List of Norwich University alumni

Following is a list of notable alumni of Norwich University, private senior military college in Northfield, Vermont. The university was called The American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy from 1818 to 1834.

Architecture

 * William Rutherford Mead (non-degreed) – architect associated with the City Beautiful and Beaux Arts movements and partner in McKim, Mead, and White

Business

 * Bradley Birkenfeld 1988 – private banker and whistleblower about State Street Bank & Trust
 * Paul C. Cameron 1828 – co-buiider of the North Carolina Railroad and justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court
 * Orville Clark 182? – President of the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company and New York State Senate
 * Grenville Dodge 1850 – chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad, Civil War General, US Congressman, and namesake of. Dodge City, Kansas.
 * Robert Livingston Pell 1829 – farmer and landowner
 * Junius Spencer Morgan (attended) – banker, financier, and the father of J. P. Morgan
 * Harry Bates Thayer (attended 1875–1877) – president and chairman of the board of AT&T

Education

 * Patricia Aakhus – novelist and director of International Studies at the University of Southern Indiana
 * Kenny Alexander 2019 (MA) – college system chancellor, and political science instructor at Tidewater Community College,  Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegrates, and mayor of Norfolk, Virginia
 * Alvan E. Bovay 1841 – co-founder of Ripon College and of the Republican Party
 * Thomas J. Cutler 1988 – author, director of the Walbrook Maritime Academy, and associate editor of the United States Naval Institute
 * Carlo D'Este 1958 – military historian, biographer,and lecturer at School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and General Staff College
 * Tarak Nath Das – professor of political science at Columbia University
 * Thomas Green Clemson 1824 – founder of Clemson University and US Ambassador to Belgium
 * Roxane Gay – writer and professor at Eastern Illinois University, Purdue University, and Yale University
 * Ernest N. Harmon (attended 1914) – president of Norwich University, major general, and commander of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Armored Division, and XXII Corps during World War II
 * Robert F. McDermott (attended 1937–1939) – dean of faculty to the Air Force Academy, Brigadier General, and flew 61 combat missions during World War II in the European Theatre,
 * Tracey Poirier 1996 – assistant vice president for student affairs at Norwich University and Brigadier General in the Vermont Army National Guard
 * Andrea Talentino 2017 (MBA) – ninth president of Augustana College
 * Marjorie Welish – poet and instructor at the Pratt Institute and Brown University.

Engineering and science

 * Edward Dean Adams 1864 – Founded and directed the Cataract Construction Company and developed the systems to produce electric power at Niagara Falls
 * Richard E. Hayden 1968 – acoustics researcher and winner of the Wright Brothers Medal in 1973
 * Frederick W. Lander 1852 – Surveyor of railroad routes and wagon trails in the Western American States and Brigadier General during the American Civil War
 * Horatio Wright (attended 1834–1836) – Engineer for the Brooklyn Bridge and the Washington Monument, Chief of Engineers for the Army; Major General, commander with the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War, Commander of the Army of Texas
 * Samuel T. Wellman 1866 – American steel industry pioneer and inventor

Law

 * Charles J. Adams 1939 – Vermont Attorney General
 * F. Elliott Barber Jr. 1934 – Vermont Attorney General
 * Luther Loren Baxter – Minnesota Senate, Minnesota House of Representatives, probate judge, United States Attorney, and county attorney for Carver County, Minnesota
 * Thomas Bragg 1828 – Attorney General of the Confederate States, Governor of North Carolina from 1855 to 1859, and United States Senate
 * Thaddeus M. Buczko – Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Auditor, and justice of the Essex County Probate and Family Court
 * Paul C. Cameron 1828 – justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court and co-buiider of the North Carolina Railroad
 * John P. Connarn 1941 – Vermont Attorney General, 1965–1967; Judge with the Vermont District Court from 1967 to 1985, and Vermont House of Representatives
 * S. Park Coon – Attorney General of Wisconsin
 * Jasper W. Gilbert 1832 – justice on the New York Supreme Court
 * William Pitt Kellogg 1848 – Chief Justice of the Nebraska Territory Louisiana Senate, and Governor of Louisiana
 * Jefferson P. Kidder 1834 – justice of territorial Supreme Court, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and United States House of Representatives for the Dakota Territory
 * William Little Lee 1842 – Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Kingdom and privy counselor to Kamehameha III
 * Michael Mori 1991 – lawyer of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Matthew Hicks and recipient of the American Civil Liberties Union's Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award
 * Theodore Sedgwick 1826 – United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
 * Burleigh F. Spalding 1877 – Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court and United States House of Representatives from North Dakota

Literature and journalism

 * Patricia Aakhus – novelist and director of International Studies at the University of Southern Indiana
 * Sharifa Alkhateeb – journalist and editor
 * Thomas J. Cutler 1988 – author, director of the Walbrook Maritime Academy, and associate editor of the United States Naval Institute
 * William Richard Cutter – writer, historian, librarian, and genealogist
 * Roxane Gay – writer and professor at Eastern Illinois University, Purdue University, and Yale University
 * Marjorie Welish – Poet and instructor at Pratt Institute and Brown University.
 * Rafael Enault – French writer and film director.
 * Pierson "Pier" Mapes - 1959, President of NBC from 1982 - 1994.

Military

 * Fred Thaddeus Austin 1888 – Major General and U.S. Army Chief of Field Artillery
 * Hiram Iddings Bearss (attended 1894–1895) – Brigadier General who Received the Medal of Honor during the Philippine–American War
 * Francis William Billado 1933 – Major General and Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard
 * James Vote Bomford 1828 – Brigadier General.in the U.S. Army
 * Irving L. Branch 1934 – United States Air Force general
 * John J. Broadmeadow 1983 – lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps
 * Edward H. Brooks 1916 – Lieutenant General, Commander, VI Armored Corps during World War II; and commanding general, U.S. Army in the Caribbean
 * James M. Burt 1939 – Received the Medal of Honor for he Battle of Aachen during World War II.
 * Henry Stanton Burton (attended 1832–1835) – brevet brigadier general U. S. Army
 * Edward Byers 2016 – Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient
 * Harold D. Campbell 1917 – United States Marine Corps major general
 * George Colvocoresses 1831 – Commanded USS Saratoga during the Civil War
 * George Partridge Colvocoresses 1866 – rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and Commandant of Cadets at the United States Naval Academy
 * George A. Converse 1863 – Rear Admiral, notable naval engineer, and Chief of the Bureaus of Equipment, Ordnance, and Navigation
 * Norman Cooling (attended 1986) – Brigadier General in the United States Marine Corps
 * Reginald M. Cram 1936 – adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard
 * Thomas Tingey Craven 1824 – U.S. Navy Admiral
 * George Dewey (attended 1852–1854) – Admiral of the Navy, commanded the Navy's Asiatic Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.
 * Grenville M. Dodge 1851 – major general, Commander of the Department of Missouri; and chief engineer of Union Pacific, and namesake of Dodge City, Kansas
 * Donald E. Edwards 1959 – adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard
 * Jesse Gove 1849 – colonel in the American Civil War
 * Ernest N. Harmon (attended 1914) – major general, president of Norwich University, and Commander of the 1st Armored Division, 2nd Armored Division, and XXII Corps during World War II
 * Richard W. Higgins – USAF pilot serving in Germany decorated by the Luftwaffe for saving civilians in an accident.
 * Willie Johnston (attended, 1866–1868) – youngest recipient of the Medal of Honor
 * Frederick W. Lander 1852 – brigadier general during the American Civil War and surveyor of railroad routes and wagon trails in the Far Wes
 * Albert Martin – defender of the Alamo in 1836
 * Robert F. McDermott (attended 1937–1939) – flew 61 combat missions during World War II in the European Theatre, dean of faculty to the Air Force Academy, and brigadier general.
 * Robert H. Milroy 1843 – brigadier general, in command or present at the Union reverses of the Battle of McDowell, Battle of Cross Keys, and Battle of Second Winchester.
 * Lewis Samuel Partridge 1838 – major general, adjutant general of the Vermont Militia
 * Hiram Paulding 1822 – rear admiral, commander of the Navy's Home Squadron, and commandant of the New York Navy Yard
 * Thomas Payne 2017 – member of U.S. Army Special Mission Unit who received the Medal of Honor for operations against ISIS in Iraq
 * Samuel L. Pitkin 1823 – Adjutant General for the State of Connecticut
 * Tracey Poirier 1996 – brigadier general, the first female general officer of the Vermont Army National Guard and assistant vice president for student affairs at Norwich University
 * James Ezekiel Porter (attended 1863–1864) – officer in the 7th Cavalry from 1869 to 1876; killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
 * David E. Quantock 1980 – brigadier general and Inspector General of the United States Army.
 * Thomas E. G. Ransom (attended 1848–1850) – Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War
 * Edmund Rice 1859 – brigadier general and recipient of the Medall of Honor for actions at the Battle of Gettysburg.
 * William Huntington Russell 1828 – major general, commander of Connecticut state militia during the American Civil War; and founder of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University.
 * Thomas O. Seaver 1859 – commanded the 3rd Vermont Infantry during the American Civil War; received the Medal of Honor
 * Gordon R. Sullivan 1959 – general and Army Chief of Staff
 * Frederick Townsend Ward (attended 1846–1848) – Soldier of fortune famous for his military victories for Imperial China during the Taiping Rebellion.
 * James H. Ward 1823 – first commandant of the United States Naval Academy; first Union Naval officer killed in action during the American Civil War.
 * Gideon Welles 1826 – served as United States Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson
 * Seth Williams 1903 – quartermaster general of the Marine Corps and Major General
 * Edward Bancroft Williston 1856 – brigadier general, received the Medal of Honor
 * Leonard F. Wing Sr. (attended 1910–1914) – brigadier general and commander of 43rd Infantry Division during World War II.
 * Henry Clay Wood 1856 – brigadier general, received the Medal of Honor
 * Horatio Wright (attended 1834–1836) – engineer for the Brooklyn Bridge and the Washington Monument, Chief of Engineers for the Army; Major General, commander with the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War, Commander of the Army of Texas

Politics

 * Kenny Alexander 2019 (MA) – Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegrates, mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, college system chancellor, and political science instructor at Tidewater Community College
 * David V. Anderson 1922 – Vermont Auditor of Accounts
 * Luther Loren Baxter – Minnesota Senate, Minnesota House of Representatives, probate judge, United States Attorney, and county attorney for Carver County, Minnesota
 * Portus Baxter 1824 – United States House of Representatives
 * Alvan E. Bovay 1841 – co-founder of Republican Party and of Ripon College
 * Dennis Bradley – Connecticut State Senate
 * Thomas Bragg 1828 – Governor of North Carolina, United States Senate, and Attorney General of the Confederate States.
 * Ansel Briggs 1820 – first governor of Iowa
 * Francis K. Brooks 1967 – Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate
 * George E. Bryant 1854 – Wisconsin State Senate
 * Thaddeus M. Buczko – Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Auditor, and justice of the Essex County Probate and Family Court
 * Asa Clapp 1823 – United States House of Representatives
 * Orville Clark 182x ? – New York State Senate and president of the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company
 * Thomas Green Clemson 1824 – US Ambassador to Belgium and founder of Clemson University
 * George W. Clinton 1827 – Mayor of Buffalo
 * Jay Collins – Florida Senate
 * Charles A. Coolidge 1863 – United States Army brigadier general.
 * John P. Connarn 1941 – Vermont House of Representatives; Vermont Attorney General, and judge in Vermont District Court
 * Laurentino Cortizo – President of Panama, President of the National Assembly, and Minister of Agricultural and Livestock Development
 * John J. Daley 1949 – lieutenant governor of Vermont, Vermont House of Representatives, and Mayor of Rutland
 * Tarak Nath Das 1908 – co-founder of the Ghadar Party and Indian freedom fighter
 * Moses M. Davis – Wisconsin Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Dustin Allard Degree – Vermont General Assembly
 * Brian Dempsey – Massachusetts House of Representatives
 * Joseph H. Denny 1905 – Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate
 * Charles D. Drake 1825 – United States Senate
 * Ryland Fletcher 1824 – Governor of Vermont.
 * Colonel Ernest Willard Gibson 1894 – United States Senate
 * Colonel Ernest W. Gibson Jr. 1923 – United States Senate and Governor of Vermont
 * Jason R. Holsman 2003 – Missouri Senate.
 * William Pitt Kellogg 1848 – Louisiana State Senate, Governor of Louisiana, and Chief Justice of the Nebraska Territory
 * Colin Kenny 1966 – Senate of Canada and adviser to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
 * Jefferson P. Kidder 1834 – Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, United States House of Representatives for the Dakota Territory, and a justice of territorial Supreme Court.
 * William Little Lee 1842 – Privy counselor to Kamehameha III and chief justice of Hawaiian Kingdom
 * Caleb Lyon 1841 – Governor of the Idaho Territory and United States House of Representatives
 * Horatio Seymour 1828 – Governor of New York and 1868 Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
 * Charles A. Plumley 1896 – United States House of Representatives
 * Paul N. Poirier 1970 –Vermont House of Representatives
 * Edward Stanly 1829 – United States House of Representatives
 * Burleigh F. Spalding 1877 –United States House of Representatives and Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court
 * Gideon Welles 1826 – United States Secretary of the Navy

Religion and nonprofits

 * Gregory T. Bedell –  Episcopal Bishop of Ohio
 * William Griffith Wilson 1917 – co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous  who was in the top 20 persons of the Time 100: Heroes and Icons in the 20th century.

Sports

 * Beau Almodobar – Professional football player
 * Tom Aubrun – Professional ice hockey player
 * Keith Aucoin 2001 – Professional ice hockey player.
 * Andrew Bracy 2015 – professional lacrosse player with the New York Lizards
 * Don Brown 1977 – college football coach
 * Mike Brown 2000 – Academic All-American wrestler; professional Mixed Martial Artist, and WEC Featherweight Champion in 2008
 * Emily Caruso 2000 – sport shooter, two-time Olympian and gold medalist, and college coach
 * Amanda Conway 2020 – professional ice hockey player with the Connecticut Whale
 * Jay Cottone (attended 1968 to 1970) – college football coach
 * Dominick Dawes – college ice hockey coach and professional ice hockey player
 * Long Ding – professional football player
 * Allen Doyle 1971 – Golfer on the Champions Tour, U.S. Senior Open Champion in 2005 and 2006, and Senior PGA Champion in 1999
 * Pierre Garçon – Professional football player
 * Nikita Kashirsky – Professional ice hockey player
 * Bill Kenney – college football coach
 * Frank Liebel 1941 – Professional football player with the New York Giants and Chicago Bears
 * Jim Luscinski – Professional football player
 * Harold D. Martin – college football coach, and a Negro league baseball player.
 * Kurtis McLean 2005 – Professional ice hockey player
 * Bobby Murray – Professional baseball player
 * Arlie Pond 1888–1890 – Major league pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles
 * Frank Simonetti 1984 – Professional ice hockey player with the Boston Bruins
 * Brent Thompson (1997) – college football coach