Illinois College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Florence Eugene Baldwin, former member of the Minnesota State Senate
  • Charles W. Bryan, 20th and 23rd Governor of Nebraska
  • William Jennings Bryan, famous orator, three-time Democratic Party candidate for President, United States Secretary of State from 1913-1915.
  • John Davis, U.S. Representative from Kansas
  • Henry Smith Van Eaton, former US Representative from the state of Mississippi
  • Nancy Farmer, former Missouri State Treasurer
  • Paul Findley, Illinois politician, former US House member
  • William Herndon, law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln
  • Fred Hoskins, first co-president of United Church of Christ
  • William Jayne, first Governor of Dakota Territory
  • Edward E. Johnston, High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
  • John C. Martin, member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois
  • William Henry Milburn, Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives in 1845 and Chaplain of the Senate 1893-1903
  • Richard Henry Mills United States federal judge
  • Theodore Nevin Morrison, 20th century bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America
  • Floyd Newkirk, pitcher for the New York Yankees
  • Marshall M. Parks American ophthalmologist known as “the father of pediatric ophthalmology”
  • John Wesley Powell, explorer, scientist, politician, 2nd director of U.S. Geological Survey
  • Charlotte Thompson Reid, radio personality, politician, former US House member
  • John I. Rinaker, U.S. Representative from Illinois and a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War
  • Bob Schillerstrom, DuPage County, Illinois Board Chairman
  • Brian Sherwin, Art critic
  • Ralph Tyler Smith, Illinois politician, former US Senator
  • Jonathan E. Spilman, a Kentucky lawyer, minister, and composer
  • William McKendree Springer, former US representative and chief justice of the United States Court of Appeals of Indian Territory
  • Jacob Tucker, 2011 NCAA Slam Dunk Contest Winner and member of Harlem Globetrotters
  • William E. Williams, U.S. Representative from Illinois
  • Richard Yates (1815–1873), Illinois politician and governor
  • Richard Yates (1860–1936), his son, also an Illinois politician

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