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The Philolexian Society of Columbia University is one of the oldest college literary and debate societies in the United States. Following is a partial list of Philolexian Society members organized by area of notability.
Architecture and engineering [ edit ]
Name
Class
Notability
References
Horatio Allen
1823
President of Erie Railroad , civil engineer , and inventor
[ 3] [ 4]
William Backhouse Astor Sr.
1811
Business magnate
[ 3] [ 4]
William Backhouse Astor Jr.
1849
Businessman, racehorse owner and breeder, and yachtsman
[ 3] [ 4]
Douglas Black
1915
President of Doubleday and Company
[ 2] [ 5]
Stuyvesant Fish
1871
Illinois Central Railroad president
[ 6] [ 7]
Robert Goelet
1860
Businessman and yachtsman
[ 3] [ 8]
James Lenox
1818
President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, bibliophile, and philanthropist
[ 3] [ 4]
Ward Melville
1909
Founding president of Thom McAn , Melville Corporation (CVS Health ), and philanthropist behind Stony Brook University
[ 9]
John Lloyd Stephens
1822
Founder and vice president of the Panama Railroad Company , Special Ambassador to Central America, explorer, and author
[ 10] [ 3]
John Aikman Stewart
1840
Banker
[ 11] [ 3]
William R. Travers
1838
Businessman and first president of the Saratoga Race Course
[ 2] [ 3]
Lawrence Wien
1925
Real instate investor and attorney who pioneered real estate syndicates
[ 2]
Name
Class
Notability
References
Charles Anthon
1815
Classical scholar and educator
[ 3] [ 4]
William Anthony Aery
1904
Professor of social science and director of education at the Hampton Institute , editor of the Southern Workman
[ 17] [ 18] [ 19]
Donald Barr
1941
Dalton School headmaster
[ 20]
Wm. Theodore de Bary
1941
East Asian scholar and Columbia University provost
[ 13] [ 21]
Jacques Barzun
1927
Historian, provost, and University Professor at Columbia University
[ 22] [ 23] [ 24] [ 8]
Robert Fulton Cutting
1871
President of Cooper Union , financier, and philanthropist
[ 4]
Robert Emory
1831
President of Dickinson College
[ 2] [ 3]
Dixon Ryan Fox
1911
Union College president
[ 25] [ 26]
Mott T. Greene
1967
Historian of science and academic
[ 27]
Robert Gutman
Sociologist and a lecturer in social and environmental studies at Princeton University's School of Architecture
[ 28] [ 29] [ 30]
Frank S. Hackett
1899
Educator, founder of Riverdale Country Day School , and pioneer in the Country Day School movement
[ 31]
Carl Hovde
1950
Columbia College Dean
[ 2]
James Hall Mason Knox
1841
Lafayette College president
[ 2] [ 3]
Arthur MacMahon
1912
Political scientist and pioneer in the academic study of public administration
[ 26]
Robert Marshak
1936
City College of New York president
[ 2]
Brander Matthews
1871
Academic and literary critic
[ 6] [ 7] [ 4]
Parker Thomas Moon
1913
Political scientist and researcher on international peace
[ 32]
Nathaniel F. Moore
1802
President of Columbia College
[ 6] [ 3] [ 33] [ 4]
Steven Raphael
1963
economist, professor of public policy at Goldman School of Public Policy , and adjunct fellow at Public Policy Institute of California
[ 27]
Victoria Rosner
1990
Dean of NYU Gallatin School and ean of Academic Affairs at Columbia University
[ 8] [ 34] [ 35]
Edwin R. A. Seligman
1878
Economist and academic
[ 36]
William Milligan Sloane
1868
Historian, professor at Princeton University , and coach of the first U.S. Olympic team
[ 4]
Howard Spodek
1963
Professor of history and geography and urban studies at Temple University
[ 27]
Paul van K. Thomson
1940
Professor and vice president for academic affairs of Providence College, Catholic priest, and author
[ 37]
John Howard Van Amringe
1860
Mathematician and the first Dean of Columbia College
[ 3] [ 4]
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
1962
Social theorist , psychoanalyst , and a professor of political science at University of California, Los Angeles
[ 24]
Literature and journalism [ edit ]
Name
Class
Notability
References
James Warner Bellah
1923
Western writer
[ 50]
Elliott V. Bell
1925
BusinessWeek publisher, a financial writer for The New York Times , and New York State Superintendent of Banks
[ 51]
John Berryman
1936
poet, scholar, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
[ 52] [ 53]
Randolph Bourne
1912
Essayist and critic
[ 2] [ 54]
McAlister Coleman
1909
Journalist, author, and political activist
[ 55] [ 56]
David Cort
1924
foreign news editor of Life
[ 57]
Julien T. Davies
1866
Writer
[ 58]
Evert Augustus Duyckinck
1835
Biographer and publisher
[ 3] [ 4]
Jason Epstein
1949
Co-founder of The New York Review of Books , c o-founder of Library of America , and founder of Anchor Books
[ 59]
Edgar Fawcett
1867
Novelist and poet
[ 4]
William Dudley Foulke
1869
Literary critic, journalist, poet, and reformer
[ 45]
Allen Ginsberg
1948
Poet, author, and winner of the National Book Award
[ 60] [ 61] [ 8]
Robert Giroux
1936
Publisher, chairman and editor-in-chief of Farrar Straus & Giroux
[ 62] [ 53]
Robert Gottlieb
1952
Editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster , president and editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf , and editor of The New Yorker
[ 2]
Alfred Harcourt
1904
Publisher and co-founder of Harcourt Brace ;
[ 2]
John Hollander
1950
Poet
[ 62]
Richard Howard
1951
Pulitzer Prize -winning poet and translator
[ 63]
Joyce Kilmer
1908
Poet and literary critic
[ 64] [ 65]
Gustav Kobbé
1877
Music critic and author
[ 46] [ 4]
Henry Demarest Lloyd
1867
Pioneer muckraking journalist and progressive political activist
[ 66]
Jay Michaelson
1993
Writer, journalist, professor, rabbi, commentator on CNN , and a columnist for Rolling Stone
[ 8]
John L. O'Sullivan
1831
Magazine editor and columnist who coined the phrase manifest destiny and U.S. Minister to Portugal
[ 2] [ 3]
Sam Quinones
1964
Journalist and author
[ 8]
Ed Rice
1940
Author, publisher, photojournalist, and painter
[ 13]
Henry Morton Robinson
1923
Novelist
[ 67]
Garth Stein
1987
Novelist and Academy Award -winning film producer
[ 68]
George Templeton Strong
1838
Diarist
[ 2] [ 3]
Ralph de Toledano
1938
Editor of Newsweek and the National Review , journalist, author, poet, and novelist
[ 54]
Thomas Vinciguerra
1985
Journalist, editor, author, and founding editor of The Week
[ 54] [ 69]
Walter Wager
1944
Novelist
[ 70]
Samuel Ward
1831
Poet and lobbyist
[ 71] [ 3] [ 4]
Medicine, science, and math[ edit ]
Name
Class
Notability
References
Martin C. Ansorge
1903
United States House of Representatives
[ 76]
Elliott V. Bell
1925
New York State Superintendent of Banks , BusinessWeek publisher, and a financial writer for The New York Times
[ 51]
Frederic René Coudert Jr.
1918
United States House of Representatives from New York and member of New York's Rapp-Coudert Committee
[ 2]
Isaac C. Delaplaine
1834
United States House of Representatives
[ 3] [ 4]
Charles G. Ferris
1811
United States House of Representatives
[ 3] [ 4]
Hamilton Fish
1827
United States Secretary of State
[ 6] [ 3] [ 4]
Hamilton Fish II
1869
Speaker of the New York State Assembly and U.S. Congressman
[ 3] [ 4]
Nicholas Fish II
1867
U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and U.S. Ambassador to Belgium
[ 2]
James W. Gerard
1890
U.S. Ambassador to Germany and justice of the New York Supreme Court
[ 2]
Samuel L. Gouverneur
1817
member of the New York State Assembly and Postmaster of New York City
[ 2] [ 3]
James Alexander Hamilton
1805
Acting U.S. Secretary of State and son of Alexander Hamilton
[ 54] [ 3] [ 33]
Abram Hewitt
1842
Mayor of New York City , United States House of Representatives , ironmaking industrialist , and lawyer
[ 2] [ 3]
Stephen W. Kearny
1812
Military Governor of New Mexico and Military Governor of California
[ 2] [ 3]
Harvey R. Kingsley
1893
President of the Vermont State Senate , attorney, and judge
[ 77]
Wellington Koo
1909
Premier and foreign minister of China, Ambassador to the United States, member of the International Court of Justice
[ 78] [ 79]
William Langer
1910
Governor of North Dakota and U.S. Senate
[ 8]
John L. Lawrence
1803
Chargé d'Affaires at Stockholm , member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
[ 2] [ 3]
William Beach Lawrence
1818
Governor of Rhode Island (acting)
[ 2] [ 3]
Hugh Maxwell
1808
Collector of the Port of New York and District Attorney of New York City
[ 2] [ 3]
John McKeon
1825
U.S. House of Representatives and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
[ 2] [ 3]
John Purroy Mitchel
1899
Mayor of New York City and Collector of the Port of New York
[ 80]
John L. O'Sullivan
1831
U.S. Minister to Portugal and magazine editor and columnist who coined the phrase manifest destiny
[ 10] [ 3]
Charles A. Peabody Jr.
1869
New York State Assembly
[ 45]
Edmund H. Pendleton
1805
United States House of Representatives
[ 2] [ 3]
George L. Rives
1868
United States Assistant Secretary of State
[ 2] [ 4]
James I. Roosevelt
1815
United States House of Representatives and District attorney for Southern New York
[ 3] [ 4]
John Lloyd Stephens
1822
Special Ambassador to Central America, explorer, author, and a founder and vice president of the Panama Railroad Company
[ 2] [ 3]
John R. Thurman
1835
United States House of Representatives
[ 3] [ 4]
Peter Dumont Vroom
1808
Governor of New Jersey , U.S. Congressman, and U.S. Minister to Prussia
[ 3] [ 4]
J. Mayhew Wainwright
1884
United States Assistant Secretary of War and United States House of Representatives
[ 2]
Samuel Ward
1831
Lobbyist and poet
[ 3] [ 71] [ 4]
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