Notable Alumni
Wesleyan Alumni:
- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, President of Emory University (1840–1848), President of Centenary College (1848–1849), President of University of Mississippi (1850–1856)
- Miles Tobey Granger, judge and U.S. Congressman (1887–1889)
- William Henry Huntington, Paris correspondent of the New York Tribune (1858–1878)
- Orestes Augustus Brownson, Transcendentalist author
- Robert Carter Pitman, President of Massachusetts Senate (1869)
- Samuel Nelles, first President of Victoria University in the University of Toronto (1884–1887)
- Edward Gayer Andrews, Methodist Bishop (1876–1904)
- Alonzo Jay Edgerton, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (1881–1883)
- Henry White Warren, Massachusetts legislature, Methodist Bishop (1880–1912)
- William Fairfield Warren, first President of Boston University (1873–1903)
- David J. Brewer, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1890–1910; nephew of founder Hamilton Brewer)
Other Alumni
- John Brown Gordon, Major General, Confederate States of America, (1846-1848), University of Georgia, Temple of The Skull and Bones
- L. Q. C. Lamar, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1888–1893)
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