150 Most Notable Dickinsonians in the House Divided Era (1840-1880)
April 1, 2011
Delve into the full list of notable Dickinsonians compiled by the members of the House Divided project team to discover all of the ways students, alumni and faculty participated in this historic time. Then visit the House Divided site for photos and additional details.
Our Top 15 Most Influential
1. Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice (1835-1864)
2. James Buchanan, President (1857-1861)
3. Robert Cooper Grier, Supreme Court justice
4. Andrew Gregg Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania
5. Spencer Fullerton Baird, Smithsonian Institution director
6. Charles Albright, congressman and Union soldier
7. John McClintock, professor and Methodist leader
8. Moncure Conway, writer, southern abolitionist
9. Thomas Nelson Conrad, Confederate spy
10. George Baylor, Confederate cavalry officer
11. James Miller McKim, leading abolitionist
12. Littleton Quinton Washington, southern journalist
13. Horatio Collins King, Union soldier, Medal of Honor winner
14. John A.J. Creswell, Cabinet member (Johnson Administration)
15. John Inglis, author South Carolina secession ordinance
Our Top 150 by Category
Politics and Government
Charles Albright
Daniel Moore Bates
Martin Waltham Bates
Charles Baker
James Burns Belford
Joseph McCrum Belford
Madison Brown
Richard Bennett Carmichael
George Alexander Coffey
David Bachman Brunner
James Buchanan
John A.J. Creswell
Andrew Gregg Curtin
William Daniel
William E.F. Deal
Charles Denison
Harmar Denny
William Lewis Dewart
Oliver James Dickey
Joseph Dysart
Powhatan Ellis
George Purnell Fisher
George Freaner
George Tancard Garrison
Charles Henry Gere
John Bannister Gibson
Otis Gibson
Robert Cooper Grier
Charles Huston
John Auchincloss Inglis
John Jeremiah Jacob
Nathaniel Garland Keirle
James Kerr Kelly
Jacob Armel Kiester
William Carr Lane
Clinton Lloyd
Charles Brown Lore
James William Marshall
Robert McClelland
Charles McClure
Mordecai McKinney
James Xavier McLanahan
John Anthony Nicholson
Andrew Parker
Marcus Junius Parrott
Alexander Ramsey
John Reed
Eli Saulsbury
Willard Saulsbury
Abraham Herr Smith
Enoch Joyce Smithers
Nathaniel Barratt Smithers
Adam Clarke Snyder
Carroll Spence
Raymond Montague Stevenson
William Henry Stewart
William Henry Sutton
George Sweeney
Roger Brooke Taney
Philip Francis Thomas
Otis Henry Tiffany
Lemuel Todd
John Southgate Tucker
Littleton Quinton Washington
Frederick Watts
Henry Miller Watts
Edwin Hanson Webster
William Wilkins
Thomas Williams
Hendrick Bradley Wright
Seth Hartman Yocum
Church and Faith
Richard Armstrong
Thomas Bowman
George David Cummins
Charles Force Deems
John Fletcher Hurst
Robert Samuel Maclay
John McClintock
John Winebrenner
John Clarke Young
Education
Benjamin Arbogast
Henry Lewis Baugher
Jeremiah Chamberlain
John Franklin Goucher
Andrew Dousa Hepburn
Charles Francis Himes
Joshua Allan Lippincott
Howard Malcolm
James Miller McKim
Samuel Simon Schmucker
Andrew Severus Gibbons
James Andrew McCauley
Science and Literature
Spencer Fullerton Baird
George Washington Bethune
Moncure Daniel Conway
George Richard Crooks
William Wood Gerhard
Ferdinand James Samuel Gorgas
John Perdue Gray
Samuel Stehman Haldeman
Caleb Burwell Rowan Kennerly
Nathaniel Thomas Lupton
Richard Alexander F. Penrose
Rufus Edmonds Shapley
James Henry Jarrett
Theodore George Wormley
Commerce and Trade
Alfred Victor du Pont
John Hays
Francis Sutton Livingston
Albert C. Ramsey
John Horace Stevens
James Wallace
John Armstrong Wright
Union Soldiers
William Robinson Aldred
William Laws Cannon
Joseph Franklin Culver
Robert Miller Henderson
William Howard Irwin
Clarence Gearhart Jackson
Thomas Jefferson Jordan
Horatio Collins King
Benjamin Peffer Lamberton
Alfred Brunson McCalmont
Thomas R. Orwig
James Croxall Palmer
Joseph Benson Parker
William Henry Penrose
James Fowler Rusling
John Radcliffe Smead
Joseph Payson Wright
Jesse Bowman Young
Confederate Soldiers
Henry Anderson
Flavel Cingan Barber
George Baylor
Richard Lee Turberville Beale
Rudolphus N. Cecil
Daniel Mountjoy Cloud
Thomas Nelson Conrad
Zebulon Dyer
Henry R. Gamble
William H. Getzendaner
Marcus Lafayette Gordon
John Henry Grabill
William Michael Harnsberger
Jennings Marion Clarke Hulsey
William T. Kinzer
Leven William Luckett
John McCarty
Samuel McClung McPherson
William Capers Round
For more on the House Divided project, read "History With a Twist."