emphasized non-intervention and neutrality.

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36. Elvin Nimrod

1943-. (aged 83)

lawyer judge politician

Elvin G. Nimrod was a politician from the island of Carriacou. He served in the House of Representatives of Grenada as Parliamentary Representative for Carriacou and Petite Martinique, and has in the past served as Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, Legal Affairs, Labour, Local Government, Carriacou and Petite Martinique Affairs and Attorney General.

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37. Clarence Eugene Hancock

1885-1948 (aged 63)

lawyer politician

Clarence Eugene Hancock was an American attorney and politician from New York. He was most notable for his service as a U.S. representative from 1927 to 1947.

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38. Dave Fultz

1875-1959 (aged 84)

baseball player American football player

David Lewis Fultz was an American football and baseball player and coach. He played Major League Baseball as a center fielder in the National League with the Philadelphia Phillies (1898–1899) and Baltimore Orioles (1899), and for the Philadelphia Athletics (1901–1902) and New York Highlanders (1903–1905) of the American League. He batted and threw right-handed. In a seven-season career, Fultz posted...

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39. Joann Downey

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

Joann Kagan Downey is an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented the 11th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2016 to 2022. She later became a judge.

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40. Frederick W. Mulkey

1874-1924 (aged 50)

lawyer politician

Frederick William Mulkey was an American attorney and politician from the state of Oregon. A native of Portland, he began his political career on the Portland City Council, serving one year as its president. A Republican, he twice served as a United States senator from Oregon, filling terms vacated by the deaths of the sitting senator. He served a total...

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41. Barbara M. Watson

1918-1983 (aged 65)

diplomat

Barbara Mae Watson was a lawyer, United States diplomat, the seventh Ambassador to Malaysia, and the first Black person and the first woman to serve as an Assistant Secretary of State.

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42. Raymond Blaine Fosdick

1883-1972 (aged 89)

jurist

Raymond Blaine Fosdick was an American lawyer, public administrator and author. He served as the fourth president of the Rockefeller Foundation for twelve years (1936–1948). He was an ardent internationalist and supporter of the League of Nations, standing as its Undersecretary in its provisional organisation before resigning after the U.S. Senate's failure to ratify the Covenant of the League of...

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43. John B. Johnston

1882-1960 (aged 78)

lawyer judge politician

John Brown Johnston was a Scottish-American lawyer, jurist and Democratic politician who served one term as a United States representative from New York from 1919 to 1921.

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44. David Hennen Morris

1872-1944 (aged 72)

diplomat lawyer

Dave Hennen Morris was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Thoroughbred racehorse owner who co-founded the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA).

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45. Nathaniel L. Goldstein

1896-1981 (aged 85)

lawyer politician

Nathaniel Lawrence Goldstein was New York State Attorney General from 1943 to 1954, paralleling the three terms of Governor Thomas E. Dewey. A Republican, Goldstein equaled the twelve-year tenure of his Democratic predecessor John J. Bennett Jr. Since the office's creation in 1777, the only New York Attorneys General who served longer were Louis Lefkowitz (1957–78) and Robert Abrams (1978–94).

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46. Isidore Dollinger

1903-2000 (aged 97)

lawyer judge politician

Isidore Dollinger was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York from 1949 to 1959.

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47. Paul Dougherty

1877-1947 (aged 70)

painter

Paul Hampden Dougherty was an American marine painter. Dougherty (pronounced dog-er-tee) was recognized for his American Impressionism paintings of the coasts of Maine and Cornwall in the years after the turn of the 20th century. His work has been described as bold and masculine, and he was best known for his many paintings of breakers crashing against rocky coasts and...

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48. Clarence Edwards Case

1877-1961 (aged 84)

lawyer judge politician

Clarence Edwards Case was the acting governor of New Jersey in 1920.

49. William Nelson Runyon

1871-1931 (aged 60)

lawyer judge politician

William Nelson Runyon was the acting governor of New Jersey from 1919 to 1920 and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

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50. John Taber

1880-1965 (aged 85)

lawyer judge politician

John Taber was an American attorney and New York politician who represented parts of the Finger Lakes and Central New York regions in the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1963.

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51. Alton R. Waldon

1936-2023 (aged 87)

politician judge

Alton Ronald Waldon Jr. was an American politician and jurist from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1986 to 1987 in addition to stints in the New York State Assembly from 1983 to 1986 and New York State Senate from 1991 to 2000, as a member of the Democratic Party.

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52. Francis Patrick Garvan

1875-1937 (aged 62)

jurist art collector lawyer

Francis Patrick Garvan was an American lawyer, government official, and long-time president of the Chemical Foundation, Inc. The Chemical Foundation was established to administer in the public interest 4,500 German patents associated with production of synthetic organic chemicals and related pharmaceuticals seized by the Office of Alien Property Custodian after the US entered World War I.

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53. Ben Crosby

1868-1892 (aged 24)

head coach American football player

Benjamin Lewis Crosby Jr. was an American college football player and coach. Born in Halcott Centre, New York, Crosby attended Yale University beginning in 1889; while there, he was a popular student and sportsman. He was a two-year starter on the football team and a backup on the crew team. During his junior year, he was replaced on the football...

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54. Charles Lavine

1947-. (aged 79)

politician

Charles D. Lavine is a member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 13th district, which includes portions of the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay in Nassau County. First elected in 2004, Lavine is a Democrat.

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55. Robert A. Agresta

1983-. (aged 43)

lawyer politician

Robert Anthony Agresta is a corporate lawyer and investor. He is a partner at McLaughlin & Stern LLP, a 125+ year old New York City law firm and the principal of Agresta Acquisitions, a private investment company He was also the city council president in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey from 2009 through 2012. Agresta is the son of the late...

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56. Joan Azrack

1951-. (aged 75)

lawyer judge

Joan Marie Azrack is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She is a former United States magistrate judge of the same court.

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57. Robert Carroll

1986-. (aged 40)

politician

Robert C. Carroll is an American politician and attorney. He is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 44th District. The district includes portions of the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Kensington, Borough Park, Victorian Flatbush, Ditmas Park, Prospect Heights and Midwood, as well as the entirety of Prospect Park.

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58. Charles Gordon Curtis

1860-1953 (aged 93)

engineer lawyer inventor

Charles Gordon Curtis was an American engineer, inventor, and patent attorney. He is best known as the developer of the eponymous Curtis steam turbine.

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59. Samuel Seabury

1873-1958 (aged 85)

lawyer judge

Samuel Seabury was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Seabury is famous for dedicating himself to a campaign against the corrupt Tammany dominance of New York City politics. He later presided over the extensive 1930–32 investigations of corruption in the New York City municipal government, which became known as the 'Seabury Hearings'. Seabury became a Georgist after reading...

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60. Anthony Cannataro

1965-. (aged 61)

lawyer judge

Anthony Cannataro is an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals, serving since September 1, 2022. He has served as an associate judge of the same court since his 2021 appointment by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cannataro previously served as the chief administrative judge of the New York City Civil Court from 2018 to 2021 and as a judge...

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61. Arthur Benjamin Reeve

1880-1936 (aged 56)

writer novelist journalist screenwriter

Arthur Benjamin Reeve was an American mystery writer. He is known best for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes", and Kennedy's Dr. Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, for 18 detective novels. Reeve is famous mostly for the 82 Craig Kennedy stories, published in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1910 and 1918. These were...

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62. Leo Cherne

1912-1999 (aged 87)

economist

Leo M. Cherne was an American economist, public servant, and four-decade head of the International Rescue Committee.

63. Mike Arcuri

1959-. (aged 67)

lawyer educator politician

Michael Angelo Arcuri is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for New York's 24th congressional district from 2007 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He lost re-election on November 2, 2010, to Republican Richard L. Hanna.

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64. Benjamin A. Gilman

1922-2016 (aged 94)

lawyer politician

Benjamin Arthur Gilman was an American politician and Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Middletown, New York, from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 2003.

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65. Walter Dukes

1930-2001 (aged 71)

basketball player

Walter F. Dukes was a center for the New York Knicks (1955–1956), Minneapolis Lakers (1956–1957) and Detroit Pistons (1957–1963). He played college basketball for the Seton Hall Pirates. He has held the NCAA Division I men's record for most rebounds in a season for over 70 years.

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66. Amos Pinchot

1873-1944 (aged 71)

lawyer peace activist

Amos Richards Eno Pinchot was an American lawyer and reformist. He never held public office but managed to exert considerable influence in reformist circles and did much to keep progressive and Georgist ideas alive in the 1920s.

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67. Ferdinand Pecora

1882-1971 (aged 89)

lawyer judge

Ferdinand Pecora was an American lawyer and New York State Supreme Court judge who became famous in the 1930s as Chief Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency during its investigation of Wall Street banking and stock brokerage practices.

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68. Adrian Zuckerman

1956-. (aged 70)

diplomat lawyer politician

Adrian Zuckerman is a Romanian-born American lawyer and former diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Romania from 2019 to 2021.

69. Samuel Levy

1876-1953 (aged 77)

lawyer

Samuel Levy was an American lawyer, businessman, and public official, who served as Manhattan Borough President.

70. Bainbridge Colby

1869-1950 (aged 81)

diplomat lawyer politician

Bainbridge Colby was an American politician and attorney who was a co-founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State. Colby was a Republican until he helped co-found the National Progressive Party in 1912; he ran for multiple offices as a member of that party, but did not win any.

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71. Tom Kirdahy

1963-. (aged 63)

lawyer theatrical producer

Thomas Joseph Kirdahy is an American Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatrical producer, film producer, lawyer, and activist.

72. James Oddo

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

James Steven Oddo is an American attorney and politician who served as the Borough President of Staten Island from 2014 to 2021. Oddo had previously served as a member of the New York City Council, representing the 50th district from 1999 to 2013. He is currently serving as the Commissioner for the New York City Department of Buildings under Mayor...

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73. Elmer Rice

1892-1967 (aged 75)

poet lawyer screenwriter theatrical director writer playwright

Elmer Rice was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays The Adding Machine (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, Street Scene (1929).

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74. Arthur Hornblow, Jr

1893-1976 (aged 83)

writer children's writer film producer producer

Arthur Hornblow Jr. was an American film producer. Four of his movies received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture.

75. Francis Burton Harrison

1873-1957 (aged 84)

politician

Francis Burton Harrison was an American-Filipino statesman who served four terms in the United States House of Representatives between 1903 and 1913 and was appointed governor-general of the Philippines by President of the United States Woodrow Wilson. Harrison was a prominent adviser to the president of the Philippine Commonwealth, as well as the next four presidents of the Republic of...

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76. Robert Ferdinand Wagner

1877-1953 (aged 76)

jurist lawyer judge politician

Robert Ferdinand Wagner I was a German-born American attorney and Democratic Party politician who represented the state of New York in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1949.

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77. Mario Biaggi

1917-2015 (aged 98)

lawyer politician

Mario Biaggi was an American politician, attorney, and police officer. He served ten terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1969 to 1988.

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78. Tiffany Cabán

1988-. (aged 38)

lawyer public defender politician

Tiffany Cabán is an American attorney, politician, and political organizer who has served as a member of the New York City Council for the 22nd District since the 2021 New York City Council election. She won the Democratic primary for the seat after the incumbent, Democrat Costa Constantinides, retired.

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79. John Purroy Mitchel

1879-1918 (aged 39)

lawyer politician

John Purroy Mitchel was the 96th mayor of New York, in office from 1914 to 1917. At 34, he was the second-youngest mayor of the city, and was sometimes referred to as the "Boy Mayor of New York". Mitchel won the 1913 mayoral election in a landslide, but lost the Republican primary in 1917 and came in second place in...

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80. John Marshall Harlan II

1899-1971 (aged 72)

lawyer judge

John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1955 to 1971. Harlan is usually called John Marshall Harlan II to distinguish him from his grandfather, John Marshall Harlan, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1877 to 1911.

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81. Maurice R. Greenberg

1925-. (aged 101)

businessperson business executive

Maurice Raymond "Hank" Greenberg is an American business executive and former chairman and chief executive officer of American International Group (AIG).

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82. Vincent Viola

1956-. (aged 70)

film producer philanthropist businessperson

Vincent "Vinnie" Viola is an American billionaire businessman and U.S. Army veteran. For several weeks in 2016 he was President Donald Trump's nominee for United States Secretary of the Army, before withdrawing from consideration. Viola is the owner of the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL), and the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Virtu Financial. He is also...

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83. Zygi Wilf

1950-. (aged 76)

lawyer entrepreneur

Zygmunt "Zygi" Wilf is an American billionaire businessman and real estate developer. He is the chairman and co-owner of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and the majority owner of Major League Soccer's Orlando City SC.

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84. Wallace Stevens

1879-1955 (aged 76)

poet lawyer poet lawyer writer journalist

Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.

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85. Vijaya Gadde

1974-. (aged 52)

lawyer

Vijaya Gadde is an American attorney, who served as general counsel and the head of legal, policy, and trust at Twitter. Her role included handling issues such as harassment, misinformation, and harmful speech, and other decisions made by Twitter. On October 27, 2022, she was fired by Elon Musk, following his acquisition of Twitter.

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86. Judy Sheindlin

1942-. (aged 84)

writer lawyer judge television producer

Judith Susan Sheindlin also known as Judge Judy, is an American attorney, jurist, court-show arbitrator and television producer.

87. Kalman Yeger

1974-. (aged 52)

politician

Kalman Yeger is an American politician who serves in the New York State Assembly for the 41st district. He is a conservative member of the Democratic Party. On Nov 5, 2024, Yeger won an uncontested election for the Assembly seat which is located in Brooklyn and includes all or part of the neighborhoods of Flatlands & Sheepshead Bay, as well...

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88. Edward Terence Donnelly

1871-1929 (aged 58)

military personnel

Edward Terence Donnelly was a United States Army officer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

89. Thomas Francis Smith

1865-1923 (aged 58)

lawyer politician

Thomas Francis Smith was a lawyer, newspaperman, and politician from New York. From 1917 to 1921, he served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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90. John Joseph Fitzgerald

1872-1952 (aged 80)

lawyer judge politician

John Joseph Fitzgerald was an American lawyer and politician who served nine terms as a United States representative from New York from 1899 to 1917.

91. Eliot Engel

1947-. (aged 79)

teacher politician

Eliot Lance Engel is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from New York from 1989 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented a district covering portions of the north Bronx and southern Westchester County.

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92. Louis Waldman

1892-1982 (aged 90)

lawyer politician trade unionist

Louis Waldman was a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American garment worker, engineer, lawyer and politician who was a leading figure in the Socialist Party of America from the late 1910s through the mid-1930s. A founding member of the Social Democratic Federation and a prominent New York labor lawyer, he was expelled from the New York State Assembly in 1920 during the First Red...

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93. Kenneth Mitchell

1965-. (aged 61)

lawyer politician

Kenneth C. "Ken" Mitchell is a Democratic Party politician from the New York City borough of Staten Island who had served in the New York City Council representing the North Shore of that borough. He is currently the executive director of the Staten Island Zoo. From March 1, 2010, to October 3, 2011, Mitchell served as interim executive director of...

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94. Guy Victor Molinari

1928-2018 (aged 90)

lawyer politician

Gaetano Victor Molinari was an American lawyer and Republican politician from New York city. He represented Staten Island in the United States House of Representatives for four terms (1981–1989) and then served 12 years as Staten Island borough president (1990–2002). His daughter, Susan Molinari, also served as a U.S. Representative.

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95. Steve Cohen

lawyer writer

Stephen Ira Cohen is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative from Tennessee's 9th congressional district since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is majority-minority and includes the western three-fourths of Memphis. Cohen is Tennessee's first Jewish congressman. Since 2023, Cohen has been the only Democrat in Tennessee's congressional delegation.

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96. Jimmy Walker

1881-1946 (aged 65)

songwriter politician

James William Walker is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. After playing in 187 events without a win on the PGA Tour, Walker won three times in the first eight events of the 2014 season. He is a six-time winner on the PGA Tour and in 2016 won his first major title at the PGA Championship.

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97. David N. Kelley

1959-. (aged 67)

lawyer

David N. Kelley is an American attorney and a former interim United States Attorney and Deputy U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). He was also a co-chair of the United States Justice Department’s nationwide investigation into the September 11 attacks.

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98. Joe J. Plumeri

1943-. (aged 83)

businessperson baseball player

Joseph J. Plumeri II is vice chairman of the First Data Board of Directors. He was the chairman and CEO of Willis Group Holdings (Willis), a New York Stock Exchange-listed insurance broker, until July 2013. The company has 17,000 employees in 400 offices, located in 120 countries. As of June 2010, Willis had the third-highest insurance brokerage revenues in the...

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99. Thomas Dominick Croci

1972-. (aged 54)

politician

Thomas Dominick Croci is an American politician and naval officer from the state of New York. A Republican, Croci represented the 3rd District of the New York State Senate from 2015 through 2018. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia in the Trump administration, from February 3, 2020 to January 19, 2021.

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100. Charles Phillips

1959-. (aged 67)

businessperson military officer

Charles E. Phillips is an American business executive in the tech industry. He is the co-founder of Recognize, a focused investment firm. From 2010 to 2019, he was the CEO of Infor, a company that specializes in enterprise software applications for specific industries.

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