CLASS OF 1808
Sylvanus Thayer
Preeminent educator,
"Father of the Military Academy";
originated technical education in America and established the educational philosophy
and discipline still followed at the Military Academy.
CLASS OF 1815
Benjamin L.E. Bonneville
Explored and mapped the Great Salt Lake and the Green,
Snake, Salmon and Yellowstone Rivers, venturing into the unknown American West.
His explorations were memorialized.
CLASS OF 1819
George Washington Whistler
Eminent civil engineer; chosen by the Czar of
Russia to build a railroad from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
CLASS OF 1824
Dennis Hart Mahan -
distinguished educator and writer; world renowned scholar
taught the science of war to numerous Army officers.
CLASS OF 1827
Leonidas Polk
Episcopal bishop of Louisana; served as lieutenant general of
the Confederate States of America; honorary degree of Sacred
Theology from Columbia University; founded the University
of the South at Sewanee in 1857.
CLASS OF 1828
Jefferson Davis
Member of Congress from Mississippi 1845-461; senator from
Mississippi 1847-51, 1857-61; Secretary of War from 1853-57;
President of the Confederate States of America.
CLASS OF 1829
Robert E. Lee
Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy 1852-55;
General in Chief, Confederate Armies; president of Washington
& Lee University 1865-70.
CLASS OF 1832
Benjamin S. Ewell
President of the College of William & Mary 1854-88.
CLASS OF 1835
George G. Meade
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Commander of the Army of the Potomac; victorious in the
Battle of Gettysburg
CLASS OF 1837
John Sedgwick
Commander of Union VI Corps, killed at Spotsylvania.
CLASS OF 1840
George Henry Thomas
The "Rock of Chickamauga."
William Tecumseh Sherman -
president of Louisiana State University;
"March to the Sea" Civil War campaign;
commander of the Armies of the United States.
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CLASS OF 1843
Ulysses S. Grant
General in Chief, Armies of the United States; President
of the United States, 1869-77.
CLASS OF 1846
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
Lieutenant general and a corps commander of the Confederate Army;
killed at Chancellorsville
CLASS OF 1854
Oliver O. Howard
Founder and president of Howard University.
CLASS OF 1877
Henry O. Flipper
Civil and mining engineer in Southwest U.S. and Mexico; first African-American
graduate of the Military Academy.
CLASS OF 1880
George Washington Goethals
Architect and builder of the Panama Canal.
CLASS OF 1886
John J. Pershing
Commander-in-chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force in
World War I; General of the Armies 1919.
CLASS OF 1903
Douglas MacArthur
Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy 1919-22; Army Chief
of Staff 1930-35; Supreme Commander of the Pacific 1941-45;
Supreme Commander, UN Forces Korea 1950-51.
CLASS OF 1907
Henry H. "Hap" Arnold
pioneer of Army Aviation; General of the Air Force 1949.
CLASS OF 1909
George S. Patton, Jr. - member of the 1912 U.S. Olympic Team;
commanding general of the 7th Army 1942-44, commander of
the 3rd Army European Theater 1944-45.
CLASS OF 1915
Omar N. Bradley
Commanding general, lst Army, 12th Army Group European Theater
in World War II; Army Chief of Staff 1948-49; first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff 1949-53; chairman of the board of Bulova Watch
Company 1958.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe 1943-45; Army Chief
of Staff 1945-48; president of Columbia University 1948; President of the United
States 1953-61.
CLASS OF 1941
William T. Seawell
commandant of cadets, U.S. Air Force Academy 1961-63;
former chairman of the board and chief executive officer,
Pan Am World Airways.
CLASS OF 1946
Wesley W. Posvar
Rhodes Scholar; chancellor, University of Pittsburgh.
Reuben Pomerantz
Former president, Holiday Inns of America.
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CLASS OF 1947
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Chief of Staff to the president 1973-74; Supreme Allied
Commander in Europe 1974-79; president, United Technologies Corporation 1980-81;
Secretary of State 1981-82.
Brent Scowcroft
Military assistant to the President, 1972;
National Security Advisor, Bush Administration.
CLASS OF 1949
John G. Hayes
Former president, Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
CLASS OF 1950
Frank Borman
Astronaut 1962-70; commander of the first circumlunar flight;
president of Eastern Airlines.
CLASS OF 1951
Roscoe Robinson, Jr.
Commanding general, 82nd Airborne Division 1976-78;
commanding general, U.S. Army Japan 1980-82; U.S.
Representative to NATO Military Committee, 1982-85;
first African American four-star general in the Army, 1982.
Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin
Astronaut 1963-72; participated in the first manned lunar landing.
(Read NASA's bio  )
CLASS OF 1952
Thoralf M. Sundt
Doctor of Neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic.
Edward White II
Astronaut 1962-67; first American to walk in space, 1965;
died in Apollo spacecraft fire, 1967.
(Read NASA's bio )
Michael Collins
Astronaut 1964-70; command module
pilot, first manned lunar landing; director of the National Air & Space Museum.
(Read NASA's bio )
CLASS OF 1953
Randolph Araskog
President and chairman of IT&T.
CLASS OF 1956
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Commander-in-Chief, Central Command, Operation Desert Storm.
CLASS OF 1957
John Block
Secretary of Agriculture, Reagan Administration, 1981-86.
CLASS OF 1959
Pete Dawkins
Rhodes Scholar, Heisman Trophy Winner, Chairman and CEO Primerica.
CLASS OF 1980
Andrea Lee Hollen
Rhodes Scholar. First woman graduate of USMA.
CLASS OF 1990
Kristin Baker
First woman Brigade Commander, U.S. Corps of Cadets.
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