List of Washington & Jefferson College people

The list of notable Washington & Jefferson College people includes notable graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with Washington & Jefferson College. For a list of Washington & Jefferson's presidents, see President of Washington & Jefferson College.=Alumni=Distinguished alumni include:
* Ernest F. Acheson, owner/editor of the "Washington Weekly Observer" and U.S. Representative from PA's 24th congressional district from 1895 - 1909
* John Astin, actor of "The Addams Family" and "Batman" fame (transferred to Johns Hopkins University) [http://www.nndb.com/people/327/000023258/]
* Carl G. Bachmann, U.S. Congressional Representative from West Virginia
* Thomas W. Bartley, 18th Governor of Ohio
* Henry H. Bingham, Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Congressional Representative
* James G. Blaine, United States Secretary of State and a candidate for President of the United States
* Samuel Steel Blair, US Congressional Representative from Pennsylvania
* Benjamin Bristow (1851), Solicitor General of the United States and as a United States Secretary of the Treasury
* Richard Clark, (1968) President, CEO of Merck 2006-Present
* Harvey W. Cook, pilot of the first continental airmail liner
* Nicholas P. Dallis, creator of the newspaper comic strip "Rex Morgan, M.D."
* John Hoge Ewing, a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention
* Stephen Foster, famed nineteenth-century songwriter of American folk classics "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Black Joe", "Beautiful Dreamer" and "Old Folks at Home", among others. Foster attended W&J but never finished; he is said to have been kicked out. [http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=372&menu_id=133&crumb=137&id=61]
* John Rankin Franklin (1836), US Congressional Representative from Maryland
* Edgar Garbisch, Member, College Football Hall of Fame [http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=20109]
* John W. Geary, mayor of San Francisco, governor of the Kansas Territory, governor of Pennsylvania, and Union general in the American Civil War.
* Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner 2006 - present
* Louis E. Graham, U.S. Congressional Representative from Pennsylvania
* Melissa Hart, former U.S. Congressional Representative from Pennsylvania
* William Thomas Hamilton, 38th Governor of Maryland, 1880 - 1884, U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1868 - 1874, member United States House of Representatives from Maryland, 1849 - 1855.
* John Hemphill (1825), Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and a United States Senator
* Wilbur "Pete" "Fats" Henry, Member, College Football Hall of Fame [http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=10071] , Member, Pro Football Hall of Fame. [http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=94]
* John S. Horner (1819), acting Governor of Michigan Territory from 1835 to 1836 and Secretary of Wisconsin Territory from 1836 to 1837
* Rev. George Junkin, D.D., LL.D., first president of Lafayette College
* Buddy Jeannette, professional basketball player and coach, Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame [http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-buddy-jeannette.html]
* Dr. Jesse Lazear, who discovered that yellow fever was transmitted via mosquito [http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/medical_history/yellow_fever/commission.cfm]
* Dr. Francis Julius LeMoyne, M.D. (1815) nationally known abolitionist, philanthropist, founder of the Washington Female Seminary, and benefactor of LeMoyne-Owen College, a historically-black college in Memphis, Tennessee
* Jonathan Letterman (1849 Jefferson College), an American surgeon known as the "Father of Battlefield Medicine"
* William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore, founders of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
* John Livingston Lowes (1888), American scholar of English literature
* Charles Lucas (Missouri) (1810 Jefferson College), lawyer killed in duel with Thomas Hart Benton (senator)
* Walter B. Massenberg, (1970) Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy
* William Holmes McGuffey (1826) Educator, best known as the author of McGuffey Readers
* Henry Christopher McCook (1859), member of the celebrated Fighting McCooks
* Thomas M. T. McKennan, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior and U.S. Congressional Representative from Pennsylvania
* William Sutton Moore, delegate to the 1856 Republican National Convention; U.S. Congressman 1873
* John Murtha, attended but left in 1952 to join the Marines. U.S. Congressional Representative from Pennsylvania and current chair of the House Appropriations Defense Committee.
* John J. Patterson (1848), United States Senator from South Carolina (1873 - 1879)
* Joe Philbin (1984), Offensive Coordinator for the Green Bay Packers (2007-Present)
* Matthew Quay (1850), United States Senator from Pennsylvania (1887–1899;1901–1904) and Chairman of the Republican National Committee
* Luke Ravenstahl (2003), current Mayor of Pittsburgh
* John S. Reed, interim president of the New York Stock Exchange and former CEO of Citigroup
* Johnson C. Smith, co-founder of the McKeesport Tin Plate Company and director of the People’s Bank in McKeesport. Johnson C. Smith University, a Historically Black College in Charlotte, North Carolina, is named after him.
* Henry Stanberry, United States Attorney General
* Bill Steen, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers, 1912-15
* David Peck Todd (1888), American astronomer
* Clement Vallandigham, U.S. Congressional Representative from Ohio
* Alberto Vilar, former billionaire and founder of Amerindo Investment Advisors, now charged with fraud in federal court. His multi-million pledges to the college never materialized.
* Joseph A. Walker, NASA test pilot
* Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (Jefferson College)
* Ephraim King Wilson II, U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1885-1891.
* Jesse White, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
* Andrew Wylie, first president of Indiana University and former president of Jefferson College and Washington College

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