|nota=President [[Carroll University|Carrol College]] (1863-1864); President of City College, California<!-- The identity of this institution is unclear from the source -->; Presbyterian minister
|nota=President [[Carroll University|Carrol College]] (1863-1864); President of City College, California<!-- The identity of this institution is unclear from the source -->; Presbyterian minister
|ref=<ref>{{cite book| title = Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College| publisher = Elm Street Printing Company| date = 1889| location = Cincinnati, Ohio | page = 211| chapter = Alexander, William | chapterurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=-ahBAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA211,M1 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=-ahBAAAAIAAJ}}</ref>}}
|ref=<ref>{{cite book| title = Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College| publisher = Elm Street Printing Company| date = 1889| location = Cincinnati, Ohio | page = 211| chapter = Alexander, William | chapterurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=-ahBAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA211,M1 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=-ahBAAAAIAAJ}}</ref>}}
{{Alum
|name=Winchester H. Stuart
|year=Jefferson 1860
|nota=President of Stuart Female College <!-- The identity of this institution is unclear from the source. -->
|ref=<ref>{{cite book| title = Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College| publisher = Elm Street Printing Company| date = 1889| location = Cincinnati, Ohio| page = 231| chapter = Stuart, Winchester H.| chapterurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=-ahBAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA231,M1| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=-ahBAAAAIAAJ}}</ref>}}
{{Alum
{{Alum
|name=James Wallace Wightman
|name=James Wallace Wightman
Revision as of 22:58, 9 May 2009
This list of Washington & Jefferson College alumni graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Washington & Jefferson College. As of 2009, W&J College had 12,000 living alumni.[1] Prior to the union of the two colleges in 1865, Washington College graduated 872 men and Jefferson College graduated 1936 men.[2][3] The W&J College Alumni Association recognizes as alumni includes all students "who have completed at least one college year as full-time students."[4]
Third President of Jefferson College (1812-1816); Second President of Washington College (1817-1829); first President of Indiana University (1829-1851); Protestant Episcopal minister
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
Educator in Rio de Janeiro; President of Presbyterian Church College, Kentucky (1839-1848) ; President of Shelby College, Kentucky (1859-1861); Protestant Episcopal minister; editor of Churchman, a Christian periodical in New York City
attended but left in 1952 to join the Marines. U.S. Congressional Representative from Pennsylvania and current chair of the House Appropriations Defense Committee.
former billionaire and founder of Amerindo Investment Advisors, now charged with fraud in federal court. His multi-million pledges to the college never materialized.
American physician. Confirmed that yellow fever was transmitted via mosquito by secreting infecting himself with the disease. Transferred to Johns Hopkins University.
Lutheran minister noted for the many orphanages and hospitals ministries he founded. He is commemorated as a priest in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on November 24
^ abcKiddle, Henry (1883). The Cyclopædia of Education. by E. Steiger & Co.,. p. 322. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
^The Phi Gamma Delta. Board of Trustees of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. 1912. p. 408.
^Wilson, James Grant (1889). Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography. D. Appleton and Company. p. 125. "The degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him by Washington and Jefferson College in 1888"{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
^"Walter Reed (1851-1902)". Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. University of Virginia Health System. 2009. "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