List of Washington & Jefferson College alumni

| {{sort|1813|Jefferson 1813}}

| President of University of Michigan (1817–1821)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA24 p. 24.]

| {{sort|1824|Jefferson 1824}}

| President of Miami University (1849–1854)

| {{citation needed|date=February 2012}}

| {{sort|1847|Jefferson 1847}}

| President of Hanover College (1868–1870); President of Wilson Female Seminary (1873–1874)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA141 p. 141.]

| {{sort|1842|Jefferson 1842}}

| Principal of Baltimore City College (1857–1873); first Professor of Mathematics at Westminster College, Missouri

| {{Cite book | last = Adams | first = Herbert Baxter | title = Contributions to American educational history, Volume 19 | publisher = Government Printing Office | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 1894 | page = 215 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=visUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA215 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA113 p. 113.]

| 1892

| President of Washington & Jefferson College (1922–1931)

| {{cite web |title=Simon Strousse Baker (1922–1931) |work=U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |date=2003-09-04 |url=http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,34 |access-date=2010-04-04 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240524213931/https://www.webcitation.org/5okj4MAyE?url=http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php%3FCISOROOT=/p4019coll8&CISOPTR=34 |archive-date=2024-05-24 }}

| {{sort|1836|Washington 1836}}

| Longtime trustee of Washington College and Interim President (1852–1853); Chair of the Board of Trustees at Washington & Jefferson College (1870); Presbyterian minister at First Presbyterian Church in Washington, Pennsylvania for over 50 years

| {{cite news | title = Fifty Years a Minister; The Reverend J.I. Brownson's Golden Jubilee to be Celebrated | work = The New York Times | date = 1891-11-25 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1891/11/25/103352748.pdf | access-date = 2010-02-23 }}{{cite book | title = Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania | publisher = J.H. Beers and Company | year = 1893 | location = Chicago | page = 1486 | url = http://chartiers.com/beers-project/articles/brownson-74.html | oclc = 58671925 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1832|Jefferson 1832}}

| President of Franklin College, in New Athens, Ohio (1839–1840); Associate Reformed Minister; gave up ministry to head West

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA66 p. 66.]

| 1974

| Professor of Paleoanthropology at Stony Brook University; expert in hominid taxonomy from the Pliocene era; led the research team that dated the Hofmeyr Skull

| {{Cite web | title = Class of 1974 – 35th Reunion | work = www.jayconnected.com | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | year = 2009 | url = http://www.jayconnected.com/s/924/index.aspx?sid=924&gid=1&pgid=463 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1857|Jefferson 1857}}

| President of Washington & Jefferson College (1870–1881); Presbyterian minister

| {{cite web | title = George P. Hays (1870–1881) | work = U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | date = 2003-09-04 | url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,28 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1851|Jefferson 1851}}

| President of Ohio University (1871–1873); President of Davidson College (1877–1885); Professor of Metaphysics, Logic, and Rhetoric; Presbyterian minister

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA175 p. 175.]

| 1952

| Editor of University of Pittsburgh Press (1963–1994); founded Drue Heinz Literature Prize and Pitt Poetry Series

| {{Cite web|title=Frederick A. Hetzel '52 |work=Washington & Jefferson College Magazine |publisher=W&J Office of Alumni Relations |year=2004 |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/uploadedFiles/External_Relations/For_the_Media/win2004classnotes.pdf |access-date=2010-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060917092451/https://www.washjeff.edu/uploadedFiles/External_Relations/For_the_Media/win2004classnotes.pdf |archive-date=2006-09-17 }}

| {{sort|1813|Jefferson 1813}}

| President of Lafayette College (1832–1841); President Miami University (1841–1844); President Washington College, Virginia (1848–1861); author of many theological books; Presbyterian minister

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| {{sort|1841|Jefferson 1841}}

| President of Lehigh University (1875–1880) and St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland (1880–1889); founder and editor of International Review; lawyer, poet, author, and Protestant Episcopal minister

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA109 p. 109.]

| {{sort|1815|Washington 1815}}

| Nationally known abolitionist, philanthropist, founder of the Washington Female Seminary, and benefactor of LeMoyne–Owen College, a historically Black college in Memphis, Tennessee

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| {{sort|1794|Dod 1794}}

| First President of Ohio University (1809–1822)

| {{Cite book | last = Beard | first = Richard | title = Brief Biographical Sketches of Some of the Early Ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church: Second series | publisher = Cumberland Presbyterian Board of Publication | year = 1874 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_HgoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA45 | location = Nashville, Tennessee | chapter = Rev. Jacob Lindley, D.D. 1803–1856 | page = 45 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_HgoAAAAYAAJ | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| 1888

| Scholar of English literature; wrote The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination, in 1927, the definitive study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Dean and Professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1909–1918) and Harvard University (1918–1939)

| {{cite book | title = The Phi Gamma Delta | publisher = Board of Trustees of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta | year = 1912 | page = 408 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MirPAAAAMAAJ | location = Cumberland, Maryland | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| 1880

| Chancellor of University of Pittsburgh (1904–1921); he moved the University to its current location in Oakland and fortified its tradition of teacher liberal arts

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA476 p. 476.]

| {{sort|1826|Washington 1826}}

| Author of McGuffey Readers; President of Cincinnati College (1836–1839); President of Ohio University (1839–1843); Professor of Languages and Philosophy

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA299 p. 299.]{{cite web | title = William H. McGuffey | work = Ohio History Central | publisher = Ohio Historical Society | year = 2009 | url = http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=263 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1802|Jefferson 1802}}

| President of Jefferson College (1817–1822); first President of Franklin College, in New Athens, Ohio (1823–1832)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA17 p. 17.]

| 1869

| President of Washington & Jefferson College (1881–1915)

| {{cite web | title = James D. Moffat (1881–1915) | work = U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | date = 2003-09-04 | url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,32 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120718065317/http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,32 | archive-date = July 18, 2012 | access-date = 2010-02-23 }}

| {{sort|1836|Jefferson 1836}}

| First President of Muhlenberg College (1867–1877); President of Thiel College (1891–1901)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA85 p. 85.]{{Cite web | title = Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg (1818–1901) | work = Penn Biographies | publisher = University of Pennsylvania | url = http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1800s/muhlenberg_fredk_a_b1818.html | access-date = 2010-07-03 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100615190045/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1800s/muhlenberg_fredk_a_b1818.html | archive-date = 2010-06-15 }}

| 1918

| President of Suffolk University (1954–1960)

| {{cite book | last = White | first = J.T. | title = The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography | volume = 59 | year = 1980 | page = 48 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wjoOAQAAMAAJ | isbn = 978-0-88371-031-9}}

| {{sort|1833|Jefferson 1833}}

| President of Franklin College, in New Athens, Ohio (1840–1845); Presbyterian minister; published several theological books

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA70 p. 70.]

| 1923

| President of Washington & Jefferson College (1950–1970); Professor of Mathematics at Hamilton College and Washington & Jefferson College

| {{cite web | title = Boyd Crumrine Patterson (1950–1970) | work = U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | date = 2003-09-04 | url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,26 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1823|Jefferson 1823}}

| President of Jefferson College (1862–1866); Professor of Greek; Presbyterian minister

| {{cite web | title = David H. Riddle (1862–Union of the Colleges) | work = U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | date = 2003-09-04 | url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,27 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1835|Jefferson 1835}}

| President of Ohio University (1848–1852); President of Indiana University (1852–1853); Professor of Mathematics at Indiana University, Ohio University, and Centre College

| {{Cite web | title = Alfred Ryors (1812–1858) | publisher = The Trustees of Indiana University | url = http://www.indiana.edu/~pres/pastpres.shtml | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1827|Jefferson 1827}}

| President of Washington College (1853–1865), retired to facilitate union with Jefferson College; Vice President and Professor of West Virginia University (1867–1877); Presbyterian minister

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA49 p. 49.]

| 1945

| Legal academic and professor; Dean of University of Pittsburgh School of Law (1966–1977); considered to be the father of Pennsylvania business corporation law; taught at University of Pittsburgh School of Law for over 50 years

| {{Cite web | title = Former W&J Board of Trustees Member Dies at 81 | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College Office of Alumni Relations | date = Winter 2005 | url = http://www.washjeff.edu/uploadedFiles/External_Relations/For_the_Media/mag_w05_classnotes.pdf | access-date = 2010-02-23 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110519022417/http://www.washjeff.edu/uploadedFiles/External_Relations/For_the_Media/mag_w05_classnotes.pdf | archive-date = 2011-05-19 }}

| {{sort|1815|Jefferson 1815}}

| President of Franklin College, in New Athens, Ohio (1837–1838); Presbyterian minister; wrote two early histories of the Presbytery of Redstone and Jefferson College; grandson of college founder, Joseph Smith

| {{cite book | last = Kiddle | first = Henry | author-link = Henry Kiddle | author2 = Schem, Alexander Jacob | author-link2 = Alexander Jacob Schem | title = The Cyclopædia of Education | publisher = by E. Steiger & Company | year = 1883 | page = 322 | location = New York | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MeUJAAAAMAAJ | access-date = 2010-02-23}}Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA25 p. 25.]

| {{sort|1798|Canonsburg 1798}}

| Principal of Pittsburgh Academy (1810–1819); founder of Meadville Academy

| {{Cite book | last = Parke | first = John E. | title = Recollections of seventy years and historical gleanings of Allegheny, Pennsylvania | publisher = Rand, Avery & Company | year = 1886 | pages = 258–262 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5a4-AAAAYAAJ | chapter = Rev. Joseph Stockton, A.M. | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5a4-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA258}}

| {{sort|1813|Jefferson 1922}}

| President of Georgia Tech (1944); former Dean at University of Florida and North Carolina State University

| {{cite web | title = Education for a Lifetime | work = Honorary Doctorates | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | date = 2003-09-04 | url = https://www.washjeff.edu/alumni/education-for-a-lifetime/ | access-date = 2010-04-24}}

| {{sort|0|Canonsburg ?}}

| President of Jefferson College (1802); studied under college founder John McMillan; Professor of Moral Philosophy

| {{cite web | title = John Watson (1802–1802) | work = U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | date = 2003-09-04 | url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,21 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1810|Jefferson 1810}}

| President of Jefferson College (1812–1816); President of Washington College (1817–1829); first President of Indiana University (1829–1851); Protestant Episcopal minister

| {{cite book | last = Sprague | first = William Buell | author-link = William Buell Sprague | title = Annals of the American Pulpit: Episcopalian | publisher = R. Carter | year = 1859 | volume = v.5 | page = 780 | chapter = Andrew Wylie, D.D. | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nB07AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA779 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nB07AAAAIAAJ | access-date = 2010-02-23}}Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA23 p. 23.]

| {{sort|1842|Jefferson 1842†}}

| Confederate Brigadier general during the American Civil War, commanding the Army of Tennessee; Delegate to the Provisional Confederate Congress from Florida; U.S. Congressman from Washington Territory (1855–1857)

| {{cite web | title = Anderson, James Patton, (1822–1872) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000192 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1836|Washington 1836}}

| Union Army officer during the American Civil War, serving as Military supervisor of railroads in the Department of the Ohio, Department of the Cumberland, and the Department of the Tennessee during the American Civil War

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA310 p. 310.]

| {{sort|1841|Washington 1841}}

| Medal of Honor recipient; Inspector General of the U.S. Army (1885–1888); Union Brevet Major general during the American Civil War

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA324 p. 324.]{{cite web | url = http://www.army.mil/cmh/html/moh/civwaral.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120720063733/http://www.army.mil/cmh/html/moh/civwaral.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 20, 2012 | title = Absalom Baird, Medal of Honor recipient | work = American Civil War (A–M) | publisher = Army Medal of Honor website | date = 2009-06-08 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1862|Jefferson 1862}}

| Medal of Honor recipient; Union brigadier general during the American Civil War; U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1879–1912)

| {{cite web | title = Bingham, Henry Harrison, (1841–1912) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000469 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1845|Jefferson 1845}}

| Brevet Major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA131 p. 131.]

| {{sort|1845|Jefferson 1845†}}

| Adjutant General of the U.S. Army (1880–1889)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA588 p. 588.]

| 1942

| Rocket engineer and proponent of single-stage rocket ships and laser battle stations in space; worked at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company and was chief engineer of space systems at Douglas Aircraft Company; developed expendable fuel tanks for space-shuttle and early stages of the Hubble Space Telescope; worked on the staff of National Aeronautics and Space Council; wrote textbook Thrust Into Space

| {{Cite news | last = Saxon | first = Wolfgang | title = Max Hunter, 79, Rocket Engineer With Wealth of Ideas for Space | newspaper = The New York Times | date = November 17, 2001 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/us/max-hunter-79-rocket-engineer-with-wealth-of-ideas-for-space.html | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1848|Jefferson 1848}}

| Confederate Brigadier general during the American Civil War; U.S. Congressman from Virginia (1857–1861); member of the First Confederate Congress (1861–1862)

| {{cite web | title = Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, (1830–1864) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000081 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1844|Jefferson 1844}}

| U.S. Congressman from Kentucky (1861), resigned to enter the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to become Brigadier general; killed during Battle of Perryville

| {{cite web | title = Jackson, James Streshly, (1823–1862) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000019 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| 1978

| Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and Acting Director of Central Intelligence (1976)

| {{cite web | title = Alumni Achievement Awards | publisher = Delta Tau Delta | year = 2011 | url = http://www.delts.org/awards/achievement.html | access-date = 2011-12-30 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120426081754/http://www.delts.org/awards/achievement.html | archive-date = 2012-04-26 }}

| {{sort|0|Washington ?}}

| Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War

| {{Cite book | last = Derby | first = George | author2 = White, James Terry | title = The National cyclopedia of American biography | publisher = J. T. White | year = 1904 | volume = 12 | page = 262 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ieA-AAAAYAAJ | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ieA-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA262 | chapter = Mason, John Sanford | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| 1970

| Vice admiral in the United States Navy and director of the Naval Air Systems Command; majored in physics and worked as equipment manager for the Washington & Jefferson basketball team

| {{cite web | title = Vice Admiral Walter B. Massenburg | work = United States Navy Biography | publisher = United States Navy | date = 2008-12-04 | url = http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=194 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060402223847/https://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=194 | url-status = dead | archive-date = April 2, 2006 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}{{Cite web | title = Walter Massenburg – Class of 1970 | work = www.washjeff.edu | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12952&menu_id=827&crumb=828&id=10722 | access-date = 2009-02-23 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| {{sort|1840|Washington 1840}}

| Led the effort to create a national cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg; founded Evergreen Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); attorney

| {{Cite web | title = MS – 022: David McConaughy Papers | work = Special Collections and College Archives | publisher = Gettysburg College | year = 2008 | url = http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/manuscripts/collections/ms022.dot | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060908151737/http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/manuscripts/collections/ms022.dot | archive-date = 2006-09-08 | access-date = 2009-02-23 }}

| {{sort|0|Jefferson ?}}

| Patriarch of the "Tribe of Dan" of the Fighting McCooks; officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War; his home, the Daniel McCook House, is on the National Register of Historic Places

| {{Cite book | title = National cyclopedia of American biography | publisher = J.T. White | volume = 4 | year = 1895 | page = 130 | chapter = Daniel McCook | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=190DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA130 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=190DAAAAYAAJ | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1859|Jefferson 1859}}

| Presbyterian minister, active in developing Sunday Schools; Union chaplain during the American Civil War and member of the celebrated Fighting McCooks; entomologist, publishing articles on ants and spiders; author of fiction, including The Latimers, as well as several religious discourses and hymns; designed the Flag of Philadelphia

| {{Cite web | title = Henry C. McCook Illustrations of Insects – 1876–1909 | publisher = Ewell Sale Stewart Library, Academy of Natural Sciences | year = 2002 | url = http://www.ansp.org/library/getty_findaid/mccook478.xml | access-date = 2009-02-23 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091029144650/http://www.ansp.org/library/getty_findaid/mccook478.xml | archive-date = 2009-10-29 }}{{Cite book | title = The Shield: official publication of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity | year = 1884 | volume = 27 | page = 436 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hOMSAAAAIAAJ | chapter = Henry Christopher McCook | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hOMSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA436 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1826|Jefferson 1826†}}

| Patriarch of the "Tribe of John" of the Fighting McCooks; surgeon in the Union Army during the American Civil War

| {{Cite book | title = National cyclopedia of American biography | publisher = J.T. White | volume = 4 | year = 1895 | page = 130 | chapter = John McCook | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=190DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA130 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=190DAAAAYAAJ | access-date = 2009-02-23}}Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA577 p. 577.]

| {{sort|0|Jefferson ?}}

| Major in the 31st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War and a member of the Fighting McCooks

| {{Cite book | title = National cyclopedia of American biography | publisher = J.T. White | volume = 4 | year = 1895 | page = 130 | chapter = Latimer McCook | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=190DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA130 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=190DAAAAYAAJ | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| 1875†

| American naval officer who went to China and served in the Imperial Chinese Navy; he commanded ships during the First Sino-Japanese War and Sino-French War; best known for his heroism during the Battle of the Yalu River

| {{Cite book | last = Cleveland | first = Harold Irwin | title = Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese & horrors of the Boxers | publisher = National Pubublishing Company | year = 1900 | page = 512 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=A7p-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA512 | chapter = The Hero of Yalu | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=A7p-AAAAIAAJ | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1980|1980}}

| Major General who commanded the 42nd Infantry Division

| {{cite news |last=Brown |first=Terry |date=August 10, 2013 |title=Infantry commander adds a star |url=http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Infantry-commander-adds-a-star-4723120.php |newspaper=Times Union |location=Albany, NY |ref={{sfnRef|"Infantry commander adds a star"}}}}

| {{sort|1836|Washington 1836†}}

| Fought in the Texian Army during the Texas Revolution; Brevet Brigadier general during the American Civil War; served as Consul to Marseille and United States Ambassador to Portugal; U.S. Congressman from Ohio (1867–1868, 1869–1873)

| {{cite web | title = Morgan, George Washington, (1820–1893) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000950 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1845|Jefferson 1845}}

| Brigadier general during the American Civil War

| {{cite book |last1=Warner |first1=Ezra |title=Generals in Blue: The Lives of the Union Commanders |date=1964 |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |location=Baton Rouge |isbn=0-8071-0822-7 |lccn=64-21593 |pages=353–354 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2PSgcaLic-AC |access-date=24 November 2023}}

| {{sort|0|Jefferson ?}}

| Union Brevet Major general during the American Civil War; received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Lewis's Farm

| {{Cite book | last = Johnson | first = Rossiter | author2 = Brown, John Howard | title = The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans | publisher = The Biographical Society | year = 1904 | volume = 8 | page = 262 | chapter = Pearson, Alfred, L. | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IW5mAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT262 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IW5mAAAAMAAJ | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| 1984

| Naval intelligence officer and businessman; worked as an arms dealer on behalf of United States Department of Defense following the Cold War and during the Iraq War; majored in mathematics and physics

| {{Cite web|last=Roston |first=Aram |author-link=Aram Roston |title=The Unquiet American |work=The Washington Monthly |date=June 2005 |url=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0506.roston.html |access-date=2009-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605225214/http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0506.roston.html |archive-date=2011-06-05 }}{{Cite web | title = 1984 Class Roster | work = Jay Connected | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://www.jayconnected.com/s/924/index.aspx?sid=924&gid=1&pgid=459 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1843|Jefferson 1843}}

| Brevet Brigadier general during the American Civil War; lawyer and United States Attorney (1849–1869)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA125 p. 125.]

| 1901†

| United States Army Lieutenant general; Commander of the Caribbean Defense Command and V Corps; left Washington & Jefferson College to enlist in the Spanish–American War

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA650 p. 650.]

| 1942

| Astronaut and test pilot; piloted the X-15 Spaceplane during Flight 90 and Flight 91 beyond 100 kilometers, making him the first person to enter space twice; first to pilot Lunar Landing Research Vehicle for the Apollo program

| {{Cite web|title=NASA – Joseph A. Walker |work=NASA People |publisher=NASA |date=2009-09-17 |url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/Biographies/Pilots/bd-dfrc-p019.html |access-date=2009-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128142506/http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/Biographies/Pilots/bd-dfrc-p019.html |archive-date=2010-11-28 }}

| {{sort|0|Jefferson ?}}

| First Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1903–1904); left Jefferson College to work on the Pennsylvania Railroad; Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park (1907–1908)

| {{Cite book | last = Herringshaw | first = Thomas William| author-link=Thomas William Herringshaw | title = Herringshaw's national library of American biography | publisher = American Publishers' Association | year = 1914 | volume = 5 | page = 800 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6jABAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA800 | chapter = Young, Samuel Baldwin Marks | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6jABAAAAMAAJ | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1858|Jefferson 1858}}

| United States General Consul to Rome (1885–1907); author and editor of The New York Times; credited with bringing the sport of canoeing to the United States; son of Joseph Alden, President of Jefferson College

|

| {{sort|1847|Washington 1847}}

| Republican nominee for President of the United States in 1884, losing to Grover Cleveland by 1,047 votes; leader of the Half-Breed faction of the postbellum Republican party; United States Secretary of State (1881, 1889–1892); U.S. Senator from Maine (1876–1881); Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1869–1873, 1873–1875); U.S. Congressman from Maine (1863–1876)

|

| {{sort|1851|Jefferson 1851}}

| Solicitor General of the United States (1870–1872); United States Secretary of the Treasury (1874–1876)

|

| 1918

| United States Ambassador to Finland (1945–1947); diplomatic representative to Finland during 1944 amid World War II and the Continuation War

| {{Cite web|last=Navarro Abad |first=Jay-Raymond |title=Prominent Alumni by Chapter |work=Prominent Alumni of Phi Delta Theta |year=2002 |url=http://thephideltlegacy.com/alumni_list/alumni_list.html |access-date=2011-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717033018/http://www.thephideltlegacy.com/alumni_list/alumni_list.html |archive-date=2011-07-17 }}

| {{sort|1858|Jefferson 1858}}

| United States Solicitor General (1886–1889); U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1875–1877), where he was a House Manager for the impeachment proceedings of United States Secretary of War William Belknap

| {{cite web | title = Jenks, George Augustus, (1836–1908) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000091 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1844|Washington 1844†}}

| Commissioner of the United States General Land Office (1881–1885); Ohio State Senator (1866–1867); Kansas State Senator

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA611 p. 611.]

| {{sort|1810|Washington 1810}}

| United States Secretary of the Interior (1850); U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1831–1839, 1842–1843)

| {{cite web | title = McKennan, Thomas McKean Thompson, (1794–1852) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000501 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1856|Jefferson 1856}}

| United States Minister to Greece, Romania and Serbia (1889-1892); United States Minister to Spain (1892-1893)

| {{cite book|last1=McCormick|first1=Leander James|title=Family Record and Biography|pages=238-242| date=1896|publisher=L.J. McCormick|location=Chicago|isbn=9780608317670|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvwcAAAAYAAJ&q=Archibald+Loudon+Snowden&pg=PA236-IA4|access-date=24 July 2017|language=en}}

| {{sort|1819|Washington 1819}}

| United States Attorney General (1866–1868), resigning to defend Andrew Johnson during his impeachment; Attorney General of Ohio (1846–1851)

| {{cite book | last = Perrin | first = William Henry | author2 = Battle, J. H. | author3 = Kniffin, G. C. | title = Kentucky: A History of the State | publisher = F. A. Battey | year = 1888 | page = 569 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qPsTAAAAYAAJ | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1832|Washington 1832}}

| U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (1849–1855); U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1839–1843); Pennsylvania State Representative (1843–1844, 1846, 1848), serving as Speaker of the House; Pennsylvania Attorney General (1848); Brigadier general during the American Civil War

| {{cite web | title = Cooper, James, (1810–1863) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000753 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1848|Jefferson 1848}}

| U.S. Senator from South Carolina (1873–1879)

| {{cite web | title = Patterson, John James, (1830–1912) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000123 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1850|Jefferson 1850}}

| U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (1887–1899, 1901–1904); Pennsylvanian political boss; Chairman of the Republican National Committee; campaign manager for Benjamin Harrison during the 1888 presidential election; a soldier during the American Civil War, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Fredericksburg

|

| {{sort|1840|Jefferson 1840}}

| U.S. Senator from Maryland (1885–1891); U.S. Congressman from Maryland (1873–1875)

| {{cite web | title = Wilson, Ephraim King, (1821–1891) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000577 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| 1875

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1895–1909); owner/editor of the Washington Weekly Observer

| {{cite web | title = Acheson, Ernest Francis, (1855–1917) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000019 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| 1911†

| U.S. Congressman from West Virginia (1925–1933), serving as Minority Whip (1931–1933)

| {{cite web | title = Bachmann, Carl George, (1890–1980) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000012 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1843|Washington 1843†}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1855–1857)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA610 p. 610.]

| {{sort|1838|Jefferson 1838}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1859–1863)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92 p. 92.]

| {{sort|1853|Jefferson 1853}}

| U.S. Congressman from Iowa (1877–1879); member of the Iowa House of Representatives, serving as Speaker of the House from 1863 to 1864

| {{cite web | title = Clark, Rush, (1834–1879) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000450 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1841|Washington 1841}}

| U.S. Congressman from Virginia (1852–1853, 1857–1861)

|

| {{sort|1862|Jefferson 1862†}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1889–1891)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA602 p. 602.]

| {{sort|1834|Jefferson 1834}}

| U.S. Congressman from Ohio (1845–1849)

| {{cite web | title = CUMMINS, John D., (1791–1849) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000989 | access-date = 2012-02-13}}

| {{sort|1833|Washington 1833}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1851–1855, 1863–1867)

| {{cite web | title = Dawson, John Littleton, (1813–1870) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000153 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| Canonsburg

|U.S. Congressman from Virginia (now West Virginia)

| {{Cite journal|last=Richards|first=Samuel J.|date=2019|title=Reclaiming Congressman Philip Doddridge from Tidewater Cultural Imperialism|journal=West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies|language=en|volume=13|issue=2|pages=1–26|doi=10.1353/wvh.2019.0019|issn=1940-5057}}

| {{sort|1832|Jefferson 1832†}}

| U.S. Congressman Pennsylvania (1853–1855)

| {{cite web | title = Drum, Augustus, (1815–1858) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000506 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA579 p. 579.]

| {{sort|1814|Washington 1814}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1845–1847)

| {{cite web | title = Ewing, John Hoge, (1796–1887) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000278 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1825|Jefferson 1825}}†

| U.S. Congressman from Ohio (1847–1849)

|

| {{sort|1836|Jefferson 1836}}

| U.S. Congressman from Maryland (1853–1855); member of Maryland House of Delegates (1840–1843), serving as Speaker of the House for the 1849 session

| {{cite web | title = Franklin, John Rankin, (1820–1878) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000345 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1833|Washington 1833}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1849–1853)

| {{cite web | title = Gilmore, Alfred, (1812–1890) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000220 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| 1901

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1939–1955)

| {{cite web | title = Graham, Louis Edward, (1880–1965) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000360 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1827|Washington 1827}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1847–1851); founded Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney law firm

| {{cite web | title = Hampton, Moses, (1803–1878) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000139 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| 1984

| U.S. Congresswoman from Pennsylvania (2001–2007); Pennsylvania State Senator (1991–2001)

| {{cite web | title = Hart, Melissa A., (1962–) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H001033 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}{{cite web | title = W&J: Melissa Hart | work = People Profiles | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12952&menu_id=827&crumb=828&id=10713 | access-date = 2009-02-23 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| {{sort|1842|Washington 1842†}}

| U.S. Congressman from Ohio (1895–1897)

| {{cite book | title = Bench and Bar of Ohio: a Compendium of History and Biography |editor1-first=George Irving |editor1-last=Reed |editor2-first=Emilius Oviatt |editor2-last=Randall |editor3-first=Charles Theodore |editor3-last=Greve | volume = 1 | year = 1897 | publisher = Century Publishing and Engraving Company | location = Chicago | pages = 381–386 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4gQ9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA381}}

| {{sort|1846|Jefferson 1846}}

| U.S. Congressman from Maryland (1855–1857); Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives (1860–1861)

| {{cite web | title = Hoffman, Henry William, (1825–1895) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000686 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1829|Jefferson 1829}}

| U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1843–1847)

| {{cite web | title = Hoge, Joseph Pendleton, (1810–1891) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000697 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA56 p. 56.]

| {{sort|1850|Washington 1850}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1875–1877, 1883–1885)

| {{cite web | title = Hopkins, James Herron, (1832–1904) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000775 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1830|Washington 1830}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1851–1853)

| {{cite web | title = Kuhns, Joseph Henry, (1800–1883) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000337 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1839|Jefferson 1839}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1855–1859)

| {{cite web | title = Kunkel, John Christian, (1816–1870) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000340 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|0|Washington ?}}

| U.S. Congressman from Ohio (1847–1849)

| {{cite web | title = Lahm, Samuel, (1812–1876) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000021 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1838|Washington 1838}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1865–1869, 1883–1885)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA608 p. 608.]

| {{sort|1835|Jefferson 1835}}

| U.S. Congressman from Ohio (1857–1859)

| {{cite web | title = Lawrence, William, (1814–1895) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000141 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| 1911

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1927–1932)

| {{cite web | title = Leech, James Russell, (1888–1952) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000209 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1822|Washington 1822}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1839–1841)

| {{cite web | title = Leet, Isaac, (1801–1844) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000211 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|0|Jefferson ?}}

| U.S. Congressman from Virginia (1827–1829)

| {{cite web | title = LEFFLER, Isaac, (1788–1866) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000214 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1833|Jefferson 1833}}

| U.S. Congressman from Iowa (1846–1851)

| {{cite web | title = Leffler, Shepherd, (1811–1879) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000215 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA69 p. 69.]

| 1932

| U.S. Congressman from Maryland (1963–1985)

| {{cite web | title = Long, Clarence Dickinson, (1908–1994) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000413 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1859|Jefferson 1859}}

| U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1887–1889)

|

| {{sort|1861|Jefferson 1861}}

| U.S. Congressman from Ohio (1881–1883, 1895–1897)

|

| {{sort|0|Washington ?}}

| U.S. Congressman from Iowa (1879–1885)

| {{cite web | title = McCoid, Moses Ayers, (1840–1904) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000348 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1845|Washington 1845}}

| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1891–1906); Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1880–1891)

| {{cite web | title = Acheson, Marcus Wilson | publisher = Federal Judicial Center | url = http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2 | access-date = 2010-03-29}}

| 1889

| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1922–1949), serving as Chief Judge 1948–1949

| {{cite web | title = Gibson, Robert Murray | publisher = Federal Judicial Center | url = http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=851 | access-date = 2010-03-29}}

| {{sort|1834|Jefferson 1834}}

| Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Kansas Territory (1854–1859)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA74 p. 74.]

| 1935

| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1970–2008)

| {{Cite web | title = McCune, Barron Patterson | publisher = Federal Judicial Center | url = http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1538 | access-date = 2010-03-29}}{{cite web | title = W&J: The Honorable Barron P. McCune | work = People Profiles | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12952&menu_id=827&crumb=828&id=10723 | access-date = 2010-02-25 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| 1928

| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1955–1963)

| {{cite web | title = McIlvaine, John Wilson | publisher = Federal Judicial Center | url = http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1559 | access-date = 2010-03-29}}

| {{sort|1833|Washington 1833}}

| Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court for the Third Circuit (1869–1891)

| {{cite web | title = McKennan, William | publisher = Federal Judicial Center | url = http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1568 | access-date = 2010-03-29}}

| {{sort|1819|Washington 1819}}

| Justice of the Wisconsin Territory Supreme Court (1838–1848); Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Wisconsin and Eastern District of Wisconsin (1848–1873); Pennsylvania Attorney General

| {{cite web | title = Miller, Andrew Galbraith | publisher = Federal Judicial Center | url = http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1643 | access-date = 2010-03-29}}

| 1982

|Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (2013–present)

| {{Cite web |title=2015 Award Winners |url=https://www.jayconnected.com/s/924/19/interior.aspx?sid=924&gid=1&pgid=1894 |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=www.jayconnected.com |language=en}}

| {{sort|1825|Jefferson 1825}}

| Judge of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory (1861–1865)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA43 p. 43.]

| {{sort|1854|Jefferson 1854†}}

| Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1898–1910); U.S. Congressman from Ohio (1885–1891)

| {{cite web | title = Thompson, Albert Clifton, (1842–1910) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000191 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}{{cite web | title = Albert Clifton Thompson (1842–1910) | work = History of the 6th Circuit | publisher = United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit | url = http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/lib_hist/courts/district%20court/OH/SDOH/judges/act-bio.html | access-date = 2009-02-25 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090119035146/http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/lib_hist/Courts/district%20court/OH/SDOH/judges/act-bio.html | archive-date = 2009-01-19 }}

| {{sort|1878|1878}}

| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1914–1932)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA635 p. 635.]{{cite web | title = Thomson, W. H. Seward | publisher = Federal Judicial Center | url = http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2382&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na | access-date = 2012-02-23}}

| {{sort|0|Washington ?}}

| Chief Justice of Arizona Territorial Supreme Court (1870–1874); Chief Justice of Utah Territorial Supreme Court (1863–1868); Associate Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court (1869–1870)

| {{Cite journal | last = Goff | first = John S. | title = John Titus, Chief Justice of Arizona 1870–1874 | journal = Arizona and the West | volume = 14 | issue = 1 | pages = 25–44 | date = Spring 1972 | jstor = 40168000}}

| 1869

| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1908–1914); U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1902–1905)

| {{cite web | title = Young, James Scott | publisher = Federal Judicial Center | url = http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2676 | access-date = 2010-03-29}}

| {{sort|1832|Jefferson 1832}}

| Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals (1855–1883), serving as Chief Judge from 1867 to 1883

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA65 p. 65.]

| {{sort|0|Jefferson ?}}

| Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1846–1852); U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1827–1835)

| {{cite web | title = Coulter, Richard, (1788–1852) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000808 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1825|Jefferson 1825}}

| Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1846–1858); U.S. Senator from Texas (1859–1861), expelled after Texas' secession; Delegate to the Provisional Confederate Congress

|

| {{sort|1842|Jefferson 1842}}

| Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1872–1887), serving as Chief Justice from 1883 to 1887; U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1865–1872)

|

| {{sort|1852|Jefferson 1852†}}

| Justice of Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; co-founder of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at Jefferson College

| {{Cite book | author = George Wesley Atkinson | title = Bench and Bar of West Virginia | publisher = Virginia Law Book Company | year = 1919 | page = 42 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qi8aAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA42 | chapter = Judge Charles Page Thomas Moore, M.A. | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qi8aAAAAYAAJ | access-date = 2009-02-23| author-link = George W. Atkinson }}

| {{sort|1984|Washington & Jefferson 1984}}

| Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania;

| {{sort|1823|Jefferson 1823}}

| Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio(1857–1872); Chief Justice during 1861, 1866, and 1871 terms

| {{cite web|title=Josiah Scott |work=Formerjustices » Bios |publisher=Supreme Court of Ohio |url=http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/SCO/formerjustices/bios/scottJ.asp |access-date=2012-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320175153/http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/SCO/formerjustices/bios/scottJ.asp |archive-date=2012-03-20 }}

| 1892

| Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals (1926–1944), serving as Chief Judge from 1943 to 1944

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA518 p. 518.]

| {{sort|1845|Jefferson 1845}}

| Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1877–1900), serving as Chief Justice (1893–1900)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA134 p. 134.]

| 1899

| Judge of the Illinois Appellate Court (1917–1927); U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1913–1915)

| {{cite web | title = Thomson, Charles Marsh, (1877–1943) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000228 | access-date = 2009-02-23}}

| {{sort|1985|Washington & Jefferson 1985}}

| Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court

| {{sort|1845|Jefferson 1845†}}

| Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1882–1885)

| {{cite web | title = Charles Shannon West (1829–1885) | work = tarlton.law.utexas.edu | publisher = Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas School of Law | url = http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/justices/spct/west.html | access-date = 2009-02-23 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080105045335/http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/justices/spct/west.html | archive-date = 2008-01-05 }}

| {{sort|1846|Jefferson 1846}}

| Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio (1872–1873); Ohio Attorney General (1866–1870)

| {{cite book | ref = smith | title = History of the Republican Party in Ohio |editor-first=Joseph P |editor-last=Smith | year = 1898 | volume = I | publisher = the Lewis Publishing Company | location = Chicago | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eaAFAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA213 | pages = 213–214}}

| {{sort|0|?}}

| Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (1912–1914)

| {{cite book | title = Ohio, A four volume reference library on the History of a Great State | editor1-first=Simeon D. |editor1-last=Fess |editor1-link=Simeon D. Fess | volume = 5, Supplementary Biographical | year = 1937 | publisher = Lewis Publishing Company | location = Chicago | page = 30 | oclc = 418516}}

| {{sort|1833|Jefferson 1833}}

| Judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa Territory (1838–1839); Judge of the Iowa Supreme Court (1849–1850)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA71 p. 71.]

| {{sort|1829|Jefferson 1829}}

| Governor of Ohio (1844); Ohio State Senator (1841–1845), serving as Speaker of the Senate in 1843

| {{cite book | last = Lanman | first = Charles | author2 = Morrison, Joseph M. | title = Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States | publisher = J.M. Morrison | year = 1887 | page = 27 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UBwVAAAAYAAJ | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1856|Jefferson 1856}}

| Governor of Pennsylvania (1887–1891); Acting President of Penn State University (1906–1908), where he is the namesake of Beaver Stadium; Judge of the Pennsylvania Superior Court

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| {{sort|1847|Jefferson 1847}}

| Elected Governor of Kansas in 1861, but the Kansas Supreme Court overturned the results

| {{Cite book | last = Egle | first = William Henry | title = Notes and queries: Chiefly relating to Interior Pennsylvania, Volume 3 | publisher = Daily Telegraph Print | year = 1896 | volume = 3 | page = 645 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tNQUAAAAYAAJ | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tNQUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA645 | chapter = Notes and Queries CCLXXVII – Hon. George Addison Crawford | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1839|Jefferson 1839}}

| Governor of Pennsylvania (1867–1873); Territorial Governor of Kansas (1856–1857); First Mayor of San Francisco (1850–1851); Union Major general during the American Civil War

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| {{sort|1840|Jefferson 1840}}

| Governor of Maryland (1880–1884); U.S. Senator from Maryland (1869–1875); U.S. Congressman from Maryland (1849–1855)

| {{Cite book | last = Buchholz | first = Heinrich Ewald | title = Governors of Maryland: from the revolution to the year 1908 | publisher = Williams & Wilkins company | year = 1908 | edition = 2 | page = 222 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CPsMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA222 | chapter = William Thomas Hamilton | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CPsMAAAAYAAJ | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1810|Jefferson 1810}}

| Governor of Indiana (1822–1825); U.S. Senator from Indiana (1825–1837); Indiana Territorial Legislature (1813–1814), serving as Speaker in 1814; Secretary of the first Indiana Constitutional Convention in 1816; U.S. Congressman from Indiana (1816–1822)

| {{cite web | title = Hendricks, William, (1782–1850) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000494 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1819|Washington 1819}}

| Governor of Michigan Territory (1835–1836); Secretary of Wisconsin Territory (1836–1837)

| {{cite web | title = Horner, John Scott 1802–1883 | work = wisconsinhistory.org | publisher = Wisconsin Historical Society | url = http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1388&keyword=horner | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1845|Jefferson 1845}}

| Governor of California (1859–1860); U.S. Senator from California (1860–1863)

| {{cite web | title = Latham, Milton Slocum, (1827–1882) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000110 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|0|Washington ?}}

| Reconstruction-era Governor of Arkansas (1864–1868); served in the Arkansas House of Representatives, the Arkansas Senate, and the 1861 Arkansas State Convention, where he cast the lone vote against secession

| {{Cite web | title = Governor's Information – Arkansas Governor Isaac Murphy | work = www.nga.org | publisher = National Governors Association | year = 2004 | url = http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=ca89224971c81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD | access-date = 2010-02-23 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110604145727/http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=ca89224971c81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD | archive-date = 2011-06-04 }}

| {{sort|1802|Jefferson 1802}}

| Governor of Alabama (1821–1825); U.S. Senator from Alabama (1826); U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (1811–1817)

| {{cite web | title = Pickens, Israel, (1780–1827) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000322 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1847|Jefferson 1847}}

| Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (1873–1877); U.S. Congressman from Indiana (1877–1879)

| {{cite web | title = Sexton, Leonidas, (1827–1880) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = United States Congress | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000263 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|0|?}}

| Governor of New Hampshire (1973–1979)

| {{Cite web | last = Bastedo (State Curator) | first = Russell | title = Publications – A Guide to Likenesses of New Hampshire Officials and Governors on Public Display at the Legislative Office Building and the State House Concord, New Hampshire, to 1998 | publisher = New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources | url = http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/publications/glikeness/thommeld.html}}

| {{sort|1825|Washington 1825}}

| Governor of Virginia (1856–1860); U.S. Congressman from Virginia (1833–1844); United States Ambassador to Brazil (1844–1847); Confederate Brigadier General during the American Civil War

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| {{sort|1833|Jefferson 1833}}

| Attorney General of West Virginia (1863–1864, 1869–1870)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA68 p. 68.]

| 2006

| Pennsylvania State Representative (2009–present)

| {{cite web | title = Jim Christiana (Republican) | work = www.legis.state.pa.us | publisher = Pennsylvania House of Representatives | url = http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/house_bio.cfm?id=1165 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

|

| Member of the Maryland House of Delegates

| {{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119359873/thomas-b-hayward-1-jan-1894-the/ |title=Thomas B. Hayward |date=1894-01-01 |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2023-02-20}}{{Open access}}

| {{sort|1811|Washington 1811}}

| Mayor of Detroit, Michigan (1826, 1829)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA286 p. 286.]

| {{sort|1852|Washington 1852}}

| Pennsylvania State Representative (1857–1860), serving as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1859 to 1860

|

| 1975

| Pennsylvania State Representative (1980–2006)

| {{cite web|title=Victor John Lescovitz (Democrat) |work=www.legis.state.pa.us |publisher=Pennsylvania House of Representatives |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110011355/http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/house_bio.cfm?districtnumber=46 |archive-date=2006-01-10 |url=http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/house_bio.cfm?districtnumber=46 |access-date=2010-02-23 }}

| {{sort|1810|Jefferson 1810}}

| Missouri Territorial Legislator; killed in duel with U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton

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| {{sort|1824|Washington 1824†}}

| Ohio State Treasurer (1876–1878)

| {{Cite book | title = A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio: With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers | chapter = John M. MILLIKIN | publisher = Western Biographical Publishing Company | year = 1882 | location = Cincinnati | pages = 340–346 | chapter-url = http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohbutler/cyc/340.htm | quote = ..and in 1824 went to Washington College, in Washington, Pennsylvania, spending a year there, and returning home last of May 1825.}}

| {{sort|1848|Jefferson 1848}}

| Attorney General of Delaware (1874–1879); U.S. Congressman from Delaware (1887–1891)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA155 p. 155.]

| 1982

| Pennsylvania State Representative (2003–present)

| {{cite web | title = Scott A. Petri (Republican) | work = www.legis.state.pa.us | publisher = Pennsylvania House of Representatives | url = http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/house_bio.cfm?districtnumber=178 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| 2003

| Mayor of Pittsburgh (2006–2014)

| {{cite web | title = W&J: Luke Ravenstahl | work = People Profiles | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12952&menu_id=827&crumb=828&id=10731 | access-date = 2010-02-23 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| {{sort|1844|Washington 1844}}

| Ohio Attorney General (1865); Served in Union Army during American Civil War, losing use of right arm at Battle of Chancellorsville and achieving rank of Brevetted Brigadier general

| {{cite book | title = History of the Republican Party in Ohio |editor-first=Joseph P |editor-last=Smith | year = 1898 | volume = I | page = 198 | publisher = the Lewis Publishing Company | location = Chicago | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eaAFAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA198}}{{cite book | title = Ohio in the War Her Statesmen Generals and Soldiers | pages = 945–946 | first = Whitelaw | last = Reid | author-link = Whitelaw Reid | publisher = The Robert Clarke Company | year = 1895 | volume = 1 | location = Cincinnati | chapter = Brevet Brigadier-General W. P. Richardson | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EJ94AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA945}}

| {{sort|1857|Jefferson 1857}}

| Secretary of State of Kansas (1878–1884)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA221 p. 221.]

| {{sort|1845|Jefferson 1845}}

| Pennsylvania House of Representatives Venango and Clarion counties (1838–1844), Speaker (1842-1844)

| {{cite web |title=House Speaker Biographies - James Ross Snowden |url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/SpeakerBios/SpeakerBio.cfm?id=126 |website=www.legis.state.pa.us |publisher=Pennsylvania House of Representatives |access-date=25 August 2022}}

| 1964

| Pennsylvania State Senator (1977–present); Pennsylvania State Representative (1971–1976)

| {{Cite web | title = Project Vote Smart Senator J. Barry Stout (PA) | date = 2002–2008 | url = http://votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=5243 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| {{sort|1805|Jefferson 1805}}

| Pennsylvania Treasurer (1820–1821)

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19 p. 19.]

| {{sort|0|?}}

| Pennsylvania State Representative (1989–2002); Developer instrumental in building CONSOL Energy Park

| {{cite web|title=Leo Joseph Trich, Jr. (Democrat) |work=Official Pennsylvania House of Representatives Profile |publisher=Pennsylvania House of Representatives |url=http://www2.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/memberinfo/house_bio.cfm?districtnumber=47 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020409021456/http://www2.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/memberinfo/house_bio.cfm?districtnumber=47 |archive-date=2002-04-09 |access-date=2010-02-23 }}

| 2000

| Pennsylvania State Representative (2007–present)

| {{cite web | title = Jesse White (Democrat) | work = www.legis.state.pa.us | publisher = Pennsylvania House of Representatives | url = http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/House_bio.cfm?id=1093 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}

| Washington 1840

| Ohio Attorney General (1856–1860); United States Assistant Secretary of War (1862–1863); Ohio delegate to Peace Conference of 1861

|

| 1968

| President and CEO of Merck & Co. (2006–present)

| {{cite web|title=W&J: Richard T. Clark |work=People Profiles |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12952&menu_id=827&crumb=828&id=10707 |access-date=2010-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090623090904/http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12952&menu_id=827&crumb=828&id=10707 |archive-date=2009-06-23 }}

| 1975

| President and CEO of Highmark

| {{cite web | title = W&J to Honor Two as Entrepreneurs of the Year | work = Jay Connected | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://jayconnected.com/s/924/index.aspx?sid=924&gid=1&pgid=252&cid=1072&ecid=1072&crid=0&calpgid=15&calcid=789 | access-date = 2010-02-23}}{{cite web | title = W&J: Dr. Kenneth Melani | work = People Profiles | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12952&menu_id=827&crumb=828&id=10724 | access-date = 2010-02-25 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| 1962

| Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange (2003–2005); Chairman of Citigroup (1984–2000)

| {{cite web|title=W&J: John Reed |work=People Profiles |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12952&menu_id=827&crumb=828&id=10732 |access-date=2010-02-23 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6WUu5zKy9?url=http://www.washjeff.edu/john-reed-1 |archive-date=2015-02-21 }}

| {{sort|0|?}}

| Co-founder of the McKeesport Tin Plate Company and director of the People's Bank in McKeesport; Johnson C. Smith University, a historically Black college in Charlotte, North Carolina, is named after him

| {{cite web|title=TITLE: Mr. Johnson C. Smith |work=Digital Archives |publisher=Inez Moore Parker Archives and Research Center at Johnson C. Smith University |date=June 2000 |url=http://archives.jcsu.edu/echo/Mr_Johnson_C_Smith.htm |access-date=2010-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615110611/http://archives.jcsu.edu/echo/Mr_Johnson_C_Smith.htm |archive-date=2010-06-15 }}

| 1962

| Former billionaire; founder of Amerindo Investment Advisors, convicted of 12 counts of securities fraud and money laundering and sentenced to nine years in prison; his multi-million pledges to the college never materialized

| {{cite news | last = Eichenwald | first = Kurt | author2 = Wakin, Daniel J. | title = The Double Ups and Downs of a Philanthropist | work = The New York Times | date = 2005-05-30 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/business/30vilar.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all | access-date = 2010-02-23}}{{Cite news | last = Moynihan | first = Colin | title = Arts Patron Is Sentenced to 9 Years for Fraud | newspaper = New York Times | date = 2010-02-05 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/nyregion/06vilar.html | access-date = 2010-03-09}}

| 1952†

| Actor of The Addams Family and Batman fame

| {{cite web | title = May 2009 Master's Degree Ceremony Keynote Speaker – John Astin | work = advanced.jhu.edu | publisher = Office of Advanced Academic Programs, The Johns Hopkins University | date = May 2009 | url = http://advanced.jhu.edu/registration/may-2009-masters-degree-ceremony-keynote-speaker/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090802162855/http://advanced.jhu.edu/registration/may%2D2009%2Dmasters%2Ddegree%2Dceremony%2Dkeynote%2Dspeaker/ | archive-date = 2009-08-02 | quote = ...attended Washington & Jefferson College on a grant as a math major. Although he worked briefly as a mathematician, he later received a degree in Drama from Johns Hopkins. | access-date = 2010-02-24 }}

| 1921

| Artist known for his work in oil and watercolor; called "Dean of Chicago Painters"

| {{Cite web | title = Francis Chapin – The Stone City Art Colony and School 1932–1933 | work = Busse Library | publisher = Mount Mercy College | year = 2003 | url = http://www.mtmercy.edu/stone/chapin.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060901185156/http://www.mtmercy.edu/stone/chapin.htm | archive-date = 2006-09-01 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| 2014

| Miss Earth 2020; first American to do so

| {{Cite web | title = Lindsey Coffey Captures USA's First Miss Earth Crown | publisher = Conan Daily | year = 2020 | url = https://cdn.newswire.com/files/x/56/b0/e7d1a80ca8326e5a22d163e4460e.pdf | access-date = 2021-01-16}}

| {{sort|1865|Jefferson 1865†}}

| Author, physician, newspaper publisher, and personal secretary to President Andrew Johnson; best known for constructing a hoax, claiming the discovery of the remains of an Icelandic Christian woman near the Potomac River, proving that America had been "discovered" five centuries before Christopher Columbus

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA605 p. 605.]{{Cite news | title = DR. FRANK COWAN DEAD.; Physician, Lawyer, Journalist, Traveler, Lecturer, and Author | newspaper = The New York Times | date = February 13, 1905 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/02/13/101408509.pdf | access-date = 2010-02-24 }}

| 1933

| Creator of the newspaper comic strip Rex Morgan, M.D.; won the 1933 Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing Championship in the 165-pound weight class

| {{cite web|title=Washington & Jefferson College 1865– |work=U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |url=http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/cdm4/washjeff.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716211329/http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/cdm4/washjeff.php |archive-date=2009-07-16 |access-date=2010-02-24 }}{{cite book | last = E. Lee | first = North | title = Battling the Indians, Panthers, and Nittany Lions: The Story of Washington & Jefferson College's First Century of Football, 1890–1990 | chapter = Chapter 12: "Gentlemen's Football" | publisher = Daring Books | year = 1991 | pages = 143–150 | oclc = 24174022 | isbn = 978-1-878302-03-8}}

| {{sort|1841|Jefferson 1841†}}

| 19th-century songwriter of American folk classics "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Black Joe", "Beautiful Dreamer" and "Old Folks at Home", among others; attended Washington & Jefferson but never finished; sources conflict on whether he was expelled or left voluntarily

| {{cite book | last = Emerson | first = Ken | title = Doo-dah! Steven Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture | publisher = Da Capo Press | year = 1998 | page = 79 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ousn0lWqeisC | isbn = 978-0-306-80852-4 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}{{cite web | title = W&J: Did You Know? | work = washjeff.edu | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=372&menu_id=133&crumb=137&id=61 | access-date = 2010-02-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100527200300/http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=372&menu_id=133&crumb=137&id=61 | archive-date = 2010-05-27 }}

| 1876

| Art director of the St. Louis Exposition of 1904

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| {{sort|1840|Washington 1840}}

| American historian and author

| {{Cite book | last = Wayland | first = John Walter | title = A history of Shenandoah County, Virginia | publisher = Regional Pub. Co. | year = 1980 | page = 563 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=G9R4AAAAMAAJ | quote = He was a graduate of Washington College, Pa., 1840; from 1845 to 1848 he was a... | isbn = 978-0-8063-8011-7}}

| {{sort|0|?}}

| MLB outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals (1910–1911)

| [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94504271/pittsburgh-post-gazette/ "Abbott, Washington County Sheriff, Former Athlete of Exceptional Ability"]. Pittsburgh Gazette Times. January 17, 1926. p. 23. Retrieved February 8, 2022.

| {{sort|0|?}}

| Head coach of Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team (1929–1931)

| {{cite news|title=Presidents Football Media Guide 2008 |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |year=2008 |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/Athletics/Football/08GUIDE1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326165332/http://www.washjeff.edu/Athletics/Football/08GUIDE1.pdf |archive-date=2009-03-26 |access-date=2010-05-02 }}

| 1895†

| First openly paid professional football player

| {{Cite web | title = John Brallier, circa 1895. | work = explorepahistory.com | publisher = WITF-FM | url = http://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=5388 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| {{sort|0|?}}

| Professional football player for the Akron Pros, where he also served as head coach

| {{cite web | title = Wayne Brenkert | work = NFL All-Time Players | publisher = NFL Enterprises LLC | url = http://www.nfl.com/players/profile?id=BRE284141 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| {{sort|0|?}}

| Professional football player with the Canton Bulldogs (1921–1925), winning the NFL Championship in 1922 and 1923

| {{cite web | title = Bird Carroll | work = NFL All-Time Players | publisher = NFL Enterprises LLC | url = http://www.nfl.com/players/birdcarroll/profile?id=CAR514098 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| 1930

| Professional football player for the Portsmouth Spartans, Providence Steam Roller, Chicago Cardinals, and the Pittsburgh Pirates; member of the 1930 NFL All-Pro Team; first head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1933

| {{cite web | title = Jap Douds | work = NFL All-Time Players | publisher = NFL Enterprises LLC | url = http://www.nfl.com/players/profile?id=DOU069214 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}{{Cite web|title=Presidents Football 2009 |work=2009 Football Guide |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |year=2009 |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/Athletics/Football/2009guide.pdf |access-date=2010-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602195502/http://www.washjeff.edu/Athletics/Football/2009guide.pdf |archive-date=2010-06-02 }}

| {{sort|0|?}}

| Professional football player from 1923 to 1930, winning the 1925 NFL Championship with the Chicago Cardinals; head coach for the Milwaukee Badgers (1924)

| {{cite web | title = Hal Erickson | work = NFL All-Time Players | publisher = NFL Enterprises LLC | url = http://www.nfl.com/players/halerickson/profile?id=ERI315966 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| 1920†

| Member of the College Football Hall of Fame

| {{cite web | title = Edgar "Ed" Garbisch | work = collegefootball.org | publisher = College Football Hall of Fame | url = {{College Football HoF/url|id=1447}} | access-date = 2010-02-24 }}

| 1901†

| Major League Baseball right fielder and physician, playing for five teams during his 8-year career; played in the 1906 World Series for the Chicago Cubs; team captain of the Boston Red Sox in 1909; Manager of the Pittsburgh Rebels of the Federal League in 1914

| {{cite web | title = Washington & Jefferson College Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues | work = Baseball Almanac | url = http://www.baseball-almanac.com/college/washington_jefferson_college_baseball_players.shtml | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| 1981

| Commissioner of the National Football League (2006–present)

| {{cite web | title = W&J: Roger S. Goodell | work = People Profiles | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12952&menu_id=827&crumb=828&id=10685 | access-date = 2010-02-24 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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| MLB second baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1930–1932), attended W & J in his freshman year (1926–1927), then transferred to Amherst

| Press Staff (January 16, 1928). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IMsaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4ksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1788%2C2389580 "Baseball Is Pet Game of Grosklass"]. The Pittsburgh Press. p. 27. Retrieved August 25, 2021.

| {{sort|0|?}}

| Professional football player for the Detroit Heralds, Detroit Tigers, Buffalo All-Americans, Cleveland Indians, and the Dayton Triangles; was named to the 1923 NFL All-Pro team

| {{cite web | title = Charlie Guy | work = NFL All-Time Players | publisher = NFL Enterprises LLC | url = http://www.nfl.com/players/profile?id=GUY118654 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| 1949

| National Football League official, where he was referee for The Drive and was on the officiating crew for three Super Bowls; executive director of Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (1972–1998)

| {{cite web|title=Athletic Hall of Fame – Class of 2007 |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/athletics/athletic-hall-fame/class-2007 |access-date=2012-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303065340/http://www.washjeff.edu/athletics/athletic-hall-fame/class-2007 |archive-date=2012-03-03 }}

| 1919

| Professional football player and coach; member of the College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame

| {{cite web | title = Wilbur "Fats" Henry | work = collegefootball.org | publisher = College Football Hall of Fame | url = {{College Football HoF/url|id=1330}} | access-date = 2010-02-24 }}{{cite web|title=Wilbur (Pete) Henry |work=profootballhof.com |publisher=Pro Football Hall of Fame |url=http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=94 |access-date=2010-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424222406/http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=94 |archive-date=2009-04-24 }}

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| Professional football player, winning the 1926 NFL Championship with the Frankford Yellow Jackets

| {{Cite web | title = Paul Hogan | work = pro-football-reference.com | publisher = Sports Reference LLC. | url = https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HogaPa20.htm | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| 1938

| National Basketball League player; member of the Basketball Hall of Fame; later coached the Pittsburgh Pipers of the American Basketball Association

| {{cite web|title=Harry E. "Buddy" Jeannette |work=hoophall.com |publisher=Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |year=2007 |url=http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/harry-e-buddy-jeannette |access-date=2010-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831073419/http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/harry-e-buddy-jeannette |archive-date=2009-08-31 }}{{cite news | title = Buddy Jeannette, 80, Early Pro And Basketball Hall of Famer | work = The New York Times | date = 2008-03-14 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/14/sports/buddy-jeannette-80-early-pro-and-basketball-hall-of-famer.html | access-date = 2010-02-24}}{{Cite web |title=Washington & Jefferson Athletics Hall of Fame – Class of 2001 |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12704&menu_id=824&crumb=138&id=12695 |access-date=2010-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708185908/http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12704&menu_id=824&crumb=138&id=12695 |archive-date=2011-07-08 }}

| 1925

| Professional football coach for Manhattan College (1938–1942) and the Boston Yanks (1944–1946); a member of the Washington & Jefferson Presidents' 1922 Rose Bowl team

| {{Cite web |title=Washington & Jefferson Athletics Hall of Fame – Class of 2002 |work=www.washjeff.edu |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12704&menu_id=824&crumb=138&id=12696 |access-date=2010-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708190354/http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12704&menu_id=824&crumb=138&id=12696 |archive-date=2011-07-08 }}{{cite book | title = The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega | publisher = Alpha Tau Omega | volume = 70 | number = 4 | year = 1950 | page = 24 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=38XmAAAAMAAJ | access-date = 2010-02-26}}

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| Professional football coach and player; head coach at DePauw University

| {{cite web | title = Ray Neal | work = NFL All-Time Players | publisher = NFL Enterprises LLC | url = http://www.nfl.com/players/rayneal/profile?id=NEA326232 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| ?

| Major League Baseball player; known in baseball lore for hitting the shortest home run in history: 24 inches.

| {{Cite book | last = Bryson | first = Michael G. | author-link = Michael G. Bryson | title = The Twenty-Four-Inch Home Run | publisher = Contemporary Books | year = 1990 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SyL2PAAACAAJ | isbn = 978-0-8092-4341-9}}{{cite web | title = Andy Oyler | work = Baseball-Reference.com | url = https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/oyleran01.shtml | access-date = May 18, 2013}}

| 1984

| Head coach of the Miami Dolphins (2012–present); Offensive Coordinator for the Green Bay Packers (2007–2012)

| {{Cite web | title = Joe Philbin – Offensive Coordinator | publisher = Green Bay Packers | year = 2010 | url = http://www.packers.com/team/coaches/philbin_joe/ | access-date = 2010-02-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100310201143/http://www.packers.com/team/coaches/philbin_joe/ | archive-date = 2010-03-10 }}

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| Professional football player for the Cleveland Rams and the Green Bay Packers; drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 5th round (32nd overall) of the 1938 NFL draft

| {{Cite web | title = Fred Shirey | work = pro-football-reference.com | publisher = Sports Reference LLC | url = https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/ShirFr20.htm | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

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| 1914 College Football All-America Team Consensus selection

| {{Cite web|title=Consensus All-America Selections |work=NCAA Award Winners |publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association |year=2009 |url=http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/football_records/DI/2009/2009Awards.pdf |page=16 |access-date=2010-06-09 |archive-date=2010-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100215145202/http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/football_records/DI/2009/2009Awards.pdf }}

| 1911†

| Major League Baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers (1912–1915)

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| 1921

| Professional football player; member of the Pottsville Maroons involved in the 1925 NFL Championship controversy; member of the Washington & Jefferson College's 1922 Rose Bowl team, where he was MVP

| {{cite web | title = Russ Stein | work = NFL All-Time Players | publisher = NFL Enterprises LLC | url = http://www.nfl.com/players/russstein/profile?id=STE169884 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}{{Cite web |title=Washington & Jefferson Athletics Hall of Fame – Class of 1999 |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12704&menu_id=824&crumb=138&id=12693 |access-date=2010-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726191628/http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12704&menu_id=824&crumb=138&id=12693 |archive-date=2011-07-26 }}

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| Professional football player for the Los Angeles Rams (1950–1955); five-time Pro Bowler; the NFL's leading rusher in 1951; won the 1951 NFL Championship Game

| {{cite web | title = Dan Towler | work = NFL All-Time Players | publisher = NFL Enterprises LLC | url = http://www.nfl.com/players/dantowler/profile?id=TOW255564 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| 1923

| Professional football player and coach; a member of the 1922 Rose Bowl team

| {{Cite web | title = Ralph Vince | work = The Coffin Corner: Vol. 19, No. 1 | publisher = www.profootballresearchers.org | year = 1997 | url = http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/19-01-686.pdf | access-date = 2010-02-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120428083007/http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/19-01-686.pdf | archive-date = 2012-04-28 }}

| 1924

| College football player and track star, becoming the first African American to play quarterback in the Rose Bowl; later became a respected medical doctor

| {{cite web | title = Charles "Pruner" West (1922) | work = U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll10,32 | access-date = 2010-02-24 | archive-date = 2019-12-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191215012111/http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?%2Fp4019coll10%2C32 }}

| {{sort|1844|Washington 1844}}

| Prominent physician in Wheeling, West Virginia, pioneering the use of chloral hydrate for treatment of puerperal mania; served as Supervisor of Ohio County, West Virginia, instituting educational reforms to expand free schooling to African American children; studied medicine under Francis Julius LeMoyne

| {{Cite book | title = The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography | publisher = J. T. White Company | year = 1900 | volume = 10 | page = 418 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tt4DAAAAYAAJ | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tt4DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA418 | chapter = Hupp, John Cox | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| 1888†

| Physician; confirmed that yellow fever was transmitted via mosquito by infecting himself with the disease; transferred to Johns Hopkins University after two years

| {{cite web | title = Walter Reed (1851–1902) | work = Claude Moore Health Sciences Library | publisher = University of Virginia Health System | year = 2009 | url = http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/medical_history/yellow_fever/commission.cfm | quote = After two years at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, Jesse W. Lazear (1866–1900) completed his undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins University in 1889 | access-date = 2010-02-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100604063344/http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/medical_history/yellow_fever/commission.cfm | archive-date = 2010-06-04 }}

| {{sort|1849|Jefferson 1849}}

| Surgeon known as the "Father of Battlefield Medicine"

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| 1962

| Oncologist and chief of the division of Hematology-Oncology at UCLA; best known for research identifying the HER2/neu oncogene that is amplified in 25–33% of breast cancer patients and the resulting treatment, herceptin

| {{cite web | title = W&J:Dennis Slamon, M.D., Ph.D. | work = People Profiles | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12952&menu_id=827&crumb=828&id=10740 | access-date = 2010-02-25 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| {{sort|?|Jefferson ?}}

| {{sort|1823|Jefferson 1823}}

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA34 p. 34.]

| {{sort|1818|Jefferson 1818}}

| Prominent Presbyterian clergyman; author of Religion in America

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA26 p. 26.]

| {{sort|1860|Jefferson 1860}}

| Presbyterian missionary to Chefoo, China

| Eaton and Woods 1902, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA240 p. 240.]{{cite web | url = http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/img/assets/6398/MRL6_CorbettSmith_FA.pdf | title = Hunter Corbett & Harold F. Smith Papers, 1862–1948 |type=Finding aid |author=Paul A. Byrnes |author2=Ruth Tonkiss Cameron | access-date = 26 September 2010 |website=Columbia University}}

| Canonsburg

| Methodist circuit rider; later Episcopalian priest-physician in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia; author of Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1783

| {{Cite journal|last=Richards|date=2018|title=The East-West Divide and Frontier Efforts of the Reverend Dr. Joseph Doddridge|journal=Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies|volume=85|issue=4|pages=460–487|doi=10.5325/pennhistory.85.4.0460|jstor=10.5325/pennhistory.85.4.0460|s2cid=149943936}}

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| Missionary to India; namesake of Ewing Christian College

| {{cite book | last = Shavit | first = David | title = The United States in Asia | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group | year = 1990 | page = 155 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IWdZTaJdc6UC&pg=PA155,M1 | isbn = 978-0-313-26788-8 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| 1876

| Missionary to India

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| {{sort|1862|Washington 1862}}

| Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States; namesake of the Greer School

| {{Cite book | title = New International Encyclopedia | publisher = Dodd, Mead | year = 1915 | volume = 10 | edition = 2 | page = 351 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EBsoAAAAYAAJ | chapter = Greer, David Hummell | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EBsoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA351 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

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| Presbyterian minister and a revivalist, becoming one of the leading figures in the Second Great Awakening; studied with college founders Joseph Smith and John McMillan

| {{Cite book | last = Beard | first = Richard | title = Brief biographical sketches of some of the early ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church | publisher = Southern Methodist Pub. House | year = 1867 | page = 7 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=caWfPyLByyAC | chapter = Rev. James M'Gready | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=caWfPyLByyAC&pg=PA7}}

| {{sort|1821|Jefferson 1821}}

| Founder and editor of Presbyterian Banner

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| 1879

| Chairman of Systematic Theology at San Francisco Theological Seminary

| {{Cite book | last = Curry | first = James | title = History of the San Francisco Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church | publisher = Reporter Pub. Company | year = 1907 | page = 87 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KJwWAAAAIAAJ | chapter = Henry Collin Minton, D.D., L.L.D. | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KJwWAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA87 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}

| {{sort|1840|Jefferson 1840}}

| Lutheran minister noted for the many orphanages and hospitals ministries he founded; he is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on November 24

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|Jefferson 1817

|Missionary to the Dakota who helped translate the first Dakota-language Bible

|{{Cite web |last=bwaugh |date=2024-07-08 |title=Thomas S. Williamson, Missionary Physician of Souls |url=https://www.presbyteriansofthepast.com/2024/07/08/thomas-s-williamson-missionary-physician-of-souls/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=Presbyterians of the Past |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=1879-07-15 |title=Thomas Smith Williamson Obituary (father-in-law of Helen Mar Ely) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-saint-paul-globe-thomas-smith-willia/99268815/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |work=The Saint Paul Globe |pages=2}}

| {{sort|1844|Jefferson 1844}}

| Theologian; father of Woodrow Wilson

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| {{sort|1832|Jefferson 1832†}}

| Early African American abolitionist; first African American field officer (major) in the United States Army during the American Civil War; arguably the first proponent of American black nationalism; studied classics, Latin, and Greek at Jefferson College

| {{Cite web | last = Surkamp | first = James | title = Time Line of Martin R. Delany's Life 1812–1885 – The Pittsburgh Years | work = To Be More Than Equal: The Many Lives of Martin R. Delany 1812–1885 | publisher = West Virginia University | url = http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/pitsburg.htm | access-date = 2010-02-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100416002216/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/pitsburg.htm | archive-date = 2010-04-16 }}{{Cite news | title = Martin Delany: The Father of Black Nationalism 19th century black activist was a medical student, inventor and 'organizer in the true sense of the word.' | newspaper = Dayton Daily News | date = 2006-10-18 | url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11979457.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121103072209/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11979457.html | archive-date = 2012-11-03 | access-date = 2010-03-14}}

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| Radio sportscaster, known as "Mr. Radio Baseball"; played football and basketball at Washington & Jefferson College

| {{Cite book | last = Patterson | first = Ted | title = The Golden Voices of Baseball | publisher = Sports Publishing LLC | year = 2002 | page = 70 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Uzh6vqrdzMIC | location = Champaign, Illinois | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Uzh6vqrdzMIC&pg=PA70 | chapter = Al Hefer | access-date = 2010-02-24 | quote = Hefer played football and basketball at Washington & Jefferson College in nearby Washington, Pennsylvania | isbn = 978-1-58261-498-4}}

| 1966

| California criminal defense attorney noted for high-profile cases, including successfully defending actor Robert Blake in his 2004 trial for murder

| {{cite web | title = W&J: M. Gerald Schwartzbach, Attorney | work = People Profiles | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://www.washjeff.edu/content.aspx?section=12952&menu_id=827&crumb=828&id=10738 | access-date = 2010-02-25 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| 1999

| Iraq War veteran, political activist, and founder of VoteVets.org

| {{Cite web|title=Class Notes – 1999 |work=Washington & Jefferson College Magazine |publisher=Washington & Jefferson College |date=Spring 2007 |url=http://www.washjeff.edu/uploadedFiles/External_Relations/For_the_Media/Spring07Mag.pdf |access-date=2010-02-24 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

| 1952

| Canadian environmental engineer and winner of the 1985 Isaak-Walton-Killam Award

| {{Cite web | title = Help Us Find Lost Alumni | work = Jay Connected | publisher = Washington & Jefferson College | url = http://www.jayconnected.com/s/924/index.aspx?sid=924&gid=1&pgid=303 | quote = Dr. Raymond Yong 1952 | access-date = 2010-02-24}}