Philowixian

Pennsylvania bishop Henry Ustick Onderdonk (Class of 1805)
U.S. Congressman Edmund Pendleton (Class of 1805)
New Jersey Governor Peter Dumont Vroom (Class of 1808)
Theologian Jackson Kemper (Class of 1809)
New York bishop Benjamin Onderdonk (Class of 1809)
Financier William Backhouse Astor, Sr. (Class of 1811)
Congressman Charles Ferris (Class of 1811)
Maj. Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny (Class of 1812)
Classical scholar Charles Anthon (Class of 1815)
Acting Rhode Island Governor William Beach Lawrence (Class of 1818)
Bibliophile James Lenox (Class of 1818)
Explorer John Lloyd Stephens (Class of 1822)
Railroad engineer Horatio Allen (1823)
United States Secretary of State Hamilton Fish (Class of 1827)
Journalist John O'Sullivan (journalist) (Class of 1831), coiner of the phrase "Manifest Destiny"
Lobbyist Samuel Cutler Ward (Class of 1831)
Literary critic Evert Augustus Duyckinck (Class of 1835)
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Samuel Blatchford (Class of 1837)
Diarist George Templeton Strong (Class of 1838)
Sportsman William R. Travers (Class of 1838)
Chemist Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (Class of 1841)
Mayor of New York City Abram S. Hewitt (Class of 1842)
Financier William Backhouse Astor, Jr. (Class of 1849)
Military theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan (Class of 1858)
Columbia College Dean John Howard Van Amringe (Class of 1860)
Novelist Edgar Fawcett (Class of 1867)
Diplomat Nicholas Fish (Class of 1867)
Assistant Secretary of State and Columbia trustees chairman George Lockhart Rives (Class of 1868)
Historian William Milligan Sloane (Class of 1868)
Journalist and social reformer William Dudley Foulke (Class of 1869)
Illinois Central Railroad president Stuyvesant Fish (Class of 1871)
Dramatic scholar Brander Matthews (Class of 1871)
Music critic Gustav Kobb&ecaute; (Class of 1877)
New York City subway chief engineer William Barclay Parsons (Class of 1879)
U.S. Congressman and Assistant Secretary of War J. Mayhew Wainwright (Class of 1884)
U.S. Ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard (Class of 1890)
Mayor of New York City John Purroy Mitchel (Class of 1899)
New York Times editor and "Topics of the Times" essayist Simeon Strunsky (Class of 1900)
Playwright George Middleton (Class of 1902), president of the Dramatists Guild of America
Publisher Alfred Harcourt (Class of 1904), co-founder of Harcourt Brace
Shoe manufacturer J. Ward Melville (Class of 1909)
Governor of North Dakota and U.S. Senator William Langer (Class of 1910)
Union College president Dixon Ryan Fox (Class of 1911)
Political scientist Parker Thomas Moon (Class of 1913)
Congressman Frederic Ren&ecaute; Coudert, Jr. (Class of 1918)
Western writer James Warner Bellah (Class of 1923)
Oscar-winning screenwriter Sidney Buchman (Class of 1923)
Writer Henry Morton Robinson (Class of 1923), author of The Cardinal and co-author of A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
Philanthropist Lawrence Wien (Class of 1925)
Science fiction anthologist Groff Conklin (Class of 1927)
Oscar-winning screenwriter William Ludwig (Class of 1932)
City College of New York president Robert Marshak (Class of 1936), president of the American Physical Society
John La Touche (Class of 1937), lyricist for Cabin in the Sky and The Golden Apple
Conservative author Ralph de Toledano (Class of 1938)
Minimalist poet Robert Lax (Class of 1938)
Spiritual writer Thomas Merton (Class of 1938)
English professor, and jazz and religion scholar Barry Ulanov (Class of 1939)
East Asian scholar and Columbia University provost Wm. Theodore de Bary (Class of 1941)
Oscar-winning screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond (Class of 1941)
Holocaust author Gerald Green (Class of 1942)
Economist Robert Lekachman (Class of 1942)
East Asian scholar Philip Yampolsky (Class of 1942)
New York Giants quarterback Paul Governali (Class of 1943)
Grammy-winning record producer Orrin Keepnews (Class of 1943)
Novelist Walter Wager (Class of 1944)
Poet Allen Ginsberg (Class of 1947)
Pulitzer Prize-winning gerontologist Robert Neil Butler (Class of 1949)
Publisher Jason Epstein (Class of 1949)
Poet John Hollander (Class of 1950)
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator Richard Howard (Class of 1951)
Editor Robert Gottlieb (Class of 1952)
Actor Ben Stein (Class of 1966)
Novelist and Academy Award-winning film producer Garth Stein (Class of 1987)
Lesbian writer and poet Carol Guess (Class of 1990)
MTV personality Gideon Yago (Class of 2000).

Famous Philo	Class year	How he/she brought glory to the society
Edmund Pendleton	1805	US Congressman
Peter Dumont Vroom	1808	New Jersey governor
Jackson Kemper	1809	Theologian
Benjamin Onderdonk	1809	New York bishop
William Backhouse Astor	1811	Financier
Charles Ferris	1811	Congressman
Stephen Watts Kearny	1812	Maj. Gen.
Charles Anthon	1815	Classical scholar
William Beach Lawrence	1818	Acting Rhode Island Governor
James Lenox	1818	Bibliophile
John Lloyd Stephens	1822	Explorer

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