Notable Alumni of Hiram College

James A. Garfield 1831–1881

20th President of the United States

Attended until 1854

Also attended: Williams College

Spouse: Lucretia Garfield (Hiram College)

Child: Abram Garfield (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Williams College)

Lucretia Garfield 1832–1918

First Lady of the United States in 1881

Spouse: James A. Garfield (Williams College, Hiram College)

Child: Abram Garfield (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Williams College)

John J. Whitacre 1860–1938

Businessman and U.S. representative from Ohio

Also attended: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Augustus Herman Pettibone 1835–1918

U.S. Representative from Tennessee

Also attended: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Laurin D. Woodworth 1837–1897

Ohio U.S. representative and lawyer

Also attended: Ohio State University-Main Campus

Osee M. Hall 1847–1914

US representative from Minnesota

Also attended: Williams College

Allen R. Bushnell 1833–1909

Wisconsin congressman and lawyer

Also attended: Oberlin College

Horace Ladd Moore 1837–1914

US representative from Kansas

Virginia Fraser 1928–2011

Colorado long-term care ombudsman and rights activist

Also attended: University of Denver

Pam Helming 1962–

New York State Senator, Republican

Howard Junior Brown 1924–1975

LGBT activist, co-founder of National Gay Task Force

James Anson Campbell 1854–1933

Chairman of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company

Allyn Abbott Young 1876–1929

Economist and president of the American Economic Association

Also attended: University of Wisconsin-Madison

W. Norman Brown 1892–1975

Indologist and Sanskritist

Also attended: Johns Hopkins University

Claude Steele 1946–

Social psychologist, Stanford professor emeritus

Sibling: Shelby Steele (Southern Illinois University--Edwardsville, Coe College)

John Samuel Kenyon 1874–1959

Linguist and professor at Hiram College

Miner Searle Bates 1897–1978

American historian and missionary

Also attended: Yale University

Louis Mink 1921–1983

Philosopher of history

Also attended: Yale University

Vachel Lindsay 1879–1931

Poet, founder of modern singing poetry

Also attended: School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Tom Wesselmann 1931–2004

Pop art artist

Also attended: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, University of Cincinnati-Main Campus

Sharon Creech 1945–

Children's novelist, Newbery and Carnegie Medal winner

Also attended: George Mason University

Michael Stanley 1948–2021

Heartland rock singer-songwriter and radio personality

Harold Bell Wright 1872–1944

Best-selling American novelist

Ammon Hennacy 1893–1970

Christian pacifist, anarchist and social activist

Also attended: Ohio State University-Main Campus, University of Wisconsin-Madison