List of Marietta College alumni

Following is a list of notable Marietta College alumni

Art
Name Class Major Notability References
Theodore Earl Butler American impressionist
Charles L. Peterson Artist

Business
Name Class Major Notability References
Henry M. Dawes President of Pure Oil Company of United States Comptroller of the Currency
Douglas Putnam President of Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad Co. and Ashland Coal & Iron Railway;

U.S. Army colonel and member of Ulysses S. Grant's staff
Mike Salvino 1987 President and chairperson of DXC Technology

Clergy
Name Class Major Notability References
Obed Dickinson Congregational minister and abolitionist
Dean Hess 1941 Clergyman, soldier, and humanitarian
Edward Marsden Minister and missionary to the Tlingit community of Saxman
John Poage Williamson Missionary to the Lower Sioux Agency and Crow Creek Indian Reservation; South Dakota House of Representatives

Education
Name Class Major Notability References
Kenneth P. Bogart Mathematician and professor at Dartmouth College
Edmund Burke Fairfield Chancellor of the University of Nebraska and Lieutenant governor of Michigan
John Fantuzzo Professor of Human Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Child Research Center
Doug La Follette Academic, environmental scientist, and Secretary of State of Wisconsin
Scott Lephart Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences and sports medicine scholar
John Nesselroade Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and

adjunct professor of human development at Pennsylvania State University
Elsie Eaton Newton Dean of Women at Marietta and educator with the United States Indian Service
Wilbur Schramm 1928 Academic and founding father of the Communication Studies discipline

Entertainment
Name Class Major Notability References
Nick Gehlfuss 2007 Actor [1]
Gary Kott 1969 Award-winning television and advertising writer, and producer

Law
Name Class Major Notability References
James H. Brown Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
Martin Dewey Follett Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
Joseph McCormick Ohio Attorney General, lawyer, and participant in the second Ohio Constitutional Convention
Chuck McRae Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
Steven Sadow Criminal defense attorney
John Elbert Sater District judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Riley E. Stratton Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
Joseph G. Wilson 1846 Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court and United States House of Representatives

Literature and journalism
Name Class Major Notability References
Kathy Brodsky 1967 Author and poet [2]
Rich Galen Columnist, press secretary, and Republican strategist
Joyce Harrington Novelist
Joy Williams Novelist, short story writer, and essayist

Military
Name Class Major Notability References
Douglas Putnam U.S. Army colonel and member of Ulysses S. Grant's staff, president of

Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad Co. and Ashland Coal & Iron Railway;

Walter Cowen Short 1888 U.S. Army Brigadier General [3]

Politics
Name Class Major Notability References
Edward H. Allen Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
Ray Barnhart Federal Highway Administration director and Texas House of Representatives
James Capehart United States House of Representatives
Eldon Jacob Crull 1881 Montana House of Representatives
Beman Gates Dawes United States House of Representatives
Charles G. Dawes 1884 U.S. Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, and ambassador
Henry M. Dawes United States Comptroller of the Currency and president of Pure Oil Company
Rufus Dawes United States House of Representatives
Frank Deem West Virginia Senate and West Virginia House of Delegates
Edmund Burke Fairfield Lieutenant governor of Michigan and Chancellor of the University of Nebraska
John F. Follett United States House of Representatives
Glen Gainer Jr. State Auditor of West Virginia
William Irwin 1848 Governor of California [4]
Carte Goodwin 1996 United States Senate
Amy Grady West Virginia Senate
Doug La Follette Secretary of State of Wisconsin, academic, and environmental scientist
Isaac Naylor Mayor of Dallas
Henry S. Neal United States House of Representatives
C. William O'Neill 1938 Governor of Ohio [5]
John Patterson Ohio House of Representatives
Joel Pritchard United States House of Representatives and Lieutenant Governor of Washington
John M. Stowell Wisconsin State Assembly and Mayor of Milwaukee
Willard Warner 1845 United States Senate
Albert B. White Governor of West Virginia [6]
Wilbur M. White United States House of Representatives
John Poage Williamson South Dakota House of Representatives and Lower Sioux Agency and Crow Creek Indian Reservation missionary
Joseph G. Wilson 1846 United States House of Representatives and justice on the Oregon Supreme Court

Science and medicine
Name Class Major Notability References
Richard M. Krause Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, physician, microbiologist, and immunologist
F. Story Musgrave 1960 NASA astronaut and shuttle pilot

Sports
Name Class Major Notability References
Dale E. Chadwick College football coach and collegiate athletic director
W. D. Chadwick Coach of college football, baseball, and basketball and athletics administrator
Dane Dastillung Professional football player
Matt DeSalvo Professional baseball player with the New York Yankees
Mel Doherty Professional football player-coach
Ban Johnson 1887 Founder of baseball's American League [7]
Terry Mulholland 1985 Professional baseball player [8]
Don Schaly 1959 ABCA Hall of Fame member, all-time winningest baseball coach in Division III
John Strotbeck U.S. Olympic rower
Kent Tekulve 1969 Professional baseball player with the Pittsburgh Pirates
Jim Tracy 1978 Former Major League Baseball manager with the Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers
Bob Walsh Sports executive, television producer, and marketing executive

Other
Name Class Major Notability References
Andrea Parhamovich 2000 National Democratic Institute employee killed in Baghdad, Iraq on January 17, 2007
Walter E. Webbe Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States

References
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