List of Marietta College alumni

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Marietta College is a private liberal arts college in Marietta, Ohio. Following are some of its notable alumni.

## Art

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Theodore Earl Butler |  |  | American impressionist |
Charles L. Peterson |  |  | Artist  |

## Business

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Henry M. Dawes | 1896  |  | President of Pure Oil Company of United States Comptroller of the Currency |
Douglas Putnam | 1859  |  | President of Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad Co. and Ashland Coal & Iron Railway;

U.S. Army colonel and member of Ulysses S. Grant's staff

Mike Salvino | 1987  | Industrial Engineering  | President and chairperson of DXC Technology |

## Clergy

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Obed Dickinson |  |  | Congregational minister and abolitionist |
Dean Hess | 1941  |  | Clergyman, soldier, and humanitarian  |
Edward Marsden |  |  | Minister and missionary to the Tlingit community of Saxman |
John Poage Williamson |  |  | Missionary to the Lower Sioux Agency and Crow Creek Indian Reservation; South Dakota House of Representatives |

## Education

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Kenneth P. Bogart | 1965  | Mathematics  | Mathematician and professor at Dartmouth College |
Edmund Burke Fairfield |  |  | Chancellor of the University of Nebraska and Lieutenant governor of Michigan |
John Fantuzzo |  |  | Professor of Human Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Child Research Center  |
Doug La Follette | 1963  | Chemistry  | Academic, environmental scientist, and Secretary of State of Wisconsin |
Scott Lephart |  | Sports Medicine  | Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences and sports medicine scholar  |
John Nesselroade |  |  | Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and

adjunct professor of human development at Pennsylvania State University

Elsie Eaton Newton |  |  | Dean of Women at Marietta and educator with the United States Indian Service |
Wilbur Schramm | 1928  |  | Academic and founding father of the Communication Studies discipline  |

## Entertainment

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Nick Gehlfuss | 2007  |  | Actor  | [1]
Gary Kott | 1969  |  | Award-winning television and advertising writer, and producer  |

## Law

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James H. Brown |  |  | Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia |
Martin Dewey Follett |  |  | Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court |
Joseph McCormick |  |  | Ohio Attorney General, lawyer, and participant in the second Ohio Constitutional Convention  |
Chuck McRae |  |  | Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi |
Steven Sadow |  |  | Criminal defense attorney  |
John Elbert Sater  |  |  | District judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio |
Riley E. Stratton |  |  | Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court |
Joseph G. Wilson | 1846  |  | Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court and United States House of Representatives |

## Literature and journalism

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Kathy Brodsky | 1967  |  | Author and poet  | [2]
Rich Galen | 1968  |  | Columnist, press secretary, and Republican strategist  |
Joyce Harrington | 1953  |  | Novelist  |
Joy Williams | 1963  |  | Novelist, short story writer, and essayist  |

## Military

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William H. Nash | 1854  |  | Attended, 1850-1852; US Army brigadier general  | [3]
Douglas Putnam | 1859  |  | U.S. Army colonel and member of Ulysses S. Grant's staff, president of

Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad Co. and Ashland Coal & Iron Railway;

Walter Cowen Short | 1888  |  | U.S. Army Brigadier General  | [4]

## Politics

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Edward H. Allen |  |  | Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri |
Ray Barnhart | 1959  |  | Federal Highway Administration director and Texas House of Representatives |
James Capehart |  |  | United States House of Representatives |
Eldon Jacob Crull | 1881  |  | Montana House of Representatives |
Beman Gates Dawes |  |  | United States House of Representatives |
Charles G. Dawes | 1884  |  | U.S. Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, and ambassador  |
Henry M. Dawes |  |  | United States Comptroller of the Currency and president of Pure Oil Company |
Rufus Dawes |  |  | United States House of Representatives |
Frank Deem |  |  | West Virginia Senate and West Virginia House of Delegates |
Edmund Burke Fairfield |  |  | Lieutenant governor of Michigan and Chancellor of the University of Nebraska |
John F. Follett |  |  | United States House of Representatives |
Glen Gainer Jr. |  |  | State Auditor of West Virginia |
William Irwin | 1848  |  | Governor of California | [5]
Carte Goodwin | 1996  |  | United States Senate |
Amy Grady |  |  | West Virginia Senate |
Doug La Follette |  |  | Secretary of State of Wisconsin, academic, and environmental scientist |
Isaac Naylor |  |  | Mayor of Dallas |
Henry S. Neal |  |  | United States House of Representatives |
C. William O'Neill | 1938  |  | Governor of Ohio | [6]
John Patterson |  |  | Ohio House of Representatives |
Joel Pritchard |  |  | United States House of Representatives and Lieutenant Governor of Washington |
John M. Stowell |  |  | Wisconsin State Assembly and Mayor of Milwaukee |
Willard Warner | 1845  |  | United States Senate |
Albert B. White |  |  | Governor of West Virginia | [7]
Wilbur M. White |  |  | United States House of Representatives |
John Poage Williamson |  |  | South Dakota House of Representatives and Lower Sioux Agency and Crow Creek Indian Reservation missionary  |
Joseph G. Wilson | 1846  |  | United States House of Representatives and justice on the Oregon Supreme Court |

## Science and medicine

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Richard M. Krause | 1947  | Biology  | Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, physician, microbiologist, and immunologist  |
F. Story Musgrave | 1960  | Chemistry  | NASA astronaut and shuttle pilot  |

## Sports

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Dale E. Chadwick |  |  | College football coach and collegiate athletic director |
W. D. Chadwick |  |  | Coach of college football, baseball, and basketball and athletics administrator  |
Dane Dastillung |  |  | Professional football player  |
Matt DeSalvo | 2002  | Environmental Science  | Professional baseball player with the New York Yankees |
Mel Doherty |  |  | Professional football player-coach |
Ban Johnson | 1887  |  | Founder of baseball's American League  | [8]
Terry Mulholland | 1985  |  | Professional baseball player  | [9]
Don Schaly | 1959  |  | ABCA Hall of Fame member, all-time winningest baseball coach in Division III  |
John Strotbeck | 1979  |  | U.S. Olympic rower  |
Kent Tekulve | 1969  |  | Professional baseball player with the Pittsburgh Pirates |
Jim Tracy | 1978  |  | Former Major League Baseball manager with the Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers |
Bob Walsh | 1962  | Journalism  | Sports executive, television producer, and marketing executive  |

## Other

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Andrea Parhamovich | 2000  |  | National Democratic Institute employee killed in Baghdad, Iraq on January 17, 2007  |
Walter E. Webbe |  |  | Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States |

## References

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1. ^ News. ""Chicago Med" actor reflects on time at Marietta College". Archived from the original on March 22, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2017. `{{cite news}}`: `|last=` has generic name (help)
2. ^ York, Kate (September 25, 2017). "MC Alum Credits Her Success to the School". Marietta Times. Archived from the original on November 17, 2018. Retrieved November 17, 2018.
3. ^ Evans, Nelson W. (1903). A History of Scioto County, Ohio: Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern. Portsmouth, Ohio: Nelson Wiley Evans. pp. 1084–1085 – via Google Books.
4. ^ A Centennial Biographical History of the City of Columbus and Franklin County Ohio. Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company. 1901. pp. 670–672\. Archived from the original on May 25, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2020 – via Google Books.
5. ^ "Governor William Irwin". National Governors Association. Archived from the original on May 25, 2022. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
6. ^ "C. W. O'Neill – Ohio History Central". www.ohiohistorycentral.org. Archived from the original on May 7, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
7. ^ "West Virginia Governor Albert Blakeslee White". National Governors Association. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
8. ^ "Ban Johnson: American Baseball Executive". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Archived from the original on November 24, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
9. ^ "Terry Mulholland Stats". Baseball Almanac. Archived from the original on November 24, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018.

## External links

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* Marietta College website