Presidents of The United States
- Theodore Roosevelt—(Law, attended 1880 to 1881) (posthumous J.D., class of 1882), 26th President of the United States (1901–1909); hero of the Spanish–American War (Medal of Honor, posthumously awarded 2001); Nobel Peace Prize recipient; Governor of New York; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; professional historian, explorer, author
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt—(Law, attended fall of 1904 to spring 1907) (posthumous J.D., class of 1907), 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945); consistently ranked as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents in scholarly surveys; Governor of New York; Assistant Secretary of the Navy
- Dwight Eisenhower—34th President of the United States (1953–1961); Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force; President of Columbia University
- Barack Obama—(B.A. 1983) 44th President of the United States (2009-); Nobel Peace Prize recipient; Democratic Senator from Illinois (2005–2008); first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review
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