Alumni and Faculty
Notable Hamilton alumni include US Secretary of State Elihu Root (1864), US Vice President James S. Sherman (1878), poet Ezra Pound (1905), theatre critic Alexander Woollcott (1909), jurist and diplomat Philip Jessup (1919), psychologist B. F. Skinner (1926), Nobel Prize Winner Paul Greengard (1948), civil rights leader Bob Moses (1956), novelist Terry Brooks (1966), playwright Richard Nelson (1971), US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (1972), composer Jay Reise (1972), Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner (1979), novelist Peter Cameron (1982), actor Tony Goldwyn (1982), author Garret Kramer (1984), novelist Kamila Shamsie, actor and writer for The Office Paul Lieberstein (1989), actor Grayson McCouch (1991), and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Nat Faxon (1997).
Notable faculty have included philosophers such as Leo Strauss; writers such as Natalie Babbitt, Alex Haley, and poet Howard Nemerov; composers such as Jay Reise; and diplomats and politicians such as Edward S. Walker, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., and Bernie Sanders.
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