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24 notable alumni

Notable Alumni of Cazenovia College

Notable alumni of Cazenovia College include Leland Stanford (Railroad tycoon, California governor and senator), Jimmy Van Heusen (Composer; four-time Oscar winner for Best Original Song) and Philip Danforth Armour (Meatpacking industrialist, founder of Armour and Company).

Alumni list

Politics and law

  • William Calhoun McDonald 1858–1918

    First governor of New Mexico

  • Daniel D. Pratt 1813–1877

    U.S. senator from Indiana

    Also attended: Hamilton College

  • Austin Blair 1818–1894

    13th governor of Michigan

    Also attended: Hamilton College, Union College

  • Lucien Lester Ainsworth 1831–1902

    U.S. Representative from Iowa

  • James S. T. Stranahan 1808–1898

    Railroader and U.S. representative from New York

    Spouse: Clara Harrison Stranahan (Mount Holyoke College)

  • Bradley Winslow 1831–1914

    Civil War colonel and New York state senator

  • Charles Andrews 1827–1918

    Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals

    Child: William Shankland Andrews (Harvard University, Columbia University in the City of New York)

  • William E. Lansing 1821–1883

    US representative from New York during the Civil War

  • David F. Wilber 1859–1928

    U.S. representative and consul from New York

  • Joseph B. Hamilton 1817–1902

    Wisconsin state senator, lawyer and judge

Business

  • Leland Stanford 1824–1893

    Railroad tycoon, California governor and senator

  • Philip Danforth Armour 1832–1901

    Meatpacking industrialist, founder of Armour and Company

    Child: Jonathan Ogden Armour (Yale University)

Science and academia

Arts and media

  • Jimmy Van Heusen 1913–1990

    Composer; four-time Oscar winner for Best Original Song

    Also attended: Syracuse University

  • Willard Fiske 1831–1904

    Librarian, book collector and chess player

    Also attended: Hamilton College

  • Lewis Hartsough 1828–1919

    Methodist evangelist and gospel song writer

  • Carole Cole 1944–2009

    Actress and producer, daughter of Nat King Cole

Other fields

  • John Philip Newman 1826–1899

    Methodist Episcopal Church bishop elected in 1888

  • Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper 1835–1896

    Educator, author, evangelist and suffragist

  • L. Fidelia Woolley Gillette 1827–1905

    Early ordained female minister in the US and Canada

  • Erastus Wentworth 1813–1886

    Methodist missionary to Fuzhou, China

    Also attended: Wesleyan University, Allegheny College

From Wikidata “educated at” records (including people who attended without graduating), ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions. Degrees and years follow Wikidata and are left out where it has none.

Alumni network

Colleges that share the most alumni with Cazenovia College (people who attended both).