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List of American Whig–Cliosophic Society members

The Cliosophic Society, 1889

The American Whig–Cliosophic Society, is a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University. It is the oldest debate union in the United States. Following is a list of some of the notable members of the American Whig–Cliosophic Society

Academia

Name Affiliation Notability References
Jeremiah Day Clio (honorary), inducted 1817 President of Yale University [1]
Samuel Eusebius McCorkle Clio, class of 1772 Presbyterian preacher, teacher, and the interceptor and progenitor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [2]
Eliphalet Nott Clio (honorary), inducted in 1816 President of Union College [1]
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Whig–Cliosophic, class of 1958 Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, chair of the National Intelligence Council [3]
John Rawls Whig–Cliosophic, class of 1943 professor of philosophy at Harvard University [4]
Tapping Reeve Clio (founder), Class of 1763 Founder of the first law school in the United States [5]
Samuel Stanhope Smith Whig (founder), class of 1769 President of Princeton University [6]

Law

Name Affiliation Notability References
Samuel Alito Whig–Cliosophic, Class of 1972 Supreme Court of the United States associate justice [7]
Hugh Henry Brackenridge Whig (founder), Class of 1771 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania justice; coauthored the first American novel [8]
William Bradford Whig (founder), Class of 1772 United States Attorney General; argued the first recorded case before the Supreme Court of the United States [9]
Oliver Ellsworth Clio (founder), Class of 1766 Chief Justice of the United States, Founding Father, drafter of the Constitution of the United States, drafter of the Judiciary Act of 1789 [9]
Henry Brockholst Livingston Whig, Class of 1774 Supreme Court of the United States associate justice [10]
William Paterson Clio (founder), Class of 1763 Supreme Court of the United States associate justice, Governor of New Jersey, Founding Father, and signer of the Constitution of the United States [9]
William Wirt Clio (honorary), inducted 1819 [1] United States Attorney General

Literature and journalism

Name Affiliation Notability References
F. Scott Fitzgerald Whig, Class of 1917 Author [11][12]
Philip Freneau Whig (founder), Class of 1771 Co-authored the first American novel; the Poet of the American Revolution [9]
Ramesh Ponnuru Whig–Cliosophic, Class of 1995 Senior editor for the National Review
Booth Tarkington Whig–Cliosophic, Class of 1893 Novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction [13]
Mark Twain Clio (honorary), inducted 1901 author and humorist [14]
Stan Lee Clio (honorary) comic book writer and editor [15]

Politics

Name Affiliation Notability References
John Beatty Whig (founder), class of 1769 Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly [16]
James Buchanan Whig (honorary), inducted 1820 [1][17] President of the United States, United States Senate, and United States Secretary of State
Aaron Burr Clio (founder), Class of 1772 Vice-President of the United States, Founding Father, United States Senate, and Attorney General of New York [9]
Ted Cruz Clio, Class of 1992 United States Senate
George M. Dallas Clio, Class of 1810 [18] Vice-President of the United States, United States Senate
Mitch Daniels Whig–Cliosophic, Class of 1971 Governor of Indiana
Allen Welsh Dulles Whig, Class of 1914 Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, Director of Central Intelligence, and member of the Warren Commission [19][20]
John Foster Dulles Whig, Class of 1908 United States Secretary of State [21][22]
Edward Everett Clio (honorary), inducted 1836 Governor of Massachusetts, United States Secretary of State,

United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, and U.S. Minister to Great Britain

[1][23]
John Henry Whig (founder), class of 1769 Governor of Maryland and United States Senate [24]
Andrew Jackson Whig (honorary), inducted 1838 President of the United States [1]
Thomas Kean Clio, Class of 1957 Governor of New Jersey, Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, and chair of the 9/11 Commission [25]
Light-Horse Harry Lee Whig (originally Clio), Class of 1773 Governor of Virginia [26]
James Madison Whig (founder), Class of 1771 President of the United States, Father of the Constitution of the United States, co-Father of its United States Bill of Rights, Founding Father, and co-author of The Federalist Papers
Luther Martin Clio (founder), Class of 1766 Founding Father and delegate to the Constitutional Convention [27]
James Monroe Clio (honorary), inducted 1817 President of the United States, Founding Father, United States Secretary of State, and United States Secretary of War [1]
Ralph Nader unknown, Class of 1955 Political activist involved in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes; presidential candidate [28]
Aaron Ogden Clio, Class of 1773 [10] Governor of New Jersey and United States Senate
William Paterson Clio (founder), Class of 1763 Governor of New Jersey, Supreme Court of the United States associate justice, Founding Father, and signer of the Constitution of the United States [9]
Claiborne Pell Whig, class of 1940 United States Senate [29]
Paul S. Sarbanes Whig–Cliosophic, Class of 1954 United States Senate [30]
Adlai Stevenson II Whig, Class of 1922 Governor of Illinois and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations [31]
Norman M. Thomas Whig, Class of 1905 Six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America [32]
Woodrow Wilson Whig, Class of 1879 Speaker (president) President of the United States, Governor of New Jersey, and president of Princeton University [27][33][34]
Charles W. Yost Whig, Class of 1928 [35] U.S Ambassador to Laos, U.S. Ambassador to Syria, U.S. Ambassador to Morocco, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

See also

References

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  33. ^ McKean, Dayton D. (1930). "Woodrow Wilson as a debate coach". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 16 (4): 458–463. doi:10.1080/00335633009360910.
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