List of Harvard Law School Alumni - Non-graduates

Non-graduates

These students attended Harvard Law but, for various reasons, did not graduate.

• Brooks Adams, historian
• Larz Anderson, diplomat and businessman, United States Ambassador to Japan (1912–13)
• William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (dropped out 1914), United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1933–1996)
• William Bundy, CIA figure who had a role in planning the Vietnam War
• Allan B. Calhamer, developed the board game Diplomacy
• Daniel Henry Chamberlain (dropped out 1863), Governor of South Carolina
• Frank Church (transferred), US Senator from Idaho (1957–81)
• John Sherman Cooper (dropped out), US Senator from Kentucky (1946–1949, 1952–1955, 1956–1973)
• Danny Fields (dropped out 1959), figure in the underground New York punk rock scene
• Melville Fuller (dropped out 1855), Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (transferred), US Supreme Court Justice (1993–present)
• Arthur A. Hartman (dropped out 1948), United States Ambassador to France (1977–1981), United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1981–1987)
• Henry James, novelist; author of The Bostonians and Washington Square
• Jodi Kantor (dropped out), reporter and editor on culture and politics for the New York Times
• Philip Kaufman, film screenwriter and director
• Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., left before his last year to serve in WWII, where he was killed.
• Michael Kinsley (transferred), journalist, editor, and host of Crossfire
• Nicholas Longworth (transferred), Speaker of the House (1925–31)
• Greg Mankiw (dropped out 1984), economist
• Gordon McLendon, created Top 40 radio format
• Louis Menand (dropped out 1974), American cultural and intellectual historian
• Pat McCormick, comic actor and writer
• William Henry Moody (dropped out), US Supreme Court Justice (1906–1910), United States Attorney General (1904–1906), United States Secretary of the Navy (1902–1904), congressman from Massachusetts (1895–1902)
• George Murdock, anthropologist
• John Negroponte (dropped out 1960), US Deputy Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence
• Cole Porter, composer and songwriter
• Roscoe Pound (dropped out 1890), dean of Harvard Law School
• Donald Regan, United States Secretary of the Treasury (1981–1985), White House Chief of Staff (1985–1987)
• Angelo Rizzuto, photographer
• Robert Rubin (dropped out), Secretary of the Treasury
• William James Sidis (dropped out 1919), famous child prodigy
• Alfred D. Sieminski (dropped out 1936), congressman from New Jersey (1951–1959)
• Adlai Stevenson II (dropped out), Governor of Illinois (1949–1953) and Democratic presidential candidate (1952, 1956)
• Robert W. Welch Jr. (dropped out), founder of the anticommunist John Birch Society