List of American Whig–Cliosophic Society people
# List of American Whig–Cliosophic Society people

This list of notable people associated with the American Whig–Cliosophic Society is made up of former students. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category.

## Politics and government

| Name | Known for | Affiliation |
| - | - | - |
| Samuel Alito | 110th Supreme Court Justice. | unknown, Class of 1972. President of the Whig-Clio Debate Panel. |
| John Beatty | Revolutionary War veteran, Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly. | Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society. |
| Hugh Henry Brackenridge | Coauthored the first American novel while at Princeton. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society. |
| William Bradford | Argued the first recorded case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Second Attorney General of the United States under George Washington. | Whig (founder), Class of 1772. Founded the American Whig Society. |
| James Buchanan | Senator, Secretary of State, Fifteenth President of the United States. | Whig (honorary), inducted 1820. |
| Aaron Burr | Revolutionary War veteran, New York Senator, third Vice-President of the United States. | Clio (founder), Class of 1772. Founded the Cliosophic Society. |
| Ted Cruz | Senator, Texas | Clio, Class of 1992. |
| George M. Dallas | Senator from Pennsylvania, eleventh Vice-President of the United States. | Clio, Class of 1810. |
| Mitch Daniels | Forty-ninth Governor of Indiana. | unknown, Class of 1971. |
| Allen Welsh Dulles | Diplomat, second Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, first civilian CIA Director. | Whig, Class of 1914. |
| John Foster Dulles | As Secretary of State, one of the most famous diplomats of the 20th century. | Whig, Class of 1908. |
| Oliver Ellsworth | Founding Father, drafter of the Constitution, drafter of the Judiciary Act of 1789, third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. | Clio (founder), Class of 1766. Founded the Cliosophic Society. |
| Edward Everett | U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, the fifteenth Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1836. |
| John Henry | Senator, eighth Governor of Maryland. | Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society. |
| Andrew Jackson | Seventh President of the United States. | Whig (honorary), inducted 1838. |
| Thomas Kean | Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, forty-eighth Governor of New Jersey, chaired the 9/11 Commission. | unknown (presumed Clio), Class of 1957. |
| Light-Horse Harry Lee | Revolutionary War veteran, ninth Governor of Virginia, orator at George Washington’s funeral. Father of Robert E. Lee. | Whig (originally Clio), Class of 1773. |
| Henry Brockholst Livingston | Revolutionary War veteran, associate Supreme Court justice. | Whig, Class of 1774. |
| James Madison | The Federalist Papers co-author, Father of the United States Constitution, Co-Father of its Bill of Rights, fourth President of the United States. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society. |
| Luther Martin | Founding Father, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, prominent Anti-Federalist. | Clio (founder), Class of 1766. Founded the Cliosophic Society. |
| James Monroe | Founding Father, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Fifth President of the United States. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1817. |
| Ralph Nader | Political activist, presidential candidate. | unknown, Class of 1955. |
| Aaron Ogden | United States senator, fifth governor of New Jersey. | Clio, Class of 1773. |
| William Paterson | Founding Father, signer of the Constitution, second governor of New Jersey, Supreme Court Justice. | Clio (founder), Class of 1763. Founded the Cliosophic Society. |
| Claiborne Pell | Senator (longest-serving senator in Rhode Island’s history), author of the Federal Pell Grant program. | unknown (presumed Whig), class of 1940. |
| Paul S. Sarbanes | Senator (longest-serving senator in Maryland’s history), co-sponsor of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act. | unknown, Class of 1954. |
| Adlai Stevenson II | Thirty-first governor of Illinois, fifth Ambassador to the United Nations (during the Cuban Missile Crisis), two-time presidential candidate. | Whig, Class of 1922. |
| Norman M. Thomas | Pacifist, six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. | Whig, Class of 1905. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Professor, thirteenth President of Princeton, thirty-fourth Governor of New Jersey, twenty-eighth President of the United States. Wilson delivered his famous speech, “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” as a representative of the American Whig Society. | Whig (Speaker), Class of 1879. Speaker (president) of the American Whig Society, contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine. Later, as a professor, coached the Whig-Clio debate team. |
| William Wirt | Ninth Attorney General (longest serving in American history), arguing in Gibbons v. Ogden, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Worcester v. Georgia. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1819. |
| Charles W. Yost | U.S. Ambassador to Laos, Syria and Morocco, ninth Ambassador to the United Nations. | Whig, Class of 1928. |

## Academia

| Name | Known for | Affiliation |
| - | - | - |
| Jeremiah Day | Fifth President of Yale University. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1817. |
| Samuel Eusebius McCorkle | A pioneer of public and private education in colonial and independent America, progenitor and inceptor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | Clio, class of 1772. |
| Eliphalet Nott | Fourth President of Union College. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1816. |
| Joseph S. Nye, Jr. | One of the most influential international relations scholars of the 20th century (pioneered the concept of soft power). | unknown, Class of 1958. |
| John Rawls | One of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century. | unknown, class of 1943. First treasurer of Whig-Clio’s Madison Debating Society. |
| Tapping Reeve | Founder of the first law school in the United States. | Clio (founder), Class of 1763. Founded the Cliosophic Society. |
| Samuel Stanhope Smith | Philosopher, seventh President of Princeton University. | Whig (founder), class of 1769. Founded the American Whig Society. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Professor, thirteenth President of Princeton, thirty-fourth Governor of New Jersey, twenty-eighth President of the United States. Wilson delivered his famous speech, “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” as a representative of the American Whig Society. | Whig (Speaker), Class of 1879. Speaker (president) of the American Whig Society, contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine. Later, as a professor, coached the Whig-Clio debate team. |

## Literature and Journalism

| Name | Known for | Affiliation |
| - | - | - |
| Hugh Henry Brackenridge | Coauthored the first American novel while at Princeton. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | One of the most famous American authors of the 20th century. | Whig, Class of 1917. Contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine. |
| Philip Freneau | Coauthored the first American novel while at Princeton. The Poet of the American Revolution. | Whig (founder), Class of 1771. Founded the American Whig Society. |
| Ramesh Ponnuru | Senior editor for the National Review. | Unknown, Class of 1995 |
| Booth Tarkington | One of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. | unknown, Class of 1893. Contributor to the Nassau Literary Magazine. |
| Mark Twain | One of the most influential American authors of the 19th century. | Clio (honorary), inducted 1901. |
| Stan Lee | Among the most influential creators of Comic Books. | Clio (honorary), inducted (unknown). |
