Notable Students
The list of students who attended Tapping Reeve's law school includes two Vice Presidents of the United States (Aaron Burr and John C. Calhoun), 101 members of the United States House of Representatives, 28 United States senators, six United States cabinet secretaries, three justices of the United States Supreme Court, 14 state governors and 13 state supreme court chief justices. Litchfield Law School students also held state and local political office and became business leaders. Students went on to found university law schools and become university presidents. Framed pictures of students are still hung in the school, including George Catlin, Horace Mann (the educator), Aaron Burr, Jr., Oliver Wolcott, Jr., and US Senator & Connecticut Governor Roger Sherman Baldwin. Each name in this list is followed by the year that the student finished, when known.
See also: Category:Litchfield Law School alumni- John Allen, 1784
- Ezekiel Bacon, 1794
- William J. Bacon, 1823
- Joshua Baker, 1821, Governor of Louisiana
- Henry Baldwin, 1797, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court
- Roger Sherman Baldwin, 1812 (son of Simeon Baldwin and the grandson of Roger Sherman)
- James Bell, 1824
- Edmund H. Bennett
- Aaron Burr, Jr., 1774, U.S. Vice President, U.S. Senator
- Chester Pierce Butler, 1818
- John Caldwell Calhoun, 1805, U.S. Vice-President, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, Secretary of War
- George Catlin, 1817
- John M. Clayton, 1817, U. S. Senator and Secretary of State
- John A. Collier, 1805
- Joel Crawford, 1806
- William Crosby Dawson, 1817
- Thomas Day, 1797
- John Stark Edwards, 1796
- Amos Ellmaker, 1806
- Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, 1811
- John Myers Felder, 1806
- Thomas Flournoy Foster, 1816
- Samuel A. Foot, 1797, Connecticut Governor, U.S. Representative and Senator
- John Brown Francis, 1813, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1844-45, Governor of Rhode Island 1833-38
- Hopkins Holsey
- Ward Hunt, 1830, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- James G. King (1791–1853), businessman and politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district from 1849 to 1851.
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (I), 1817
- Horace Mann, 1822
- Rutger B. Miller, 1824
- Eugenius Aristides Nisbet, 1823
- Elisha Phelps, 1801
- Horatio Seymour, 1798
- Roger Minott Sherman, 1794 (son of Rev. Josiah Sherman, the brother of Roger Sherman)
- Richard Skinner, 1798
- Perry Smith, 1807, U. S. Senator
- Truman Smith, 1817, U. S. Senator
- Frederick A. Tallmadge, 1811
- Uriah Tracy, 1778
- Stephen Upson, 1805
- Nicholas Ware, 1792
- Lemuel Whitman, 1805
- Elisha Dana Whittlesey, 1813
- Frederick Whittlesey, 1819
- Thomas T. Whittlesey, 1818
- Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 1778
- Levi Woodbury, 1809, U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Senator, Secretary of the Treasury and Navy, and Governor of New Hampshire.
- Augustus Romaldus Wright, 1833
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