Government and Law
| Name | Notability |
|---|---|
| Potter Stewart | Justice of the US Supreme Court |
| Archibald MacLeish | Assistant Secretary of State, Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize * Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner. |
| Jon Ormond Newman | Judge, United States court of appeals |
| Eli Whitney Debevoise | Founder of the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton |
| Porter J. Goss | former Director of the CIA, Representative of Florida, United States House of Representatives |
| Strobe Talbott | Deputy Secretary of State, Journalist, diplomat, President of Brookings Institution |
| Paul Nitze | Secretary of the Navy, architect of US policy towards the Soviet Union, Co-founder of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; |
| Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. | United States Secretary of Commerce |
| Paul Warnke | Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs |
| Robert Bork | United States Solicitor General, Conservative legal scholar, Supreme Court nominee; Distinguished Fellow, the Hudson Institute; |
| Donald B. Easum | Former United States Assistant Secretary of State; United States Ambassador to Nigeria |
| Roy D. Chapin | US Secretary of Commerce and CEO, American Motors Corporation |
| Charles Edison | Governor of New Jersey, son of Thomas Edison |
| Artemus Gates | banker, World War I hero, Under Secretary of the Navy |
| Lawrence M. Judd | Governor of Hawaii |
| Jerry Voorhis | Representative, United States House of Representatives (D-CA) |
| Robert D. Orr | Governor of Indiana |
| Ernest Gruening | Governor of Alaska, US Senator |
| William Warren Scranton | Governor of Pennsylvania, United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
| Arthur K. Watson | United States Ambassador to France and president of the International Chamber of Commerce |
| Livingston T. Merchant | United States Ambassador to Canada and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs |
| G. McMurtrie Godley | United States Ambassador to Laos and co-founder and first president of the Glimmerglass Opera |
| Victor Ashe | United States Ambassador to Poland |
| Clark T. Randt, Jr. | United States Ambassador to China 2001–Present |
| Winston Lord | United States Ambassador to China |
| Charles Yost | United States Ambassador to the United Nations, United States Ambassador to: Laos, Syria, and Morocco; United States Representative to the United Nations |
| R. Lawrence Coughlin | Representative, United States House of Representatives |
| Peter Hall | Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; former U.S. Attorney, District of Vermont |
| Jon O. Newman | Judge, United States Court of Appeals |
| Frederick Vanderbilt Field | Communist |
| Lisa Brown | Staff Secretary to President Barack Obama |
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