NOTABLE HARVARD VETERANS
This is a list of notable members of the Harvard University community (alumni, students, faculty, and staff) who served in the armed forces of the United States.
The list is compiled as an element of the Harvard Veterans History Project. Please submit additions (with brief information), comments, and corrections on our contact page.
EDUCATION & ARTS:
| Derek Bok | President of Harvard University | |
| Henry Rosovsky | Dean of FAS, Acting President of Harvard University | |
| Neil Rudenstein | President of Harvard University | |
| James Wright | President of Dartmouth College | |
| Kingman Brewster, Jr. | President of Yale University | |
| Henry Kissinger | Winner Nobel Prize for Peace 1973, Secretary of State | |
| Michael Porter | Professor, Author, Co-founder of Monitor Group | |
| David Gergen | Professor, Author, Counselor to Presidents | |
| E.E. Cummings | Poet | |
| Ben Bradlee | Executive Editor, The Washington Post | |
| David Lee | Winner 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Tom Lehrer | Mathematician, Professor, Satirist | |
| Philip Johnson | Architecht | |
| Norman Mailer | Novelist, Playwright | |
| Samuel Huntington | Political Scientist, Professor, Author | |
| George Plimpton | Journalist, Editor | |
| Jack Lemmon | Actor, Academy Award Winner | |
| Leroy Anderson | Composer | |
| Archibald MacLeish | Poet, Writer, Librarian of Congress | |
| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | Historian, Professor, Pulitzer Prize Winner | |
| Joseph Murray | Physician, Winner 1990 Nobel Prize for Medicine | |
| Richard Neustadt | Political Scientist, Founder Harvard Kennedy School | |
| Thomas Sowell | Economist, Author, Senior Fellow Hoover Institution | |
| David A. Morse | Winner 1969 Nobel Peace Prize | |
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LAW: |
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| William Rehnquist | Chief Justice of the United States | |
| Anthony Kennedy | Justice, United States Supreme Court | |
| Lewis Powell | Justice, United States Supreme Court | |
| William Brennan | Justice, United States Supreme Court | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Justice, United States Supreme Court | |
| Felix Frankfurter | Justice, United States Supreme Court | |
| Harold H. Burton | Justice, United States Supreme Court | |
| John Hancock | Patriot, Signer of Declaration of Independence | |
| Michael Dukakis | Governor of Massachusetts, Professor | |
| Ralph Nader | Author, Political Scientist, Presidential Candidate | |
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GOVERNMENT: |
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| John F Kennedy | President of the United States, US Senator Massachusetts | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Vice President and President of the United States | |
| George W Bush | President of the United States, Governor of Texas | |
| Franklin Roosevelt | President of the United States, Governor of New York | |
| Rutherford B Hayes | President of the United States | |
| Al Gore | Vice president of the United States, US Senator Tennesse | |
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UNITED STATES SENATORS: |
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| Robert F. Kennedy | New York, Attorney General of the US | |
| Edward M Kennedy | Massachusetts | |
| Robert Taft, Jr. | Ohio | |
| John Chafee | Rhode Island, Governor of Rhode Island | |
| Sinclair Weeks | Massachusetts, US Secretary of Commerce | |
| Larry Pressler | Idaho | |
| Ted Stevens | Alaska | |
| Sam Ervin | North Carolina | |
| Adlai Stevenson III | Ohio | |
| John Culver | Iowa | |
| Floyd Haskell | Colorado | |
| Jeff Bingaman | New Mexico | |
| Herbert Kohl | Wisconsin, Owner Milwaukee Bucks | |
| Hiram Fong | Hawaii | |
| Jack Reed | Rhode Island | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr | Massachusetts, US Ambassador to the UN | |
| John Heinz | Pennsylvania | |
| Alan Simpson | Wyoming | |
| Leverett Saltonstall | Massachusetts, Governor of Massachusetts | |
| David Gambrell | Georgia | |
| Ernest Greuning | Alaska | |
| Edward Gurney | Florida | |
| William Hathaway | Maine | |
| James Jeffords | Vermont | |
| Kenneth Keating | New York | |
| Spark Matsumaga | Hawaii | |
| William Proxmire | Wisconsin | |
| William Roth, Jr. | Delaware | |
| Benjamin Smith II | Massachusetts | |
| Louis Wyman | New Hampshire | |
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UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVES: |
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| Amory Houghton, Jr. | New York | |
| Pierre S. DuPont IV | Delaware, Governor of Delaware | |
| Joseph Sestak | Pennsylvania, Vice Admiral US Navy | |
| Tom Ridge | Pennsylvania, Governor of Pennsylvania | |
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MEMBERS OF THE CABINET: |
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| Caspar Weinberger, Jr. | Secretary of Defense | |
| Dean Acheson | Secretary of State | |
| Alberto Gonzales | Attorney General | |
| Robert McNamara | Secretary of Defense, President Ford Motors | |
| Robert Todd Lincoln | Secretary of War, President Pullman Company | |
| Elliott Richardson | Attorney General, Secretary Defense, HEW | |
| Henry Stimson | Secretary of State, Secretary of War | |
| Donald Regan | Secretary of Treasury, CEO of Merrill Lynch | |
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MILITARY |
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Medal of Honor Recipients:
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| CHAIRMEN, JOINT CHIEFS of STAFF | ||
| Colin Powell | Army, Secretary of State | |
| John Shalikashvili | Army | |
| Hugh Shelton | Army | |
| Richard Meyers | US Air Force | |
| Peter Pace | USMC | |
| Michael Mullen | US Navy | |
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FLAG OFFICERS |
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| George C. Marshall | General of the Army, Secretary of State, Marshall Plan | |
| Artemus Ward | MG Continental Army, Congressman for Massachusetts | |
| Charles B. Green | LTG and Surgeon General US Air Force | |
| Wesley Clark | Army, Supreme Allied Cmndr. Europe, Rhodes Scholar | |
| Tad Oelstrom | LTG USAF, Director National Security Program at HKS | |
| George W Casey | MG Army, highest ranked US Officer to die in Vietnam | |
| Samuel Eliot Morison | RADM USN, Professor, Author | |
| Douglas Lute | LTG Army, Deputy National Security Advisor | |
| John Abizaid | GEN Army, Commander CENTCOM | |
| Michael E. Ryan | LTG USAF | |
| Robert Davenport | MG Army | |
| Eugene Tattini | LTG USAF | |
| Hal Moore | LTG Army, Author | |
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OTHER MILITARY: |
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| Quentin Roosevelt | Lt 95th Aero Squadron, KIA behind German line | |
| Norman Prince | Founder France’s Lafayette Escadrille, KIA | |
| Robert Gould Shaw | Commander 54th (black) Regiment, KIA Ft Wagner | |
| Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. | Lt USN, bomber pilot, KIA Operation Aphrodite | |
| Joseph Warren | DR., MG Continental Army, KIA Bunker Hill | |
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BUSINESS: |
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| David Rockefeller | CEO Chase Manhattan Bank, Philanthropist | |
| Charles F. Adams IV | Chairman Raytheon Corporation | |
| C. Douglas Dillon | Chairman Rockefeller Foundation, Sec. of Treasury | |
| F. Warren Hellman | Investment Banker | |
| Donald E. Graham | Publisher, Washington Post | |
| John Whitehead | Chairman Goldman Sachs | |
| Sumner Redstone | Chairman Viacom | |
| Al Weatherhead | Chairman Weatherhead Industries | |
| Warren Alpert | Founder Warren Equities, Alpert Medical School | |
| Jerome Kohlberg | Founder KKR and Kohlberg & Company | |
| Clemmie D. Spangler | Bank of America, President UNC | |
| Gordon Gund | CEO Gund Investment Corporation | |
| Marshall Carter | CEO State Street Corporation | |
| Whipple V.N. Jones | Founder Aspen Highlands | |
| Charles F. Adams, Jr. | President Union Pacific | |